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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Utah is gorgeous.

  There are definitely parts of Socal that are ugly. Also parts that are sublime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try visiting a not ugly state like California.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But how does that help capitalists make more money by eliminating their competition?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: TikTok’s efforts to silo US data are ‘largely cosmetic’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand, how does that make money for Facebook and the rest of the domestic web companies that can then be funneled into unregulated SuperPACs for the politicians passing the laws?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah I wasn’t being sarcastic.

  As I understand it, in engineering these types of mobile space constrained devices you essentially have a “budget” of space. Every hardware feature you include generally eats into this budget and if you want things to be user accessible or repairable it eats into this budget majorly.

  That budget has to come from somewhere, so you can pay it with things like reducing the size of your battery or reducing the size of your drivers which in turn represents a reduction in sound quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This article seems to omit the most important fact about headphones - how do they sound?

  I love repairability and all, but it hardly matters if I don’t want to use them in the first place because they traded off too much quality for repairability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re in the USA it seems clearly better to have Russian since they can do much less to affect your life and vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I thought about the elephant tusk looking AirPods yet here we are.

  The Reality Distortion Field sometimes makes things hard to predict when it comes to Apple products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Russia not Financially Crippled?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How? How does a country take that much of a financial beating and still be thriving? Where is the point of being broke and not being able to fund a war anymore?

  Not only that but I remember reading a lot of articles about how Russia was going to economically collapse as a result…almost two years ago.

  Also a lot of articles about how weak Russia was militarily, how they lost all their troops and equipment already, how morale in their military was so poor the army was just going to run away at any moment…for almost two years now.

  Yet here they are still, not collapsed, not defeated. It probably is a good idea to take the media with a grain of salt and realize just because they’re the so-called free press doesn’t make them necessarily the truthful press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court declines to hear Apple-Epic antitrust case, meaning developers can point customers to the web⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple’s customers bought their iPhone knowing alternative stores are not available.

  Your perspective seems to be to ignore the very existence of anti trust rules that stand for the proposition that even if the customer knows what they’re getting in a free market capitalist transaction it can be illegal.

  Can’t your justification of Apple be used for every anti trust case? “AT&T’s customers bought their service knowing alternative rotary dial telephones manufactured by 3rd parties are not available.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the giant real estate investments companies have made is now coming due and they cant fill up their buildings fast enough to get those tax breaks

  What are these tax breaks for filling up buildings?