9secondkox2

coolfactor said:

waveparticle said:

proline said:

JP234 said:

Sounds like an ill-timed, but productive visit. Certain elements in the Legislature and right wing media are sure to make hay out of it. But if you ask me, good business ties with China are super important, even in the face of recent geopolitical events. China will to be less inclined to damage their best customer.

Lol. Do you think Russia is less inclined to damage us after we
— gave them Ukraine’s nukes
— gave them the USSR spot on the security council
— shut down our own rocket engine manufacturing and made our rockets dependent on their engines
— made them key partners in the ISS
— let them genocide Chechnya
— let them conquer Georgia and Moldova and Crimea
— gave them Big Macs and iPhones

Of course not. Dictators can’t stop themselves from attacking us. We need to be ready. Apple is making us dependent rather than ready. 

Wow! All Russia's fault. US is the victim. Hate Russia, LOL.

The US is very young compared to Asian countries, particularly China. Unfortunately, because they are the current "world leader", that has gone to their heads, and no other country can be as great. That's the illusion right there. World powers come and go, and have for eons. The US will lose their dominance eventually. And we can only hope that the next world power will be democratic. and more mature and advanced than the current US leadership and population.

True only when it’s allowed to happen. Strangely, our government is now more concerned with gas stoves and air conditioners than they are with innovation, marketplace excellence and military superiority. Recipe for disaster. 

longfang said:

proline said:

JP234 said:

Sounds like an ill-timed, but productive visit. Certain elements in the Legislature and right wing media are sure to make hay out of it. But if you ask me, good business ties with China are super important, even in the face of recent geopolitical events. China will to be less inclined to damage their best customer.

Lol. Do you think Russia is less inclined to damage us after we
— gave them Ukraine’s nukes
— gave them the USSR spot on the security council
— shut down our own rocket engine manufacturing and made our rockets dependent on their engines
— made them key partners in the ISS
— let them genocide Chechnya
— let them conquer Georgia and Moldova and Crimea
— gave them Big Macs and iPhones

Of course not. Dictators can’t stop themselves from attacking us. We need to be ready. Apple is making us dependent rather than ready. 

Name 1 dictator who attacked you.

Just because something hadn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t. The lessons of history are meant to be learned from. 

chasm said:

9secondkox2 said:

They should Just stay on Twitter now that it’s a fair and free speech platform unless they are afraid of that sort of thing. In that case, yeah they should go to another platform. 

The capacity for Kool-Aid drinking is high with this one.

The reality distortion field lives again with this one. 

mainyehc said:

DAalseth said:

A thousand dollars a month? I really hope that most if not all organizations decide it’s not worth it and drop their accounts. I mean I’d be pissed to find out that my Senator, Congressman, or agency was dropping twelve bills a year to keep a Twitter account. There’s better things to put tax money toward. 

Public officials should just show Phony Stark the finger and move to Mastodon altogether. Heck, the US Government should create its own instance for all its agencies, duh.

Nah. Mastodon is pretty lame. 

godofbiscuits said:

9secondkox2 said:

It’s not a reprisal if your employer tells you to work at the office and you refuse. 

That’s grounds for termination. 

If the job description says remote or temporarily remote, great. Once it shifts back to “on site,” you work on site or lose the job. 

That’s how things work in the real world. 

You do t make up your own job description unless you own the company. 

You shouldn't talk about 'the real world' as if you're accusing Apple employees or others of not knowing what it's like to work in it.  The hours put in, the missed weekends, the missed social time, family time, lost time due to travel back and forth.  The unyielding company towards you, but the company expecting everything from you.  Yeah, that's the real world, and not just at Apple.  But don't even imply that employees are somehow petulant for pushing back against all of that one-sided bullsh*t.

Spare me the disgruntled victim act. ‘Oh poor me. I have to work in the office again instead of Starbucks. The horror.”It’s simple really. If Apple says “get back to the office’ then you get back to the office. If you don’t like it, then apply for a remote job somewhere else. The remote thing was a temporary lockdown measure that already took too long to switch back to the office. Going to work isn’t having everything taken from you by some “unyielding” company. It’s called employment. You have a boss who tells you what to do, you do it, and you get paid. You don’t, and you have problems. That’s how employment works in the real world. Not some imaginary land where the employees boss the employers around. A lot of entitled whining going on.