Let's be clear: Attempting to prevent the customers that 'bought' your product from repairing them is NOT capitalism.

Capitalism is all about the free market. When you try to enslave your 'customers', forcing them to come to you to repair rather than competing on the open market for repair work, you are not a capitalist. You are at best a plutocrat.

People want freedom, not to be owned by the company they thought they were buying stuff from.

What happens when Big Brother realizes that you're actually working 12 hour days, but only getting paid for 8 hours, which puts them in violation of state labor laws? I was working far more hours than I was getting paid for while I was at Meta, but that's mostly 'cause I was working 425 miles away from my home and didn't really have anything else to do.

George Orwell was only slightly off about the date. It's a trope that SciFi always gets the date wrong.

Is 30 minutes enough time to have a good wank?

If you evaporate the oceans, the water will eventually rain down somewhere.

Drones are the future of modern warfare. It doesn't seem like "neocon war propaganda" to point that out. Although I would prefer there not be any war at all, we still have madmen like Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump that go around intentionally starting wars. Pointing out that those madmen intentionally start wars isn't neocon propaganda either, it's a simple statement of fact.

Trump is on a revenge tour against everybody and anything he hallucinates has disrespected him, and apparently he hallucinates the environment has disrespected him. Honestly, that's the only logical explanation for his actions.

Wouldn't it have been more efficient to not pay a company to NOT build wind turbines on the land it had already payed to lease for wind turbines? Trump will literally waste taxpayer's money on his revenge tour against the environment. His actions are indistinguishable from the actions of a mad scientist deliberately trying to harm the planet.

Trump's "F the environment" policies are creating MORE ocean, not less ocean! Which means it will be really ironic when Mar-a-largo is finally literally underwater, won't it?

This is "victory" because the Dems like the environment, so stopping anyone from knowing about it is ergo "beating the Dems".

Same reason the Republicans were all about demolishing the ACA (an act written by a Republican and then edited by Republicans because the Democrat proposals weren't acceptable to them). The ACA was voted on by Dems and therefore had to be destroyed, the fact that it has led to many Americans being without any healthcare at all and more than a few dying as a result is considered an acceptable price to pay for killing something Democrats voted for.

"Victory" is not about doing anything worthwhile, it's about "owning the Dems".

Of course they colluded with foreign powers. However, it's irrelevant. Since the legalisation of corruption (Trump abolished any enforcement of corruption laws), the US has slid from an already disastrous level of corruption into total degeneracy. It will take years, maybe decades, simply to root out all of the evil that is now in place and by then those who committed treason will either be safely overseas, or their records will have been "accidentally" destroyed, making any investigation impossible.

I would point out, though, that the countries the GOP has historically strong ties with also have extraordinarily high levels of corruption - and have done for a long time - and nobody bothers to do anything about it. This is what Trump is relying on. Once corruption at this level is normalised, everyone just accepts it and moves on.

Worse, I just don't see any serious will to fix the issue amongst any of the other political groups in the US. The Democrats aren't being honest with themselves over why they lost in 2024, and have swung so far to the right themselves that Ronald Reagan would have considered them right-wing extremists.

This is something voters can fix, but almost half of Americans have totally disengaged at this point and the other half believes themselves so powerless that (to use a Douglas Adamsism) they're only concerned with preventing the wrong lizard from being elected.

In my opinion, the reason why phones abandoned replaceable batteries was at least partially because phones were being replaced so often.

If your batteries last 4-6 years, depending on useage, and most people are replacing phones every 5 years because the new ones did more, then most people stopped replacing batteries. The phone companies saw the numbers and just stopped making replaceable batteries.

Yes this did screw over financially wise people that thought replacing a perfectly good phone was stupid even if a new model was out. So what? The phone companies did not want to cater to people that were their worst customers.

Instead they catered to the replacing idiots and started up the planned obsolence path.

Because all western smart phones are spy devices.

I would be shocked, shocked to hear that russian phones were not already spy devices.

You gotta train them to not use their teeth.

When I think of sterile males, I always think of... Google.