There might not be a need to ditch them if they weren’t so locked down & consumables like batteries needlessly difficult to replace. We’re not ditching the phones “every five months,” either, but the battery life is still forcing retirement much earlier than necessary even without the software support issue.

“Crap! Another asshole who stuffs his pants.”

There are genuine uses for it since the imprecise version is (deliberately) so vague, but the privacy laws around it should have long since been significantly tightened. There should be a middle ground with user control over the level of vagueness.

Smacks of “don’t dead open inside.”

Slow that mind child

There goes that heroic duo again!

Especially with the color choice. To me blue indicates it’s the cool thing to do, while red equates to “stop, don’t do this.” Yet the “only” thing you’re supposed to do (whichever one one it actually is) is printed in the red background. WTF were they thinking?

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Of course the cops keep using it - payments from the inevitable lawsuits don’t come out of their pockets, so why give a shit when there are quotas to make? No accountability breeds irresponsibility.

But he said the war was already over! 🙄

No, but they are close enough to that to be having economic effects upon Taiwan by reducing the number of potential trading partners willing to risk inviting China’s wrath. Ship captains would likely rather avoid a run-in with China’s Navy.

EDIT FOR ALL THE DOWNVOTERS:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/taiwan-reports-large-scale-chinese-military-aircraft-presence-near-island-00829219

Sourced from this post.

One could argue China is right on the borderline of effectively doing that, likely scaring off some trading partners and thereby causing economic impacts - albeit significantly less severe than those currently experienced by Cuba.

Taiwan brings major economic (and other) benefits to its “supporting” countries via its technological exports & is thus too important to allow to fall into China’s hands if it can be avoided.

Cuba brings… cigars?

Real men are far too hard to find, anyway. They’re mostly insecure AF children overcompensating for… things. It’s always the little things that fuck everything up.

THIS ONE!!! This comment right here, PETA!!!

(Yes, I got the reference - now get offa my lawn!)

I dunno. I’m just an overly tired & poorly educated idiot who’s watched too much sci-fi. I really should be asleep, but my natural inclination has always been to fight it until I inevitably lose (sometimes the battles are incredibly intense and drawn out). I know one day it’ll be different, tho - one day I won’t wake up and be forced to admit defeat.

Change the moon’s orbit, or even the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Sure would be an interesting method of dealing with global warming…

It hasn’t been truly capitalist in a very long time, if ever.

So they can be any characters? Can they all be from the same show?

They blame the stroke he had just before the 2024 primary for his personality change, but there were clues that this was really him all along. Another excuse I’ve seen which I find slightly more believable (but only because the groundwork for it was already there) is that he became highly dependent upon social media - and thereby more radicalized - after his stroke prevented him from communicating normally.

Eat it

Well, at least now we all know Weird Al’s fediverse username.