Your primary contribution to this conversation is to bitch about how no one engages with you? I see users responding to you but then all you are responding back with is editing your comment to say "thanks for answering"? Idk man... maybe it's your approach to dialogue. Being super dismissive and retaliatory tends to bring downvotes.

Can confirm! Just rewatched Idiocracy.

Good nonbot

I've only heard this particular stance from iPhone users.

Apple has done a stellar job propagandizing their brand as the "Good guys... just looking out for their customer's best interests, is all".

No evidence for this take whatsoever; it's just naked, gullible brand loyalty.

Kind of an amazing phenomenon, if it weren't so sad.

Yeehaw! A thirteen dollar photoshoot!

Really unlikely. The whole point behind the P90 was as an alternative to 9mm and FN decided on 5.7x28mm. I've heard of (9mm) M11s being modified to look like P90s...maybe that's what you saw?

LORN

Oh I see. Didn't realize you'd already deleted it. Anyway, best of luck; I think you bring up valid complaints but idk why the vitriol. This crowd is much less annoying than what's found in some similar forums. Don't let the downvotes bother you too much.

The Yamato!

https://youtu.be/zNT3un2JmJU?si=t0GrB3x07IsN-5Rn

Top shelf game

Tell that to Rudy Giuliani lol

Cute lil feeshes

DRRRRRRROP. https://youtu.be/wqVsfGQ_1SU?si=WKUrPT9Ry7Lu1ecq

Gasper Noe's IRREVERSIBLE. It's brilliant and amazing and so very traumatic. But in more ways than I expected.

https://youtu.be/OZL-JkOhGVY?si=Cz_Brp8lpoyeNqKc

Wouldn't be his first rodeo

Very much with you on that stance. However, this "bubble battle" is very much an echo chamber scenario, regardless where it's discussed.

Heck, let me just ask you directly: why does Apple maintain such a divisive stance on the subject?

I haven't gotten much (on several forums) regarding that question, more than "they choose too".

You look uncomfortable but good. Look up a tutorial on the Reef Tuck (aka the military tuck). Makes a tucked-in shirt look a little less frumpy.

The Long Dark...

Yep. That's me.

I despise that bluesky is so much more engaging than mastodon.

And as soon as Al Yankovich, Ed Yong, Jeff Sharlet, MOMA, or any of my other favorite writers, journalists and entertainers get busy on Mastodon, I'll totally pass on bluesky... but in it's current state it is vastly more engaging than Mastodon.

Even Jake friggin' Tapper is occasionally (and not even awkwardly) hilarious on Bluesky!?? Weird but welcome vibe over there.

Just hopping on to concur:

"Apple could release their own iMessage client for Android if this were really about trusting beeper, but it's not. It's about using peer pressure with blue bubbles to sell more iPhones."

It's just that simple (and offensive).