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Honestly I think it's a tried and true shameless asshole business strategy of his or something. You tell everybody you made a deal and brow beat the other party into just going along with it instead of trying to correct history.

It might not work for many people and businesses, but it probably works for a narcissistic trust fund scumbag that was handed a real estate empire and taught strategy by the very man who raised Donald Trump to have the personality he does.

I personally might not use a headphone jack or SD card slot very much, but for the market that a GrapheneOS phone would be targeting they seem like OBVIOUS things to include.

The crowd getting excited about this partnership is pretty much the same crowd that complains about features like those going away.

Then make the machine try to keep people talking for as long as possible...

That's probably a huge part of it. How many billions of dollars have been spent engineering content on a screen to get its tendrils into people's minds and attention and not let go?

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That just seems like semantics. It seems pretty fair to call country A bombing the shit out of country B and killing its leader an act of war.

I think a lot of my fellow Americans find it easy to not think of as a "war" because they see no risk of Iran attacking the continental US. They'll just send their thoughts and prayers to whoever deployed over there catches the bullets.

Bold move to combine their names and then give it those damn "we've forced AI into this" sparkles, lol.

It's also very possible that the war is a roudabout consequence of the child rape, assuming Epstein was a Mossad honeypot and Israel really really wants the US to be blowing up Iran right now.

The question is: did he even read it before it got sent over?

It seems like having a staffer draft the letter isn't a huge deal, but a normal president would personally approve it, I imagine.

There are a lot of people out there, so many things can be true at once.

I think it's inevitable that some people use labels as excuses just because awareness of those conditions is so much higher. I also think it's inevitable that there are a lot of people who struggled all their life with things that are difficult to diagnose or weren't on the minds of parents and teachers 30 years ago.

And there's probably no way to ever say definitively, with evidence, either way on this -- but it would blow my fucking mind to find out that Lemmy didn't have a neurospicy percentage of participants significantly higher than the general population.

And even if that were known to be untrue, I think Lemmy also attracts people who are more aware, open, and accepting of that stuff in themselves and others.

Ya know, while at work today I took a break from the computer stuff to sketch out some concepts for plumbing that I'm going to rework at home for one of my hobbies, a pond.

Maybe I would be the guy in the OP that goes around fixing pipes! Then once I'm in the door I'd offer to install Linux on any computers I see.

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Ohh noooo!

Now my backlog of games that should be shrinking is only going to grow by 10% next year instead of 12% like it could have!

The tech companies haven't driven me to the point of utter contempt for consoles like they have for phones, but at the same time I have multiple PCs and more games than I will ever play.