Say, did any hard left political actors view your results as a threat to their religion? If not, I don't see how it's comparable. We're talking about people who published a chapter from Mein Kampf after it passed peer review simply because the author changed Jews to men.

Moving away from China will be a period of disruption, to be sure. But well worth it in the long run. China is an enemy country that must be defeated. We can't do that if we're dependent on them. It's a bitter pill to wallow since this is what Trump wanted, but it's a shit sandwich and we've all got to take a bite. All of us who buy made in China because it's cheaper are at fault.

Poor choice of name. When humans set foot on Valinor their entire civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm. Why do nerds always pick the most cringe names?

No, Google was kicked out of the country and blocked. That was after the color revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia and Google was going to do one in china, too. Because of free speech. Google of all companies! A staunch defender of free speech! But they went evil despite don't be evil being their company motto and now they're the world's leading purveyor of censorship. For the same reason China was: it's a threat to government power. Sad!

Who are these savages? Name them. Our border is wide open and invaders are coming in. If that's not what a military is for, then why do we have one?

You've forgotten that the Trump-loving chuds dominate the military, even after Biden's purges. In the likely event of a future civil war, they are likely to turn traitor, refuse orders and side with the traitors. We already saw this with the Texas National Guard refusing and attempting to close the border in defiance of federal court order to keep it open. Robots remove them from the equation and ensure that they will be loyal to orders from DC. And just imagine how hilarious it will be to watch them getting turned into pink mist by AI-piloted A-10s. Losers in 1865, losers in 1945, losers in 2025.

They have those things because we pay for their defense. Why we pay for a continent of wealthy democracies who have nothing but withering criticism for us and who block our companies and imports is beyond me. Let's stop it and buy nice things for ourselves instead.

The "Alternative Marketplaces" that are already in Apple's approval queue to launch imminently in the EU are filled with emulators.

The problem here is that the open app ecosystem available to the EU creates a massive disparity between the capabilities of the platform there vs everywhere else in the world. The headlines about emulators coming to EU iPhones have been going for a few weeks now. If you can run emulators in Europe but not in the US, users simply are not going to stand for it.

I was going to say the Apple is about to have their Lunch eaten, but in the context of gradeschool cafeteria analogies, it's really more like they are the bully and they finally got their nose punched in by the little scrawny kid.. only that kid was the EU and maybe not so scrawny. Keep it up!

Did we watch the same movie? I watched it years ago and it stank. People just 'like: it because of the reputation, not because it's good. Like Citizen Kane.

Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union, in its dealings with the Western world[1]

When Cold War criticisms were levelled at the Soviet Union, the response would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.[2][3]

It represents a case of tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy),[4] a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.

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>P>Polio only still exists IN Pakistan and Afghanistan. During the hunt for bin Laden, the CIA went door to door doing blood tests, falsely claiming to be doing vaccinations. I'm sure that helped when the news got out.

The polio vaccine was not rushed out in six months, and people didn't suffer vaccine injuries like an inflamed heart like they did with the covid vaccine. Oh, qand we know nowthat covid came from the Wuhan lab which was funded by Dr. Fauci. Say, anyone ever see that movie Dallas Buyers Club? About the AIDS treatments? you know who the villain was in that movie? The asshole doctor who tried to stop the sick people from getting medicine? Dr. Fauci. Yes, that's right, the one and the same.

> When is it time to start shorting Apple?

If you are asking when they will upset their customers enough that it affects their bottom line, the answer is probably never. It's not as if the issue today is any different than when it arose in 2007.

The general public is so wantonly underinformed that one could argue they aren't even qualified to make a rational assessment of the situation.

It is really a the-inmates-are-running-the-asylum / everyone-is-an-expert situation that is becoming all too common these days.

You are right, and it is, so long as you have hacked Windows Subsystem for Android to have the Google Play Store support. Unfortunately without it, it's not at all surprising that the product is dead on the vine despite working really great!

They still do those things; Canva is the most recent company to build an empire on the same shit. The only difference is that Publisher prints it out and Canva spits it directly into the social media firehose. Well, I guess the other difference is that Publisher isnt a shitty web app. So long, Publisher, and thanks for all the brochures.

Good thing that doesn't appear to be at all what happened here.