There are definitely good parts of Reddit, which is why I still lurk (at least for now).

Stay away from the big subs and especially anything political.

I’ve looked up stats on number of apps average phone has. The app count seems unrealistically low with how everything is pushing apps these days.

New Reddit is such a shit tier interface though.

Going public = enshittification. As in the former is a direct cause of the latter

You can’t comment or post, but being banned doesn’t actually prevent you from logging in and viewing. Well, unless they change that too.

Enshittification will continue until morale improves

Switched to an MVNO and have been quite happy with it. Cut bill by almost 2/3.

MVNOs do have a lower data priority than the parent network, but IME this hasn’t made much difference. I don’t tend to stream a lot of video on my phone though, so it might be a concern if you need fast data.

GOUGING The word is gouging. The number of times I see “gauging” used for this is too damn high!

It’s one of those words that I see misused all the time, like rouge (instead of rogue) and loose (instead of lose).

They are going to get an ugly lesson in unintended consequences.

This isn’t going to play out the way they think it is.

Well I guess some marketing materials and configurations have it and others don’t. Plenty of it out there does refer to it as bench seats, even if this particular one doesn’t. Maybe it’s a regional thing.

Emergency sirens in radio ads (i.e. often played in the car) are the worst.

So what? Should no basic, inexpensive vehicles be produced because you could get a nicer or more capable used one for a similar price?

Also, this one is electric. Sans the Cybertruck, there aren’t too many electric pickups out there, and probably not many on the used vehicle market.

I think the point is that a pickup truck bed is better for hauling this than vehicles with other body styles.

Look up the 2026 Suburban. They refer to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd row “bench”. Also used for other GM vehicles.

Ford uses it for some of their vehicles (e.g. Explorer) but oddly not for others.

Interesting, because in vehicles that offer (e.g. 2nd row) captains and these, manufacturers consistently refer to this option as “bench”. And I think they would pass as “bench” for most people, and most of the things that they would want out of it, even if they aren’t the same as the older style.

Irrespective of nomenclature, these type of seats should be OK in the front row then, yes? Yet I can’t think of any new vehicles that have them.

So they have bucket / captain seats in the back?

A closed loop system would achieve this, or at least after the initial filling of the system.

They are common (if not standard) in 2nd and 3rd row seating.

I get a difference in frontal impacts, but a number of people have specifically cited side impacts.