Pretty sure they can only be used when parked like when you're charging. Even at a super charger, it's going to take 20-30 minutes to get back on the road.
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Right now, Haley is polling significantly behind DeSantis, who is already significantly behind Trump. I honestly thought it was more likely that she was angling for a cabinet position or something, but the Koch money injection is interesting. That said, even with money it's a pretty uphill battle. Given that Trump is far and away the front runner, the number of old school republicans is pretty low. She's running as if she's in the general, where a more moderate approach would make a lot of sense (or maybe she's just trying to dodge creating soundbites for Biden campaign ads which DeSantis seems to have no problem with) but in the Republican primary moderate isn't going to get very far.
Even if she manages to clear the first hurdle and overtake DeSantis, she is kinda stuck with her finger's crossed that Trump is for some reason ineligible to run because he's such a clear favorite. It would be like going into a room of Swifties and trying to explain why you're better than Taylor. Spoilers, it doesn't matter, and the corpse you leave behind is going to look like something out of a horror show.
Disagree entirely.
For one, Meta has diversified enough that it's going to be nearly impossible for them to pull a MySpace. They have Insta, Facebook (blue app) and WhatsApp with a billion+ users each. Even Threads on its own is probably sustainable enough to carry them for a decade, and though far, far down the list, they've branched into other business like with the Quest. Except maybe pixelfed, there isn't really even a direct competitor (other than just the vague "social media") to Meta's properties.
Second, I don't think this is any indicator that Meta views the fedi as a threat. Had they, they probably would have just simply tried to buy their way in somewhere, as they did with Instagram and WhatsApp (this is definitely their MO, Facebook is the only true Meta product.) Further, I am not even sure how so many are making the case that the fediverse is somehow inevitable. Projects don't succeed on pure ideology, and in particular with social media not only do you have to do the technicals right including building a product that users actually want to use, you also have to get the right combination of deliberate community building and sheer luck to get it to stick. Already, the entire point of the fediverse is at odds with how the majority of people want to use social media. With fediverse stuff, you're expected to curate and deliberately shape your experience. I've found more use for blocks and mutes on Lemmy, which is ostensibly the smallest social media site I've ever used, and by a large margin. The default these days for most people are Instagram and TikTok - just open the app and watch whatever is served up.
So we're basically starting at a point that the fediverse is offering a niche product with technical hurdles (which, are very small, but it doesn't take much) for users to even get on, they're going to have to spend a decent amount of time to getting to a usable product, find out they joined the wrong instance and rebuild that, and the communities seem to be made up of the gotcha police half of the time. And then there are just the pure numbers. Even with multiple external exogenous events (like reddit had with Digg, for example) from direct analogues to Lemmy and Mastodon, Lemmy is barely growing and Mastodon probably gained about as many users last month as Threads did while I was writing this.
This whole debate on the fediverse is very "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day in your life, but for me? It was Tuesday." The fediverse, for its part, couldn't be a better stooge for Meta at the moment. They can say to regulators "look at us, we're open" and then watch as the fedi preemptively blocks millions of users from an introduction to the fedi.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Serious question: how?
Second question: why?
What are the mechanics by which they are going extend or extinguish the fediverse and how would they do that from a technical standpoint? Second, why when the entire fediverse with years of time behind it is a rounding error compared to a product they launched like 6 months ago. Why does Meta give a tiny shit about the fedi compared to TikTok, for example?
So Threads, which is has 140+ million users and has consistently grown since launch without federation is worried about "getting enough users" from the fediverse, which has less than 10 million?
Fedi users are also about a bajillion times less likely to migrate to a Meta product than the other way around. There was the opportunity to catch some people and help grow the fediverse, but between this and the mastodon HOA (pushes glasses umm excuse me you forgot to put a CW warning on your post about flowers a flower killed my dog when I was five and this is very problematic trauma you're causing and your alt-text should be at least 3 paragraphs and include a bibliography) it's likely the fediverse just did what it needed to ensure it stays a niche for like 3 audiences and that more people are stuck with the corpos if they want content that's not about being a communist or using linux.
Anyway, this is a step for Meta to avoid regulatory scrutiny. Everyone keeps saying how Meta is going to destroy the fedi (don't worry, we'll take care of it for them) but no one is saying how. For example, they cut us off? So what? We're cut off right now.
Even assuming your point was accurate
Hang on, need to stretch a bit so I can get my head far enough up my ass to see their point.
The whole primary is the punchline. It's either going to be Trump as the nominee, or Biden is going to sweep. R's are far too racist to nominate Vivek, and even if everyone else in the primary died I have a feeling they'd just write in Tucker or something. That leaves Haley, who is trying to appeal to a Republican base that hasn't existed for 15-20 years, and DeSantis, who is trying to run as the "is Pepsi okay?" to Trump's Coke, while he also seems to be simultaneously mumbling "dude Coke is so much better." The only way this makes any sense for him is if he thinks that Trump is likely to be in jail or barred from running, because that's the only way he's getting the nomination.
I kinda wish that weren't the case. If it were Biden v DeSantis, Biden sweeps. DeSantis is far too extreme for dems and probably even slightly center/slightly left of center, his whole campaign seems to be designed as if he just has a cuck fetish. And the one thing that I think everyone can all agree on is that as soon as he opens his mouth, you just get the overwhelming urge to shove him in a locker. I also think that almost no one likes Trump's policies, they just like him and it's pure cult of personality (and the way they vote seems to confirm that; Trump-like candidates lose, it's only Trump that has any traction) and DeSantis obviously does not have that. And he'd be running against an incumbent, which is already an uphill battle.
I mean, I think as long as no one else does an insurrection, we're probably fine? The text of this is quite specific, applying this law required a previous decision to legally declare that Trump committed an insurrection. The specificity of this is probably actually what gets the ruling overturned. The text doesn't call out the president specifically in the way that it calls out electors, congress people, etc.
They did. A few years later, a carve out was made that allowed basically everyone (except Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis) to hold office. Those two would remain the only ones barred in this manner until the 70's when that restriction was posthumously (obviously) lifted. There is a great podcast ep that just came out from What Roman Mars Can Learn about Con Law that talks about this very thing.
Ok, I'm sorry but this comment and this thread is just all over the place.
Beeper wasn’t doing MiTM attacks. They weren’t hijacking messages.
That we know of. Oh, and they're literally a man in the middle, someone the user shouldn't expect is in between the data they're sending. okay, I'll give you the middle is squishy here because it's really when it's decrypted on the client, but still...
They functioned and behaved as a legitimate end point.
Which, they weren't. They were spoofing credentials and accessing a system without authorization from the system owner. It doesn't matter if Apple left a hole in the system. Hell, they could have set the password to be '12345' it's still probably a crime, at least, based on this list of crimes:
having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access
The whole thing basically reiterates over and over that just because you technically have access, that doesn't mean you are permitted.
While I agree Apple should have some control over their network.
Okay, makes sense.
Which they clearly don’t in any way that matters.
How many iMessage breaches has Apple had?
The controll they’re exerting shouldn’t be allowed.
The "control" is discovering that someone else made a copy of the key to their locks. If i told you that I now have a copy of the key to your house (but trust me bro I'm only going to use it like you would which means using your shit and and selling your food to others) oh and that now basically anyone has a copy to the key to your house, would you change the locks?
As long as beeper were behaving, which they were.
Which they were?! They literally are using fake credentials, accessing a system without authorization, using the infrastructure including the real costs of said infrastructure.
Secure messages are sent and received from all manner of platforms regularly without issue. No Apple required
Welp, you've just provided the closing arguments for Apple's lawyers and any sort of monopoly concern.
Monopoly on what?
And, if Elon had a real board, this probably would have already happened. This is a perfect example of why. What problem has Disney caused Tesla that they could possibly articulate to a customer that would justify this move and not cost them good will if nothing else, and sales likely especially as this gets a ton of coverage? "Yes, I understand your frustration, and yes I can hear your kid screaming in the background about not being able to watch Frozen while you're stuck charging. But you see, sir/madame, our CEO has a very, and I really have to make sure I state this correctly, but very tiny penis. It's so small, just constantly peeing on his balls (which are also very small.) We here at Tesla let him compensate for this by making the product worse for you, our paying customers. Anyway, can I interest you in a CyberTruck? Please? We've only sold 3 and my family needs to eat."