That market seems to be pretty saturated. Around here it feels like they passed an ordinance that every strip mall must have at least one smoke shop (with the obligatory obnoxiously bright LED signs saying things like "VAPE", "KRATOM", "THC", etc.)

Most of us here should be old enough to remember when people tried to do serious work under Microsoft Windows in the MS-DOS era, and it crashed if you looked at it funny. Another amusing "it's never going to work" technology story was the development of lithium ion batteries. Early attempts to design a working cell kept going up in flames - literally.

It was even one of the old running gags in Disney's Carousel of Progress that new technologies were inherently buggy.
"But we do have television - when it works."

Hell when I worked at Radio Shack as a teenager, the store had all the typical things you'd expect a Radio Shack to have and it was still rare to see any customers. That was still a well known retail chain at the time, too.

Presumably if the store does sell any cars, they're of the toy variety. Though in this economy, $1 for a toy car is still a win.

Haven't you seen Idiocracy? Fox lets Pete and Bernie on their network every once in awhile so their viewers can point and laugh at the "faggot" and the "communist". These people don't even hear the argument, they just see the caricatures Fox has created for them.

The problem with your theory is that if these people really had a problem with "sin" per se, they wouldn't have held their noses and voted for Trump.

Some of these folks don't like the idea of the world being different than the one they grew up in. Others don't want their kids growing up in a world that's different than the one they grew up in. You've also got the control freak weirdos who don't even have kids but hate the idea of other people's kids growing up in a world that's different from the one they grew up in.

Lastly, you've got some folks who just really find the concept of two people of the same sex getting freaky with each other to be disgusting. It's like if you knew your neighbor was beating puppies to death in his house, that'd probably bother you, right? Well, now imagine you've got some weird irrational miswiring in your brain that puts gay sex on the same level as beating puppies to death. Those are the people you just have to wait for them to age out of society before their homophobia finally goes away.

It's fine to point out hypocrisy, but there still are people who are genuinely just homophobic for the same reason Karens will be Karens - they feel if they're not taking some kind of action against what they see as the world slipping into depravity, then no one will.

Also, it's worth mentioning too that the meme of marginalized minorities being the source of their own problems (by making it seem as if most homophobia is perpetuated by self-loathing gays), is itself a form of victim-blaming. It turns a broader social prejudice into an internal problem within the marginalized group, as though if those supposedly closeted gay individuals simply came to terms with themselves, homophobia would largely disappear. It makes prejudice seem less like something society has to confront and more like a problem the minority group somehow created for itself. In reality, plenty of homophobic people are perfectly aware of their own sexuality, or are straight. and simply hold adversarial beliefs about gay people.

For a cost of entry starting at $1.2k, I really DGAF if anyone doubts the authenticity of my phone's photos. For better or worse, Apple gave the Duo all of the limelight this cycle. Everything else iPhone related that they announced felt like they just phoned it in this year.

I don't want one.

But... I'm sure Apple is going to sell* boatloads of these damn foldable phones. There are lots of people who still want the latest shiny, and unlike the ill-fated Vision Pro, at the end of the day this is still just a standard smartphone with a different form factor, not some new wearable toy most people can't think of a use for.

* Lease/finance/whatever

I had a 13 Mini before my current phone. Part of its appeal was the "mini" price. Screw paying some insane premium for a more compact device (which is what Apple did with the iPhone Air).

Also, someone on Reddit already said it so I can't take credit for it, but "It's called the iPhone Duo because it costs as much as two iPhones."

Two years ago I bought the iPhone 15 Pro after the usual $100 in-store price drop that happens after Apple announces their new models. I was planning on doing the same thing this cycle since it is finally paid off. Looks like the old Pro models just got discontinued without getting a price drop, because the entire iPhone lineup got a $100 price increase.

Jacking up the price of phones that have been out for over a year just feels... insulting.

Discovery's biggest problem was that it felt like the writers initially assumed the fan base was going to love their reimagining of the Trek canon, and then when the fans revolted the writers went into full-on damage control mode. It seemed like most of their creative energy subsequently went into trying to outsmart the internet peanut gallery rather than just writing a good story.

Now, I'm not sure if it would've been better had the writers ignored the angry tweets and Reddit rants, but we'd probably have gotten something different that didn't feel quite as much like it was written in the mindset of a YouTube content creator anticipating their next batch of irate comments.

If fixing the root causes of systemic inequalities was so easy, we wouldn't have people still complaining today that there's minorities starring in their entertainment programs.

DEI isn't ideal, but you'd probably like the actions necessary to truly rectify systemic inequalities even less.

Like "What happened to my metabolism and why does my back hurt all the time?"

This seems an awful lot like favoring heterosexual couples for adoption.

Also, "sexual preferences" is an incorrect term, which I will gladly demonstrate by asking: When was it that you decided to be heterosexual?