This is probably not what you wanna hear, but when the battery gets low, the current gets weaker. If the current gets too weak, the scale becomes more and more inaccurate. Like, wildly so. In other words, the alternative is to lie to you. Badly.

Most of the time, the fare thru collect is nowhere near enough to pay for the service they offer. However, partially because is capitalism, they can’t give the service to for free because, well, reasons.

The fare is useful to track how many ride different lines at different times of day stuff like that. Plus, it gives a way to count how many people use the service for the purpose of getting grants and whatnot - which is what actually funds the bus service.

So, if the driver is in a hurry for any reason, he’ll often give you a free ride…cause actually paying the fare is, well, kinda for appearances, really…

And that’s actually not relevant, but thanks.

I just switch to desktop mode and never had any problem…

And I guess you’re just asking questions??

Not every act is a sign of somebody having an agenda or whatever…

I’ve always figured a company will go public before enshitification truly gets underway. It’s kinda the first step of the process.

I guess my argument is that until that pressure to appease the stockholders exists, there’s not a whole lot of motive to justify enshitification. It’s hard for me to imagine the process happening any other way.

So, I suppose you can count my vote as being that going public will likely come first. Just my two cents, though, and I don’t know anything anyway! :-p

I’m a little bit confused by your post. Publicly-traded companies, by and large, place extraordinary emphasis on short term, quarter by quarter profit. Seems like a very strong contender for the root cause if the issue?

Enshitification is about monetization, getting more money from the same customer base.

Doesn’t this statement support publicly traded status being a riot cause, though?

I must assume I’m misunderstanding your argument…?

Oh, he’s been reported a bunch of times recently for violating campaign finance laws. Problem is, the FEC just keeps declining to investigate any of these reports.

could he not have taken the same effort to legalize abortion?

No, he literally could not have legalized abortion with an executive order.

Republicans…protect the public?? Lol.

You do know arrests aren’t convictions, right? Whatever…

Lol. Considering even I watched the events in one case happen live? Yeah. Some things are very easy to investigate.

What’s that got to do with the conversation? You’re not even any good at the what-a-bout-ism thing, dude. Feel free to overthink it so you can come up with another “zinger”; I don’t care, and won’t be responding anyway…

Nah. Internet edgelords trolling threads about a controversial war are boring…

Uh, couple of times now? Mug shots and everything…

Eh, blatantly moving the goal posts when your earlier statement is directly contradicted? Yeah, that is trolling.

If each and every one if these cases was not carefully and fully investigated over a course of several years, you might have an argument.

Explain why getting divorced less than nine months earlier changes a single thing, you brainless twit.

Or, how about citing one example of this preventing a man from filing divorce. Just one will do.

The hell you on about?

Honestly such a weak argument. Having helped my uncircumcised son learn to keep himself clean, I can probably say this myth needs to be laid to rest already. It’s just not true.

My dude, what do you think “birth control” is…??