If you're referring to what I *think* you are (It's been a long time since I've read the novels. I'm actually about halfway through a post-DV re-read of the first.) there's a fairly easy fix. He'd just have to the same as the SciFi adaptation: age up Leto II and Ghanima to take away the squick factor. Problem solved.

Dune Messiah was published in 1969. I think five and a half decades is more than long enough for a no-spoilers blackout. Honestly though, I think Messiah was the weakest entry of the (real, actually written by Frank Herbert) Dune saga. And it really doesn't work, IMO, without following up immediately with Children of Dune. That said, I really do with Villeneuve the best. His movies were excellent, and I'd *really* like to see him do God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse.

The guy's got a 6-digit UID. That puts him in his 40s, or maybe late 30s. Teenagers are never going to think he's cool no matter how hard he tries. And the trying... to be cool to them or to fit in with them with things like "yeet," puts him somewhere between pathetic and creepy. Urbandictionary IS a thing, of course. But I'd posit that it's better to just communicate clearly versus expecting other adults to look it up and join in his sad attempt to still fit in with the kids.

Or they could just brand it as Apple Robot like they did with the Apple Watch. More than a few people call it the iWatch anyway. Pretty much everyone knows what they're really talking about. And you google for iWatch... well... do you want to guess what the top result is? And the second result... and the third... and the fourth... and the fifth?

Tell that to my job-hunting gmail and LinkedIn inboxes, both of which are stuffed with messages from recruiters trying to lure me away from the job I'm happy at to other companies. Or tell it to our own recruiter who struggles to find candidates who are even worth interviewing, much less hiring.

There've been some large layoffs at the big names, sure. But this is not the Dotcom crash. If you're not a screw-up, you'll still have minimal difficulty finding a new position if you're laid off.

A better reason to refute idiots is to educate non-idiots who may not be aware of all the facts. Ignorance can at least be fixed. Stupid is forever.

States rights go both ways. Facebook is a California company. So are many other social media sites, actually. Does Florida even have ANY?

So if we go ahead and go all in on state's rights, DeSantis would have no right to stick his nose in Facebook's business, California would tell him to go pound sand, and if he still wanted to "stick it to those social media luburls in commiefornia" he could damn well go full CCP and build his own great firewall. Actually, that sounds like a perfectly cromulent idea to me. Don't like it? Go ahead and block it. But keep your laws out of my state.

> Don't live in Florida.

Well that sure makes it easy. It's not like Florida would ever try to assert its laws over any out-of-state entity like a social media company in California, right? RIGHT???

> until we get our own version of the great firewall.

Which is really what Florida, or other states that engage in these sorts of shenanigans, should do. It was only a few years ago DeSantis got a bog stick up his ass over an out of state corporation daring to refuse to jump on his anti-LGBT hate train. And here he is now, not just expressing a mere opinion about out-of-his-state entities, but presuming to dictate to them as well.

If you truly believe I'm lying, then prove me wrong. In what way or ways is RCS technologically superior to iMessage? What features dies it have that iMessage does not? What features do both have where the RCS implementation is superior, and how? All RCS has going for it over iMessage is ideological purity.

Of course, you won't even try to prove anything. Because you can't.

Also the police unions need to be broken up. Even in the one-in-a-million chance that you get past qualified immunity, the police unions are so strong in the US that it's damned near impossible to terminate them... or often to punish them in any way... when they engage in stormtrooper tactics against the innocent like this. AND... DAs and judges need to STOP treating the police with kid gloves, giving them the South Park "It's coming right for us!" pass, and, for example, to prosecute and impression this particular pack of thugs just like any band of home-invasion robbers would be.

Maybe you should look at a feature-by-feature comparison of RCS. Oh, and which RCS implementation? Google's? One of the carriers? If so, which one? Regardless, even if you take the most featureful RCS implementation available, it's still a downgrade versus iMessage. SMS, on the other hand, is universal and IS the standard. iMessage, RCS, whatever, are just sets of additional features on top of the standard. And I for one like my messaging the way it is. I don't WANT to downgrade to RCS. And, so far as I'm concerned, all these a-holes who wand to force Apple to switch and force that downgrade upon me can go take a flying leap.

> So I personally like knowing if my messages with
> someone are

Same. And people are willfully ignoring the history of the iPhone here. In the beginning, ALL of those bubbles were green. The blue bubbles for iMessage signal the availability of additional features that are available in addition to standard SMS messaging, which is STILL supported, and has not been degraded in ANY way... a point about which these same people are actively lying. I could almost understand normies not knowing technical details like that. But tech writers on tech sites? Lawmakers and enforcers whose duty it is to imform themselves about these things before making decistions? That's just appalling.

And no, aside from one "Buy youe mom an iPhone" quip on the part of Tim Cook (And do you really expect ANY exec to tell people to F off and use a competitor's procuct?), Apple has NOT been running any campaigh of stigmatization about the green (standard SMS) bubbles... another point on which many people are active lying. And I defy anyone to produce the commercials, press releases, web site text, or any other marketing collateral that says otherwise.

Oh? Perhaps you have forgotten about the lines around the blocks of people waiting in line to buy the first iPhone⦠before there were apps, before there was iCloud, before there was Apple Music, before there was any other sort of an âoeecosystem,â

I actually thought window phone was rather nice for what it was. And it was refreshing to see Microsoft actually come up with their own look and feel versus shamelessly apeing Apple like they usually do. I still think that tile UI would have potential as a home automation hub in a partnership with Amazon on the large screen Echos or similar devices. But as a smartphone, it was sub-par and just meh. It really only should have been sold as a feature phone.

> A forked version (can we call it Radish?) seems
> likely.

There should really be a betting pool on this one. My money is on AWS OpenCache. Or maybe the pool should be on just how quickly the first fork, and the first cloud fork, happen.