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- Comment on Automaker Tesla is opening more showrooms on tribal lands to avoid state laws barring direct sales 11 months ago:
Historical legacy. It made sense when they were first rolling out. Someone would take the risk of trying to build up a market for these really expensive new devices and then the factory would swoop in and undercut them and destroy their business after they had done all the initial leg work of creating demand for the vehicles. They wanted protection from this.
Well, cars are now everywhere in the US market and it doesn’t take a whole lot of effort anymore to convince someone they need a car, and not just a horse. But the laws protecting “car market development” in the former of dealerships never went away.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
Yup, although the downside is that your posting style definitely shows off that you’re a Mastodon user.
You use of the @ tag, the hashtag are all markers of a more Twitter-like user experience, and it makes you post stand out somewhat oddly for those using one of the lemmy instances. Either way, it’s really neat to be able to cross between those, since I vastly prefer the Lemmy UX as opposed to Mastodon’s, but I can still get a Mastodon’s content!
- Comment on Why do we want to know why? 11 months ago:
Because it allows for proper prioritization of needs, allows for the better exploitation of our surroundings (as tool using animals), and is INCREDIBLY useful for helping us try to “model” other human’s behaviors and act as social animals as opposed to just being the regular kind.
Probably the most impact “Why” question probably started occurring before we were even human and it was “Why did they do that?”
Being able to understand the motivations of other beings is absolutely fucking incredibly overpowered both in terms of cooperative action with your fellows AND destructive action against foes/food sources.
- Comment on Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time 11 months ago:
Void is gonna do real well this year, I’d imagine.
- Comment on Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com 11 months ago:
Meta provides a lot of other backend services beyond just Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
You think that’s the only way they have of scarfing down data? Absolutely not, they make other useful tools as well that businesses can use, because if they can’t get their info directly from you, they can get it from the people you have to regularly interact with instead.