Meanwhile subs like ComedyHeaven literally approve like one post a month for a whole year 💀

Oh I think it's far worse than that. Because you have to ask yourself: what is the fastest way to gain karma on reddit? And the answer is not by sharing an opinion.

The top up voted posts each month are likely going to be media of animals, some nsfw content, and news articles. All of which are posted by bots nonstop.

Because the truth is that karma already is money. People pay money for accounts with high karma. And then turn them into bot accounts or advertising accounts. So now those people will just be able to double dip.

In short: it's likely that reddit will just become a larger bot network if they do this. Karma systems don't lead to better posts. In fact, I'd almost prefer to keep the karma system on lemmy/kbin and just have it private.

Luckily for us Americans, the Europeans have their head on straight and can force companies to fix this by the end of the decade. So that'll be nice at least

I'm pretty sure there's like 3 companies that own around 80% of the US grocery market. There's a reason why avian flu drove the price of eggs up everywhere and its because one company owns the majority of egg production.

Well most of the comments here don't have an insight into this. The reason they don't re-release video games or old movies is because they don't want you enjoying old things. It's capitalism, but it's not arbitrary like the scarcity. Because it's not just video games, no company wants to re-release anything. Not a tractor, not a movie, not a dishwasher, nothing.

Why? Because then you don't buy the new thing with higher margins. Then you don't watch the new movie and they can't sell the new ads with the new character designs promoting it. Or you don't get locked in to their new cartridge system. Or subscription plan. Whatever. The song is different, the story is the same, new stuff make line go up faster. With tons of waste involved as well.

I don't see why this is cynical. They fell pretty flat on their face with windows 8 (no explanation necessary) and then made a Frankenstein job out of windows 10. I have zero idea what the plan is here.

Which is why reddit has been a target for gorilla marketing campaigns for a while now. I only trust review sites that I follow now

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I've had similar experiences with android phones, seems like an older gen tech problem so I want to see if that's still an issue.

I appreciate the thorough response, thanks! And I hear most of this but I'd give some pushback on a few things. Most of this comes from experience with Samsung devices so keep that in mind.

I recognize that the RCS thing is an apple problem that they're making. But my issue is that even if they solved RCS, I think that iMessage is still somewhat running away with messaging and I can't convince anyone to use signal. I like the security, but signal isn't very feature rich. And I'm kind of done waiting for a better android alternative to exist unfortunately. If it did, I might come back.

FaceID: I too love the fingerprint reader. My Note 10 isn't great with having it under the screen and I'd prefer face unlock personally. I can't imagine FaceID to be any less convenient than having a wet finger and being unable to scan it. So I'd call that neutral for me personally.

iMessage: I know I'm rewarding them, I hate it, wish I could live without it but it's stopping me from getting video messages from people.

Home Screen UX: it's less about customization (not being able to place apps in certain places bugs me) but more about the design language itself. I guess less about the home screen specifically and I mean more about the general UI layout, drawers, and control panel. All those are mature on android and I just fine the Apple stuff easier to visually control. Especially comparing the Apple stuff to OneUI or material you. I know I can fix some of what I'm talking about, but I don't necessarily want to fiddle with it.

And Battery: isn't usually a problem for me with a note device, but I've had issues before. Like a weird bug used to drain battery for no reason (Linus of LTT noted this a few times on his Note device). But in general, Apple seems to be making advances in efficiency that aren't present in android devices yet. Hence the larger (and heavier) batteries in many devices.

Again not trying to start a war, don't feel obligated to respond. Just hope that explains my thoughts here.

It's because they only associate queer stuff with sex, not with love

Or lowest age to work without parental consent. Otherwise 16 year olds can't vote for who gets to tax them.