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  • I can’t see a business reason why Apple would degrade image sending purposefully- it would drive its own users to get third party apps.

    Depends on what the majority of people are using.

    In markets where iPhone users are not in the majority, that’s exactly what’s happening: iPhone users are switching to third party apps.

    If iPhones users are in the majority, though, then people will just default to iMessage, and non-Apple phones get associated with poor messaging quality. Which creates social pressure for non-iPhone users to buy an iPhone.

    So it makes perfect business sense for Apple to degrade the messaging quality when a non-Apple phone joins the conversation.







  • It really depends on what a Trump reign will look like, right?

    Will he be able to round up tens of millions of people and deport them, as he has promised? Will he institute another Muslim ban, as he has promised? Will he stay in office after his next four year term, as he has said he wants to? Will he use the office of the president to persecute political opponents, as he has promised? Will he “root out” all the “vermin” in the United States, as he had promised? And if yes: who will get declared to be “vermin?” How will they be “rooted out?” Will he make torture legal, as he promised? Will he bring back family separation and child detention camps? Will he threaten nuclear war again? And if yes, will some crazy regime take him up on the offer?

    And if all of that or even just a fraction of that comes to pass, will you still sleep well, knowing that you might have been able to stop all of that but voting for the lesser of two evils was just beneath you?

    Because ultimately, that’s the decision you’re making.









  • Hamas is not fighting for the “plight of Gazans” - they’re on record saying that the Palestinians are not their responsibility.

    That’s probably why they don’t give a fuck if their rockets detonate and explode in Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians. That’s probably why they launch rockets from hospitals and schools. That’s probably why they hide weapons production facilities next to places of worship. That’s probably why they shoot Palestinians who are trying to evacuate. That’s probably why they abduct, imprison, torture and murder Palestinians who they perceive to be enemies. That’s probably why they close down, shutter and burn down Palestinian coffee shops, hotels, shops, water parks, and entertainment venues out of “religious concerns.”

    Really, you’re assuming that Hamas is fighting for the Palestinians, but all evidence points to the exact opposite.

    They’re a terrorist organization that murders people in cold blood, and they rule over Gaza in a reign of terror.






  • Well, let’s see what Trump has said about that:

    “We are going to win four more years. And then after that, we’ll go for another four years because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years.”

    or how about

    “I have to the right to do whatever I want as president.”

    or

    “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

    or how about when he admired Xi Jinping:

    “He’s now president for life. President for life. And he’s great. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.”