It wasn't the ridiculous tariffs, it was the FTC!

Yeah and while I guess I was "trolling" to say it, it's still obvious that the article is trying desparately to push a double standard that I don't think actually exists. I don't think their assertions that the US's progress floated all boats while the Chinese nation's progress is stealing the food from the mouths of the world is anything but more of the same old American exceptionalism. Now if there's a tag for run-on sentences I'll own that for sure.

I'm sorry but this article is ridiculous. If I didn't live in the US I'd feel like maybe there would be something to call out, but this is how our companies roll all the time and our current administration is even worse. Nothing to see here.

I actually had Telegram installed, but my entire ecosystem has all agreed to move to Signal, so that makes it easy.

They stopped making their good mice, now this? Just die already.

They've gotten a LOT slower for me, and I've been getting a lot more items that just disappear during the last mile, then start over being re-shipped. I'm skeptical that they started getting better again so suddenly. This strikes me as marketing push.

Their business isn't "questionable" any more than lots of US based corps. They provide an app that has pretty flashing lights, they hoover up your data. Big whoop. "Plainly unconstitutional" is on the nose.

Sure, just like Apple would quietly disallow updates and features from apps that compete with their products, and constantly re-write the rules of that marketplace to only benefit themselves. Its their store, sure, but I won't pretend they've been an ethical company, and I consider them just a little bit more rotten than Epic, so let them both flail away I say!

Sure, but that's just fine with me, worst guy beats up worst guy means the rest of us win. Apple has succeeded where microsoft failed, in getting people to love them while they use more "sharp business" tactics than Gates ever did. Epic does act pretty spoiled and ridiculous, Sweeney's tweets make clear where that perspective comes from, but Apple has been having it their own way too long. Hopefully they both tear each other up good (while impacting Unreal engine as little as possible).

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Then how would Texans bilk the government out of a government paycheck?

Less "direct economic warfare" (as a great man once said) and more direct control of your spaceship? At least thats the hope...

so true

Lol we're all moderators here friendo. "exposed a fuck-ton of corruption" I mean, are we playing pretends here? "Actual government-sanctioned censorship of legitimate, truthful information" Yes, they had presidential administrations reaching out to them asking them to follow their policies and bringing specific posts to their attention. Sometimes they did censor or change, sometimes they didn't. Considering that Elon had the "twitter files" released you can actually read what happens then in some of those cases. May I recommend reading them? They're full of corruption in the form of employees debating what is right and wrong in a scenario, and whether its to policy. That was never my understanding of corruption. That being said, businesses doing business are very often corrupt, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were. Would you think it was a smart thing to do to buy a business using loans, and then tanking that same business to impress your friends?

OK, agreed there. Most humans let alone most nerds. I'd be interested to see where he's smart, because the more I see of his decisions the worse my opinion gets. Maybe he's got a real smart internal dialogue and just only acts in dumb ways?