Moving with assistance is better than not moving at all, and people with e-bikes tend to ride for longer because it’s easier to do so.

Yes

Not sure if it’s underrated or just not well known, but “The unbearable weight of massive talent” was so insanely good!

Well Google contributes a lot to open source, but I get your point.

Another thing we couldn’t have possibly seen coming!

Bold of you to assume they don’t know and do care about it. Automobile safety rules are, like most safety rules, written in blood. As long as they profit from it or are legally allowed , they won’t do anything about it

Breaking up the Google/Android/Chrome monopoly would be a good start

It’s always the same, big shocking announcement, public outcry, pushing forward with a less shocking version, public acceptance, and then rolling out the rest of the initial plan. Why do we keep falling for it?

Not American, but my views of America being “the good guy” completely crumbled when I read Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.
It made me put into perspective the amount of propaganda we’re being fed by mass media, just by reporting with carefully chosen words. It’s obviously not limited to America, because the same patterns are being used all around the world to justify imperialism, nationalism and ruthless capitalism.
It also helped me realise how fucked up some of the things my government did (and is still doing to be fair) and we just gobble it up, because it’s insanely hard to get out of the bubbles we’ve created for ourselves.

Well they’ll probably reinstall it with every update anyway.