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Comment Re:Slop? (Score 1) 57

Apple sells luxury products. Who cares if the polishing cloth is $19? Wait till you see how much Porsche charges.

Porsche only sells luxury products, though they've occasionally flirted with lesser machines they're above that now, and their highest end vehicles are among the very best in the world. Apple sells everything from mass market up to medium expensive, but if you want the most powerful machine in the fanciest case, Apple has absolutely nothing for you. They are not even vaguely in the running, they aren't anywhere near it, they can't even see it from where they are.

Comment Re: \o/ (Score 1) 92

There was always zero chance of Hamas not attacking. It's all they ever think about.

Hamas didn't even exist until after decades of colonial violence. They didn't spring up out of nowhere. Don't talk about thinking until you try doing some. Or would you just bend over under the same circumstances?

Comment Re: I've said it before (Score 1) 109

You seem to think that the rich have giant piles of cash somewhere.

OK, where the fuck is the tiny car? Every time I bring this up some joker pops up to tell me that the wealthy don't have the piles of effective cash they actually do have, in unprecedented amounts, that people who can read are aware of. They then often follow it up sucking their dicks about how they deserve to run off with all the fucking money that they got through an assortment of nefarious bullshit that these cucks are in denial about.

What the fuck do you get out of bending over and spreading your asshole for the rich every time someone mentions that their hoarding is negatively affecting others? Does it make you feel warm in the tum-tum to fantasize about them noticing you? Because if they ever do, they probably won't even waste the time for a derisive snort, you shitstain of a sycophantic snotsucker.

Comment Re:Rumors of my demise... (Score 1) 57

It is in fact insane for anyone to have claimed that Apple would fail for a long time now, because they have huge stacks of cash and huge investments. Apple has more actual cash than almost anyone, they can literally pay their bills for a long time without having to do anything other than authorize payments.

Apple also has big stupid inertia like Microsoft used to have, where people just assumed competence. And they have more technical competence than Microsoft ever did, at least in their domain, and a demonstrated ability to capitalize. Now that they have their own competitive CPU (again, in their domain) they are actually a force again like they used to be.

If they ever get their CPUs to scale up to the really high end, they could genuinely dominate. That's irritating given how much they lock everything down, though.

Comment Self-contradictory premise (Score 1) 57

This was a company that once charged $19 for a polishing cloth, asked $200 for a VESA mount, and sold $700 wheels for the Mac Pro. Now it's borrowing tired ideas from its competitors and launching hardware its previous leaders rejected.

Apple did not invent the wheel.

Comment Engagement bait (Score 1) 57

This post is low effort engagement bait. Apple hasn't done anything out of the ordinary. The only questionable choice is that silly touch screen and that's harmless enough. Most of their energy right now is focused on their processors and seeing if they can get in on controlling all of AI and the massive automation push coming from that but that's what every single tech company on the planet is doing.

Nothing to see here just lazy rage bait and that comes from somebody who is not really much of a fan of Apple

Comment That's not different (Score 1) 153

"This was a company that once charged $19 for a polishing cloth, asked $200 for a VESA mount, and sold $700 wheels for the Mac Pro. Now it's borrowing tired ideas from its competitors and launching hardware its previous leaders rejected."

They didn't invent the wheel, either.

Comment So what? (Score 4, Insightful) 21

Millions of dollars stolen is a tiny fraction of just the money Trump got to sell pardons.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't stop fraud but if all you can come up with is a few million bucks there are much better places to go after fraud. Like how the IRS will go after you for forgetting to include the right paperwork for a deduction but they'll cheerfully let Elon Musk skip paying billions of dollars of taxes he's owing.

This is not an accident. People in power have long since set things up so that they don't have law enforcement against them but you do.

Fascism requires an in group that the law protects but does not bind and an out out group that the law binds but does not protect. If you're reading this you're in the out group

Comment The lawn care forum gets 600k views and 6.5k posts (Score 1) 72

Per week. A relatively minor political forum called white people Twitter does 650 k views and 42k posts per week. The bigger rage bait forums do millions of views and tens of thousands of posts per week.

A lot of those are probably bots but advertisers treat them like they aren't. Data is data.

I guess what I'm saying is rage bait and outrage porn drives a lot more engagement than lawn Care.

Also those kind of subreddits like the lawn Care One require massive amounts of maintenance and moderation to be barely functional. Otherwise they instantly get overwhelmed with garbage.

I don't know about the lawn care one but the video game one's especially the retro video game ones are fucking useless because they are filled with nothing but karma farming posts from bots trying to drive up their numbers so that they can post on the political forums

Comment Re:My intuition (Score 2, Insightful) 109

I listen to them because they're very powerful and they get to make decisions about my life.

I am through pretending people with nearly limitless money don't get to decide how I live my life. I'm tired of coping with how bad things are I want them to either get better or I want them to just end in a global firestorm. But I'm tired of everything just getting worse because people refuse to deal with the shit that's happening and pretend instead that they can just ignore it.

I get it though. Voting is a fucking drag. My ballot this year was full of bullshit designed to trick me into voting for bad things that would hurt me or bad people that would hurt me and it was a good 40 or 50 minutes spent sorting that out. And that's after I had a lot of experience with politics and could quickly find who was tricking me and who was just probably going to line their pockets a little bit without completely fucking me in the ass.

I don't know what you do with that. The first couple of times I had to actually sit down with a ballot and sort out all the lies took a couple hours and even now I've barely got that time in half. On paper it's a couple hours of my life every other year but fuck it's annoying.

But if I want to have my hobbies I don't have a choice. Tech Bros are taking away everything good. I want to go back to being able to afford a fucking video card. And that means I have to deal with politics I can't just pretend guys like Sam Altman can be ignored

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