It's just that in America they realized if they complain enough, they get to rub they're hands gleefully at the thought of all that electricity they're going to sell, AND all the public money they're going to get to upgrade the grid!
Assumedly, to deal with a race condition.
Or regulation.
Driving prices down would require meaningful competition, or a feasible alternative, or regulation.
(Feasible alternatives do exist, eg trades, but are not treated as viable alternatives by society)
As a general rule, the amount of exploitation and fraud it takes to "become" a billionaire should probably be illegal.
Lying about what you do with peoples data and who you share it with.
Sentencing and punishment are affected by "caste"
If you only think about the mainstream, 90% of adults, your take is probably right.
If oarents watch out and catch cases of covid and the flu and other serious illnesses early, it'd probably be ok.
But.
What about kids with compromised immune systems? The teachers? The kid who still has a weakened immune system from covid or the measles last year?
By only accounting for the mainstream we push those on the edge further out.
It muddies the water around, supporting the various states, and the public image of that.
The same thing for the Palestine genocide ongoing now, the US has a second war to supply.
Given that weed is now legal for medicinal use, there's been a lot less enforcement here in NZ.
Mostly, at the outset cops have no way of knowing if you have a prescription or not, and asking if it's a suitable prescription is a pretty big no-no.
An ipod with a much larger screen (320×240 vs 480x320), a camera, and could take phone calls, browse the internet, and do email.
Oh, he was an absolute asshole. Seems I deleted that sentence. RIP me.
"I have enabled and ushered in a new age of knowledge access like no other, here's a cool way to eat that goes against all reasonable nutritionists' advice. Sounds good to me!" - Really seems like a fitting way to kick off this century IMO.
I think people love to hate Steve. The one thing people love more than a great figurehead, is hating one. I think that Steve had a great internal model of how to combine form/function.
iPhone wasn't the first smartphone, but it may as well have been. It brought the smartphone to the mass market.
Part of it was a great advertising campaign, which unlike the smartphones at the time, pitched it as a luxury good as opposed to an executive enterprise one. You owned a blackberry to answer emails wherever and whenever you were, you owned an iphone so you can check Google Maps. A large part of it was redefining both the form factor, and use case of a smartphone.
Tell me you don't live in NZ without telling me you don't live in NZ
This is pretty much it.
The city knows about your protest so they can plan accordingly.
They may also make requests of your protest, eg, could you self organise your own traffic wardens to ensure the safety of everyone involved.