Great read!! I still have my N900, my favorite smartphone of all time!

Where did I say the opposite of anything you are talking about?

Yup I get it, just don’t like marketing speak and downplaying what we are talking about - it takes a ton of joules to get water that hot and it’s dangerous.

with water that’s roughly 200 degrees Fahrenheit

barely warm enough to brew a cup of tea

That is scalding hot water brother LOL

Out of the current “R” brand spread, Romney at least had some character. I wouldn’t beat yourself up too bad about things you did many many years ago, reflection is hard, growing up is hard - you are a champion for being man enough and introspective enough to grow as a person. Also I enjoyed reading this, thank you for sharing.

IRC is still around and nothing has really surpassed it yet imho. We keep re-inventing the wheel.

I’ve been playing with zomboid for over 10 years!!! Amazing that this is picking up so much steam after being so ‘mature’ already! But loving the preview builds!

Nice red herring you’ve got there - I’ll leave you in your dark, depressing hole to enjoy eating it in peace. 👋

History proves you wrong. Every major challenge to our democracy, from our inception, has been overcome with blood, sweat and plenty of tears.

Americans will roll over and let it happen like they have for fifty-some odd years now or more.

You’re old now but apparently can’t remember all the victories over the last 50 years? Title IX? ADA? Same-sex marriage? First black president? First woman speaker? That’s just off the top of my head - your willful ignorance is actually shocking to me, shameful.

Yeah not bad, I’m sure you could use federated login to allow the users’ personal google acct to hit the maps api and pull reviews. But yelp/google/amzn/etc all manipulate ratings and reviews behind the scenes without any transparency which is a deeper problem and why I am always critical of reviews in general. But like I said, if you and I created an OSS review plugin/service for use in OSS maps, it wouldn’t be long before it was corrupted in some regard… somehow. Cynical I know but the review data is just so damn JUICY to everyone.

Hell yeah it was!

Sweet ok thx for the response - will try it out!

No let me apologize I was overly harsh on that criticism.

yeah there really isn’t a way around reviews

I think it’s just too valuable to stay open and free, someone will always want to monetize (from the business, the reviewers, the ‘pop up’ order on the map, etc)

Is it worth it to jump in if I haven’t played in 4+ years? Used to play with a few friends but similar to MC after 6mnths or so people dwindled interest in it.

I too have found myself in the same boat, especially because Google Maps is probably (for my life) their best product. I was in the early contributor beta and have been pretty consistent in leaving reviews over the last 10+ years (although the offers for comp’d dinners have disappeared) - I’ve made an effort to be better, I have CoMaps on my phone, and I’ve started contributing to OSM. I think what would really seal the deal for me to shift completely would be integrated reviews. As you said, google and yelp have the market cornered for that, but there is no transparency.

edit: that transit app website is the worst marketer crap I have ever stepped in, scrolled so many fucking pages of artistic empty-words and vision speak and still have NO FUCKING CLUE what the app does. JFC.

Some ass-hat thinks ‘activism’ (slacktivism) is bot-spamming his same comment thousands of time.

War is a great distraction from these robber baron tactics the current admin is employing.

So glad I moved out of FL, I’m sure these policies will go over well in your actual money makers like South Beach, Ft. Laudy, Orlando, et al

Like my beloved Nokia N900 and my current Pixel 6 had a bastard love child and I am all about it.