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Apple Threatening to Deplatform Twitter Unless It Begins Censoring People The Way Gay-and-Trans Crazy Apple Demands;
Musk Threatens to Release All the Dirty Laundry of Twitter's Previous Internal Censorship Discussions


Liz Wheeler
@Liz_Wheeler

I predicted this the day @ElonMusk said he was gonna buy Twitter. Woke Apple *has* to deplatform Twitter because free speech is an existential threat to Marxism. The left doesn't "fight for the marginalized." The left are Marxists. Proud of Elon for refusing to bend a knee.

moderationdemands.jfif


Apple has been using its monopolist leverage to force a lot of people to execute its preferred censorship policies -- possibly in collusion with the US government.

Stephen Green:

Apple threatened at least one developer with banishment from the company's lucrative App Store if they didn't remove all search engine returns regarding COVID-19 from their library application.

LBRY bills itself as "an open, free, and fair network for digital content," designed to circumvent social media and government controls. But the company told Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk on Monday that, "During Covid, Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned. If we did not filter the terms, our apps would not be allowed in the store."

elonmusk 25m

The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened...

cnnmusk.jfif

Update: Musk tweeted the above meme. CNN freaked out.

Posted by: Ace at 05:50 PM




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1 Do it, Elon.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 05:50 PM (mnUzy)

2 *munches popcorn*

Posted by: SMH at November 28, 2022 05:51 PM (kMPrp)

3 Elon's about to go DEATHCON on Apple!

Posted by: kallisto at November 28, 2022 05:51 PM (ALdAV)

4 At the end of the day you had to ask what were all those people doing at Twitter all day.
Apparently this.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2022 05:51 PM (xhaym)

5 (isn't that how kanye says it?)

Posted by: kallisto at November 28, 2022 05:52 PM (ALdAV)

6 My monies on Musk

Posted by: It's me donna at November 28, 2022 05:52 PM (bs+z0)

7 Orwell nailed it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 28, 2022 05:52 PM (jsTDj)

8 Some CNN drone got pissy with Musk about that last image.

The parody was so accurate that even CNN's own personnel can't distinguish it from CNN's actual behavior.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (bW8dp)

9 You 10 finally

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (xhxe8)

10 Elon Musk is becoming my hero, and I don't twit or tesla.

Posted by: Eromero at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (0OP+5)

11 I thought twiter was supposed to be dead by now.

Posted by: fd at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (sn5EN)

12 I don't like twitter or apple, so no dog in this fight.

Posted by: SMH at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (kMPrp)

13 I'd buy an Elon phone, even if it was crap.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (Kd4bG)

14 Well musk has said he may need to make a phone company if this happened. I reckon it's about time to do that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (uNylN)

15 Musk needs to create a phone app store that works for all kinds of phones and beaks the monopoly these people have.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (cP/Ah)

16 Elon...do it. The world deserves...the world needs...to see who has been colluding to stifle free speech. Just do it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (tBR6g)

17 This could backfire on apple. I think a lot of fools would switch phones to stay on the twits.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (wNQfx)

18 If Musk could make a phone that was private it would be very popular.

Posted by: Iris at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (foa6+)

19 You can't sideload an Iphone?

Posted by: fd at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (sn5EN)

20 Well, this is the fight, right here.

I wish Elon the best but, uhh, I bet he does not have access to a Wet Work Team.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (up/3i)

21 The Fascists love censorship, it's there way or the highway

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (xhxe8)

22 I really need to pick up some bourbon on The way home. And some Popcorn. And then sign up for Twitter.

Damn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (CDGpN)

23 Pixy: Looks like I need to find a new lead story for tomorrow's tech thread.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (BLOW1)

24 I'm thinking Twitter may be everyone's dog I the coming fight.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (oWBc3)

25 If Musk is going to create a competing phone, it needs to be non-spyware rather than Android.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (yQpMk)

26 After reading this please do not explain how elections are not rigged. All media is an extortion/protection racket. They employ repeaters not reporters. See WH Press Corpse as evidence.

Posted by: Head puddi at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (dbsNG)

27
Don Lemon is one of these people... with most idiots, you have to talk to them before you know they're idiots. Often you need to hear just four or five words, but they have to say something to show their true idiot colors.

Not so with the Lemons of the world. There are a few people out there who just *look* dumb as hell. Sheldon Whitehouse is another. Just one single nearly instantaneous look, and you know... "give that guy the round-tipped scissors."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (oINRc)

28 Dumb Don Lemon's dumb face is a classic study in dumbness.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (AuTCi)

29 Has there been any discussion of how much data Twitter might have provided the DNC and Biden campaigns for microtargeting of voters and GOTV efforts during the past two campaign cycles?

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (wmDcS)

30 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (T4tVD)

31 Pixy: Looks like I need to find a new lead story for tomorrow's tech thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (BLOW1)

LOL

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (4I/2K)

32 15 Musk needs to create a phone app store that works for all kinds of phones and beaks the monopoly these people have.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (cP/Ah)

So you're saying he should change the pecking order?

*Flees*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (906pl)

33 "give that guy the round-tipped scissors."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
__

lol

Posted by: SMH at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (kMPrp)

34 Just as article on computers, you own the phone they control the contents

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 28, 2022 05:56 PM (xhxe8)

35 Didn't Buckwheat jean Pierre say that "they" were looking at Twitter "carefully . " meaning ways to shut it down

Posted by: It's me donna at November 28, 2022 05:56 PM (bs+z0)

36 Elon should buy Purism outright and have a phone that is already available.
Google and Apple stock values would go down faster than the VP.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 28, 2022 05:56 PM (jsTDj)

37 @19

>>You can't sideload an Iphone?

Sure, but they can play whack-a-mole all the live long day if they are motivated enough, and remaining in complete control of the narrative is very important to these people.

So pretty much Musk will have to develop his own phone, but even still, if the power that be want you to abide, you will abide or you will be destroyed.

Musk is about to be administered a hard lesson.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 05:56 PM (up/3i)

38 36 Elon should buy Purism outright and have a phone that is already available.
Google and Apple stock values would go down faster than the VP.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 28, 2022 05:56 PM (jsTDj)

Yep.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2022 05:57 PM (PiwSw)

39 Does anyone at CNN know what free speech is? Inigo Montoya would wonder.

Posted by: She Hobbit at November 28, 2022 05:57 PM (ftFVW)

40 Elon the Repo Man
Repossessing minds since 2022

Posted by: wth at November 28, 2022 05:57 PM (v0R5T)

41 Wait, I have round tipped sissies.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 28, 2022 05:57 PM (wNQfx)

42 Pixy: Looks like I need to find a new lead story for tomorrow's tech thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Flash news alert: Ace scoops Pixy.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 28, 2022 05:57 PM (jsTDj)

43 23 Pixy: Looks like I need to find a new lead story for tomorrow's tech thread.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

ace scooped pixy!
If pixy were apple, he'd retaliate by banning ace

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 28, 2022 05:57 PM (Kd4bG)

44 > 25 If Musk is going to create a competing phone, it needs to be non-spyware rather than Android.

Android is open source, though most of the individual vendors do build in spyware of one kind or another.

Musk could have his own engineers do a full security audit of the code to make sure it's clean.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (bW8dp)

45 Don't do social media at all. No dog in this hunt.

Posted by: Infidel at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (ZEa+g)

46 This is why the fight for "free speech" is utter folly. We MUST fight to silence and otherwise subjugate the commies on every possible front, or they will use our precious rights against us, just like they've done for a hundred years.

Speech can never be free as long as commies speak freely. It would be like giving the dark the right to encroach on light because the dark has a right to exist too. If darkness and light worked like that, the world would be be plunged into blindness forever.

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (ElYwz)

47 Maybe Musk can build a new search engine to go on his new phone. This dude could wind up ruling the tech planet

Posted by: Fool Otto at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (DB16e)

48 Nice that Elon is holding all the aces in his hand.

Apple raises, Elon just called and raised.

High stakes poker, indeed.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (DsA2n)

49 Probably about time to burn all the things to the fucking ground.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (Q4IgG)

50 Ian Miles Cheong Nov 26

If Elon Musk makes a new smartphone as an alternative to the iPhone and Android to fight censorship, will you get one?

Yes, I’ll get one . _ 71.3%
Yes, I’ll get multiple _13.6%
No, . . . . _ 15.1%

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (SpZxj)

51 Dumb Don Lemon's dumb face is a classic study in dumbness.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (AuTCi)
........

My brother's hero. Him and Adam Schiff.

Posted by: wth at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (v0R5T)

52 I think it was Rush who called Don LeMon the dumbest man on TV. Though Don has pretty good competition, he's still the dumbest.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (sAmhv)

53 Musk has already said if Apple deplatorms Twitter he will build his own phones. I'm pretty sure a guy who builds rockets that actually work can build a cell phone.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (ZLI7S)

54 Elon Musk is becoming a singular great American. He is an automaker like Henry Ford. He puts shit in space like NASA. He exposes communist shit like Eugene McCarthy.

Tear it up Elon.

Now buy Pfizer.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (VrsjA)

55 45 Don't do social media at all. No dog in this hunt.

Posted by: Infidel at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (ZEa+g)

yeah, me too. but it is highly entertaining.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (mnUzy)

56 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (oINRc)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM (AuTCi)

------

Yours was more succinct.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 28, 2022 05:58 PM (oINRc)

57 Musk Threatens to Release All the Dirty Laundry

Also, Elon is 'threatening' (i.e., planning) to come out with his own phone in December. I bet it uses StarLink, too.

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (CaJIi)

58 So pretty much Musk will have to develop his own phone, but even still, if the power that be want you to abide, you will abide or you will be destroyed.

Musk is about to be administered a hard lesson.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 05:56 PM (up/3i)

So if Apple "wins" they have destroyed the Lefts best weapon to overawe the opinion seekers with their tiny minority.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (eoQWY)

59 Looks like Don Lemoan is still using his masking tape and Toppik.

Posted by: wth at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (v0R5T)

60 CNN: Charges at Elon Musk using flailing windmill arms style.

Elon: *Jiu-jitsu style* Throws and pins CNN.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (4I/2K)

61 Owning Starlink, Twitter and a phone would be an interesting triad.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (xhaym)

62 > And then sign up for Twitter.

Damn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (CDGpN)

Be forewarned that it's a real time suck, but it's been fascinating for the last couple of weeks.

It's also the longest I've ever been on there without getting banned or sent to timeout. Things have definitely changed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (bW8dp)

63 Though Don has pretty good competition, he's still the dumbest.

They fired a bunch of his competition so yeah now its clear.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (cP/Ah)

64 Didn't Buckwheat jean Pierre say that "they" were looking at Twitter "carefully . " meaning ways to shut it down

Posted by: It's me donna at November 28, 2022 05:56 PM (bs+z0)

Indeed, donna. Indeed.

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 05:59 PM (ElYwz)

65 Trannies are the perfect cats paw for the communist left.

If you bend to the Pronoun Police you will bend to anything.

If you refuse to bend, you identify yourself as an Enemy of the Left.

If you complain about it, they can threaten Tranny suicides So Shut Up.

Posted by: Zek at November 28, 2022 06:00 PM (5FPX4)

66 Isn't it nice to know you only need *billions of dollars* to even attempt to make a dent in the Left's hold on the world?

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (ElYwz)

67 Apple is trying to pick a fight with a guy who owns one of the largest communications platforms on earth?

If I were an analyst who just gave Apple a "buy" raiting, I'd be beating my head against my desk.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (5pTK/)

68
yeah, me too. but it is highly entertaining.
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch

That it is!

Posted by: Infidel at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (ZEa+g)

69 Never saw this coming.

@MrAndyNgo

Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (ZLI7S)

70 Musk needs to create a phone app store that works for all kinds of phones and beaks the monopoly these people have.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 05:53 PM (cP/Ah)

So you're saying he should change the pecking order?

*Flees*
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2022 05:55 PM

Seriously?

Posted by: That Chicken at November 28, 2022 06:02 PM (Wnv9h)

71 > Apple threatened at least one developer with banishment from the company's lucrative App Store if they didn't remove all search engine returns regarding COVID-19 from their library application.

This makes it sound like Apple's App Store is only one of several places you can buy iOS apps. If you're not in the App Store, 99.999% of iPhone users will never see or install your app. Yeah, you can sideload apps, but practically nobody does this.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:02 PM (eyxn4)

72 Pixy not first time a Cob got jumped on their hot thread

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 28, 2022 06:03 PM (xhxe8)

73 @MrAndyNgo

Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Posted by: JackStraw

It went with my dress better than hers, the skag!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at November 28, 2022 06:03 PM (ftFVW)

74 69 Never saw this coming.

@MrAndyNgo

Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (ZLI7S)

ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:03 PM (mnUzy)

75 I love that the company whose products are literally built inside a Uyghur prison thinks it police any other business.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (I/doM)

76 The Department of Foreign Energy.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (VrsjA)

77 ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:03 PM (mnUzy)
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He operates in octal, in a dress.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (AuTCi)

78 Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Posted by: JackStraw

That bitch is pressing charges!?? The purse is hideous anyway.
-- Sam Brinton

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (qoGsy)

79 Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy

...and avid luggage collector.

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (CaJIi)

80 Musk really needs to buy an aircraft carrier. And all the other shit. $44B could have been spent on that. 4X

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (Q4IgG)

81 I think it was Rush who called Don LeMon the dumbest man on TV. Though Don has pretty good competition, he's still the dumbest.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Although it does take all of the View to come up to the Don's level of dumbness.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (jsTDj)

82 Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (ZLI7S)

------

Psychologically unstable, hence the need to dress like a parody of a woman.

I wish more people would refuse to participate in other people's mental illness.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (DcKNO)

83 > Elon should buy Purism outright and have a phone that is already available.
Google and Apple stock values would go down faster than the VP.

I really don't see this happening. Microsoft spent tens of billions of dollars and got a teeny tiny percent of the phone market before they limped away with their tail between their legs.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:05 PM (eyxn4)

84
*snort*

City of Houston is under a boil water order after a transformer failure and failure of the backup system to kick in.

The order was issued in an "abundance of caution". So expect a major cholera outbreak.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 28, 2022 06:05 PM (MoZTd)

85 69 Never saw this coming.

@MrAndyNgo

Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Posted by: JackStraw



When your entire moral code is 'Whatevah! I do what I want!!', this is what you get.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 28, 2022 06:05 PM (sAmhv)

86 ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?
Posted by: IC

Something any sentient being stays far, far away from.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2022 06:05 PM (qoGsy)

87 ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?

A weirdo.

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2022 06:05 PM (CaJIi)

88 >>ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?


He's not just deviant, he's DEVIANT!!! with a lot of extra sparkles, emojis and sick kinks that you really don't want to hear about.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (I/doM)

89 Elon, baby boobie, let us conservatives back on so we can defend you.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (xDh35)

90 >>ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?

Google some pictures of "it". It will all become clear.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (ZLI7S)

91 I love that the company whose products are literally built inside a Uyghur prison thinks it police any other business.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:04 PM (I/doM)

Who else would you expect to be the business police? Way of the world.

Also that's a helluva hash. If this place had PM's you'd be receiving them.

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (ElYwz)

92 Google some pictures of "it". It will all become clear.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (ZLI7S)
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Cruel suggestion, jack, cruel. Almost ace like.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (5pTK/)

93
Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite

__________

Is this the puppy torturer? Oh wait, that's Fauci.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (MoZTd)

94
Apple can't get anyone to work in their Chinese sweat shop unless they offer them bonuses they don't actually pay. It's nice to see the Chinese objecting to this.

China needs to trot that dude out in front of the tank again. So many people fell for that shit. Not me, not for one second.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (enJYY)

95 Was it Coach or Chanel? It could have been a mercy larceny.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (VrsjA)

96 >>Psychologically unstable, hence the need to dress like a parody of a woman.

>>I wish more people would refuse to participate in other people's mental illness.

Nothing to be concerned about. He's only in charge of storing nuclear waste.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ZLI7S)

97 I wonder if Elon is really getting it or if he's just getting pulled along as he opens all the closets at Twitter.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:08 PM (DcKNO)

98 Nothing to be concerned about. He's only in charge of storing nuclear waste.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ZLI7S)
--------------

Yeah, actually has a degree relevant to what its job is, but, thinks the kink life is more important to discuss.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at November 28, 2022 06:08 PM (5pTK/)

99 Elon, baby boobie, let us conservatives back on so we can defend you.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (xDh35)

I thought the poll overwhelmingly agreed to allow previously banned to be granted amnesty ?

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (uBtUO)

100 Nothing to be concerned about. He's only in charge of storing nuclear waste.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ZLI7S)
_____________

He looks like he's been rolling around in it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (YqDXo)

101 90 >>ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?

Google some pictures of "it". It will all become clear.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:06 PM (ZLI7S)

omg. i looked up his official photo on the DOE website.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (mnUzy)

102 Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (ZLI7S)

She had the latest model rabbit vibrator in it and I thought I could switch bags and have it. Don't judge me.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (4I/2K)

103 I live in a pretty red area of CO. Only venture to the grocery store. Saw some freak working there that has super long manicured nails. It was a dude. I almost vomited in the aisle.

Posted by: Infidel at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (ZEa+g)

104 The Apple App Store takes a 30% cut of all apps sold there. IIRC, it's only been very recently possible to circumvent it. The problem that most players have is that they don't have the ability to obtain the infrastructure to handle those orders independently.

TWTR does have that capability, however. And they're visible enough that people would go to their homepage and get it - even to the extent that TWTR could even provide the jailbreak instructions to circumvent the wall. I don't see AAPL following through on this this.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (9miN6)

105 > Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

There are so many holes in Brinton's story, it's hilarious.

He claimed he grabbed the checked bag by accident. He didn't check a bag that flight. He claimed he panicked when he discovered it wasn't his, so he left it in his room. The charging doc says all the clothing was missing from the bag.

A normal person would have simply called the airline and told them about the mistake. Someone like Brinton could have called legal at his office or any number of other legal advisors if he were nervous about the political or legal fallout.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (eyxn4)

106 Wat did this Secretary of Energy need a Happy Meal and didn't have $5

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (xhxe8)

107 Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:01 PM (ZLI7S)

Klepto bondage tranny freak

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (Kd4bG)

108 I will definitely sign up for starlink if it ever becomes available here.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (aRKFD)

109 Deputy assistant Secretary. Wow. That is one powerful post. Almost Elks Club power. I'm sure he threw out the Moe Greene "Do you know who I am?" Line.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (VrsjA)

110 @58

>>So if Apple "wins" they have destroyed the Lefts best weapon to overawe the opinion seekers with their tiny minority.

The problem has always been that if the don't want you to play in their sand box then you will not play in their sand box.

Musk would have to literally create an entire alternate internet and telephony of things to get around these fascists.

The only way forward I could see is to turn all of the tech platforms and companies into public utilities and public accommodations akin to the phone company or electric company.

Anything else and you're playing a continual rear guard action of increasingly diminishing returns

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (up/3i)

111 I would sue Apple for 3x Tesla purchase price. No questions asked, do not stop go, do not negotiate.

Posted by: william ferrin at November 28, 2022 06:11 PM (KZHkc)

112 >>Who else would you expect to be the business police? Way of the world.

Yeah, it's a 'despite' vs. 'because of' thing, isn't it?

Apple thinks it can impose their speech morals on us despite because of its participation in the enslavement and genocide of Chinese Uyghurs. Once you participate in that kind of evil there are no lines that cannot be crossed, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:11 PM (I/doM)

113 Klepto bondage tranny freak

I am NOT a klepto!

Posted by: Admiral Levine at November 28, 2022 06:12 PM (v0R5T)

114 Does being trans help manage our nation's energy problems?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:12 PM (VrsjA)

115 >>omg. i looked up his official photo on the DOE website.

At least he wears a dress better than Admiral Doctor.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:12 PM (ZLI7S)

116 It's amazing how tinkerbell Tim Cook thinks he carries any weight except for his gay lover's snackpack.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 28, 2022 06:12 PM (geVLo)

117 Anything else and you're playing a continual rear guard action of increasingly diminishing returns
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (up/3i)
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Nah, quit allowing the tech oligarchs to get away with acting like publishers while claiming common carrier status.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at November 28, 2022 06:12 PM (5pTK/)

118 At least he wears a dress better than Admiral Doctor.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:12 PM (ZLI7S)

Admiral Doctor is a land whale

Posted by: It's me donna at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (bs+z0)

119 The dude is far worse than just a tranny. He is a devil worshipping , S&M , Christian hating , sexual pervert that makes other perverts queasy.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (uBtUO)

120
Nothing to be concerned about. He's only in charge of storing nuclear waste.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ZLI7S)


At one time, I would have been of the opinion, "If he/she can do the job better than anyone else, I don't really care what they do in their private lives. It's their business."

But I am forced to care. And I'm suspicious that there weren't BETTER candidates for the job who were passed over because they didn't meet these freakish requirements now forced on hiring. That this involves nuclear waste management is frightening.

Posted by: Moki at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (JrN/x)

121 I really don't see this happening. Microsoft spent tens of billions of dollars and got a teeny tiny percent of the phone market before they limped away with their tail between their legs.
Posted by: bonhomme

I just checked how much and when you could get the Librem 5. $~1300 and a *52* WEEK lead time!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (jsTDj)

122 Musk is having fun. I have to admit I am having fun watching him having fun.

Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (Vr12I)

123 Does being trans help manage our nation's energy problems?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Oh, honey please. It's what makes this whole fabulous system work.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (ftFVW)

124 Hardware challenge: one stroke “Fuck off” key.

Posted by: Holy Crap at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (glGDV)

125 Deputy assistant Secretary. Wow. That is one powerful post. Almost Elks Club power. I'm sure he threw out the Moe Greene "Do you know who I am?" Line.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (VrsjA)
........

Bet he makes a ton of OUR money and doesn't do shit except prance around his office in a sleeveless dress.

Posted by: WTH at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (v0R5T)

126 Admiral Doctor is a land whale
Posted by: It's me donna at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (bs+z0)
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Hey now!

Posted by: Actual Land Whale at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (5pTK/)

127 >>The dude is far worse than just a tranny. He is a devil worshipping , S&M , Christian hating , sexual pervert that makes other perverts queasy.

His kinks have kinks, he is such a creep.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (I/doM)

128 Ah, the topic is Deviants in Government! I will catch up.

Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (Vr12I)

129 CNN is pissed they can't make Elon stop by threatening to dox him like they do with other memers mocking them.

Posted by: buzzion at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (aRLgQ)

130 He's only in charge of storing nuclear waste.

When not just any old handbag will do.

Posted by: DaveA at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (FhXTo)

131 Sam I am
neither a woman nor a man
Sam I am

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (aRKFD)

132 >ponders what a 'nonbinary-identifying transvestite' means..what is it?

You know, that's a good question. Normally a "transvestite" is a heterosexual who enjoys dressing as the opposite sex. So what the hell is a non-binary transvestite? You don't have a gender, so there is no opposite. Or does Brinton consider having a gender an opposite to being, "non-binary?" So dressing as either a man or a woman being a "transvestite?"

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (eyxn4)

133 Bet he makes a ton of OUR money and doesn't do shit except prance around his office in a sleeveless dress.
Posted by: WTH

Is that not what you're supposed to do at work?

This explains so much...

Posted by: She Hobbit at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (ftFVW)

134 Oh, I forgot. You can get it in auticucumber.

Posted by: Holy Crap at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (glGDV)

135 I thought the poll overwhelmingly agreed to allow previously banned to be granted amnesty ?
Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (uBtUO)

I am still banned

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (xDh35)

136 @117

>>Nah, quit allowing the tech oligarchs to get away with acting like publishers while claiming common carrier status.

Well that's it in a nutshell, but that would require legislation to alter their status.

A. I don't see a GOP House pushing that legislation, and..

B. It's not going to get past the Senate and will never be signed into law by The Meat Puppet.

So we will continue to see how this fight plays out over the next several years.

As I said, I wish Musk all the best, but I don't see this ending well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (up/3i)

137 Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy who is praised for being a nonbinary-identifying transvestite, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing a woman's bag at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
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Look.... S/H/IT just wanted to have luggage that matched the shoes. Get over it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Q4IgG)

138 Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (eyxn4)

He's on camera removing the owner's name tag off the bag . Anything he says is not close to the truth.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:16 PM (uBtUO)

139 Well, if Apple deplatform's Twitter-which I don't post on and which I only read except for James Woods occasionally and for some of Musk's recent tweets -I guess I'll have to think of getting a Samsung Galaxy phone because media and tech censorship of speech sure sounds like fascism to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2022 06:16 PM (vH/6k)

140 Maybe this Brinton entity has no boy OR girl parts.

Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Vr12I)

141 I've had several twitter accounts. Can't remember the names and passwords anymore. I was banned for saying things about COVID and the Obamas.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:16 PM (DcKNO)

142 I really don't see this happening. Microsoft spent tens of billions of dollars and got a teeny tiny percent of the phone market before they limped away with their tail between their legs.

Yeah but that's what people told Chrome as well. Android is better than Mac and they have a huge market share now. But my approach would not be a phone it would be an app market that works for everyone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 06:16 PM (cP/Ah)

143 So Musk is getting the Banned back together? Cool.

Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (Vr12I)

144 Let Musk fold twitter, that would be one hell of a tax deduction

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (xDh35)

145
He exposes communist shit like Eugene McCarthy.

Huh?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (63Dwl)

146 Let's watch if the administration fires Brinton for his felony. While he has been convicted, there's video and audio of everything that went on, including his phone conversations with authorities. It's obvious he can't be blackmailed for being a gay tranny as he lets it all hang out, but being a kleptomaniac opens him up to blackmail. Given he's in charge of nuclear waste one would think that he should be squeaky clean

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (87Ur0)

147 Ah, the topic is Deviants in Government! I will catch up.
Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (Vr12I)

This Sam guy makes me look fairly normal.

Posted by: EPA Hallway Shitter at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (4I/2K)

148 He looks like he's been rolling around in it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (YqDXo)

he looks like Brandon Teena

Posted by: REDACTED at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (us2H3)

149 Maybe this Brinton entity has no boy OR girl parts.
Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Vr12I)

So.. like a Ken doll, or Tater Stelter.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (UQUAY)

150 Once you participate in that kind of evil there are no lines that cannot be crossed, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:11 PM (I/doM)

Yes. I think it's also "who but"? As in who but the most evil among us would be found knowingly building their super megafortune off these backs?

And what would we expect such people to do with their power once obtained in such a manner...? It ain't gonna be "bettering" the world.

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (ElYwz)

151 You know, that's a good question. Normally a "transvestite" is a heterosexual who enjoys dressing as the opposite sex. So what the hell is a non-binary transvestite? You don't have a gender, so there is no opposite. Or does Brinton consider having a gender an opposite to being, "non-binary?" So dressing as either a man or a woman being a "transvestite?"
Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (eyxn4)

He just needs enough verbiage to show he's in the club but by making up his own group he's not beholden to the owners of the other factions. It doesn't have to make sense otherwise. Bonus for him is it looks like he doesn't have to cut himself up to be a member. Sadly it wasn't enough of a scam to keep him out of trouble entirely.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (eoQWY)

152 not been convicted

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2022 06:18 PM (87Ur0)

153 I wish Elon the best but, uhh, I bet he does not have access to a Wet Work Team.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 05:54 PM (up/3i)

Are the Selous Scouts available?

Posted by: Fox2! at November 28, 2022 06:18 PM (3d2Rp)

154 This Sam guy makes me look fairly normal.
Posted by: EPA Hallway Shitter at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (4I/2K)

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LOL

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:18 PM (DcKNO)

155 Paul Finebaum says Hugh Freeze will soon be announced as the new head football coach at Auburn.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 28, 2022 06:18 PM (sWM8x)

156 149 Maybe this Brinton entity has no boy OR girl parts.
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That makes him a Romney.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:18 PM (VrsjA)

157 Given he's in charge of nuclear waste one would think that he should be squeaky clean


Squeaky clean? There is absolutely no one in Biden's administration that isn't a criminal traitor.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 28, 2022 06:19 PM (sAmhv)

158 This might help explain why Balenciaga thought it was a good idea to run an ad campaign featuring children in bondage gear.

https://tinyurl.com/45777eyv

The left is completely twisted.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:19 PM (ZLI7S)

159 I don't use the apps for Twitter or Facebook. I just use a browser. I see no reason to use the apps and they tend to suck badly.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 28, 2022 06:19 PM (uz3Px)

160 >>Or does Brinton consider having a gender an opposite to being, "non-binary?" So dressing as either a man or a woman being a "transvestite?"


Seriously, don't bother trying to apply logic to these various self-identifiers -- there are so many contradictions built into it. . . which is probably the point. Force you to say there is no biological sex while also being non-binary gender fluid and gay, all of which is based on there being two distinct biological sexes.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:19 PM (I/doM)

161 Ah, the topic is Deviants in Government! I will catch up.
Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (Vr12I)

This Sam guy makes me look fairly normal.
Posted by: EPA Hallway Shitter at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (4I/2K)

Yep, and I'm losing attention. I better step up my game.

Posted by: Mayo Pete at November 28, 2022 06:20 PM (v0R5T)

162 >I really don't see this happening. Microsoft spent tens of billions of dollars and gota teeny tiny percent of the phone market before they limped away with their tail between their legs.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:05 PM (eyxn4)

Their value proposition was "hey, don't you really want a phone just as shitty as your PC?" I suspect that a value prop of freedom from censorship is a bigger winner. Not that you aren't right that it would be tough to crack the phone duopoly.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 28, 2022 06:20 PM (fS+AK)

163 A normal person would have simply called the airline and told them about the mistake. Someone like Brinton could have called legal at his office or any number of other legal advisors if he were nervous about the political or legal fallout.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:10 PM (eyxn4)

He didn't have baggage when he went on board.

"Brinton arrived at MSP Airport around 4:27 p.m. on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., but did not check a bag, meaning he had no reason to visit baggage claim, according to the complaint."

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 28, 2022 06:20 PM (Kd4bG)

164 Musk builds rockets that come back to earth, land upright on a barge, in the middle of the ocean, ready to go again.

Build a phone? I think so.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 06:20 PM (SpZxj)

165 154 This Sam guy makes me look fairly normal.
Posted by: EPA Hallway Shitter at November 28, 2022 06:17 PM (4I/2K)

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LOL
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:18 PM (DcKNO)

ha-ha. shitting in public? San Fran normalized that behavior

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (mnUzy)

166 I'm still annoyed that Apple charges .99 per month for cloud storage or your phone will no longer take photos allegedly because you have no space. Pure bull shit,

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (uBtUO)

167 135 I thought the poll overwhelmingly agreed to allow previously banned to be granted amnesty ?
Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (uBtUO)

I am still banned
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (xDh35)


It is supposed to start today. No idea if it will be automatic or you need to file a new appeal.

Posted by: buzzion at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (aRLgQ)

168 It was so nice of Apple to issue an update to their iPhone OS just last week?, that as one of the major new features was the inability for Chinese owners to link their phones together and defeat Chinese gubmint censorship. This new feature was not announced, of course.

Note that this update only affected Chinese iPhone users.

Big Tech is mostly shit, and adding some Apple scent didn't help a bit.

Burn 'em all down, Elon. He may wind up inadvertently being our new Thomas Paine, er, Patrick Henry. But for the world.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (JOtiF)

169 > Yeah but that's what people told Chrome as well. Android is better than Mac and they have a huge market share now. But my approach would not be a phone it would be an app market that works for everyone.

I don't think this is technically possible. If you want to be on iOS, you have to be on the App Store and have your app cryptographically signed by Apple. The only other option is to turn on developer mode on your phone and side-load the app. This process is out of the control of someone who wants to create a different app market. So Musk could host the apps, and he could post instructions on how to side load the app, but he can't create something that seamlessly integrates into the phone like the App Store does.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (eyxn4)

170 Microsoft tried to fight the IPod too and they made a superior product (Zune) but it was really at the end of the MP3 player era anyway and they gave up too soon on it. My brother really liked his Zune, they had more storage, a better interface, and had a radio to boot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (cP/Ah)

171
"Brinton arrived at MSP Airport around 4:27 p.m. on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., but did not check a bag, meaning he had no reason to visit baggage claim, according to the complaint."
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 28, 2022 06:20 PM (Kd4bG)

And they have video of "it" taking the tag off the bag and putting the tag in it's purse

Posted by: It's me donna at November 28, 2022 06:22 PM (bs+z0)

172 Their value proposition was "hey, don't you really want a phone just as shitty as your PC?" I suspect that a value prop of freedom from censorship is a bigger winner. Not that you aren't right that it would be tough to crack the phone duopoly.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 28, 2022 06:20 PM (fS+AK)
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heh, Windows 8 was an attempt to create a uniform look across multiple platforms. For sysadmin like me, Windows 8 was fine, great suite of tools. For the average end user, yeah, it was terrible.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at November 28, 2022 06:22 PM (5pTK/)

173 Nothing to be concerned about. He's only in charge of storing nuclear waste.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ZLI7S)
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He looks like he's been rolling around in it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 28, 2022 06:09 PM (YqDXo)
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I remember when that . . . person got appointed. I looked then and I have no desire to look again.

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2022 06:22 PM (pTb/Z)

174 >Musk would have to literally create an entire alternate internet

Yeah, about that...

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 28, 2022 06:23 PM (fS+AK)

175 Musk builds rockets that come back to earth, land upright on a barge, in the middle of the ocean, ready to go again.

Build a phone? I think so.


yes this

of COURSE MS couldn't do it then. it was heavy-loaded with worthless PMs and such-like - the smart people were not at MS when the phone thing happened. it cost way too much and was terribly designed.

this? this Musk peeps can do. they definitely can.

and Apple doesn't really do anything much except make the things bigger (a bit) then smaller (a bit) and improve the camera. BIG. DEAL. oh and then turf the older phones so they suddenly don't work anymore if you upgrade the OS

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 28, 2022 06:23 PM (w0NJk)

176 @142

>>But my approach would not be a phone it would be an app market that works for everyone.

Android and Apple are closed gardens if they don't want you in their garden they can prevent you from playing in their gardens.

Again, the only thing that could alter this would be anti-trust action from the DOJ or legislation from congress.

I don't see this happening in either the short or long term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 06:23 PM (up/3i)

177 I don't think this is technically possible. If you want to be on iOS, you have to be on the App Store and have your app cryptographically signed by Apple.

It is but it would take an anti-monopoly lawsuit to stamp out the blockade both phones have made on their products. I mean its practically begging to be done already. This is like a car company telling you that you cannot put your own stereo in the car: not approved, have to go through our store.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 06:23 PM (cP/Ah)

178 Microsoft spent tens of billions of dollars and got a teeny tiny percent of the phone market before they limped away with their tail between their legs.

********

Microsoft spends the bulk of its time adding PRIDE color options to their shit software that you cant get rid off instead of actually fixing their broken ass fucked apps built by Hindu elephant fuckers and cow worshippers .

Methinks Musk will fare better

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 28, 2022 06:23 PM (VTu1l)

179
Moron mayor is basically saying, "Well, stuff happens."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 28, 2022 06:23 PM (MoZTd)

180 >> I am still banned
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:15 PM (xDh35)

It is supposed to start today. No idea if it will be automatic or you need to file a new appeal.

Posted by: buzzion at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (aRLgQ)


It's going to take some time. Twitter banned an enormous # of conservative accounts.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (JOtiF)

181 MS gave us MSNBC.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (VrsjA)

182 >>I remember when that . . . person got appointed. I looked then and I have no desire to look again.

You definitely don't want to look at the link I put at 158.

We are surrounded by deviants and they are proud of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (ZLI7S)

183 I'm still annoyed that Apple charges .99 per month for cloud storage or your phone will no longer take photos allegedly because you have no space. Pure bull shit,
Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:21 PM (uBtUO)
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You don't have to store your photos on the cloud. I don't. I have never activated it. I just back up my phone and my photos right onto my laptop. You can then delete the ones you don't need from your phone and have plenty of room.

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (pTb/Z)

184 I don't deserve these fucking deviants working in government. I want to piss in their *bux.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (aRKFD)

185 Apple or Android?? Sorta like Coke or Pepsi to me, or Ford or Chevy.

Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (Vr12I)

186 170 Microsoft tried to fight the IPod too and they made a superior product (Zune) but it was really at the end of the MP3 player era anyway and they gave up too soon on it. My brother really liked his Zune, they had more storage, a better interface, and had a radio to boot.


agree about Zune btw

it was really just, at that time MS had no mojo. it didn't matter if the product was better.

those days are over for Apple. Apple is old now.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (w0NJk)

187 The control of all the search engines is very scary.

People THINK they are getting unbiased unfiltered results, which is far from the truth.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (oHd/0)

188 Posted by: Mayo Pete

That typo is even worse than the original

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (CaJIi)

189 157 agreed, however even this administration full of numb nuts would not want nuclear waste floating around. Having Sammy say "okay I'll give you a barrel of cesium if you don't tell anyone about the five stolen furs" is hopefully a bridge too far for these corrupt dolts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (87Ur0)

190 The dude is far worse than just a tranny. He is a devil worshipping , S&M , Christian hating , sexual pervert that makes other perverts queasy.
Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:13 PM (uBtUO)



I thought it was the Monkey Pox Czar that worshipped Satan.

I get all these homos mixed up.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 28, 2022 06:25 PM (yQpMk)

191 I saw a video of Elon saying something like, "I walked around Twitter and saw people doing nothing, I asked them what they did and then fired them."

All those media mouthpieces thinking that Musk firing people would ruin twitter... it is to laugh.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:25 PM (DcKNO)

192 Musk is amusing, and possibly even useful, though that depends on the ability of the cretinized society, dominated by alien mindsets and bereft of any still-functioning institutions, to repair itself.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2022 06:25 PM (OTzUX)

193 Just need China to tell Apple to back off. They do anything China wants.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:26 PM (uBtUO)

194 Apple is pure shit.

Pure. Shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 28, 2022 06:26 PM (R/m4+)

195 159 I don't use the apps for Twitter or Facebook. I just use a browser. I see no reason to use the apps and they tend to suck badly.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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W/iPhone I go to Bing maps immediately a popup says go to iStore and get map app. No, I don't want the app just allow me to BingMap. No, you must use Apple App

Where's my Tesla?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 06:26 PM (SpZxj)

196 Don't people know they are being recorded nearly everywhere they go?

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (ElYwz)

197 All those media mouthpieces thinking that Musk firing people would ruin twitter... it is to laugh
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Epic use of the term "it is to laugh."

We need to use it more.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (VrsjA)

198 Hopefully he'll block Biden's account because he supported klansman robert byrd. Otherwise some people might get upset.

Posted by: ryukyu at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (4n6fw)

199 Gillette's new slogan.

Respect Your Pubic Region.

Stop the world I want to get off.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (uBtUO)

200 It's going to take some time. Twitter banned an enormous # of conservative accounts.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (JOtiF)

LOL, I got banned 4 times

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (xDh35)

201 > Their value proposition was "hey, don't you really want a phone just as shitty as your PC?" I suspect that a value prop of freedom from censorship is a bigger winner. Not that you aren't right that it would be tough to crack the phone duopoly.

The biggest complaint I heard from Windows Phone users wasn't anything about the phone or the OS. The most common complaint was the lack of apps for the platform. Even the apps that were on the platform were the neglected step-child version.

MyFitnessPal for example had a bug for over a year where scanning a barcode to input a food would cause the app to lock up. This is a core functionality of the app, and MFP didn't think it was important enough to fix. If barcode scanning was broken on MFP on iPhone, it would have been fixed in a day or less.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (eyxn4)

202 I was banned, but not anymore.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (I9VC/)

203 200 Gillette's new slogan.

Respect Your Pubic Region.

Stop the world I want to get off.
Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (uBtUO)

Wut? why? what kind of slogan is that?

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (mnUzy)

204 Yeah AAPL gadgets like all of them are sort of handy in some ways, but often not that impressive, and the companies that produce them are full of racist totalitarian freaks who are key factors in degrading the nation and society. Not a trade-off that's even close to "worth it". Plus, no need for these gadgets and toys to be made by these freaks and their alien (literally) fellows.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (OTzUX)

205 >>Just need China to tell Apple to back off. They do anything China wants.

Funny you mention China. Because our government won't comment on the nationwide protests other than to say they support the right to protest which of course they do not.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (ZLI7S)

206 I don't use apple map apps or any other apps except those that came with the phone. The thing we used to call programs.

And I've turned off as many as I can.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (SpZxj)

207 I find it fascinating that one of the world's biggest most successful companies has as its symbol literally the fall of man and the poisoned world he inhabits. You couldn't make it up.

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (ElYwz)

208 197 Don't people know they are being recorded nearly everywhere they go?
Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (ElYwz)

Of course we are.It’s been that way for years. Anyone who thinks that privacy exists is pretty foolish.

Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (Vr12I)

209
Paul Finebaum says Hugh Freeze will soon be announced as the new head football coach at Auburn.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist


Isn't he a Batman villain?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (63Dwl)

210 Wut? why? what kind of slogan is that?

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (mnUzy)

The subversive disgusting Left just doing what they do. As I said earlier about silencing the commies...

Posted by: ... at November 28, 2022 06:29 PM (ElYwz)

211 Apple may have a point, after all, some Twitter users may be "Nazis" and "White Supremacists" and Twitter cann't possibly be seen to associate with "those people". So time to abandon Musk, I guess.

Posted by: Dr. Titanium Whitey, JD at November 28, 2022 06:29 PM (DV6kg)

212 I don't think this is technically possible. If you want to be on iOS, you have to be on the App Store and have your app cryptographically signed by Apple.

It is but it would take an anti-monopoly lawsuit to stamp out the blockade both phones have made on their products. I mean its practically begging to be done already. This is like a car company telling you that you cannot put your own stereo in the car: not approved, have to go through our store.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 06:23 PM


SCOTUS has already ruled that anyone can sue apple for their app store monopoly stuff. They decided that current anti trust laws do not shield apple (or google) from lawsuits from consumers. It's on like Donkey Kong, problem is apple has eleventy gazzalion lawyers and virtually unlimited money to fight those lawsuits. It's gonna take decades before this sorts itself out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 28, 2022 06:29 PM (uNylN)

213 Speaking of Apple, I missed the story on who drove into the Apple store. Is it memory-holed already?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 28, 2022 06:29 PM (fs1hN)

214 Ace mentioned Qwant which so far has been a far better experience than Brave Search

Another is FreeSpoke.com but theyre still in the apple store so I dont know how unfiltered their search really is

Regardless Im slowly but steadily canceling big tech. I have no social media accounts anymore, unsubscribed from cable, streaming, etc, and now just have to wean myself off apple until Im basically an Ubuntu guru

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (VTu1l)

215 LOL, I got banned 4 times
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (xDh35)

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hhahahahahaha #MeToo.

I can remember a couple of bans the rest are just filed under, "I said what I said."

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (DcKNO)

216 >> It was so nice of Apple to issue an update to their iPhone OS just last week?, that as one of the major new features was the inability for Chinese owners to link their phones together and defeat Chinese gubmint censorship. This new feature was not announced, of course.

Note that this update only affected Chinese iPhone users.


IPhones are made in China using prison/slave labor -- of course they rolled that feature. They have a huge financial interest in Xi staying in power.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (I/doM)

217 To comply with the European Union’s radical climate laws, the Dutch government of World Economic Forum acolyte Mark Rutte will force up to 3,000 farms to shut down for good.

Farmers will be made an offer on their farms, which the government claims is “well over” market value.

fuck you

eat your wooden shoes

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (BRHaw)

218 > Apple is old now.

I was on a college campus recently. There were latest gen iPhones and Mac laptops everywhere.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (eyxn4)

219 Musk is like adding a chaos factor to t he game. There is no way to tell how things are going to turn out. Apple already in trouble with what is going on in China. Can they really afford to do this?
It's like all those people quitting Twitter and not realizing that it is the only place to spout their drivel. They will just fade into the background.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (Y+l9t)

220 People THINK they are getting unbiased unfiltered results, which is far from the truth.

Yeah its sad. Search engines used to be a wonderful aid for getting places on the internet. Now its a struggle to get what you need. And most people look at you like you have two heads if you note that they're hiding some results from you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (cP/Ah)

221 I want Bill Gates to be eaten by a bear. Wolves would be okay too.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (geVLo)

222 210 Paul Finebaum is a Batman villain?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2022 06:31 PM (87Ur0)

223 Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2022 06:24 PM (pTb/Z

I don't have a laptop /computer.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:31 PM (uBtUO)

224 192 I saw a video of Elon saying something like, "I walked around Twitter and saw people doing nothing, I asked them what they did and then fired them."

All those media mouthpieces thinking that Musk firing people would ruin twitter... it is to laugh.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:25 PM (DcKNO)



I saw one of those crap clickbait things about how celebrities treat their assistants, some good some bad. Musk was one of them and the story they had was that his PA asked him for a raise. He told her to take two weeks vacation to see if she deserved a raise. After the two weeks was up he fired her. They of course wanted it to be a negative. I read it as he decided to pay her exactly what she was worth.

Posted by: buzzion at November 28, 2022 06:31 PM (aRLgQ)

225 214 Speaking of Apple, I missed the story on who drove into the Apple store. Is it memory-holed already?
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Dude was a middle-aged white guy who said his accelerator got stuck and his only option to stop was the Apple Store.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:31 PM (wc9lE)

226 Gillette's new slogan.

Respect Your Pubic Region.

Stop the world I want to get off.
Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (uBtUO)

Wut? why? what kind of slogan is that?
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch

Think Dick!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 28, 2022 06:31 PM (FVME7)

227 Paul Finebaum says Hugh Freeze will soon be announced as the new head football coach at Auburn.

He's got to do something they killed off Wolverine.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 28, 2022 06:32 PM (yQpMk)

228 Caught in a bear trap, then eaten by wolves.

Posted by: wth at November 28, 2022 06:32 PM (v0R5T)

229 Joe and Jill Biden Again Snub Granddaughter Navy Joan; White House Christmas Stockings for New Dog and Cat, But Not for Hunter’s Love Child Navy Joan

We have a stocking for you Navy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 28, 2022 06:32 PM (BRHaw)

230 Dude was a middle-aged white guy who said his accelerator got stuck and his only option to stop was the Apple Store.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 28, 2022 06:31 PM (wc9lE)



or turning off the engine.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 28, 2022 06:33 PM (yQpMk)

231 I was on a college campus recently. There were latest gen iPhones and Mac laptops everywhere.

Iphones are considered high end and some girls even claim they won't date a guy with an android phone (no loss there). But macs are just given to colleges at a huge cut rate by Apple to maintain their dominance in this small field.

At their best year, Apple never cracked a third of the PC/laptop market.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 06:33 PM (cP/Ah)

232 LOL, I got banned 4 times
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:27 PM (xDh35)

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hhahahahahaha #MeToo.

I can remember a couple of bans the rest are just filed under, "I said what I said."
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (DcKNO)

Same here, can't remember why I was banned either except once. I quotes the a line from Charles Wilson's War " Let's go kill us some Russians" and they said I threatened violence??? Obviously these humerless left wingers don't watch movies

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 28, 2022 06:33 PM (xDh35)

233 Wut? why? what kind of slogan is that?
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (mnUzy)

It's for their new manscaping product.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (uBtUO)

234 222 I want Bill Gates to be eaten by a bear. Wolves would be okay too.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (geVLo)

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I agree although I'm torn, I think that kind of end is too good for him.

He's such a piece of work and let's not forget a happy traveler to pedo island.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (DcKNO)

235 Respect Your Pubic Region.
.......

quit beating on it!?

Posted by: wth at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (v0R5T)

236 Ian Miles Cheong Nov 26

If Elon Musk makes a new smartphone as an alternative to the iPhone and Android to fight censorship, will you get one?

Yes, I’ll get one . _ 71.3%
Yes, I’ll get multiple _13.6%
No _ 15.1%
-Braenyard

Oh, man, the Elon Musk Store. That would be AWESOME.


Posted by: mrp at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (6eRlp)

237 I mean AS A COMPANY apple is old

you just get ... logy. they can of course fix that but I don't think they really wanna

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (w0NJk)

238 I'm permanently suspended. Will have to check sometime if I get amnestied

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (Kd4bG)

239 Musk isn't going to do too much to piss off his CCP overlords.

His Teslas need their batteries.

Posted by: SMH at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (kMPrp)

240 >> I want Bill Gates to be eaten by a bear. Wolves would be okay too.


Eaten by the bugs he demands *we* must eat in place of livestock.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:35 PM (I/doM)

241 I want Bill Gates to be eaten by a bear. Wolves would be okay too.

*******

We would rather eat his shitty beyond meat products then go near his aids filled rancid ass

Posted by: The Bears at November 28, 2022 06:35 PM (VTu1l)

242 I started with Apple because hackers basically ignored their operating system. I think that time has passed.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:35 PM (uBtUO)

243 “Manscaping” is one of those words that makes me cringe.

Posted by: I shouted out Who Shot J.R? when after all, it was you and me at November 28, 2022 06:36 PM (7kSOl)

244 Where are the fact checkers telling me that CNN meme isn't real? I'm SO CONFUSED!!!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 28, 2022 06:36 PM (F5ekr)

245 I want Bill Gates to be eaten by a bear. Wolves would be okay too.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (geVLo)


I guess I am just yesterday's karma now.

Posted by: Ass Cancer at November 28, 2022 06:36 PM (yQpMk)

246 WHO renames monkeypox as mpox

3 wise m

flying m

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 28, 2022 06:36 PM (BRHaw)

247 You definitely don't want to look at the link I put at 158.

Is that the picture with his "kennel"?

Posted by: Fox2! at November 28, 2022 06:36 PM (3d2Rp)

248 Im actually looking forward to my next non apple laptop so I can finally play real games again

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 28, 2022 06:37 PM (VTu1l)

249 241 >> I want Bill Gates to be eaten by a bear. Wolves would be okay too.


Eaten by the bugs he demands *we* must eat in place of livestock.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:35 PM (I/doM)



He's a big fan of the fake meat too. I'm sure you've heard about the conditions at their food plants.

Posted by: buzzion at November 28, 2022 06:37 PM (aRLgQ)

250 234 Wut? why? what kind of slogan is that?
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (mnUzy)

It's for their new manscaping product.
Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:34 PM (uBtUO)

Men manscape their pubic region? i had no idea.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at November 28, 2022 06:37 PM (mnUzy)

251 I talked to someone recently who had worked closely with Musk in the past. He said it was high stress all the time that caused many people to walk on egg shells when Musk was in the room. You never knew when you'd be asked something you wouldn't be able to answer and then you'd be gone. Very little tolerance for anything but total success.

Person said they had a love/hate relationship with Musk but admitted he walked the walk, got things done and done well.

Posted by: DitkaCA at November 28, 2022 06:37 PM (kVjCi)

252 Of course we are.It’s been that way for years. Anyone who thinks that privacy exists is pretty foolish.
Posted by: kraken at November 28, 2022 06:28 PM (Vr12I)
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Yep, I think we all know that. I do try to make it a little harder for them by not enabling icloud or Siri, and I don't have Alexa or any of that kind of thing. But thanks to OPM China has everything they want to know about me and Big Gov has that and more. Not much we can do but fight back in the little ways we can.

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2022 06:37 PM (pTb/Z)

253 I think being suspended/banned will become a badge of honor here at the headquarters.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 28, 2022 06:37 PM (Y+l9t)

254 Oh, and I also have no social media whatsoever and never have.

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2022 06:38 PM (pTb/Z)

255 >>Musk isn't going to do too much to piss off his CCP overlords.

>>His Teslas need their batteries.

Could get messy. Apple restricted the use of Airdrop, an Apple file sharing service that protesters around the world use to get around government censors, before the latest wave of lockdowns and protests.

It's amazing how powerful China has become. The protests are some of the biggest in memory and judging by the media it's a non-event.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:38 PM (ZLI7S)

256
I don't have a laptop /computer.
Posted by: polynikes


I don't have a smartphone.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2022 06:38 PM (63Dwl)

257 "Caught in a bear trap, then eaten by wolves."

Judges would have also accepted Caught in a bear trap by his right testicle, his left testicle nibbled off by starving weasels, then eaten by a single wolf, with bad teeth over a period of two weeks..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 28, 2022 06:38 PM (uLr+K)

258 > Yeah its sad. Search engines used to be a wonderful aid for getting places on the internet. Now its a struggle to get what you need. And most people look at you like you have two heads if you note that they're hiding some results from you.

1000% true. A couple of years after Google got big, their search engine was like witchcraft compared to the other search engines. The top one or two results were exactly what you were searching for. Most people don't remember what it was like. Any search, no matter how bland, was half pr0n sites on the first page. The other half were crappy search engine trickery pages that had a hundred popular search terms hidden in the page header.

Try searching Google for anything about Covid or a positive story about a Republican politician. All the results are either zero covid propaganda, CNN, Salon, MSNBC, or whatever.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:38 PM (eyxn4)

259 So, where the board to place bets on which multimillionaire leftest POS house gets the Mona Loa lava first?

Posted by: Archer at November 28, 2022 06:39 PM (gmo/4)

260 244 “Manscaping” is one of those words that makes me cringe.
Posted by: I shouted out Who Shot J.R? when after all, it was you and me at November 28, 2022 06:36 PM (7kSOl)

Kyle wanted to be Kara so he got manscaped.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 28, 2022 06:39 PM (BRHaw)

261 I think being suspended/banned will become a badge of honor here at the headquarters.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 28, 2022 06:37 PM (Y+l9t)
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Maybe for those that are on Twitter.

For the rest of us, it doesn't matter.

Posted by: SMH at November 28, 2022 06:39 PM (kMPrp)

262 I want Bill Gates to be eaten by a bear. Wolves would be okay too.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 28, 2022 06:30 PM (geVLo)

Concur. Naked and on youtube with sound.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 28, 2022 06:39 PM (R/m4+)

263 Eaten by the bugs he demands *we* must eat in place of livestock.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:35 PM (I/doM)
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Ooh, I like this. One teeny tiny bite at a time, all over.

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2022 06:39 PM (pTb/Z)

264 Could you imagine if Bezos suddenly became so based?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 28, 2022 06:40 PM (UOzPv)

265 >>Is that the picture with his "kennel"?

No, it's a photo of one of Balenciaga's designers indulging in a little child satainic porn.

No biggie. Everyday stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:40 PM (ZLI7S)

266 Ignorance IS bliss.

You start going down some of these rabbit holes and you put out your lawn chair eagerly anticipating that asteroid to hit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 28, 2022 06:40 PM (DcKNO)

267 This week on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miguel Ferrer guest stars as Mpox.

Posted by: I shouted out Who Shot J.R? when after all, it was you and me at November 28, 2022 06:40 PM (7kSOl)

268 Twitter runs just fine in a browser on a phone. Doesn't need an app. Doesn't need apples 30% tax.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (UOzPv)

269 > At their best year, Apple never cracked a third of the PC/laptop market.

OK, but I was responding to the claim that Apple is old. Young people are still going nuts for Apple, even if other groups don't prefer them.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (eyxn4)

270 You start going down some of these rabbit holes and you put out your lawn chair eagerly anticipating that asteroid to hit.
___

That's pretty much where I'm at.

Posted by: SMH at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (kMPrp)

271 How did Sam know what piece of luggage held all of the great looking woman's clothing? He may have just as well taken an old woman's, a young child's, or some man's. Even if he somehow had gotten the name of his victim, how would he identify the correct bag without peering at every name tag? This is a very strange and creepy story.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (FjZQA)

272 So, even if Musk can develop the perfect phone, where will he get the materials to mass produce them?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (aRpZy)

273 There is a lot you can do to retain a good amount of privacy with a little know how. It wont be 100% but just by virtue of not using tiktok and social media to spy on your ass gets you leaps and bounds ahead of most of the population

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (VTu1l)

274 “Manscaping” is one of those words that makes me cringe.
Posted by: I shouted out Who Shot J.R? when after all, it was you and me at November 28, 2022 06:36 PM (7kSOl)

The only people who sort of get a pass are Olympic swimmers and just barely because it's still gay.

Posted by: Archer at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (gmo/4)

275 Is Cyber Monday almost over? I am being dunned by retail demanding I take advantage of their wares. I have successfully navigated Black Friday month, Small business Saturday and almost through Cyber Monday.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 28, 2022 06:42 PM (Y+l9t)

276 "Young people are still going nuts for Apple, "

Some young people also believe that men can get pregnant.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 28, 2022 06:42 PM (uLr+K)

277 splodey balzac nood
Potentially

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 28, 2022 06:42 PM (Kd4bG)

278 @243

>>I started with Apple because hackers basically ignored their operating system. I think that time has passed.

As a 29 year old, involved for most of my life in a technical and engineering capacity and having used pretty much every computer platform that has existed in the last 40 years, I've stayed with apple for two very basic reasons.

1. The OS is essentially a UNIX/Linux operating system.

2. And most importantly, the essential look and feel of the OS hasn't changed in 40 years.

The apple menu is still on top, the menu system still is the same, preferences is still the same, etc.

You can take someone who cut their teeth on system 1 and put them on the latest OS and they should have no trouble navigating the OS.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 28, 2022 06:42 PM (up/3i)

279 >>Young people are still going nuts for Apple, even if other groups don't prefer them.


It's also a matter of what your school requires. My son's schools hae required ipads/macs.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:43 PM (I/doM)

280 Second biggest owner of Apple shares are Blackrock/Vanguard.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 06:43 PM (SpZxj)

281 Musk has already stated that if he were to make a phone it would be integrated with Starlink. That vertical integration would give him an advantage that would go a long way to assure ongoing success and independence.

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at November 28, 2022 06:43 PM (UIngH)

282 > I started with Apple because hackers basically ignored their operating system. I think that time has passed.

I haven't paid attention in a while, but it used to be true that anytime there was a hacker challenge, the Apple product would get hacked the fastest.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:43 PM (eyxn4)

283 "Caught in a bear trap, then eaten by wolves."


Caught in a bear trap, then a pack of otters have a surprise party, then eaten by wolves.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 28, 2022 06:43 PM (u4CEu)

284 Even if he somehow had gotten the name of his victim, how would he identify the correct bag without peering at every name tag? This is a very strange and creepy story.
Posted by: washrivergal at November 28, 2022 06:41 PM (FjZQA)
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It really is strange. Maybe he saw the woman check the bag? Seems farfetched. Anyway, I just have another reason not to ever check my bag - so that a tranny doesn't steal it.

Something I never even considered before.

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2022 06:43 PM (pTb/Z)

285 Hey! ACE!

You have to see this!!!

158 This might help explain why Balenciaga thought it was a good idea to run an ad campaign featuring children in bondage gear.

https://tinyurl.com/45777eyv

The left is completely twisted.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:19 PM (ZLI7S)

Posted by: rd at November 28, 2022 06:44 PM (jSutt)

286 At twitter

Vice President Kamala Harris
@VP

United States government official
Vice President of the United States. Wife to the first
@SecondGentleman
. Momala. Auntie. Fighting for the people.

Guess intellectual giant was taken!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 28, 2022 06:44 PM (BRHaw)

287 127 >>The dude is far worse than just a tranny. He is a devil worshipping , S&M , Christian hating , sexual pervert that makes other perverts queasy.

His kinks have kinks, he is such a creep.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:14 PM (I/doM)

Better nuke it from orbit, to be sure.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at November 28, 2022 06:45 PM (okGHj)

288 >>>Eaten by the bugs he demands *we* must eat in place of livestock.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 28, 2022 06:35 PM (I/doM)
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Ooh, I like this. One teeny tiny bite at a time, all over.

Posted by: bluebell

>We need to gather some hungry yellow jackets. They love to eat meat. And they'll sting the fuck out of you.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 28, 2022 06:45 PM (geVLo)

289 I read Twitter all the time on my laptop and Ipad. I don;t even remember how I signed on but I never signed up. I don;t follow anyone just read the feeds I like. Posobiec, Schlicter, Sean Davis, Jesse Kelly and a few others.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 28, 2022 06:45 PM (Y+l9t)

290 No, it's a photo of one of Balenciaga's designers indulging in a little child satainic porn.

There are three reasons someone does an ad series like they did:

1) Irony, to poke fun at pretentious ads
2) Idiots who didn't notice how awful it is
3) On purpose: they know their customer base and this is what they like and want to see.

My money is on 3.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 28, 2022 06:45 PM (cP/Ah)

291 Right now there a two big players, Apple and Google as Android in this. TESLA phones would definitely take a bite out of both 35%+ profit generators for the big 2. My guess is a TESLA phone has been designed for Starlink and could be on the market very quickly.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 28, 2022 06:46 PM (u4CEu)

292 Could get messy. Apple restricted the use of Airdrop, an Apple file sharing service that protesters around the world use to get around government censors, before the latest wave of lockdowns and protests.

It's amazing how powerful China has become. The protests are some of the biggest in memory and judging by the media it's a non-event.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2022 06:38 PM (ZLI7S)


That's the service blocked for Chinese users only, and very recently, in my post #168.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 28, 2022 06:47 PM (JOtiF)

293 Andrew Tate saying more on Balenciaga. Why they are so in your face?

https://twitter.com/heweymedia/status/1597305250209144833

Posted by: rd at November 28, 2022 06:47 PM (jSutt)

294 > A couple of years after Google got big, their search engine was like witchcraft compared to the other search engines. The top one or two results were exactly what you were searching for. Most people don't remember what it was like.

I remember what it was like. Yes, it was usually like that, but it was also possible for users to manipulate the results. If you searched “French military victories” and clicked “I’m Feeling Lucky”, it would take you to a page on Albino BlackSheep listing French military failures. If you did the same with “miserable failure” it went to George W. Bush’s official website. (This was back when the lulz-obsessed Internet trolls were still nominally left-wing, before some day in 2014 when we all woke up and the same people were suddenly misogynist neo-Nazis.)

Posted by: I shouted out Who Shot J.R? when after all, it was you and me at November 28, 2022 06:47 PM (7kSOl)

295 The problem with Apple is Tim Cook. And their mail program and browser suck so bad. I'm surprised that more isn't done with Blackberry. Maybe someone could buy the old Palm software again. They did come up with a nice phone under the Palm name.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 28, 2022 06:48 PM (uz3Px)

296 NoNooding

Posted by: Ass Cancer at November 28, 2022 06:48 PM (yQpMk)

297 > I remember what it was like. Yes, it was usually like that, but it was also possible for users to manipulate the results. If you searched “French military victories” and clicked “I’m Feeling Lucky”, it would take you to a page on Albino BlackSheep listing French military failures. If you did the same with “miserable failure” it went to George W. Bush’s official website.

True.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:49 PM (eyxn4)

298 Musk phone would likely run on open source Android akin to Samsung OS. No need to reinvent the wheel and this will help provide utility out of the gates with most android apps

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 28, 2022 06:50 PM (VTu1l)

299 Right now there a two big players, Apple and Google as Android in this. TESLA phones would definitely take a bite out of both 35%+ profit generators for the big 2. My guess is a TESLA phone has been designed for Starlink and could be on the market very quickly.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 28, 2022 06:46 PM (u4CEu)


Would there be enough bandwith for a Starlink Phones? Imagine how disruptive it would be if you did not need Verizon or T-Mobile?
Just access to the sky and Starlink?
Except would it work in buildings? Or big city canyons?

Posted by: rd at November 28, 2022 06:52 PM (jSutt)

300 299 Musk phone would likely run on open source Android akin to Samsung OS. No need to reinvent the wheel and this will help provide utility out of the gates with most android apps
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
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Musk has his own operating systems out the kazoo.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 06:53 PM (SpZxj)

301 300 Right now there a two big players, Apple and Google as Android in this. TESLA phones would definitely take a bite out of both 35%+ profit generators for the big 2. My guess is a TESLA phone has been designed for Starlink and could be on the market very quickly.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 28, 2022 06:46 PM (u4CEu)
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It will be compatible with your computer.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 06:54 PM (SpZxj)

302 Don Lemon is the perfect spokesman for a deeply stupid cause.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at November 28, 2022 06:55 PM (eGTCV)

303 Up a lazy river by the old mill stream

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 28, 2022 06:55 PM (SpZxj)

304 Posted by: bonhomme at November 28, 2022 06:43 PM (eyxn4)

I find that hard to believe since the best of the government can't get into an I-phone without Apple's assistance. And Apple was usually free from all the latest viruses.

But I'm a tech half tard so good chance I'm mistaken.

Posted by: polynikes at November 28, 2022 06:56 PM (uBtUO)

305 I'm betting Musk didn't realize he'd have to buy Apple and Google as well when he bought Twitter...oh, well.

Not sure what Bill Gates and Tim Cook are going to do for a living now...

Posted by: Boswell at November 28, 2022 06:57 PM (+Cgut)

306 I wonder if anyone has yet photoshopped one of the Balenciaga ads and replaced the doll with Pedobear.

Posted by: I shouted out Who Shot J.R.? when after all, it was you and me at November 28, 2022 07:09 PM (7kSOl)

307 Addendum: Just so everyone’s clear, that was a joke.

Posted by: I shouted out Who Shot J.R.? when after all, it was you and me at November 28, 2022 07:10 PM (7kSOl)

308 The most important question about the Elonphone: Will it run Doom?

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