"TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it"

Yes, that's because its purpose is not profit, as it's a PsyOp. If the goal were profit, they would prefer to sell it. If they sell it, there is a risk that documents which prove its purpose will be transferred, and blow the whole operation even worse than being shut down.

"It's probably because you're asserting that the mod down process validates your "facts"."

If you want to claim what I'm saying isn't factual, the onus is on you to provide some counter evidence, or at minimum, counter arguments. When people mod down an opinion because they don't agree with it they have surrendered the point.

As this would amout to cutting people off from their ability to make phone calls, and the people aren't at fault in this case, this will not happen. And no, leaving emergency numbers available is not sufficient, because people might have to call their relatives, their lawyers, their physicians or other. non-emergency-numbered contacts.

Even at $400 is more expensive than a lot of Android Phones. And that $400 will only get you 64 GB of storage and a 4.7" screen with big bezels and a single camera lens.

A lot better deals with stuff like the Samsung A54 for instance. Maybe the iPhone SE has more horsepower, but the A54 has more than what most people need.

Also, even "normies" like to be free to do what they want with their phone. Just better customization and not being quite as locked in.

I read so many contradicting numbers. Stuff like this where Apple apparently has close to 60% of market share in the US, but then reading the article in this post says new activiations are around 33%.

Why such a big discrepancy?

Or even abuse it seems.

That's the exact opposite of how it actually works. Fertility rates tend to be highest among socioeconomically challenged groups, and lowest among high earning groups.

Indeed. QEMM was something of a hero in that department, but even memmaker was enormously helpful...

Every major shift WAS different from the one before.

What's DOUBLY different about this time is that this time we are not moving from skill to skill, we are moving from unskilled to something.

I truly despise the idea that there are no unskilled jobs because it is not just false, it's a counterproductive argument. All of us who have worked a variety of jobs know that some jobs require both talent and education, and others require mostly just a pulse and respiration. But people who work both kinds of jobs have essentially the same needs.

The lack of clear English isnâ(TM)t the frustrating thing with modern day customer "service". I have lived in non-English speaking locales and can roll with a language barrier. The problem is outsourced customer "service" ain't empowered to do a damn thing except read from a script and by the time I'm frustrated enough to make a call it's invariably for a problem too complicated to solve with a script. AI will not fix this problem. It will just leave you yelling at a disempowered computer rather than a disempowered human being. The solution to this problem would require the C-Suite thinking of customer service as SERVICE rather than a pointless expense to be minimized.

Which word did you find unclear? I don't remember stuttering.

Not all abuse is physical, and women have basically the entire government (men with guns) at their disposal to meet out abuse if a relationship turns sour, if they so choose.
I've known men who have had their lives and future prospects ruined by their former mates: family courts are overwhelmingly overseen by female judges, often from (literal) feminist schools of thought. It sometimes results in overly burdensome alimony, child support payments that supports a lavish non-working lifestyle for the former wife (in one case whom rotated through multiple lovers / sugar daddies) and does not go towards raising the children--to the point where the former husband is basically living monastically / on the brink of homelessness. Alimony cannot be discharged under bankruptcy. Primary custody almost always goes towards the woman, regardless of her actual ability to raise a well adjusted child. The justice system as a whole is radically slanted towards favoring the female partner and will default to her story despite any number of insane / impossible tales.

Of course, like the economy and everything else, this has a cooling effect on men's attitudes towards raising a family.

Hiding from the truth doesn't change it.

This is different in that the software will take the service jobs, and it's the same in that the people profiting from the switch don't give a fuck about you.

It's also true that those people have names and addresses, and we have lumber.

That was the joke alright, he doesn't think any of the action against Apple makes sense because he's in favor of anticompetitive behavior at the expense of customers for some sick reason, probably cognitive dissonance.

That's fine if you have an embarrassingly parallel problem which doesn't require a lot of data transfer between processors. There are jobs like that, of course, but those mac minis have pretty poor connectivity and having that many nodes means doing a lot of extra work to set up and maintain them. The EPYC processor (and to a lesser extent the Xeon) also offers very good price:performance. The minis come with a lot of extra case material that you have to pay for (including making it pretty) but don't really want.