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The problem is that the EU is illegitimate and a circus clown shoe of pencil necked bureaucratic authoritarians.

I’m not even a fan of Apple look e for different reasons, but the very same reason Apple is likely not even engaging the EU clowns and their attempt at making Apple products worse with Micro USB (what a horrible design and technology because of it), it’s also the very same reason that the EU cannot ban Apple, because Apple is to god and the market leader in design and creating good products that people actually want.

I can assure you that Apple’s lightning connector has caused there to be less waste than any other manufacturer.

Case in point too; I just bought a temporary Nokia phone. And here it is, 2023, and they’re still using that horrible MicroUSB design plug that you have to look at every single time to make sure you get the plug in correctly. OUSD also discriminatory against the blind who have to feel they plug itself to figure out which way is up, whereas I can plug the lightning connector into any of the Apple devices in pitch black darkness because they go in the same every time.

Apple has had 2 style plugs in 20 years. They are there only ones who have done that. You’re someone just brainwashed over this when I am confident of you just paused for a second and thought about what utter foolishness you supported, you would realize that very thing. If any of the tech companies has “reduced waste”, an oxymoron in its own right, then it’s Apple. I use cables for latest iPhones that were made for phones that are now 10 years old, and I also use the same cables and chargers for iPads I use for iPhones. I implore you to just stop, center yourself and think your own thoughts about all of this. It’s rather bizarre when people are so mixed up in the head of over things because they repeat propaganda rather than thinking their own thoughts and following deductive logic to its final conclusion.

Authoritarianism has clearly been feeling its way into the UK ever since the 90s when they put up CCTV cameras everywhere. The UK effectively has an inherently and self-evidently illegitimate government based on its own actions and words, as do most western governments at this point.

These types of bills/laws are those of authoritarian governments fearful of its own population wising up to what has happened or what the authoritarians are up to and they want to make sure they can snuff out any little bit of burgeoning opposition before it can organize and get off the ground. It’s the repression part of 1984 style government. It’s the same thing all authoritarian, evil governments do, regardless of how long they can get away with it or how much the brainwashed masses go along with it, even if just out of fear.

It never crossed your mind that there may be a reason that Apple does not want to use the USB-C standard for all its disadvantages over the lightning connector that they have now had for 11 years. Apple has had two types of plugs over 20 years now. Can you say that about Nokia? Samsung? Etc?

Don’t worry, the EU apparatchiks have surely made themselves responsible for the consequences of their actions. It’s “Our Democracy”™ after all.

I’m all for some kind of universality, but this authoritarian method does not strike me as a good idea. You lament their concern with fairness, by giving unfair advantages to the USB-C license holders/patent holders?

I’m not even sure people understand that Apple also contributed heavily to the development of USB-C along with other companies, some of them European.

The irony is that I believe the Lightning Connector, the iPhone connector, has been the longest standing standard connector (11 years now) and the introduction of the Qi “wireless charging” is also a good argument against this narrow sighted EU authoritarian/communist mentality that some apparatchiks can make better decisions than those who actually do and create things.

Has someone actually asked Apple to lay out its reasons for not adopting the larger and bulkier USB-C? Could it be that it has something to do with trying to engage in economic warfare against Apple because it’s harder to compete?

The answer is rather obvious

Just FYI, they’re not really all that effective against fire outside of very narrow parameters. If you have one, consider placing it in places that tend to survive house fires, i.e., bottom corners or the structure, away from the kitchen and electrical or combustibles, preferably not below grade where the fire fighting water will flow.

If you think the regulators are Democratic I have this wonderful bridge I would like to sell you as an investment. I’m old enough to remember that dictators also hold elections with the same kind of results as the DC presidential election results.

Rather ironically, your naive perspective is precisely why “democracy” is a self-evidently failed system and there are clear arguments that it is also a counterproductive, intrinsically unsustainable, and self-defeating system.

It’s really rather ironic that those types of cops are usually also located among the very same kind of people who demand that we only rely in the police for all things like some kind of parent as if they could be a good parent at that.

It’s always struck me as a kind of underdevelopment, a continuation of the infantilism that so many never get over as the move from being taken care of their parents to Taken care of by school and then Taken care of by universities and then taken care of by Acme corporation that claims to really care about them. Of course that works love being taken care of by big government and its plantation formen called police.

It could be far simpler than that, effectively a stripped basic currently available phone wired into operating power that could be called to send GPS payload via SMS. It would simply power up on start and only ever send the coordinates based on an authenticated call or sms itself.

Thank you for saying that, because that is precisely the narrowing of perspective I am referring to, which puts everything into a comparison and measure of how and to what degree something is “Nazi”.

But you’re clearly in good company, we’ve seen it play out in grand style over the last couple years especially where everything someone doesn’t like is “Nazis”. insert circular accusation meme here

Fact of the matter is that it is an unhealthy illusion that “the Nazis” were some kind of anomaly or extraordinary thing, and that perspective that they were is precisely being peoples minds up to the point that they cannot think clearly, let alone properly classify, order, and structure things in order to solve problems or even just deduce the underlying logic.

Nothing about ethnic unity standing in opposition to a perceived enemy is in any way unique to any parameters. The plains tribes of what we call America would unite and overrun other tribes that they perceived as threats and resource competitors, and they would mercilessly slaughter and brutalize, rape, pillage, and kill. Genghis Khan may have been the single worst genocidal maniac in all of human history, even just by rough guesstimate (I don’t recall “the Nazis” launching rotten corpses full of botulism and thereby also causing the plague that killed hundreds of millions), and he also did it with what is effectively “national socialist”, i.e., unitedly working among and for one’s own nation, i.e., ethnicity. Or consider the Spanish who conquered and eradicated essentially all indigenous cultures on all of the Americas, largely including the ones the English are blamed for, even though it was the Hispanics, i.e., Spanish and Portuguese, who also eradicated and plundered and conquered the Americas for their own race/ethnicity/nation.

Am I at all getting thought about the fact that “everything is Nazis” is a stunting mentality?

“Nazis” didn’t somehow overtake and become imbued in America through “operation paperclip”, what the Nazis did for a relatively few years that was really not even nearly as awful as what had been done at that point and arguably since, considering we were supposed to have known better.

We should have known better since “the Nazis”, correct? Never again auch atrocities, right? So how is it that not only has no one been held accountable for the destruction of Iraq under obvious and over lies, murdering somewhere around probably one million people and causing untold misery and devastation in people’s lives, but Assange, who exposed the atrocities is rotting in prison and very few people even care? People can’t see the atrocities and the awful people and their atrocities in front of them for all “the Nazis” occupying their minds … I argue, intentionally, by constant focus on “the Nazis”.

I would say the fact that banking is not something that is legally the authority of the federal government; even though states have seemingly acquiesced to their role and right eroding and being taken from them as the federal government persistently oversteps its bound and becomes ever more authoritarian.

It’s something even most Americans don’t even understand anymore, let alone foreigners or immigrants; that the USA is technically by design 50 countries, in an economic and organizational block for limited purposes.

The core, supreme law of the land, the Constitution is explicit that anything not explicitly delegated to the Federal government is the right of the state and the people. The vast majority of what the federal government claims rights over is not mentioned at all, let alone explicitly delegates to the federal government. Included in that, banks and regulation of banks.

Unfortunately, the founders of America were not positively explicit enough about the sovereignty of the states, probably because they had no understanding of the consolidating forces that would be introduced through things like automobiles, planes, roads, electricity, telecommunications, and computers and the internet.

The small banks thrived and why America’s banking sector was so “fragmented”, was by design, in hopes of preventing the very consolidation of power and control that the founders were so concerned about and threatens everything now. American banks were community scale, community oriented, community based, and had community accountability; all factors that restrain psychopathic tendencies of banks and bankers.

If these forces of evil that are trying to consolidate everything are not able to be stopped, by all measures things will only get worse for all of humanity from here. Just as banking has become stale and uniform and conformist without any real diversity, so will those pressures continue destroying real diversity in the world by trying to force everyone and everything into templated, repeatable objects for global uniformity.

There has been no time in human history where consolidation of power was a good thing. Monolithic things fail spectacularly. I would argue that the degree of global consolidation of power lusted after by globalists even represents an existential threat to humanity, if not all life on this planet. It creates a single point of failure and also snuffs out what makes us human, actual, real diversity of people doing different things in different places and environments, under the guise of fraudulent diversity and diversification.

The constant invocation of Nazi this and Nazi that really not only undermines the issue, but it’s also racist in that it centers everything only about a single event and only one single instance of similar awful things that only happened in Europe.

The opposition to human rights abuses should be a universal one, not something that is cheapened by narrowing everything down to a comparison to a single event. Guess what, there are atrocities that have both happened to and were committed by other people and also in different parts of the world besides Europe.

It ignores the awfulness of what has happened and is happening to other people too and other people also matter, not just one group at one time frozen in place.

Geez. It’s fine! Important people don’t fly commercial anyways.

You are absolutely right that it is affecting the whole society, but no amount of research will ever discover the things you’re not allowed to notice, let alone solve. Is what makes the censorship and attacks on free speech stop pernicious, because as the attacks are only ramping up, so will the subject situation only get worse, because you cannot solve things you cannot even say out loud.

>Because when a environmental group tries to block some dirty mining project

Which is also usually driven by financial interests under cover of virtue. It is most obvious in Europe where many people now have become multi millionaires, largely of government imposed enrichment schemes.

Most people don’t care and definitely don’t pay nearly as close attention as should be required to have the right to vote, let alone those who are payed massive amounts of money to manipulate corrupted politicians. Corruption is now or at the very least is well on its way to becoming systemic.

Now ask yourself if that is not the case. Or I can tell you it is. The answer remains the same.

You’re surfacing a whole different issue, the legitimacy and fraud of the whole credit score system, produced by organizations who have a clear and documented history of fraud. See, housing “bubble”, aka fraud, for reference.

So it’s really an issue of imprecise title, but the issue is still highly immoral and likely illegal based on the taking clause and the highly discriminatory and unequal nature, regardless.

The title should have been more like about how the fees, i.e., marginal rates, for higher risk borrowers is being charged to lower risk borrowers. No moral or ethical person could support this, regardless of benefit of penalty. It is indefensible, short of making it voluntary so all the virtue signalers can choose to put their money where their mouth and self-righteousness it. It is still a system to punish good and reward bad.

Can someone explain where I should be seeing the increased rates for higher credit scores? I don’t even think that is the correct loan guidance, it’s the pre-May rate terms. The post May rates are at a link at the top right of the sheet.

I agree with you. What people seem to forget is that Google simply did one thing even just marginally better back in the 90s and has been riding that heavy train ever since. All the other stuff, even YouTube is also essentially just dumb luck and a function of that initial success, not to mention that Google was going to shut YouTube down before someone made the case for making it an ad platform, which should have been obvious to Google of all organizations even at that time.

Frankly, Google is like the guy who invented a thing early in life and has been living off the royalties that just flood in, but has absolutely no touch with reality and is convinced of his own greatness as an illusion of that single act so many decades ago. And his kids are even worse and more rotten and spoiled.

They all just don’t know it yet.

I get your point, but to be precise, it’s more that the impact is greater, because the very nature of being an employee is the willingness to trade supposed and perceived security and ease for the potential of gains.

YouTube is yet another echo chamber and that is clearly toxic and only becoming more so as is being transformed with tiktok like functionality and content. It is becoming what is essentially the mainstream model; get people addicted to watching so you can feed their minds with mind drugs, aka ads.

Yes, diversity must be stamped out for out corporate masters. All of humanity must be uniform and there can be no divergence.

It depends on which crooks one is talking about, the crooks in government seem to enjoy all kinds of advantages that come from encrypted devices, as wet know, even setting up honey pots.

Can’t really argue with most of their logic. The site is fast and responsive. I did get a sense that most if the criticism is really based on anxiety about the authors own position, i.e., a buzzword internet startup type is of course going to feel panic if it is highlighted that their fancy designs and site that is heavily reliant on violating people’s privacy and security bogs down the site and the whole internet with it. It’s typical crabs in a barrel nitpicking.

And yes, I realize I just upset many sensibilities here.

I’m just going to ignore the petulant complaining, but does it not dawn on anyone that is not really a donation, as much as it’s an investment? I’ll just leave it at that.

Infection by American pop culture is a global scourge.

I don’t even necessarily only say that because of the corrosive and low quality nature of Americas pop culture that is like a drug that feels really good at first, but causes damage over time (see false beliefs about reality people hold solely due to TV/movies). What is even more pernicious and pervasive is that Americas pop culture is like a cultural virus that is eradicating diversity of culture just like immigration and this fake general “diversity” is actually eradicating the thing it claims to itself be.

Everyone, everywhere, at all times all consuming the same things and muddled into an indistinguishable mass is quite literally the opposite of diversity. American pop culture is really the nexus of that process, the killing, destruction, and eradication of local and native cultures. In many ways we don’t even have the language for what is happening, and considering the ongoing stupefaction of society, I suspect it will never be developed. It is a kind of mass extinction event of human culture and diversity, going on right now, under the fraudulent and false guise of “diversity”.