ddawson100

Never expected this but here in 2023 I’m rooting for the giant multi-national corporation over the government. Go, Apple and down with Pegasus and oppressive government.

I remember when the next big thing was a revolutionary product that combined three distinct functionalities into one device: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device. Are you getting it? The new Homepod and breakthrough iPad are not separate devices...

Xed said:

miiwtwo said:

bored design, even better the ultra 

Bored design? What do you mean by that?

I believe that it means they're sharing a personal opinion and have nothing to contribute to a conversation.

Welcome back, Daniel!

Me: [during lunch break] Oh, so tell me more about "A6X: How Apple's iPad silicon Disrupted mobile video gaming."
DED: Let's take a stop in 2012.
Me: Sure.
DED: But that requires going to 2008.
Me: Sigh
DED: [Cracks knuckles, sips coffee] Actually, in the 1990s...
Me: Oh, for ノಠ益ಠノ彡┻━┻-


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The blusterer-in-chief's newest Treasury nomination means there will be an adult in the room during tariff talks. Thank goodness. I know that his supporters think that China is the one paying and are gonna be shocked when the prices don't come down.

I agree that a subscription mouse is absolutely absurd but their CEO hasn't said anything about subscribing to a mouse. She mentioned the concept of a a quality "forever mouse" and mentioned that it's possible that people would want to pay for software updates to go with their hardware. It's maybe cynical to hear (read about) these two topics in an interview and conflate them. Logitech has never required you to pay for their software and if they had something good enough I imagine they could incrementally increase their revenue.

Their newer Logi Options+ is making it easier to assign multi-step macros to their mice & keyboards. Some of these macros duplicate other things I'm doing with paid software. If Logitech could compete with those other ones and do it better then I'd consider buying from them, too. But that's not a subscription mouse.

Toortog said:

Let make a deal keep these tarrifs but eliminate all federal income taxes.      Tariffs is how the country used to make the money they ran the country on, then around 1910 they decided to start the federal income tax program to generate the money to fund the country.    So federal income tax is now a total mess with the rich and big corporations play little to no taxes and the middle class playing.    So tariffs instead of income tax sounds good to me.   

Tariffs have be screwing this country since it's earliest days when in the hands of greedy politicians.   They love tariffs because the money just goes into a general funds that just kind of gets used up with little info on where. 

Eliminating income taxes sounds great but if I'm buying things with most of my paycheck, I'm still indirectly sending the money to the federal government. The rich (I'm not and I'm assuming you're not a billionaire) will contribute a decidedly lower amount. Anyway, the tariff approaches by this government is all cart-before-the-horse anyway since we don't have domestic capacity to take up the slack of losing suppliers from abroad.

This president is lying about how many countries are trying to make deals (he says they have 200 deals but there are only 195 countries, so...) and the tariffs have been on-again, off-again since the start of the term. Teasing the idea of ending income taxes just gives empty hope to those running out of reasons to believe sudden punishing tariffs are good policy. He goes back on his own deals, and remember, too, that cutting taxes on the wealthy is another of his goals so if he had to choose one, which would it be?

Sees headlines. Jumps straight to comments section. lol

Imagine you want the US to win this vast conspiracy by the rest of the world to eat America's lunch, that you want the US to out-compete and level the playing field, whatever that means. Imagine you start by threatening allies, then everyone, then finally companies inside the US. Now wake up because someone else is doing it right now!

mikethemartian said:

anonymouse said:

So, did Bezos finally grow a pair or will he step in and scuttle this plan? If he's grown a pair, maybe he'll decide it's time to restore WAPO to being an actually newspaper. If not, he should sell it.

It's funny and disgusting at the same time that the "White House" considers it a "hostile and political" act to tell the American public the truth about Trump's tariffs.

Bezos will cave.

I don't think this is anti-Trump as much as it is about saving Amazon during the largest supply shock since Covid shut down shipping. 245% tariffs from the world's factory floor has a major impact on the world's largest consumer. Americans love their cheap products and Temu is already explicitly itemizing the costs to show item cost, shipping, sales tax, now adding "Import charges". Until it happens at Amazon, though, it's just rumor and could change.

Also, just noting that even if we think receipts should be simple, someone's put some thought into it and decisions have to be made. Just in the last 5 years we've seen restaurant adding line items for covid surcharges, living wage/health care surcharges, credit card costs added, and other things maybe less crazy like corkage fees, dish split costs that have been happening for ages. It's crazy that it's really complicated to figure out what's a fair thing to charge and how to explain it!