Yeah because modern filmmakers make it very hard to hear dialogs for some reason and actors are encouraged to mumble. If I remember correctly even Nolan admitted it.
And they often speak very quickly--I often rewind to catch critical plot points. It's a lot different from a stage play, where actors enunciate so clearly. (Not that I want stage cadence and booming voices from a film ... they are different art forms.)
Also I watch of English language material that uses accents quite different from what my ears are tuned to.
People watch Netflix to switch their brain off - having the text there helps along with the visual and sound to deliver the content. However, text is inferior to both visual and sound as a delivery mechanism.
Subtitles increase the signal to noise ratio. At least in our house. We have to keep the tv low to not wake the child. A volume of 10 with subtitles is similar to volume at 16 without subtitles.
The idea is to make a group decision to stop all the kids from using social media rather then get your kid alienated by just blocking him. Some people on hackernews want their kids to have zero friends and play SNES games but that's not what we should aim for.
Blocking third-party cookies is a big privacy win. Getting untargeted ads is not something 99.9% of people care about and getting rid of actual real spying opportunities is great.
The AI tap complition is >100000% better than the coding assistants, it just saves you typing and doesn't introduce new bugs you need to fix instead of writting buggy shitty code from a text description.
Not in Poland. Before the last election we had 100% partisan media with the public media campaigning for the ruling party and the opposition controling the private media. Both had the Fox News/CNN/Pravda levels of objectivity showing a strange propaganda version of reality.
