@shiri_shh I had a cheap one year Pro account from Perplexity and about six months in they froze all accounts until you added a credit card with automatic billing enabled. I’m not going to be forced to sign up for auto-renewal to keep using the plan I paid for already so I left
@JulianKlymochko A decade ago, fewer than one in five Calgary households had AC; by 2017 that rose to about one-quarter, and by the early 2020s estimates put single-family home AC penetration at roughly 35–40%
Maybe work on your city instead of complaining about ours where 90%+ of people have AC
@HyperTechInvest Here’s an alternate take:
xAI and Meta don’t have competitive frontier models so they don’t have the same insatiable external demand for their compute resources that Google, Anthropic, etc. have
Grok is pretty bad. I use it maybe 0.1% as much as Claude, Gemini, or open source
@AmericanoDeNiro@fwtimini Not really… what percentage of drinks ordered are mocktails? 2% maybe? People who don’t drink are more likely to order club soda and lime etc.
If they charged less they would sell more. They aren’t selling that many. Simple supply & demand.
@theepicmap Shitty Florida still pretending to be a “free state” while restricting porn, weed, abortion, science, phrases like “climate change” and everything else
@slopshipper@raymmar This crappy Chinese restaurant claims to be “no tipping” but charges 18% service fee for dining in and 7% service fee for takeout 🤦♂️
They’re also famously rude and racist.