They only said "Jews will not replace us", the national guard is just fine.
States rights are highly dependent on context, as is empathy.
By "states rights are highly dependent on context", you mean that it's OK for GOP states to do it if the Democrats are in power - but that it's OK to send military forces to states that disagree with Trump or don't praise him enough? That seems to be the golden Republican standard these days...
Sounds like "It is not my fault, it is theirs! They ruined it!"
Poor Musk hurt by business as usual.
Tough world Elon. Sue God next time.
This is the same guy who sued advertisers for not advertising on Twitter. I can't understand why large, global brands wouldn't want to be associated with that nazi-infested hellhole by spending money there...
When the power goes out, I can start a gas generator and use my local library. Not so much if it is in the cloud.
I'm having a hard time seeing this as a problem with Kindle (as opposed to e.g. ownership of bought content).
Kindles have a long battery lifetime, measured in weeks. If it has run out, connect it to a powerbank and you've solved the problem for days. Content that you are reading or have read on the device is available, and if you have to get a new book - just connect it to your phone hotspot and download it. They're tiny.
In Europe the company would have had to delete this info after the verification check.
Not necessarily - if they ask for and get consent they can store it. There's no sensitive data in what is listed.
However, what the app does - "let women anonymously share and search for information, advice, and photos of men they say they have dates with or are looking to date" - would be strictly illegal as they haven't gotten consent from the men in the database, The data would also contain information on the data subject's sexual life, which is a protected category of data. They'd also run afoul of the data subject's right to rectification of the information in the database.
I hear the culture of fear is very real, and additionally has created a pretty uncooperative, hostile environment as everyone hoards knowledge. How about trimming executive salaries a lot? They're clearly worthless.
Another option is cutting back on $20-30 billion in share buybacks every year. Even cutting 15,000 employees saves just a small portion of the cost of the share buybacks. And the share buybacks constitute less than 1% of the total market capitalization, so they don't really have much of an effect on the share price. What's more baffling is that if the buyback money were instead spent on increased dividends, the current dividends could be doubled, and that potentially would increase the share price more than the buybacks.
The real problem is that the executives don't have common sense. Investing gobs of money in a future technology like AI. That's a risky bet, but at least one that is understandable. Buybacks are just throwing someone else's money at something that is known to not make a difference. Executives do the buybacks because it's not their money. Getting rid of employees does decrease operating expenses and increase efficiency, but that assumes that the executives know who to cut, which, of course, is unlikely given that the same executives hired these people in the first place.
It's strange that they don't separate investment in AI vs operating expenses in the rest of the company to keep and expand the markets they have. It's not like they're financially unable to do both - both AI and keeping the resources they need for operations(*). That said, buybacks are better for some than dividends because you pay taxes immediately on dividends while if the same money goes via buybacks you don't have to pay taxes before you realize the profits by selling the stock. Of course, if like most people you have mutual funds it doesn't matter.
(*) Which means more of a constant optimization up or down in the actual units, rather than large cuts everywhere.
They shut down the "Wemo Mini Smart Plug" which was still sold in November 2023. It came with a 3 year warranty.
That is screwed up.
And why you should NEVER buy hardware that comes with a service sold by the same company.
If you buy hardware it should be usable with OTHER people's services. If they want you to get a service, it should include the hardware for free/included in the monthly service fee.
Well, then it should be easy - if it no longer works and it's covered by a three year warranty they'll have to fix it somehow, Or, failing that, they will probably think a refund is easier,
The cheapest Mac laptop is $999
High by almost a third, Apple’s cheapest laptop is a $650 model of the M1 MacBook Air sold only via Walmart.
You shouldn't buy that. Not only is it worse by almost every spec (cpu speed, graphics, memory, cameras, battery lifetime, external display support, wifi standard), but it will also have approximately 3-4 years less of updates from today. Per year, it will probably be more expensive than the cheapest M4 air.
for less money in other parts of the world? That sounds like racism or a scam.
Price discrimination is a common strategy. Not only between countries, but also between different customer segments. "Student discounts" and "senior discounts" are other examples.
The tactic is especially useful for products where you have a large fixed cost and a lower marginal cost - e.g. software. Take one example, Matlab. The normal cost of a software seems to be above $2000. Obviously, the marginal cost is close to zero but they have large fixed costs - so if you can sell it to home users for a much lower cost, you're still getting more money total even if that price if applied to business customers would bankrupt the company.
They do. The overwhelming majority of the budget is social programs, and interest on debt for social programs... and there is simply no way to control the costs of free Healthcare, every country that has it is almost insolvent because of it, and the Healthcare is substandard in the end anyway. Canada can't even manage an mri in under 6months, and the only way to get effective treatment is at a private clinic
Actually, the healthcare in most of those countries has far better outcomes than the US. They also spend far less of their GDP doing so.
While I'm pro free market, I see that in this particular case - health care - it doesn't work. It's better to pay 10% of GDP in taxes for better healthcare than 15% of GDP through a mix of taxes (elderly), insurance, and out of pocket for worse outcomes.
Reasons for this might include that the buyers aren't rational (doh), that there are monopolies (patents, location, urgency), and that the costs are such that the large majority of the population needs insurance of some kind. The specifics of the market also means there are a lot of very bad incentives for the insurance companies to use pre-existing conditions or trying to deny coverage after the fact, and very strange and weird price/discount structures.
The US isn't just not competing, it's actively suppressing research and education and is hostile to non-whites.
Meritocracy looks like hostility when you lack merit.
To be fair, having merit in the US is easy when the best the US can offer - the brightest minds, sharpest intellects, and most honest of people - are Trump, Kennedy,Hegseth, and Greene.
Also perhaps you should be reminded that by your own metric, Apple support is complete shit. They force things into obsolescence at obscene speed.
MacOS 15 only supports the Macbook Air platform from 2020+. The iMac platform from 2019+. Whereas Microsoft will have, again, given OS patching and security updates for free to a computer that ran Windows 7 in 2009, all the way until October 2025. 16 years. So even IF you are counting "from the time of purchase of the computer" rather than examining the fact that MacOS 12 got less than 3 years of updates? Fucking hell, you'd have to be the most money-irresponsible dumb fucking retard on the planet to buy Apple knowing their forced-obsolescence crap policies.
This is not how OS support in the Mac world works. Every OS is just supported for 3 years - 1 year of full support including feature upgrades and improvements, and 2 years of security updates. However, Mac gets news major OS versions for free - and a system will get these new major releases for 5-6 years, before they get 2 years of security updates on the final one. So a total of 7-8 years of support. They use the same scheme for both MacOS and iOS. Great for phones, not so great for computers. Microsoft is far superior there, and also in backwards compatibility for applications running on that platform.
MacOS 12 (Monterey) released in October 2021, and received its last update on July 29, 2024; less than 3 years after release. Maybe you should stop being a crack-smoking dipshitted retard.
That's not how OS releases in the Apple world work. You get a new major OS release for free every year for 5-6 years, and then the final one gets security updates for two more years. Thus, the hardware is supported by Apple for 6-8 years. Which is great for a phone, and a bit behind Windows for PCs and laptops.
If DOGE was actually doing anything useful rather than dismantling the US, they would have seen "how come the US as a nation spends so much more of our GDP on healthcare, but with so bad results compared to other developed countries?". There seems to be plenty of evidence that public healthcare works better than the US system - and if the total paid via taxes would be much less than the sum insurance + tax of today, that'd be a big win. Real world efficiency.
A well functioning market needs rational and informed consumers - neither of which you will have in healthcare. Also, the old adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is much more of an incentive in a public healthcare system.
How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue.
