Today, end-to-end encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp, Messenger and Signal are exempt from the scanning. This has been a major cause of disagreement between the negotiating parties within the EU.

This assumes that WhatsApp messages are actually end-to-end encrypted, for which we have no proof and only The Zuck’s promise that it is so. And we all know how much his promises for the protection of people’s privacy and data is worth.

He’s worth a few hundred million dollars, I think he could afford to pay this out of his own pocket if he wanted to.

I’m sorry to say this, but this is survivorship bias. We produced plenty of crap that broke a few months after use even 50 years ago, it’s just that you don’t notice the crap because it was thrown away after it broke and all you see now is the stuff that surprisingly made it for decades. That’s not to say that enshittification and planned obsolescence is not a thing, it’s just not as extreme and “we used to build things that lasted” as people would like to believe.

Anecdotally, for me biking with studded tires on an icy road feels more comfortable and grippy than biking in autumn on wet leafs. It’s crazy how much of a difference studded tires make in these conditions and how easy it is to adapt to them.

Someone made a game out of this:
https://beatthecouch.com/

You’re trying to beat the couch by supposedly in an informed way selling and buying from the S&P500. The couch just holds its money in the S&P500 and does nothing. Only about 10% of players outperform the couch.

It’s made with real data from the last ~ 100 years but only shows you the trend of the price, not the years.