They are desperate. They had multiple massively valuable IPs, including their own, and they ran them into the ground by putting out woke slop. To compensate, they are trying everything except making good movies.
They increased prices on consumers to pay for the tariffs, this is known. The consumer collective paid for it, the consumers should be refunded directly, the consumers paid the price, not the megacorps (the largest benefactor from this).
In the end, there will be no attempt to force the corporations to repay the consumers. We gave up on treating humans as important in the face of corporations at some point in the 1980s. From that point forward, corporations and the ultra-wealthy who found them, have been deemed far more important than consumer class individuals. The government being forced to hand money back to the corporations will most likely be fine and dandy. Anything beyond that? No go. Consumers are fodder, cattle for the collective to harvest. There is no need for concern. The system is working precisely as designed.
Drain the middle class and down. Feed the upper class and the government.
Stop acting like the problem wasn't implementing the tariffs in the first place in an entirely chaotic and arbitrary manner to extort deals that favor the Trumps.
You're not a victim because you paid more for a laptop, you first world problem cry baby. The only rational thing to do when crazy people took the economic helm was start saving money and spending less. Stop crying about some abstract class problem when the corrupt policy at the root of this was so crystal fucking clear. If you spend all you take in and have no savings, then I truly feel for you, I have been there, three OD charges in one day, waiting for payday to turn my phone back on, just getting raked by calling cards, ATM fees, cellular overages, it fucking sucked. We definitely need to reduce wealth disparity, and protect people from being preyed on, but you are not trapped in some consumer class. You fuckers better all vote, instead of rolling over and bitching like someone else is supposed to fix shit for you.
They increased prices on consumers to pay for the tariffs, this is known
How are you going to pay "the consumers" back? Everybody an equal share? How about those people who intentionally buy American and hardly buy anything else? Should they be reimbursed? Do you have receipts that show how much extra you paid? Without a doubt, prices were raised. But quite often a lot of businesses chose to reduce their own profit - i.e. the costs of the tariffs were shared and prices weren't raised as much as the costs. Sorting this sort of thing out is just about impossible.
I don't understand it could work any other way than the people who directly paid the tariffs (businesses for the most part) should be the ones that get their money back. If they in turn choose to reimburse their customers, good for them.
What do you mean buy American? 51% assembled in America.. mostly, from mostly components mostly assembled in America built from raw materials mostly dug up or cut down in America? You were all exposed to imports and the effects of tariffs. But I agree that refunding everyone is stupid, importers were taxed, we paid market prices.
If we want to lay blame for fucked up market prices, there's one person we can point to.
They probably can't move the movie up. Knowing Disney, they'll probably still be doing reshoots the week before.
I don't see anything better about MacOS than windows. Windows is more for power users and MacOS is more for people who want their hand held, that's all. Also it seems there is very little freeware on MacOS and you have to pay for everything. I replace both with Linux if I can.
Come on man, "freeware" gives you away so bad, like if you're not using open source software already, what would installing Linux do for you.
You think you're a Windows power user because you have two monitors or replaced your OEM graphics driver.
I think I'm a Windows power user because 100% of my day is spent in a WSL terminal and I don't do dick with Windows outside of that black rectangle and vscode and
That's for work, for fun (don't tell) I'm ssh/mosh/tmux'd from my iPad sidekick into a Mac Mini vibe coding side projects that I push to Linux instances in the cloud.
You know, maybe I'm not a Windows power user, I'm not doing anything windows centric, no powershell no win32 application development no
You don't need to replace anything with Linux, you need to open a terminal. Make something, break something just for fun, you can do that anywhere, on all the platforms. You don't switch, you grow somewhere else for a while.
> One of those s[c]ents that everyone is programed instinctively to move away from.
If that were true Antifa riots wouldn't be a thing.
How many supervillain plots in comics, TV or movies started with the villain's corporation introducing some kind of tech like this, only to later use it to manipulate people?
> well above stuff like Star Trek.
In 2026, "Blue's Clues" would be above Star Trek in terms of science.
I have a lot of criticisms of the movie, but it was fun. It was funny. It was entertaining. And because of that, I can give it a pass.
I'm sure the three people who bought the vision pro will appreciate it.
I do, huge virtual high def 2D screens for entertainment is one of the use cases it absolutely excels at. For watching a movie, it's top notch.
That's not what most people think a VR/AR headset should be used for, but fuck them and the ignorant opinion they rode in on, it's amazing.
VR games are nice... but everyone plays games on 2D screens, everyone watches movies and tv shows on 2D screens. The AR pass-through and the high resolution are what make it great for virtual 2D display. That Apple hasn't worked out a deal with Sony and Microsoft for similar native game streaming is mind boggling, hopefully the steam thing is a pilot for the rest.
The price needs to come down, a lot, and being a solo experience is really a limiting factor for families. Think what you will about Apple, but passthrough+high res display with the virtual display use case could end up being more popular than the VR/3D game mode. My main problem is I have a family, I don't get to watch movies alone and I have to fight over the game consoles. I sure AF don't have time to fart around in a VR game and occupy the entire living room. But sit on the couch (with neck support ugh..) and watch the same thing as everyone else but AR augmented bigass screen, that's different, or playing a game on a second virtual display while also watching whatever the family wants to watch on the main tv. There are some really good use cases with widespread appeal, once the price comes down and more manufacturers figure it out. Stop thinking about them as just VR headsets.
He says it's like an 80in TV in his living room. Totally happy.
And for only triple the price!
Beats putting an 80+ inch tv in every room and the back porch and the hammock, and etc.
But what is this "Vision Pro" thing you keep referring to?
As someone who's been using Samsung phones for about 15 years, I had no idea there was a thing called "Samsung Messages". I tend to tune out all the shovelware that phones come with (and take steps to remove or disable them).
I really like Samsung phones, but their software ecosystem is abysmal. Everything they provide is inferior to other options.
Top notch Journalism takes time to verify before printing. Today that doesn't work well when several Joe Blows have already put out a blog post on the same topic with no fact checking and even if completely wrong no one will bother to read the Journalist's equivalent in a few days after all the verification has been done.
It's a terrible place to be for those that want to deliver actual Journalism. And just as bad for those that welcome actual Journalism. The noise to signal ratio is just that bad.
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"Why should I deal with ads, the internet is free"
"Why should I deal with paywalls, I can get the same AP article for free from a shittier website."
"Why should I deal with the news, I can get everything from Facebook"
"Why should I read anything ever it's all biased"
"Wants.. actual journalism"
To anyone that can't find "actual journalism", fuck you right in the ear hole with a rusty corncob. What will replace it... you're looking at it, morons.
It's probably worse than that, because it's so populist and infeasible it has to be on purpose. I think it's bait to give politicians something unwinnable to squabble over instead of playing games with electricity prices, and obstructing datacenter construction, things that are bipartisan and more likely to actually happen.
Asynchronous inputs are at the root of our race problems. -- D. Winker and F. Prosser
