I think Canada Goose and Moose Knuckles are way over hyped and over priced. Same thing with Drake's owl logo brand. Don't even know what it's name is.
What is a brand you find extremely over hyped
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Tesla.
Is not the point of an e-car or hybrid to help reduce carbon Emissions and help our planet?
How did that get mixed in with luxury, and having a show off car? I think saving the earth takes precedent over commercialism. Different strokes for different folks I suppose. Some only care about being seen driven a Tesla for status of wealth or self-righteous indignation. Brings me to my next one.
Starbucks. Overpriced crappy coffee. Again more for status. Also not sure why they keep giving plastic cups away (or if they charge for them I reall would not know) for people to drink tap
water from. There are refillable, reusable water bottles.
Social Media.
Everyone (almost, especially those -35 years) needs to be seen and heard. We’ve become a highly narcissistic culture wherein sharing details of there lives with everyone who will read has become a norm.
I’d say socials are 95% bad.
I think the reasons should be beyond obvious but here it is:
Unnecessary distractions to keep our minds focused off things that actually matter, ie; environmental decay,, poverty, government and corporate greed and corruption, generating poor self esteem among youth vis a vis poor self image, inabilities to communicate with real people,
mental and social disorders, cyber bullying…
the list can go on and on.
5% good
For work and professional purposes.
Also if you wish to share photos and video with family and friends that live in another part of the world.
Extremist partisan, brain washed cult mentality.
Freedom Convoy, maga, proud boy’s on the right, woke flakes in the left.
Keeping an open mind is the only way to truly learn and grow imho. Nothing is absolute other than death and taxes. Read books other than what’s online. Think critically about bread and circuses.
Is not the point of an e-car or hybrid to help reduce carbon Emissions and help our planet?
How did that get mixed in with luxury, and having a show off car? I think saving the earth takes precedent over commercialism. Different strokes for different folks I suppose. Some only care about being seen driven a Tesla for status of wealth or self-righteous indignation. Brings me to my next one.
Starbucks. Overpriced crappy coffee. Again more for status. Also not sure why they keep giving plastic cups away (or if they charge for them I reall would not know) for people to drink tap
water from. There are refillable, reusable water bottles.
Social Media.
Everyone (almost, especially those -35 years) needs to be seen and heard. We’ve become a highly narcissistic culture wherein sharing details of there lives with everyone who will read has become a norm.
I’d say socials are 95% bad.
I think the reasons should be beyond obvious but here it is:
Unnecessary distractions to keep our minds focused off things that actually matter, ie; environmental decay,, poverty, government and corporate greed and corruption, generating poor self esteem among youth vis a vis poor self image, inabilities to communicate with real people,
mental and social disorders, cyber bullying…
the list can go on and on.
5% good
For work and professional purposes.
Also if you wish to share photos and video with family and friends that live in another part of the world.
Extremist partisan, brain washed cult mentality.
Freedom Convoy, maga, proud boy’s on the right, woke flakes in the left.
Keeping an open mind is the only way to truly learn and grow imho. Nothing is absolute other than death and taxes. Read books other than what’s online. Think critically about bread and circuses.
What about the constant OS upgrades.
Then your software and apps don’t work the same.
See my post about planned obsolescence.
I’m not saying Apple is horrible, they work great in many applications, especially in my line of work, however, each generation of Mac books, workstation, or iPhone seems to need to be replaced more frequently do to manufacturing going downhill. Did you know read about the M2 chip? Also why do the usb-c, and thunderbolt 3 plugs and ports look the same?
Ever go into a Mac store? Lmao
Most consumers know very little as to how these products function and the number of upgrades needed. They just know they want it
Bc they’re “cool”.Genius! Lol
Trojan Condoms
I don't feel the wind blowing in my hair when I don the dome!!
LIARS!!!
I don't feel the wind blowing in my hair when I don the dome!!
LIARS!!!
Constant OS and product updates are a given in Widows too. I use a Mac at work and a Windows PC at home so I'm intimately familiar with the differences and frustrations. So I'm not a fanboy of either platform. The same thing goes with Adobe products like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc, that are on a subscription plan. Adobe usually adds features to each update, which sometimes ends up replacing or breaking older features.
Yes, I've been in a Mac store plenty of times. Not sure what point you were trying to make. Lmao.
What about the M2 chip? Maybe try to link an article next time.
I agree that the port on the iPhone caused a lot of confusion and it was a cash grab for Apple. The first few iPhones and iPads had the 40 pin Ipod plug. Then they moved to the Lightning plug. Both of those were proprietary and third party companies had to pay license fees to Apple to use them on their products. They started putting USB-C (and only that plug) ont their Macbooks in 2018 I think. They only moved to USB-C this year, but it's not even quite the same between iPhone models. I think the Pro iphones have a faster USB C plug vs the non-Pro iPhones. The only people that will notice this difference is people who take a lot of hi-res photos and want to plug a USB drive to the phone.
The USB-C and Thundebolt ports happen to share the same connector. I do agree that it causes a lot of confusion because you have to be careful which cable you use. You can use a Thunderbolt monitor or hard drive with a regular USB C cable, but you won't get the max performance out of them. On the other hand, I think you can use a Thunderbolt cable on a regular USB C port and the device will work just fine.
I get that most people don't know and don't care to know the details about how Apple or Microsoft products work inside. Like it or not, that is one of Apple's strengths. The iPhone / Ipad interface is nearly the same as when they first came out. That's why a toddler can pickup and use a Iphone / iPad within a few minutes. The same can't be said about Android phones though they've gotten better over the years.
All those fast food places use to be cheap, combo meal of burger fries and. drink for $5-$6, now it's $12-$15...McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys, Arbys, etc...
Lets put an extra check mark on Starbucks...
No way, the Republican Party is pure entertainment.
Facebook/Twitter/Instagram...just a place where people can whine, complain, insult, lie and mislead...never signed up for any of them.
Cable news, FOX CNN MSNBC...these networks will hurt your brain with their biased misleading shows.
Cable news, FOX CNN MSNBC...these networks will hurt your brain with their biased misleading shows.
The United States of America!!
They wave the flag proclaiming "Greatest Country on Earth" buy yet all they do is complain about it...Biggest whiners on earth.
And the best they do as presidential candidates are Biden, Trump and Hillary Clinton...
They wave the flag proclaiming "Greatest Country on Earth" buy yet all they do is complain about it...Biggest whiners on earth.
And the best they do as presidential candidates are Biden, Trump and Hillary Clinton...
EV's have accomplished the goal of reducing carbon emissions, but only out of the tail pipe. We still have to generate the electricity and it's commonly with fossil fuels. Regardless of how it's generated, there's always going to be losses moving electricity from the power plant to the consumer. The same ineffiecienes exist with fossil fuels and even hydrogen fuels cells though. There is no such thing as a 100% efficient system. There's also the environmental costs of mining the minerals that go into batteries like cobalt and lithium.
I don't consider Tesla to be a show-off car because you can't really tell it apart from any other car at a distance. What's wrong with mixing in features and luxuries? People don't typically buy things with a utitilitarian look, though there are always exceptions.
You are more or less saying the same thing I said but with more emphasis and details.
I've used many Adobe products, also use both PC and MAC own both.
Yes MAC interface is easy enough that a toddler can use. I did not negate that. I said Mac is a good product, as I said before, its planned obsolescence
and constant updates that cause software and apps to not work the same is what irks me.
Yes the vertical integration for production and infrastructure has much ways to go.
What's wrong with mixing in features and luxuries? People don't typically buy things with a utitilitarian look, though there are always exceptions.
For me, that's the problem. Luxury and keeping up with the Jones' / Kardshian's seems to be more important to some rather than what the true reason for
owning an EV is.
Different strokes for different folks.
Overpriced, hell yes. Warm as heck, yes.
Anything associate to Drake, irrelevant to me.
Sadly, there's not much we can do about the constant updates. Companies need to push new features and products to keep generating profits. At the same time, they have the legacy cost of supporting their older products and technology and that causes plenty of problems. Besides, it companies never pushed new products then we'd still be using CRT aka tube-style TV's, VGA ports on our video cards, brick style cell phones, record players, etc.
Another thing about Adobe products is that you're kind of locked-in. You can certainly use a competiting product, but it may not have the same features or less refined than Adobe's. Secondly, many industries have standardized on Adobe prducts so sharing files with them is challenging and maybe impossible.
I don't see this is a problem because a Tesla buyer gets the luxury (there are much more luxurious cars BTW), keep up with the Jones' and reducing emissions is icing on the cake. If environmentalism was at the top of someone's mind, then they'd live off-grid or in a much smaller home / condo, take public transit or go the extreme and try to grow their own food. Realistically, there is no good competitor to Tesla right now in the EV space though I know the other car makers are trying very hard and burning lots of cash on it.
