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It’s also not “because of differing political opinions or something really stupid”. In each case it’s been abusive behavior.

Russia is “what?? You don’t want to be defenseless if we invade you?! Hmmmph”

are there actually people who like him here?

Great, excellent work thinking ahead.

Should have a couple of stars missing and a corner torn off to be more accurate.

I was just living in a house where the garage door was falling off the hinges. We asked them to fix it and they told us “you have to look at it as a carport now”.

Pretty much they want to force you to have a Mac, and that is indeed annoying. There’s an iCloud plugin for Explorer but it’s terribly written. It’s possible to use the website, I guess.

What other convenience or use case would there be? When I’m at home or in my car I have plenty of Lightning cables. It also hasn’t been a problem when I’ve asked at bars etc. considering that the iPhone has the largest market share. So I don’t really see what the advantage is other than what the EU was going for, which was unifying the market.

I don’t really want to do anything with apps besides camera, photos and a web browser, steam link, discord, garageband and various apps I have to install like my medical apps, so that’s fine with me. I used to alternate between Android and iOS every time I bought a phone and I gave up after the Galaxy S9. I bought the S9 because it theoretically had a better camera than the iPhones I was comparing too, but the camera app was far inferior so that didn’t work out. I don’t use any peripherals, and have no desire to connect my phone to Windows… so, works great for me.

That ended about 8 years ago. Sure was bullshit at the time, though.

I don’t take a charging cable with me to other people’s houses or cars.

I bought a new iPhone 6 for $200 when they were a couple years old. I used it for 3 years and was pretty happy with it. The idea that iPhones are more expensive than android is about 10 years outdated. You do get higher specs for the price with android but it doesn’t make a huge difference unless you’re trying to be bleeding edge.

Unless you’re a woman, I suppose.

Apple maintains their phones with OS and security updates for much longer than any Android manufacturers I’m aware of.

The plastic on the cord for the charger for my 2010 MacBook completely peeled off on both sides for 2-3 feet when it was about a year and a half old. Just bare twisted metal coating… it seemed dangerous or something. I took it to an Apple Store hoping for any sort of discount on a new one, and some snotty guy with a septum piercing angrily insisted that I must have habitually rolled over it with a chair. He said my only option was to buy a new one for full price (around $150). I didn’t even own a chair with wheels. All I had ever done was coil it up 3-4 times a day going between my house and coffee shops.

I ended up calling and complaining and a manager said I could get a 50% discount. Great! So I went there 2 weeks later and some guy angrily insisted HE was the manager on duty and HE didn’t approve that. So they looked at my charger and angrily insisted that I’d rolled over it with a chair and my only option was to buy a new one for full price.

Anyway, Apple was trying a lot of different coverings back then to avoid BPA or something. They ended up paying a class action settlement for some of their charging cables.

Well, yeah. If I started the Dickweed Party and decided I’d be the candidate, I wouldn’t have to let someone else take the nomination if I didn’t want to.

Yeah, then if you get it, you also have to operate a registry, however much that costs, in terms of retail and maintaining a zone file, and pay $6000 a quarter plus .25 per domain for revenue over $50,000.

I’ve noticed a lot of people don’t actually measure liquid detergent, too… just kind of pour some in. I bet that tends to use way more than is called for. We started using the detergent sheets (the ones that just dissolve, however those work) which helps with easy portioning.

Ha, yep - I’ve gone from 9 to 4-5 and find them in my sleeves when I’m folding clothes. I think the missing ones are trapped in my gf’s clothes, which she just sort of stacks up rather than folding…

Natural is typically used to mean something that occurs in nature or results from mild refinement vs. purely synthetic and novel molecules. I don’t think most anyone would call cotton a ‘chemical’ and being that specific is really a form of pedantry more than a useful label.

Possibly also death wax like flame retardants or pesticides from the transportation process.