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Does the steak knife come with a 15ft frame?

US has gone so far as to threaten ICJ judges with sanctions over charges of war crimes against its troops. It's safe to say that they care neither for the 'international court' nor the 'justice' part of ICJ.

Oops! Thanks for the redirection.

The (non-founder) C-suite seems to think that people hate them for laying off other staff. People hate them because the C-suite doesn't have to face the consequences of their incompetence. It's the regular staff that does. CEOs instead get golden parachutes for running companies into the ground.

If you're looking for respect as a customer, there are better reasons to avoid Apple than "spend 3x as much money on the same hardware". They might be better on privacy and user experience fronts. But they are extremely abusive on "squeeze the consumer", " squeeze the developer" and "give no crap about environment" fronts. While the world's richest company demanding 30% cut of developers' revenue citing operations cost is greed on a supreme scale, the worst is how they package their products - unserviceable, irreparable, no spare parts available, spare parts not swappable, vendor locked-in and needing extremely costly accessories. They justify all of this in the name of privacy and miniaturization - which is technically an utter hogwash. And then there is the army of annoying Apple fanbois who go around repeating these lies.

This isn't the first instance them of di**ing around. They have learnt over time that there is no consequence for such dirty behavior.

Exactly! Apple is just a different type of abuser. This is like saying "My previous spouse was very abusive. So I chose to marry another abusive person".

That last statement is exactly why I blame its users. They are complicit in this market abuse.

Chrome's singular purpose of existence is to give Google an avenue to vacuum up user data - both directly and through corruption of the web standards. Edge doing this crap is merely like giving a pig a clown hat. Fuck em both.

Having switched Linux for over two decades now, I find the current state of Windows to be extremely weird. Why do people tolerate such abuse? Is it that the gradual degradation conditioned people to accept it? Sort of like the proverbial frog in the boiling water?

I applaud your intention. But there really is such a thing as peer pressure. The reason why only Gmail/GSuite and Hotmail/365mail is left is because these two ensured that mail wasn't deliverable from independent email servers. And the fact that a vast majority was on them helped them convert a federated messaging medium into more-or-less centralized service. Even today, there are a lot of people around who knows the harm in using Chrome, but then goes ahead and say - "I would have switched to Firefox, if only some-random-useless-website worked on it". It's always possible for people to harass the company/institution to support Firefox. But they would rather make up excuses to stay on Chrome than do something about it. The same happens to every Google service as well - especially Gmail.

As @ccryx pointed out, Ferdium is a fork that doesn't force an account to be created. There is also Tangram with a slightly different approach.

Sure. The Japanese seem to have a lot of issues with nozzles.

Which perverts come up with this sort of insanity? Why is there no checks and balances against the said perversion?

But for a manufacturer, who has a history of shady dealings regarding downplaying the health risks of their products, this should be seen as another example of that.

Americans are the only ones who overwhelmingly defend possession of guns - a device meant only for violence and killing - as a fundamental right. I have seen so many of them claim that gun prohibition is ineffective, while the rest of the world has put it into practice and proved it works. The American solution to every mass shooting is very predictable - more guns! Big tobacco is mild compared to that (I'm not a fan of tobacco and have never consumed it).

American companies are a different breed - even among the private institutions in the world that pursue profit at any cost. Forget the really harmful ones like gun dealers, big tobacco or the oil industry. Even completely essential ones like the aircraft industry give little value to the lives of ordinary individuals. They would rather see people dead if the cost of litigation isn't as high as putting safety features in. To put it mildly, US is a nightmarish dystopia from those apocalyptic novels.

If what you say is true, this is the second time a Japanese mission has been salvaged after a failure of rocket nozzle. The Kaguya mission to Venus failed to enter Venusian orbit after the main engine nozzle exploded. They managed to enter the orbit during their next pass using the smaller attitude thrusters.

I thought I had heard the worst of it. But it's their platform. They keep inventing new ways to screw their customers.

What about the ones that do preserve life? Like pacemakers? How long before we see all these anti consumer corporate BS panning out on those?