Airlines and enshittification, what’s new.

Happening right now with Southwest as well. In their infinite knowledge sw decided to remove what defined them: two free checked bags and cheap flights

Now there’s a worse option called basic which has a shittier cancellation policy, no checked bags, and is more expensive than the previous budget tier

This article is so weirdly written

One of his points is that a vhs player is easily fixable while a wifi router isn’t. These things aren’t even remotely the same. They don’t serve the same function, they don’t have the same complexity. Comparing their repairability makes no sense because they serve different functions. Just because I know how to repair a keyboard doesn’t mean I know how to fix a tv.

Most of his complaints are on the capitalization of modern technology, which is not a problem of innovation and knowledge, it’s an economics and political problem.

Yea in fairness to (genuinely) free range, it’s probably best if chickens are raised in just not cages but still within an area a farmer can manage. I was thinking of free range as moreso outdoors, with a minimum area per livestock.

For meat chickens, yes they probably have the lowest quality of life. The ones that aren’t stuffed in cages are usually not meat chickens though, but a different breed. I’d say they have a decent life because they’re not being stuffed full of steroids and are given space to roam.

I’m not sure on bird flu. From what I’ve read, the conditions of meat chickens living in cages is the reason why bird flu spread so much. The chickens are so cramped, and so unsanitary that they essentially need to be pumped with antibiotics, which caused bird flu to develop a resistant strain. If companies weren’t so hellbent at maximizing value, providing just an increase in living space would have hindered the spread of bird flu.

My perspective is that it’s more ethical to be able to provide a good quality of life for the animals you raise. One cow with a low quality of life imo is less ethical than a bunch of chickens with a decent quality of life, even if we consider numbers. If you can provide that to a cow, then yea it’s probably more ethical than a bunch of chickens. It’s just a lot easier to have a chicken live a good life than it is for a cow.

This is all my perspective though

That doesn’t add up at all because cattle ranches are notoriously known for pretty low quality of life environments if they arent pasture raised or free range

Then again that basically goes for all farm animals that aren’t considered free range, but it’s a lot easier to have free range chickens than it is to have cows doing the same.

Critique should not involve ripping pieces of work, that’s super out of pocket. I’d be devastated if something I was happy with got ripped. It doesn’t even make sense to rip a critiqued piece. How can you do post analysis if its destroyed

Yup

I can’t speak for the other cities, but from my time living in both norcal and socal, this is the take I ended up with

Honestly all the cali cities have pretty diverse food options, it’s just that the cities are known for certain foods. If you want a specific cuisine, chances are there’s still a restaurant nearby for that, granted you live in the big cali cities.

LA imo is known for korean food in ktown and street tacos but also has a lot of organics and vegan options. There’s also sawtelle and little tokyo with lots of Japanese food options. There’s even a decent strip of greek, persian, turkish food options.

Irvine (and Westminster) is known for mostly viet food imo

SD has a lot of coastal dining and surf n turf options

SJ is also known for viet food and mexican food but also has a sizable portion of cantonese banquet style restaurants and japanese izakayas

SF has a lot of chinese food (cantonese, taiwanese, mainland) due to the chinatown and also lots of fishery based restaurants near the ports. Japantown there is also pretty sizable and includes a variety of japanese foods.

You mean to tell me you don’t like kbbq and tacos :(

I’d put blame on doordash as well. What’s the point of a 3p delivery system if the system literally accepts anyone that applies, especially in this case

Yea, I have a couple more that I forget does what (I think a couple are for hiding youtube games and shorts and stuff), but it should just look like this in my filters.

www.youtube.com/##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-button

I believe it was this one, just add it as part of the filter list in ublock

The extension I used for user agent was this one. I don’t think it matters what you spoof as, but I chose to spoof as chrome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

So far it worked and I’m back to no ads and no interruptions

Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent

Edit: I put more details under nameisnotimportant’s comment, I was about to head to bed so I didn’t really provide details LOL

West coast alliance :)