I care because I want to look critically at what they did and use the parts that make sense, and I want to know what they thought about both those parts as well as the other parts so I can more easily learn from it. Not enough to spend a lot of time reading about it, though, so obviously I don't care personally and only in principle. Every so often I go off on a tear about some particular subject and learn about what they thought about that, but it's not a hobby.

What matters more than what they did is what we need to do now. This is a different time. We should probably do many things differently. This first past the post voting thing is bananas, as is the undemocratic system of not counting our votes for president individually.

Substances most people do not regard as addictive (weed) or inherently dangerous (alcohol) are viewed as both by the Federal and most State criminal justice systems.

It's not true anyway, different constitutional rights have been held to have differing scope. The 1A has long been considered to cover actual people from anywhere, but not so much for corporations. There's not one standard for them and never has been.

Did the founders follow the process in breaking away from England? There was no process that would work for that, so no.

Did the founders foresee that we might have to have a revolution every few generations? Yep, some of them wrote about it explicitly.

Keep blaming victims, it will cause change ANY DAY NOW

That said, I won't be buying Nintendo's newest trash. I'm pretty done with supporting their massively hostile approach to consumers. But even so, I'm not doubting that should they actually market this fucking thing, that they'll convince enough people with their strong IP to fork over another couple of thousands on a garbage system.

How soon they forget. Switch was turning into a dead-walking console. And then Nintendo was LUCKY that the COVID pandemic hit.

Suddenly, parents decided that a thing to occupy the kids, with its own screen, was liquid gold. (And 3DS units started selling like hotcakes too, same reason).

Nintendo took the influx of money and started begging, pleading, and dumping wads of cash on indie developers from Steam to port to the Switch. Because they finally realized that the Lamecube, the Wii, and the Wii V2 Eww had zero 3rd party support save for pure fucking shovelware.

They were LITERALLY OVER THE MOON to have convinced Bethesda to give them a modless port of Skyrim, a decade after the original release. That's how lame the Switch was until desperate parents needed a "shut up and play your Game Boy" console during Covid.

The Switch 2 will be the Wii Eww all over again.

I'm not sure what that proves, exactly? 2011 was just 13 years ago. It hasn't been that long. I think most of us here have non-Apple hardware as old and older that's still gets regular use.

Well, we're talking about iPads here...or, tablets in general.

The iPads DO have longevity...my iPad Pro from 2017 (I mistakenly said 2015 earlier) is chugging right along, good battery life still, and has held up on a LOT of traveling.

I use it pretty much daily.

Yes, "only" about 7+ years....but anecdotally, most of my friends have burned through 3-6 Android tablets over this time....

And with the iPads...you could generally in the past get better hardware on them....my Android friend back in the day was blow away that I could get .5 TB onboard storage on a tablet that size...apparently Android didn't have an option back then.

The iPad / Apple Pencil combo, is very hard to beat for creatives....using apps like the Affinity Suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher)...Procreate...FCPX and nowadays...Davinci Resolve.

You can run some VERY powerful art/photo/video apps on the iPad....and while the Android and Windows tablets are catching up, all of these apps pretty much first came out on the Apple tablets.

And the new iPad pro's announced today, with the M4 chips can out spec MANY full blow laptops out there on the market.

They are pricy, but I find in the tablet market, you get what you pay for in many cases.

I can take my art work on the road with me easily with the iPad....I can work on things easily on the plane or pool side....and not have to lug around a laptop to get the same power and apps.

Most of the time, the apps that run on the iPad are not paired down, weaker versions of the desktop version...they are the full blown versions only adapted for non-keyboard use...

That's not the story for these apps on other tablet platforms...at least not from what I've found.

I've seen renders of some pretty difficult things (high megapixel, 15+ shot focus stacking ) render on the iPad quicker than the same job on a laptop...

This is nice to have in such a light, easily transportable package.

The investigation was launched after an employee reported the problem to Boeing management, and Boeing informed the FAA.

What's the over/under on this employee being found dead in the next couple weeks?

...inding them guilty of violating national security by passing a law instead of letting the courts decide. I'm no expert on the US consitution

Ok I'll help you.

When something is declared a national security threat, it is not something that is done through the courts, never has been.

... the controls will be weird AF and it'll have about half the processing power of a Steam Deck.

"The way you manufacture a Wii is you take two GameCubes and duct tape them together." - Chris Hecker

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We've all known dumb old people, right?

"Apple has some of the best hardware you can buy."

As measured how?

Union can't protect workers who don't follow safety standards. That tells us that nobody was checking up to make sure they did because it might affect the bottom line, which in turn tells us it was management's fault and had nothing at all to do with any unions.

We already knew this because of all the cost cutting crap Boing has done over the years. Notably, they shifted a lot of production to contractors on whom they never checked up.

I didn't say anything was "okay", what I Said was that it's legal.

Work on your reading comprehension, it is important when you want to communicate with text.