Thats what I am wondering. If so, its just standard lobbyism. If not, its time for me to continue not buying apple products. (And the others)

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Actually ideally both

Trump winning 2016. He needs to loose, so he never attempts again.

Having a brain is wanted in most professions, however the military would preffer brainless suicidal muscle sacks.

100% no doubt The parable of the sower and subsequent book. I read that book - started reading it - in June this year and read it over about a month. It was very creepy to be reading a sci fy book set in the future that is now my present and while it is not as bad right now as Octavia Butler makes it out to be, we are definitely heading there if drastic action is not taken immediately.

Edit: the books in order: (Only two, sadly she died while writing the third but still both worth reading, there isn’t a clif hanger at the end) https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries

We used to have white christmases and dream of them too, now with climate change we dream of them but have green / brown ones in reality.

From their description it seems like just another tpm - like chip with extra functionality. That “cloud to chip” stuff seems to be marketing bs to me, possibly a tpm like chip that can only be used by Azure services? Doesn’t seem to me that it overrides the os in any way, so Linux would probably just ignore it withou the right drivers.

Switzerland: Generally you are only allowed to go during breaks and if you forget / don’t have time due to switching buildings you are told to suck it. Starting a certain age girls are allowed to go whenever, but only some teachers allow it in practice. During breaks though, I never had to ask a teacher.

I don’t even need to click taht to know his initials are R.A. :-)

Switzerland: Just upgraded my plan to 18.90CHF (21.45usd) for unlimited 5G (1700mbps), calls and text in Switzerland and 20GB, 100 minutes and texts in EU and UK. I haven’t switched my number yet so I’ll have to see what coverage is like, but it will likely be very good cause switzerland.

Laminar flow water looks like it tastes so much better

Hopefully they didn’t store to much financial info from donations, otherwise I am a bit coocked…

Not entirely. She did qualify to represent Australia in Bbeaking, not just some rando australian and she does study culture, the cultural politics of breakdancing.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/raygun-breakdancing-video-olympics-memes-controversy-explained-2024-8?op=1

Mfers can literally do anything in the US as long as they pay their taxes.

You can drive for 16 hours and still be in Texas, the european mind cannot comprehend this! <

Yeah because driving 16 hours straight is stupid because you would just take the train and be driven 16 hours straight.

Car centric infrastructure should have never been introduced.