Money and connections.

oh, I was never locked in the apple ecosystem. I genuinely liked the OS for a very long time, but avoided owning music on iTunes, using their office suite or owning any iOS device. I was already using linux full time on an ebay Macbook Pro while my desktop was a hackintosh. Dropping support for 32bit apps was the final straw.

You’d have a point, except in the case of Operating Systems, one of the reasons I bailed on Mac was the reduction in customization of the desktop. They kept removing the colors in favor of a safe for business grayscale.

In the case of trucks, I’d rather have the same grill be used for 20 years so I can cheaply get a replacement from the junkyard if I need one. I’m so frustrated by the commercial options, I’m building a light duty 80’s C10 for my daily. Easy to work on, easy to fix, parts are cheap.

It’s an excuse to keep your product in the news/review cycle. You can’t just create a useful product and leave it at that. You have to constantly change shit so people are constantly talking about it. Why do you think iPhone keep switching between rounded and square edges? It’s not because one style is better then the other. It’s so reviewers have something to talk about. It’s why commercial OSes keep getting features no one asked for. It’s why car and truck bodies keep changing even though body lines have no effect on driveability.

Literally. And it sucks. There’s reasons they don’t do it like this anymore.

You’ve summed up every aspect of the Tesla. Especially now that real car companies are taking EVs seriously.

We’ve also just created a system that rewards psychopaths.

July 16, 2018. That’s when Musk called that rescue work a pedophilia.

That’s when his antics couldn’t be hand waved as eccentric or trolling. The rumors that he was a shitty boss weren’t back up yet, he was still pro-LGBT and he had renewed public interest in space travel after the shuttles were retired.

I miss when moot ran it and it didn’t have “mainstream” interest boards.

My default is to just assume that they aren’t the same person unless corroborated by that person.

“I’m not talking to you without a lawyer present.”

China has been playing a long game with rare earth metals. You asked a specific question, the answer of which wouldn’t really explain anything. I gave you a longer answer that gives a fuller picture.

Trump and company were fools to trigger China like this.

They’ve been buying up and hording rare earth metals for years to secure their own manufacture and as a form of soft power.

From 2011:

That’s because China now controls over 95% of the world’s supplies of rare earth metals, and has placed curbs on rare earth exports, creating a resource stranglehold. China slashed export quotas by 72% in the second half of last year, and imposed a further 35% cut in the first half of 2011 from the year-ago level. As a result prices for some rare earths have jumped more than 1,000%.

Im not going to debate this,

And yet, you still replied.

I’ve been seeing the US slide into fascism for the past 20 years. As long as I’ve been politically aware. Bush Jr set the stage of this problem and while none of the Democrats have been actively fascist, they also haven’t done anyway thing to reverse course either.

People aren’t rolling their eyes. They’re turning their head because they don’t want to face reality.

Take real reports and replace it with randomly generated people to flood the ICE systems with false reports.

No. The meaning has been true for a while. People just ignored the signs because it was inconvenient to stamp it out sooner.

China has been doing this for years.

Around then for me. Hiroyuki allowed /pol/ to happen when moot tried it and ditched it quickly. Too many people started thinking their farts didn’t stink. I went there for anime discussions when every other popular site was a hugbox.

1. Search Amazon for product you want.
2. Check reviews
3. Throw out reviews because a) they’re for the wrong product or b) they’re bot written.
4. Use the product numbers to search for the the same product elsewhere, preferably from the company’s own website or brick and mortar.
5. If it’s something you actually need and can’t find it elsewhere, it’s ok to buy Amazon, just don’t pay for a Prime account. No one needs shit that quickly.

I don’t want to ingest that many second hand drugs.