Same energy as when airlines make a gate announcement that they’ve got too many bags and they’re offering free baggage check for anyone willing…

The ads in Apple Wallet for their credit card drive me insane. So invasive.

This seems like the most likely answer to me - though we all have our grievances with SO, the culture likely didn’t contribute to its decline as much as simply AI being a better tool.

Having experienced the SO culture, I like to think the culture caused it - schadenfreude - but it was probably inevitable given AI.

Even if SO was the most wonderful friendly place in the galaxy, would you rather post a question and wait hours for a response, or get one instantly?

If the answers were better, you might.

They weren't. The most common answer was a hyperlink to an unrelated question followed by everyone being banned from answering your question

I could see SO being helpful for more niche questions where one guy somewhere knows the answer from experience or he wrote the framework.

But then over time, those will be absorbed into LLMs anyway, so…

Very new, beta stuff - AI can be helpful but too creative sometimes

And in some ways AI "search" works like SO - you ask a question, you get an answer. If you don't understand the answer or something in the answer you ask for clarification and it provides it. And you don't have to wait a day or a week for it. (Ofcourse, the AI gets it answers from human curated info pools like SEs, pirated books etc ... but if these sources shrink / die to AI, it may not be able to provide new and current information, and we'll be back to SEs and Reddits and HNs again).

Similar with lifted trucks.

Lifts are bad for driveshafts, suspension, tires, etc

Well there's right ways to do them, where you replace all the weak components with properly strengthened components, and geometry fixing components, and then there's the wrong way to do them, which is what 99% of people do, where they just do a cheap lift, without upgrading the other components, and eventually it fails.

Probably the primary reason why vehicles like Jeeps get a bad reputation - they're incredibly commonly modded, and incredibly horribly/improperly modded, and the vehicle gets the blame when the mods fail, rather than the horrible things the owner did to them.

Average quality and reliability ratings even on new, unmodified Jeeps are abysmal. I understand why some consumers like them for style and off-road capability but overall it's a trash brand.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit

> When the Biden administration introduced a junk fee rule in 2024, the US Chamber of Commerce argued it was “an attempt to micromanage businesses’ pricing structures”, and apartment fees were cut from that federal rule after lobbying by the real-estate industry.

This drives me nuts to read, because it’s usually the same pattern.

Rule -> lobbyists descend -> politicians cave -> carve out that takes away the whole point of the rule -> everyone declares victory

I don't expect that Mamdani will cave in to real estate lobbyists lol. What you're describing is exactly why Establishment Democrats are losing to Mamdani and his ilk (DSA)

I don't see Mamdani as somehow invulnerable to lobbyists; but they realistically have little leverage over him.

> How can we push terminals harder?

> I don’t support pushing terminals to the extreme…

Reminds me of what Warp has become these days

[if the article’s analysis is true] cost controls would reduce the supply of ambulances, since the article claims Medicare actually is a loss.

You have claimed it isn’t, but you haven’t really provided much evidence other than “there’s no way that’s true, trust me, I used to work somewhere in healthcare finance”

Thats fine, I'm a passerby making a comment on their work on a platform that they may not even be aware of. If you look closer I’ve done more than they have by simply raising the concern and I’m not authoring an article attempting to educate people on the industry. I think it’s perfectly fine to question someone’s assertion based on experience alone. Basically you’ll have to do more to convince me what you’re saying is true is what I’m saying. That’s the same feedback a teacher would give a student on their homework. It takes data that I don’t have to do the analysis which is probably also why they didn’t do it. But I don’t think it’s completely off the mark to mention that I’ve been an insider at multiple healthcare service companies that like to claim they lose money on Medicare yet they opt to accept Medicare patients. When we consider denying Medicare we realize they are such a large part of the mix that they allow us to be as profitable as we are. It’s almost always a misconception of what “losing money” means. Price gouging the few patients that can afford it, is only profitable if all your expenses are already covered and economies of scale are at play, which is what Medicare is good for.

Ambulance.ai

(Shudders)

Some of them are volunteers who do it because it’s about the calling to help their communities, not pay.

Some do it because they actually want to be firefighters but it’s helpful to be an EMT as well.

Others do it because it’s an easy entry point (in the US you only need a 3 month night course to be an EMT) in their medical career on their way to better paying jobs like MD and RN.

And yes, others are grizzled and burnt out making little money.

But mostly people do it because they want to help.