• TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      so many apple shills here… why not upgrade to an adult phone?

      So this makes me laugh because when I was younger and had more time to spend with rooting and custom ROMs, I used Android phones. And I loved them!

      Now that I’m older I use an iPhone (for a number of reasons) and I also love it!

      It’s almost like smartphones are tools that fit their use case, and not something else up be tribal over.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        51·
        7 months ago

        I’m just curious about how anyone can get excited enough to love any smartphone these days? Seems a necessary evil to me and a vessel for enshitification. What about the iPhone do you love so much?

        • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I guess “love” is a strong term. It does everything I need it to and I have very few complaints, the same experience I had with my Android phone.

    • Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.itEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Do you mean the ones with the big T9 keyboards so grandpa doesn’t have to wear his glasses while using his?

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      242·
      7 months ago

      When the USA has no more industry, education, science, healthcare or employment and its people are dying younger and younger from preventable diseases it chose not to prevent, thousands of homeless pox-ridden Americans can watch Trump’s military parade destroy the streets of Washington DC and know that America is great again, before they are rounded up and sent to the camps. But at least they’ll have food there.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    you know how trolls respond in games or everywhere online? Exactly like this. Did Don forget to breath while writing that run-on sentence?

    • sidtirouluca@lemm.eeEnglish
      4032·
      7 months ago

      4 more years of this comedy over there, im laughing too much already! xD

        • StonerCowboy@lemm.eeEnglish
          1315·
          7 months ago

          Its extremely funny seeing idiot Americans who voted (and those who didnt vote at all) for a 34 count rapist felon, seditionous traitor and then protest by holding little signs and wearing pink jackets.

          You guys only use your 2nd amendment rights in schools against children. America is a circus and Americans are the clowns.

          • Ex Nummis@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            7 months ago

            Interestingly, I don’t think that’s going to happen. OPEC could decide to ramp up production if USA lowers theirs. Demand for oil isn’t rising the way it used to due to alternatives not only becoming viable but actually cheaper as well.

          • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            7 months ago

            In a recession with lower demand and everyone hunkering down oil prices probably decline.

        • tinned_tomatoes@feddit.ukEnglish
          2812·
          7 months ago

          It is kinda funny watching the American Exceptionalism finally crumble before our eyes. Shame most Americans aren’t reflective enough to realise what’s happening.

          • ILoveUnions@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            7 months ago

            American exceptionalism is the belief that word special, for good or bad. It’s just pouring on a different kind of Americans exceptionalists, the one who think our trajectory is something new.

            Also, we do. A lot of us do…

          • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
            112·
            7 months ago

            This 100%. You’re getting downvoted but I don’t think Americans realize how irritating their fellow countrymen can be on the internet and in person to non Americans. There’s also the defaultism as if everyone is American (or wants to be American) which gets REALLY tiring after a while

      • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
        164·
        7 months ago

        it effects the entire world pal, just cause its not visibly right outside your front door doesnt mean youre above it

        also, being smug is a shitty look

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        7 months ago

        are you going to keep laughing when he extorts another world leader of a country Russia is invading? Or helps finish off palestine for good?

    • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
      94·
      7 months ago

      Trump has a lot that seems might be wrong with him, but schizophrenia never really seemed to be on the list. Narcissism, dementia, psycho-/socio-pathy, compulsive lying, and possibly more, but I’ve never gotten the feeling he displayed the hyperpatternicity I associate with schizophrenia.

      • Gigasser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        Sigh…at least Apple is getting screwed over though. They’ve been impeding right to repair for a long time, perhaps their karmic debt is finally catching up to them.

        • ferrule@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          nah they just need to survive the storm for a yeas and a half and start funding dems house races. far cheaper than allowing you to repair your device.

        • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          Armchair Derangement Syndrome. It’ll be in the DRM-3000, the biggest and best book by the bestest doctors who have spent decades researching the woke mind virus. It’ll also cover things like “Fluoride Delusion Disorder” - the belief that fluoride in public water isn’t a government brainwashing program.

        • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
          121·
          7 months ago

          This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.

      • aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.socialEnglish
        164·
        7 months ago

        It’s always disappointing to see how much people on here hate people with mental disabilities. Under no circumstances would anyone be OK with comparing Donald Trump to another minority. I think even insulting him by calling him fat is perceived as too gauche. But ableism? 100% OK by most of Lemmy.

        • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          52·
          7 months ago

          I think most people on here are frustrated with the “sanewashing” by most media outlets.

          The drumbeat of “ableism” is more of a bell ringing to make sure that people understand that Krasnov is very unwell and seriously unfit for any decision making position.

          Wanting someone with disastrous mental health issues to not be capable of launching a nuclear strike isn’t ableism.

          Would you loan a gun to a friend who’s been really depressed lately? According to you, you should.

          • aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Krasnov

            Wat?

            Wanting someone with disastrous mental health issues to not be capable of launching a nuclear strike isn’t ableism.

            Would you loan a gun to a friend who’s been really depressed lately? According to you, you should.

            Oh, I forgot that Truman, the only person in history to actually use nuclear weapons, famously only did so because he had depression. Or he was a perfectly mentally well person who was also a racist to the extent that he didn’t care about the lives of Japanese children. One of those. I always get it confused.

            Anyway, the answer to who I would loan a gun to and who should be capable of launching a nuclear strike is the same: no one. But I would trust your averaged depressed person with the nuclear codes more than I would Trump. To be clear: if Trump has a mental illness, that is not the thing that is wrong with him. What’s wrong with him is that he’s a fascist.

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
        55·
        7 months ago

        You’re right. There’s absolutely no evidence of Trump being not of sound mind.

  • malin@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    142·
    7 months ago

    We need to keep in mind that businesses like Apple are already charging the most they think customers are willing to pay.

    Tariffs will hurt their bottom line by causing them to lose more in sales than they can make up for by raising unit prices.

  • N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    433·
    7 months ago

    And so Apple’s breakdown begins. Trump smashing their overrated market position in the US. It’s the first time I would support his BS decisions.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      7 months ago

      I don’t, this is not a good thing. Threatening a company with punitive action bcz they didn’t capitulation to your whims is not a good thing. Nevermind that you cant just up and move your manufacturing overnight.

      The right way to bring manufacturing back is to give companies incentives and investment funds for bringing manufacturing back over a certain number of years. A carrot and honey are a lot more convincing than vinegar when trying to get what you want.

      • N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        312·
        7 months ago

        That’s all true. But how do you feel for buying an already overpriced product, made by a greedy company which acts against software developers (by prohibidding selling their software on other market places and dictating prices), the environment, and the customer (repairability, compatibility and more restrictions) and the state (tax evasion)? I think Apple should get what they deserve.

  • Angel Mountain@feddit.nlEnglish
    7·
    7 months ago

    Is this another pump 'n dump (or rather dump 'n buy a shitload and then change your mind again so the stock rises to the original level)?

  • Shanedino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    The more I think about it doesn’t trump just want to raise taxes without explicitly raising taxes.

    • medgremlin@midwest.socialEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      *Raise taxes on poor people. The billionaires can easily just fly to Europe for a shopping spree attached to their regular weekend jaunt and bring everything home in their luggage (if they cared about the prices of anything to begin with, that is).

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 months ago

    Krasnov fails to realize the shareholders hold the power to decide manufacturing sites.