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  • A $900 laptop that

    • has days of battery life and an ARM processor
    • Ran x86 apps with near-native speeds *Still beat all of its competitors in benchmarks back in 2021 when I got it
    • Did all of this without a fan
    • is extremely compact and lightweight, fitting in every bag I have
    • well made with a good keyboard, trackpad, and screen
    • Will last me for years

    Do me a favor, look at what 13" laptops were for sale in late 2021. Find any of them that competed on price and performance. The M1 MacBook air was one of the best received apple laptops, specifically because it was unbeatable at that price.

    The only negative was it only running macOS, but Apple allowed 3rd party firmware to be installed. Now mine uses coreboot to boot into fedora 39. The only thing that doesn't work is deep sleep and the speakers, with good progress being made by the development team.

    There's plenty of criticism for Apple and their obscene pricing, but the one laptop purchase I never regretted was this one.

  • They unfortunately have very little ability to enforce much of anything.

    They have also done plenty, from keeping peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon, running hospitals and schools in Gaza, keeping said hospitals and schools open despite verbal threats by the IDF and bombings, distributing food and water, to providing a platform for the US to prove its hypocrisy on a global stage as it consistently votes against a ceasefire.

    UN officials have repeatedly raised alarms throughout this conflict about the attrocities they are witnessing in Gaza. The problem lies with America and Israel ignoring all of them.

    • We also cast doubt on the death counts, even though they were verified by third parties and found to be accurate for every prior conflict
    • We then refused to apologize when fucking hamas of all people showed the receipts 2 days later with name, age, and Israeli-issued ID number
    • We also sent diplomats to Israel multiple times throughout the conflict and encouraged them to "defend" themselves
    • We also pretended that we have no ability to force a pause in the conflict, even though we recently admitted we successfully paused Israeli attacks twice to get US citizens through Rafah crossing
    • We blocked multiple UNSC resolutions even after forcing the changes through that we bitched about in the first place
    • We waited multiple days to even mention the islamophobic attack that led to a Palestinian boy being stabbed to death and his mother being hospitalized
    • We then patronized American Muslims by shifting the conversation to domestic islamophobia rather than actually addressing their grievances of America's decades of involvement in destabilizing the Muslim world and killing of innocent civilians
    • We silenced officials who spoke out against excessive violence by the IDF and made memos preventing the mention of a ceasefire
    • We sent 2 aircraft carriers to the Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel and ensure no neighboring nations could prevent the massacre against Gazan women and children
    • We pushed for tens of billions of dollars in aid to a country thousands of miles away led by an openly fascist and genocidal governing party. A country that we have sent over a hundred billion dollars of aid in total since its founding.
    • A member of our government (paraphrasing) said "civilians die in war 🤷‍♂️" without any reprimand
    • As commander-in-chief, we authorized American military specialists to help plan the ground invasion into Gaza
    • We didn't give a damn about hundreds (at least) of Palestinian-Americans who were literally starving to death and were stuck in Gaza as it was bombed for weeks
    • So many more things I could write an essay on it

    Biden administration: