Yes, it happens all the time. Each time we get a new form we have to fill out to do something or some extra hoop to jump through. If the manager I worked for didn’t act like a normal person that thought that shit was stupid I would absolutely hate working with/for that liar/crazy person.
This is dumb shit just like journalists going onto YouTube every few years and finding incendiary videos. There will always be a way that a person can use something for evil, that’s not the fault of the thing.
While I disagree with your analogy -- auto makers didn't build their business by stealing the work of wheelwrights -- I agree with the conclusion that the auto is coming.
In a move to appease investors looking for never-ending growth, Netflix dug their grave. Netflix isn’t worth it for most people if they can’t share it. Thinking that peoples college aged son is gonna get their own account, and that dad cares about keeping it once they can’t share anymore is dumb as hell. Talk about out-of-touch.
Many people signed up for Netlix when it wasn't about the content. There was a time when movie companies just licensed out everything they weren't actively selling on bluray cheaply so Netflix had most of the movies you wanted, and when the most popular Netflix exclusive content had a lot of Marvel shows that have since been taken to Disney+.
As for Netflix's self-produced content, too many shows dropped inconclusively after two seasons discourages investment in new IP.
So now for a lot of people, Netflix is charging triple what they signed up at, for less than half as much content.
Sure, they were forced into it, a lot of this was the big publishers realising they could take their content and run their own streaming service. But for a lot of people, the appeal of Netflix was "the legal site with all the TV" and that's increasingly in the past.
I don't actually see any of this as terribly tragic. We're talking about a recreational service here, nothing of urgent importance.
But...
> Two drinks at a bar can be $20
That entirely depends on where the bar is. I've paid $10 a drink before, but that's an above average price in my area. It also doesn't alter the fact that for millions of people, $20 is a lot of money. They aren't dropping money on expensive drinks at a bar on the regular.
Because it's not just 1 streaming service anymore it's 2-3 or more depending on what content you like. Most people I know that don't share an account stop their subscription a few months at a time and renew when they want to catch up on content.
It's not hard to imagine streaming companies adopting various enterprise strategies like backpay charges to punish intermittent accounts once the services reach market saturation.
So everyone else just smells like shit all the time in other countries? I smell like shit when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't want to work next to me if I don't shower.
Build up of aromatics in your adipose tissue that are released over time via your sebaceous glands, bacterial decomposition products of those compounds, and off-gassing of bacterial decomposition byproducts from your orifices contribute to bad body odor.
I agree that diet is a factor. I started living in Japan back in the late 80s and spent a lot of time helping newcomers learn how to speak Japanese and get around in society. One thing I noticed is that people fresh from America had an odd buttery smell that went away after they ate a Japanese diet for a few weeks.
バッタ臭い / Battakusai / Stinks of butter was a derogatory term for foreigners in the past. Butter was unpopular with locals in Japan for a long time by what I've read, but I never thought the expression was being literal. Interesting.
People are different and skin biomes can change. The ways that showering habits (frequency, duration, temp, ph, soap use, etc) effect skin biomes is poorly understood. The largest factor in body odor is the bacteria living on our skin, so it is entirely conceivable that with a different showering regime your skin biome would change over time and cause you to generate BO differently.
Not only from just existing, but between going to the gym a few days a week and doing regular cardio on other days, I just can’t imagine the absolute rank stink from not showering regularly. Once I thought I didn’t work up enough of a sweat weightlifting in the gym so went to bed when I got home, and the bed smelled like absolute trash the next day and neither me nor my partner could sleep there again without washing everything.
Maybe it’s just my neuroses or mental illness, but I can’t imagine smelling so badly and not showering even if I didn’t socialize with others, and can’t imagine I’d have many people to continue to socialize with (in USA so this is probably different in the OP’s country) if I smelled so bad when I went out.
That's not sweat, that's the bacteria on your skin. Use less soap and change your diet and you will encourage more healthy skin microbiome that can even smell pleasant.
Earthquakes can be sensed from basically anywhere, only the time it takes the P/S waves to travel to you are different, especially if the quake is M>5.
More sensors don’t really add more detections, but are useful for pinpointing an origin.
