Don't be hyperbolic, that was probably their age.

Who says I didn't have the money to do so? I didn't go into that at all. But since you're curious I'll explain: Yes I had the money to buy one outright, but an interest-free loan was available and I took advantage of it. Had I purchased it outright, then had an expense outside of that like a car-repair, THAT would have had to come out of my interest-charging credit card and ... while I didn't actually check on it, I'm pretty sure Apple/Goldman would not have given me a similar payment plan for the car repair.

I went to an Apple Store purchase an iPad with an Apple Card last year, I wanted to take advantage of paying it off within a year no interest. At the moment of checkout Goldman declined me and wouldn't tell me why. After two days and several scattered phone calls they claimed that it was unusual activity on my account. I pointed out to them that I had successfully purchased and paid off 3 other items on the same payment plan, and that their assertion that my activity was unusual was absurd.

I'll spare you the blow by blow because I know it's boring, but ultimately Goldman Sachs held to their position that they did the right thing, and Apple had to come to the rescue. They talked to each other a bit and I finally got my device on the payment plan I wanted.

I'm greatly looking forward to Goldman getting out of the picture. They really did try to spin it to me like the inconvenience they caused me was somehow something I should be happy about. "This happens because we're diligent about catching fraud!" "But, you didn't."

Just a reminder that the Jew Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father helped to found Israel, was a powermod on Reddit who had the power to censor /news, /worldnews, /politics and a few others.

The real party is on X, if you're not there you're missing out.

Remember when Digg chimped out and everyone left to join Reddit?

That moment passed some years ago. Now Reddit mods have been caught red-handed luring children to their houses to inject them with SUPER GIRL JUICE aka trans hormones. Without parental knowledge or consent, kind of like how California public schools do.

Is Al Gore a scientist?

Nope. STFU nerd

acetaldehyde is a Class A carcinogen, which means it does nothing but mutate cells.

If you drink, support ALDH enzyme activity. The enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) converts acetaldehyde into harmless acetate. Nutrients help your liver metabolize the harmful alcohol. Vitamin B1. Alcohol depletes thiamine, which supports liver function. Take a B-complex vitamin before drinking.

Zinc and Magnesium: These minerals support ALDH activity. Eat zinc-rich foods (e.g., oysters, nuts) or take 15-30 mg zinc, 200-400 mg magnesium.

The science and research that couldn't tell us what a woman is?

The one that prescribed chemical castration drugs to little boys?The science that performed elective cosmetic pediatric double mastectomies on healthy girls?

It also couldn't identify that covid came from a lab, despite the fact it contains genetic sequences not found in nature.

That science and research?

Besides, the planet is overpopulated, especially by high-consumption AmeriKKKans, especially racist white males. How is having fewer of them a bad thing?

In the last invasion of Russia, this happened too. Hydraulic fluid became thick and caused engines to seize up, tank treads were thin instead of wide and got bogged down in snow and especially mud. We had to light fires under our dive bomber engines to heat them up to even get them to start.

And to top it all off, our leaders didn't even equip our armies with winter coats, thinking that we'd take Moscow before summer was over. That turned into a disaster, Russia seized half of Europe and America had to fight a Cold War to get it back and make sure the loans our banks had extended would be repaid.

America was never great. The US you're talking about was the one with Jim Crow, KKK, lynchings and what Trump is inflicting on us again with ICE.

Who asked you if you care? Texas isn't the rest of the planet. Well bless your heart, why don't you fuck all the way off, the door is right there, don't let it hit you on the ass on the way out!

This is from now on the stock response to "I don't live in the US but I think..."

Fuck off we don't care.

Slashdot is an AmeriKKKan site, that's why you can speak freely. If it were an Australian site you wouldn't be able to say "globalize the intafada."

Try that on any of your country's sites. I dare you. I double dare you.

AmeriKKKan freedom doesn't come from any government. It comes from God. The Constitution merely states that the government may not infringe on this God-given right.

What you have isn't freedom. It's loose handcuffs. I suggest China instead of Japan, it will be good when you become a province later this century.

After all, you told the AmeriKKKans to fuck right off with their Navy ships and disbanded your air force as a useless expense. Zai Jian!

Good! Stay out! We don't want you. AmeriKKKa is closed tell all your friends not to come, too. We suck and hate freedom.

Your freedom of speech to shit on AMeriKKKa was brought to you by the Constitution in and the First Amendment. In Australia people can't even speak out against Jews without being arrested. Good example you set.

You can always tell boomers because they are obsessed with asset value.

Who cares if your battery gets swapped out? Whenever you get low on charge you swap and it's a neverending cycle. They already have this in China, an advanced country, for electric scooters. The batteries are all the same and when you get low you can recharge or stop at a swap station and put your current one in and get another fully charged one out.

Why aren't you cheering? The Trumptards are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Oh, how we will all laugh the next time a hurricane blows down the McMansions of these racist science-hating rebels

. We can even have FEMA mark any house with a Trump yard sign off-limits and refuse to give federal disaster assistance, like they did under Biden.

trumptards don't believe in welfare, remember?

China isn't developing, it's AHEAD of the West. They have nearly zero crime, the streets are safe and clean, highspeed rail over the entire country, education and family are highly valued, teachers and fathers get respect in public, and most importantly NO WARS.

Their political system is highly criticized but there never, ever could be a Trump there. No PACs, politics isn't run by billionaire donations, no foreign aid and no bending the knee to foreign countries and bombing other foreign countries for their interests.

Morons are permanently locked out of the system at the leadership and grassroots levels.

Ever wanted a government by rationalist atheists? China is your country. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer.

The most important billionaire, Jack Ma, was shut up in prison when he tried to use his wealth to fuck with politics.

Imagine an America that had the courage to do the same to Elon Musk, the Sacklers, Miriam Adelson, David Rubelstein, Bill Ackman and all the rest of the far right.

We'd be a different, and better country.