Slop has a definition and what youâ(TM)re describing isnâ(TM)t it. Slop is low effort low quality content made in volume.

As much as I disagree, every one of those choices was done deliberately. 256GB is fine for the average consumer who uses the computer mainly for web browsing and light office work. You and I are not the target demographic. You can delete the stocks app etc.

I’ve driven a few GM rentals in recent years, and I’d almost certainly never buy one of their cars. Not just because of the design, but they are digging in on blocking CarPlay on their cars so they can sell subscriptions, and they ratted out their own customers to insurance companies.

If they changed course now, it will still be a long time before I trust them again.

What a dumb article. Quality goes up and down every year, but Apple is not making "slop." That's just a clickbait headline.

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

I didn't take the Swiss for being xenophobic, until the public voted in a referendum banning minarets and running anti-niqab ads to single out minorities.

Don't say "religion" when you only mean Christianity. Some religions actually do offer proofs.

Almost all mosques are open to the public and welcoming. If they tried it they'd be told to stop running, would they like to sit down and have some tea?

In psychology, this is not hallucination. The proper term for making stuff up like this is "confabulation."

False. Tesla was asked to upgrade their chargers to allow non Tesla cars to charge there and they declined. So there was a new bidding process and Tesla lost the bid in 2022. Teslas chargers are not universal, I just passed them today. Hyundai couldnâ(TM)t use them until March of this year, and even then they still require an adaptor. Theyâ(TM)re being replaced by universal chargers that work with all models and take credit cards, and even have higher charge speeds.

Musk is salty but his claims are false.

A New Yorker reporter was recently deported for reporting on the Columbia student protests. This unfriendly climate will kill tourism in America. Then it will have a ripple effect as future presidents and prime ministers go elsewhere to study, killing America's soft power among elites of other countries. And for what? It's not like legal student visa holders were causing a crime wave.

Thatâ(TM)s incredible hypocrisy coming from Rubio; a man who had Rumeysa Ã-zturk arrested for writing an Op-Ed.

If automated phone menus and AI phone support are garbage, it doesn't bode well for written text bots or other support.

This.

Remember when Kansas banned the teaching of evolution in public schools? Medical schools and biology companies treated all applicants from Kansas with deep suspicion for years. That was just one state. Imagine what will happen when all the Red states do the same. It will be havoc.

A cult is by definition centered around a charismatic leader or a specific ideology. The term can also refer to intense devotion to a person, idea, or object. Who are "anti-Trump" devoted to?

Your tu quoique fallacy falls apart under even basic scrutiny.

And yet the way he went about doing it is idiotic. Canada passed laws allowing cashiers to round to the nearest 5 cents. Trump didn't do that, instead he just stopped production, meaning you will have customers screaming at cashiers for their money and claiming theyre being robbed. (Any cashier will tell you they meet these people.) And he did it without Congress, meaning it can be reversed by the next president.

Putting data standards aside, USB-C is pretty good at charging. I'm not familiar with these edge cases the author describes where charging doesn't always work with thunderbolt cables (which are a minority of cables sold).

This is not really a "battle of the plugs" like the author claims. We all use USB-C for charging and data and it's generally reverse compatible.