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Yeah, no one wants to buy a swasticar or a deploreon anymore.

Musk bought the US presidency for over $250 million, that’s why.

More likely he feels emboldened. After the whole saluting thing, so many jumped to his defense that he most likely feels that he doesn’t need to hide it as much anymore.

Thing is, he is alienating every US ally, while trying to become allies with Russia. So if they try to do a coup of the entire country in 2 years while the US has no allies but Russia, no country would be able to help as it would internationally be seen as a “foreign invasion”. Only allies would be globally allowed to enter (in this case Russia) which wouldn’t. Any other country that attempts to enter would be declaring war/an invasion, with the US and Russia declaring that they are tempting WW3 since they aren’t an Allie and so have no reason to be getting involved (in accordance to international law).

(It’s what’s happening in Ukraine now, no country is sending troops because it can quickly turn into WW3. MAGA is learning from Russia/Ukraine and will use what it’s learned to do the same thing.)

We also all know how much in charge of the White House he is too.

This is new though. The difference is, it’s not being limited to citizens of one country. It’s being shown globally, regardless of location.

This is from the EU.

President Musk and first lady Donny.

Bank checks and balances.

All about getting that government money checks to inflate their bank accounts.

It’s less that and more public schools are already under funded, and this will just make them even more under funded, possibly leading to closures and consolidation of public schools. All of this will make public schools worse and private (mostly religious/Christian) look like a better and better option for your children.

Public schools are funded by an amount set by the government, but private schools are funded by what the school demands. This allows private schools to be better funded because they’ll demand that the money per student is higher, and when it’s the tax payer that is paying it, more and more parents won’t notice or care about price anymore (since it isn’t coming from their pocket) and will pick the better funded school and hope to deal with the consequences (of indoctrination) later (if they know about it at all until too late).

This is something that the Republicans would like since religious schools typically tell students that Republicans (aka God fearing people) are good and Democratic (aka not God fearing) are bad and real Christians always vote for the Republican party. Indoctrination from the start. And the Republicans get to wash their hands of any negative claims because “it’s not a government school” so free speech and all that. Don’t like it? Go to the worse and horribly under funded public schools instead.

And this entire side thing was a giant whataboutism. All laptops have always been unique. It’s why I made sure to point out things like the pentalobe screws. But you were so desperate to defend Apple that you grabbed at laptop mobos as your only hope. Think also things like Apple keyboards/mice using RJ-11 connectors, TSR connectors, ADB connectors, etc… Always refused to use any standard for a long time. Other things like ADC for monitors. No one else does this.

The correct answer for that other model is that you just dump it in the trash

What are you, 5 years old? You ask a question, got an answer and this is the best response you could think of? Bad troll. Also, it’s not “easy to stock parts for most Macs when you’re running a refurb shop”, since with Apple doing “parts pairing”, those parts don’t work. It’s been happening since 2018.

And you know CMOS batteries leak and can permanently fry the mobo. And again, this is Apple it’s not a standard CMOS, it’s a PRAM battery, same thing, different name.

First off, look we get it, you love Apple and that’s fine. Just don’t make comments of “oh, I don’t like them but let me make a bunch of easily disproven claims to make them seem perfect and amazing”.

Except now Windows is dropping support randomly for older CPUs, including many that would run Win11 easily, just because they can. So they’re honestly the same as Apple in that regard.

And they are all over 10 years old. Apple at best supports 7ish. This isn’t the brag you think it is.

They support the old architecture for several years, how’s that a bad thing?

Again, same answer. They are the shortest time supporter, and the highest cost.

They used to literally ship you parts with repair guides.

No, they didn’t. I’ve used Mac’s since the 80s, in the 90s, and have a 2009 MBP. No they didn’t. Never have.

Go find me a motherboard for 2012 Macbook Air 13".

Go find me one with a working CMOS battery. Those are soldered, non-replaceable. Again, I have a 2009 MBP, and even that can be replaced. And a quick eBay check will find the other motherboard.

Of course they do. Now go look at how much Google does of the same.

And go look at how much Google claims to do the opposite. Which one is better, the one who’s up front and honest, or the one who lies to your face?

Worst with the notable exceptions of Microsoft and Google.

Uh, huh… Again, which one is better, the one who’s up front and honest, or the one who lies to your face?

The amount of kool-aid in the post is amazing.

Apple computers have always been on the lower end of support (see their support of hardware as they’ve gone thru different CPU architecture). Windows/Linux has never been this quick to drop support.

Apple hardware has always been hard to repair. Non-standard parts, non-standard screws (pentalobe screws, etc…)

Their laptops have never been the “highest quality”, they are better than average but haven’t ever been the highest quality. Companies like Asus and Sony (when they made laptops) were more reliable (unless you want to compare a $2000 MacBook to a $500 laptop but that’s making sure it isn’t fair.).

And Apple does data collection and ads. Always have. iAd was Apple’s first and started in 2010. And Apple collects a ton of private data about you.

They have always claimed to be doing one thing while in reality been doing the opposite. They get flak because they are the worst for this two-faced behavior.

Never said the Chinese government owned it.

Given tiktok isnt a Chinese company by any possible definition that doesn’t label all Asians as Chinese, no not really.

That is the strangest way of saying “Yes they are Chinese” I’ve ever seen.

Sorry if reality triggers

Being unaware of popular culture isn’t a badge of honor.

It can be, but Hawk Tuah isn’t popular culture. They are part of a political culture and they shouldn’t be proud of being ignorant about.

Not knowing about Skibidi is fine, as it’s a senseless new fad that doesn’t set out to change public policy and/or views. Not knowing about Hawk Tuah isn’t on the same level as being ignorant of it can be a very bad thing due to its attempts at subverting public policy and views.

New Zealand? What’s that?

Wow, with a glowing record like that, it’s no wonder Trump wanted him for the Attorney General.

Japan is near the bottom of my list for western countries

Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it’s the farthest East county possible.

I think the words you were looking for were “first world countries”.