Plus different variations of we supposedly can't *just* switch phones is at the root of every Apple monopoly argument. Because of green chat bubbles, or the private walled garden we can't *possibly* leave on a whim... but really people just want in on it.

A. "Mostly" doing a lot of work there, lol
B. He saddled the company with debt and had to lay off most of the workforce, so you have a skeleton crew toiling away to make interest payments. This is a well recognized unhealthy pattern in the industry not some magic trick the Muskrat discovered.

It's nothing to do with AI.

The tech industry saw absolutely bonkers growth from 2019-2022, and no one should ever be comparing growth to anything in that period without a lot of caveats. Nothing since then has been normal, so blaming the current trend on something else without looking back is useless.

Even if you can't read this article, the chart at the top says it all. Look at 2018-2022,2023
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jo...

OpenAI didn't cause that peak in 22, Federal Reserve policy did. It undid the changes it made in response to COVID, because of high inflation. It raised interest rates, an era of cheap money ended. That is why Cheeto in Chief wants to strong arm the Fed chairman into lower interest rates, to juice the economy again, repeat the entire cycle, and blame inflation on the next bag holder.

Men, or women, that have not found a partner are not incels, they're singles that are looking for some loving, not victims that blame their would be partners.

In order to be an incel you have to be a super-victim, and blame everyone else as the reason someone isn't in bed with you. All the really good looking people you're interested in, their fault, all the other looking people, you write them off but ofc it's their fault, all the other guys and girls you're competing with, it's their fault too, then there's everyone else, and some of them actually wind up fucking each other, remove them from the victim club!!11, blame them because you weren't invited, then you have the incels at the bottom. In a nutshell, it's not you but literally everyone else... and the solution! It's making someone get into bed with.. RED FLAG RED FLAG RED FLAG

Seriously, fuck yourself, you mask-off red pilled loser. The entire fucking internet knows what an incel is already, here have a box of tissues dope.

So it depends on the manufacturer, and their parts supplies, obviously varying from model to model and part to part. Sometimes OEM parts come in sets too, not just the one you need, there's that factor.

Apples to apples then, because I don't think we're quite ready to compare mobile device screens to alternators. What's an OEM replacement screen for your current laptop, or your work one, and what's the current FMV of that laptop. If everyone reading this honestly submitted that data, what would we find? That part, if even available, costs more than your old laptop.

I don't think refurbishing PCs is really profitable even for someone like Dell, with the shipping and rebuild and testing all factored in, but it's that or a junk heap. I'd bet my left nut that operation barely breaks even, if that. So I'm not shocked that independent repair shops don't have any profits selling refurbished computers, certainly not with OEM parts, good grief.

You're cherry-picking that one part, the charging port. Other parts are right there in TFS. You're literally playing "well ackshually!" with an outlier. Can you even buy an OEM charging port replacement for the nearest laptop you have on hand? Try to find out and report back to us.

Can't find it? So what's that equate to, $infinity? Now look up a generic USB-C port, ok so what's that multiple look like? You're comparing two different things, the price of limited runs of factory parts sitting in some warehouse to a shop that's tooled to produce generic parts. Two very different pricing structures. If it's all the same to you, buy the generic part.

Move on to the display, go find an OEM display replacement for your laptop that is less than the current market value of the damned thing. Yah I thought so, duh.

Kids, buying OEM parts from the manufacturer is never ever cheap. Where do you buy new tires from? Please don't say the dealer, ffs. Nobody over produces and sits on a dragon's hoard of spare parts to keep the prices down. You never buy OEM to save money, you do it for peace of mind, situationally.

Shit, I'm looking up OEM parts for my Dell laptop and all they have are batteries and SSDs, no screens, touchpads, keyboard assemblies, etc. What's there is overpriced, ofc. I'm sure they have other parts somewhere if I send it in for repairs, or their certified partners probably can get them, probably resell them sometimes. Guess what a gray market OEM display assembly for this Dell Precision goes for. I can tell you it makes more sense to buy a new laptop if it was my money.

You can ding a company for their support options and how well they take care of you under a support contract, I don't think you should ever judge a company by OEM parts supplies.. that's just stupid.

Laws apply to corporations as well as individuals.

In this case it's state and federal banking and money transmitter regulations you'd want to look up.

TL;DR - Amish make libertarians look like posers and boy do they hate it.

That shows it doing zero internet searches, so they used a cheap and fast model, it did no external lookups then they did zero work themselves to confirm anything. I don't know what else to say, it's kind of cute like watching old people learn how to Google.

Dude, you can just fill out a form with your broker and get access to after hours trading. There are all kinds of stuff like that. They're protecting you from yourself because they have to. Sign some waivers and do all the after-hours leveraged pre-IPO SPAC trading you want. It's dumb as fuck because if you knew enough to safely do any of that you would know how already, but I for one welcome this financial Darwinism, you all voted for it, enjoy, idiots.

You aren't and you think your expertly timed overnight selling is key to your success?

Deploying United States Marines to guard a VA clinic from veterans that by an act of God got an appointment in the first place and unsurprisingly weren't notified of any rescheduling.

To say resources were misallocated doesn't even begin to describe how fucked up that is. Hopefully the protestors brought them some in-and-out for their troubles, but nobody in the service is going to forget that bullshit. Is that what winning feels like?

Can I release criminals onto the streets with a full pardon and say "but what rights have I taken away?"

Gut our foreign policy, talk loudly with a limp stick and taco in my mouth, and ask you what rights have I taken away?

The moral majority look up to an immoral, unethical con-man, reject empathy, celebrate unprofessional conduct, exercise breathtaking stupidity and turn away our closest allies and partners unless they make a deal that personally benefits Trump. Hey, at least we can do whatever we want, because it's open season on lying, cheating and stealing right now. Great time to make money off rubes like you at least, glass half full. Want to buy a bible subscription?

This is the same bullshit Trump is trying to pull with his Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell relationship. You'll call it all a hoax because he never fucked a twelve years old on the island and act like we moved the goal posts.