Same, I had been on android since the OG Droid and switched around the same time for similar reasons.

If Apple is going to charge premium prices just to splash ads on their products I’m moving on again.

I’ve only owned windows machines… well since my first DOS machine in the 90s. I made the switch to Mac after hearing about the embedded Ads in 11.

I’m sure there are many more going to Linux.

No, no… just hear me out… at this point as an American. Perhaps we merge America with Canada instead of Canada with America.

Free healthcare, poutine, learning French in school, the Metric system. I can sign on to that.

This is why you use AI to destroy AI.

After I was perma-banned, I used a bot to re-open my past posts and replace my original content with AI generated garbage.

Salt the fields upon which AI grows.

I don’t buy civ games until they release all the DLC. Since CIV 5 it seems like they have released unfinished games that lack major game mechanics on launch and the game only gets finished through DLC.

Poor adoption and sales with CIV 7 is their own fault. They have conditioned the market to wait for the DLC.

It’s simultaneously a grift and a way to impose a flat sales tax all in one package.

1. Republicans have been creaming their pants for years at the thought of imposing a regressive flat tax on all sales while doing away with income based taxation. This would forever shift the majority of the tax burden to the poor and middle class. Which is why we see Trump cutting taxes on the wealthy with his Big Ugly Bill and imposing a tariff as a way to tax the unwashed masses while simultaneously claiming he isn’t. Hopefully the courts strike down his power grab and force Congress to vote on Tariffs. The weasels will probably give it to them but at least we get to see Republicans go on record as voting for a tax increase.

2. Trump has announced or will announce tariff exemptions that benefit large companies that have donated to him. Sometime later if he feels he needs more money he will announce a higher random tariff on the exempted goods and shake these corps down for more money/favors. All the while he can claim he is doing our industry a favor.

Never forget Trump is a grifting piece of shit who will always stick it to the little guy.

Reicht Wingers: Hey birthday rates in the US are plummeting!?!?

Tech Bros: Let’s make 20 and 30 somethings work 72 hours a week!

Reicht Wingers: Genius!

Intel is at deaths door. You just need a gentle push…

Why wait?

I would love to see crimes committed against LBGTQ+ individuals in Mid Eastern countries taken up by the Hague. But it isn’t going to happen.

There it is, white washing violence through accusations of Racism and Islamophobia.

Whooosh…

That’s what the sound of an idea going over your head sounds like.

But keep hiding behind whatever excuses you can think of to justify these crimes.

Lol, basic History…

The US fought a war for independence… We don’t go around persecuting LGBTQ.

Most of Eastern Europe was under Russia’s control for 60 years (some still are) any independent thought was stamped out. Ukraine is currently fighting a war for independence against Russian destabilization efforts. I don’t see them throwing LGBTQ off buildings.

Much of Asia was under colonial control by western powers. They aren’t killing gay or transgender family members in Asia?

It’s not hard to find a common thread in all Middle Eastern countries…

Saying anything else is just ignorance.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/23/deadly-violence-against-lgbt-people-iraq

Lol, it’s the Wests fault that the Mid East is the way it is towards homosexuals?

I thought Islam was the religion of peace?

The fact that you ask that question should give you all the answer you need.

Lol, go schedule the LBGTQ+ conference in any of the nations surrounding Israel. Advertise the shit out of it, banners and everything. I’d be happy to donate.

Just make they book it somewhere with one story buildings.

No the NSA, CIA, FBI and all the other alphabet agencies would never allow it.