Shadywack

Holy shit this is badass.

If you got Apple is “destroying creativity” from that, you A) only saw the clip or B) are searching for problem.

The outcry's not really Apple, but tech in general. The backlash of crushing the human experience is the transition from valuing true art and creativity, and just lurching toward yet another do-everything screen that doesn't compliment creativity, but instead displaces it, with the hint of incoming generative AI.

Apple really doesn't give a fuck about art, creativity, expression, or for that matter quality anymore. They're good at making a thing that sells, they're good at marketing it, and they're good at convincing people of the cost vs worth equation that gives them insane margins over their chic branding. I love the outcry not because of any validity behind the detriment of tablets and smartphones (which is absolutely there) but moreso because it's entertaining when a company renowned for their advertising prowess fucks up so publicly then backpedals with apologies.

Good times, and fuck Apple.

Alright, fuck Republicans, I'm onboard with that.

Living wage, I'm onboard with that too.

Fuck landlords as well, I'm waay onboard with that.

How about we raise minimum wage, but also regulate the hell out of several sectors so that the wealthy don't just consume whatever we raise it to with obscene inflation, otherwise what's the point?

Good, because the attitude you have means you'll only develop for your own use case and then call anyone else an entitled brat. We don't want your shitty project if you're so narrow minded. Please keep it off of repo's and don't risk anyone accidentally rolling it in and creating even more worthless noise.

LOL, we still don't have Wayland because the daft cunts at Gnome still haven't heard of 4k displays and setting scaling factors for Xwayland.....you know.....problems Plasma never had in the first place.

All Gnome does is propose half baked measures they don't take any action on because the fully formed cohesive solution doesn't spontaneously magic itself into existence, then gaslight the users. Fuck Gnome.

That's fine and all, and I wish it were so. We just live in an economic reality that has been steadily increasing the inequality with consequences such as unaffordable housing, healthcare, and education.

Inflating the debt away is advantageous only if the TCO keeps up. In this case the wealthy get the lion's share of inflationary increases while many people only see modest cost of living offsets that for two years fell behind inflation. We seldom see years where employers give a cost of living adjustment above the current inflationary rate beyond the current year index, to make up for prior years where they didn't.

E.g. I see a job posting from 2007 that advertised 65k/year, in the same company with the same role they currently only compensate that same role at about 73k. $65k from 2007 equates to approximately $97k in today's money. If things were truly equitable and commensurate, and I realize this is an isolated data sample, but it appears to be a common trend across the country.

For the numbers, that's $24k of income that would be really great to have today.

Fucking pondscum pieces of shit garbage motherfuckers. That's what anyone who voted against this is. Our representatives are enemies of the public trust.

I remember thinking movies just had absurd sensationalized plot lines and that our societies were past that shit. Then I saw former soviets killed by alpha particle emitting pills, whistleblowers dying, and now I'm thinking the truth is stranger than fiction.

Hang in there Edward Snowden, it's amazing that fucker threaded the needle and still lives.

How to piss off everyone at LW, watch:

I am voting for neither. I'm going to match what I care about with a specific candidate, because I don't like Trump or Biden. [/opinion]

Now I'll just sit and wait for the "you idiot" comments and the vitriol geyser to blow. This should be entertaining to watch people think my vote's going to make a difference in the electoral college.

Sure, Right here.

"I think eggplant tastes horrible"

"Got a source to back that up?"

Yep, sounds about like some motherfuckers around here.

First off, 10 billion on a failure shows a great deal of business acumen failings at play. Yes, they can "afford it", but they afford it with all customers bearing that failure. What's perhaps even worse is how easily they can afford it, much like Meta's VR boondoggle.

As for playing it safe, Apple is the posterchild for that.