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No no no this is just a cover to be used when the 5G vaccines activate and start causing mass preborn child deaths. These good god fearing women are part of the silent majority and would never actually want an abortion, this is the deep state's doing!

Oh and something something Jewish space lasers too

Minor fyi but it's spelled bougie

I volunteer as tribute

I'm pretty sure that consumer preference is for the monthly fee, else so many companies wouldn't have moved to no setup fee and amortizing the costs over a period of time.

It's more that companies have figured out that monthly/subscription fees make them more money than lump sum, even when the product is identical. It's why we've seen things like Microsoft Office 365 replace their previous single-purchase model

I've heard so much conflicting shit over this event that I have no idea what to believe

Musk still has legions of fan boys; I'm not terribly surprised the eternally optimistic futurism fan boys have found another company-face to worship

The arguments some people make is that if it's likely there's so many other civilizations out there, then why haven't we found any evidence of any of them? You have Great Filter and Dark Forest theories that try to explain it, both of which would likely be very bad for humanity.

But it all forgets that we really haven't searched much of even our own solar system in incredible detail, so it's very possible we either haven't looked in the right places, or don't have the tech in place to see civilizations

I could be wrong but I don't think there's any evidence that the fossil fuel industry worked to suppress storage research/funding. Pretty much every IT industry has a huge interest in improving battery tech and energy storage in general, it's just that we've already hit all the low hanging fruit from a chemistry standpoint

No but strongman rhetoric makes people feel safer when their lives become increasingly perilous and uncertain, so we're likely going to see it more often. It's unfortunate but it's kind of like a positive feedback loop of assholes making things worse for the people, which makes the people more desperate and open to the rhetoric that led to their worsening state.

I mean your argument stumbles at the exact point of my original comment. We have no reason to think it has any form of consciousness, and therefore no reason to believe it's omniscient. On top of that, even if it was conscious, arguing it's omniscient because it's omnipresent assumes that it isn't a collection of distinct consciousnesses and is instead one giant being, which we also have no reason to believe one possibility over the other.

Agreed, the big issue with their argument here is that "god" implies sentience, which isn't something we have any reason to assume exists for whatever's at the "stop somewhere" point. If energy was the starting point for example, I doubt these people would be down with calling heat a god

If they can manage it, it's safe to assume they will implement those issues

I never understood this argument. Apple lost its fight to make the environment worse for the customer, so you're gonna reward them?

I mean it literally does. It's the same reason Twitter hasn't completely imploded yet, despite Musk doing his best to turn it into a cesspit. People stay on it because it has lots of people and their niche subs, which makes it harder for people to leave and coalesce in new areas and recreate niche subs, which feeds into the cycle

Momentum is hard to change

Yea sorry but I disagree with the vast majority of things you said. Consistent, coherent, and well thought out experiences are pretty par for the course at this point, regardless of what flagship phone company you're buying from. The UX is great for people who grow up with the UX, just like android UX is great for people who grow up with it. Android users who switch to Apple generally think Apple's UX is dogshit, and vice versa. The UX argument is trash and the reality of it is that people just think whatever UX they're used to is the more intuitive one. Support is pretty much the same in my experience between the two, and I have an android personal phone and an apple work phone. The major difference is the image that Apple support airs is better. The vast majority of popular Android applications are just as stable and usable as Apple apps, and the ones that aren't are often niche enough that similar apps aren't even on the apple appstore. So it's a question of basically the same service for most apps, and then either no service or degraded service for lesser apps.

The one thing they have over android is the security argument, which is fair to an extent, but not this bulwark that a lot of people like to pretend it is. The Fappening, for example, still got plenty of explicit images from Apple phones.

All in all, apple is an advertising company first, and a tech company second, with admittedly improved security, but also admittedly security that isn't good enough to justify the price hike.

Lol

Apple has put a lot of effort into (successfully) creating a customer-base that thinks overpriced goods and different colored texts make them in a special club, I'm not surprised that an exec thought this excuse would fly

What's sad is that the people this would most benefit are also the most likely to scream about taxation and muh socialism, and vote for people that'd fight this