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  • Apple Maps still calls it the Gulf of Mexico, and politicians are upset

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    Xed said:
    entropys said:
    I find it all very entertaining.  
    One lot of yanks are currently overloaded with euphoria at the thought of a wrecking ball tearing the establishment down, the other lot are crying in their cups.

    and why not call it the Gulf of America? It isn’t as though the left aren’t busy changing place names all the time.
    1) Imagine being such a sensitive little fuckwad as to be upset that a body of water contains the word of another country or a mountain being officially named after the indigenous people who called that for many centuries.

    2) What place names are constantly changing by this left? I certainly haven't noticed this so it would be great if you could back up your comment with recent examples.

    PS: I am genuinely curious to know from the Trump supporter on this forum believe that a person can only be born as either male or female. Or, if XX and XY chromosomes are the only way to define people as male or female (as was an issue during the most recent Summer Olympics).
    These people are not worth arguing with. People who constantly argue in bad faith, never are.

    there is an “ignore” function here, you know. It works wonders.
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  • Apple Maps still calls it the Gulf of Mexico, and politicians are upset

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    This truly is the stupidest fucking timeline

    #giantfuckingmeteor2025
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  • Trump hesitates over instituting China tariffs that would hurt Apple

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    sflocal said:
    T**** (the convicted felon and sexual predator) is a criminal. 

    Tim Cook is complicit with a criminal.
    Get over it.  

    Cook is playing the cards he was dealt.  
    Exactly. I don't understand why this is so much difficult to understand for people posting in tech forums. Apple's CEO's hands are tied and he is doing an excellent job in keeping Apple's interests intact.
    100%

    he's not beclowning himself like Zuckerberg, who's exactly as awkward-fitting in this new human skin as he was in the last one

    and he's not all but screaming "HEIL TRUMP" like Elon "iT wAs A rOmAn SaLuTe" Musk
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  • Trump hesitates over instituting China tariffs that would hurt Apple

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    It's very depressing to see the US political landscape. 8 years ago I was angry. Now I'm mostly depressed.
    Moving abroad, in case anyone is thinking of it, is really not a very good nor a practical solution.

    Assuming one finds a path to legal citizenship or residency abroad - it's generally anywhere from difficult to near-impossible unless one already has dual citizenship - there is the matter of figuring out what sort of tax burden you may be subjecting yourself to. The US taxes the worldwide income of its citizens regardless of where it was earned, one of only two nations that do this.

    Then there's the not-insignificant matters of pensions. Are you really in a position to potentially stop contributing to SS? Also, if you are fortunate enough to get a job abroad, you may well be obligated to pay hefty taxes to a pension scheme you may never qualify to use.

    Speaking of getting a job abroad, if you're counting on having employment to sustain your new life abroad do you speak the local language fluently? Unless you're going to an English-speaking country, this can be an impossible hurdle to overcome. Think about how little Americans like dealing with call centers where the agents speak a flavor of heavily-accented English. Now imagine the agent is you and you have all sorts of skills... except you can only haltingly speak the local language. You're going to find menial employment unless you get a job teaching American English and that is usually poorly-paid work  as well along with abusive labor conditions because the boss knows there's another dozen desperate-for-work Americans waiting to take your job if you don't like it.

    Are you ready to leave your friends and family behind? To try making new friends abroad? Some places (usually cities and the bigger the better) can be welcoming to immigrants while out in the charming rural areas you could find yourself shut out of a fulfilling social life because the locals don't trust outsiders or because you've committed some sort of social faux pas you were unaware of.

    Homesickness is a very real thing no matter how beautiful your new, foreign home is.

    If it doesn't work out, are you in a position to return to the US or will you be betting your nest egg on the move? If the latter is the case I *strongly* advise against it.
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  • Trump hesitates over instituting China tariffs that would hurt Apple

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    foregoneconclusion said:

    Tariffs will just trigger tariffs on US goods.

    the man who managed to bankrupt multiple gambling casinos is hardly an economic genius.
    Yep. Trump's tariffs on soybeans from China resulted in retaliatory tariffs by China that hurt U.S. soybean farmers so badly that they needed a taxpayer funded bailout.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/
    so he created a problem so that a constituency needed to come to him and ask for his help.

    I am pretty sure that was a feature not a bug.
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