Shaddap and take my upvote!

...and somebody else's downvote. This is a rough audience.

Is rude really the default? I thought respect was, especially during the initial stages of a professional exchange like a god damned job interview.

Rude is the default if you optimise everything down to perfection to prioritise profit, which tech is really good at doing. After all, that extra second you’d spend being courteous could be used to make the line go up and create shareholder value instead.

RIP Arkansas. Enjoy your TikTok news feed. I'm sure you'll produce a healthy and stable future generation of kids. Good luck.

Literally in the post next door:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/high-school-english-te...

Oh. Can we sue China too? Sue any country who blocks anything anywhere? Nice.

Huh? What do you mean? Their own product page states that it comes with a 4,500mAh User-Replaceable battery.

I assume GP means that it’ll work with no battery connected if plugged in.

Correct.

We're so fucking apathetic. Organizations that wish to strip your privacy should be treated the same as organizations who commit atrocities towards the planet or their fellow inhabitants. Expose them all. Shame them. Vote against them. Pass laws to weekend their power, etc. We've totally been down this road before with alcohol, cigarettes, climate control, pollution, trans fats, guns (in some countries), etc. It's completely possible to do it again for online privacy. Use your voice now, before you find you are unable to do so at all.

"Attempt", being the key word here. :-/

We’ve seen how this goes. If it doesn’t pass, they’ll try again and again until some combination of political chicanery lets it slip through. They only have to win once, we have to win every single time.

This got rejected in the end, btw.

Only because Apple refused. I’m not saying Apple is a good guy. If Trump had asked, Cook would have hired people from DOGE to implement the feature.