The discussion was about Apple products not being essential goods. It was not about smart phones in general being essential goods.

GenAI is a product of the capitalists you’re criticizing. You’re being hypocritical by using it.

Are iPhones the only smart phone that exists?

You’re absolutely correct. Price gouging is when you significantly raise the price of essential goods during an emergency.

Like selling water for $20 a bottle in the aftermath of an earthquake.

Apple products aren’t essential goods.

I’ve been the recipient of such a document, and I was absolutely grateful. I’ve also been the recipient of absolutely no documentation. And I’ve written one and had it be appreciated when I laterally moved positions, which the 3 people who replaced me appreciated.

Depending on the enterprise environment and role, it can take up to 2 years to fully learn the system without such a document. Especially if it’s an esoteric field.

Take a piss on Superman.

Are you talking about Harris giving political non-answers about the genocide to secure the necessary funding to fight against a campaign backed by billionaires and foreign governments?

The same person who, as VP, tried to launch the investigation required to bypass the law saying we have to arm Israel? And the one who’s Senate voting history more closely matches Sanders out of the other members of Congress?

The person who was running against the guy who is dying to nuke Gaza?

It’s only the lesser of two evils if you only look at campaign messaging, which is almost always complete bullshit.

A great deal on a used car

They said wrong answers only

I think we need to see the ugly one

What the actual fuck are you talking about?

I tried to tell my wife this, multiple times. Now she wonders why the cat plays gentle with me but rough as hell with her.

She (the cat) will still attack my hand, but without claws or biting hard. She’ll even get under the blankets to fight me through them.

The way I accomplished this was by teaching her that if she got too rough it meant no more playing for about an hour. Since she always wants to play, it was an effective deterrent.

One of ours has to have his front paws in the bowl. He’s a bit brain damaged, though.

Mr Frog at it again

Ugliness as in personality, not appearance.

I’m sure it’s Larry fucking with the algorithm

We tried that with pickles, but it turns out they’re like crack to the little fucker.

My wife has been showing me TikTok videos of black guys asking things like, “guess what I do for work,” and the responses are every bit as racist as you’d expect.

She thinks it’s everyone making fun of racists and black people owning the jokes, but to me it looks like attempts to normalize overt racism.

It depends on the ratio of failed to successful, really. If there are hundreds of millions of successful verifications, that’s a fairly low failure rate.

They catered to immunocompromised women.