Oddly. You act as if no conspiracy theorie never turned out to be true. They have. The other day I heard someone in my office going on and on about how some nut job had claimed that the US government had confiscated everyone gold. hell, that;s not even a conspiracy theory, thatâ(TM)s just a fact, but ruling-class-wannabe nut jobs can be just as bad as the paranoid. I mean, Iâ(TM)ve also hear that Big Pharma got Congress to hold them not-liable for any damages that vaccines do ___ even if they are accidentally contaminate during manufacture.
Can you image, no liability whatsoever for Big Pharma? Eh, Iâ(TM)m sure theyâ(TM)ll do the right thing, Youâ(TM)d be a nutjob to think otherwise.
There are no side-effects to vaccines whatsoever, and anyone who worries about side-effects harming their children should probably be imprisoned or chopped up and sold as meat.
I mean, how crazy do you have to be not to trust big companies with a get-out-of-lawsuit-free card?
Pretty damn crazy!
Thstâ(TM)s My story and I sticking with it.
Approve of me! Approve of me dammit! Tell me Iâ(TM)m good and not one of the unwashed, uncool working class! I need your affirmation and I need it now! I love the ruling class and all that it stands for!
Not sure why some of you persist in calling these things âcontracts â(TM). Contracts are negotiated. These things are wish-lists on the part of the company, and are chock-full of unenforceable and some sometimes illegal clauses. Once upon a time, the USA was one of the greatest nations on earth. Now, instead of innovating, our largest corporations more or less exist by seeing what they can swindle and trick citizens into by sneaking it by in 27 pages of legalese.
Itâ(TM)s been said that you can tell responsible from unreasonable actions by figuring out what would happen if everyone did them.
In the case of reading adhesion âcontractsâ(TM), the economy would grind to a halt, and nearly every company that depends on people ignoring these things, would go bankrupt in short order as people encountered one 30-page âcontractâ(TM) after another after another.
When your very business depends on people not reading the things, itâ(TM)s pretty disengenuous to state that you actually expect people to read them.
Of course, you could always force the issue and disable the âI Agreeâ(TM) button until sufficient time had passed for an average person to read it. As it is, companies allow people to click though 10,000 words in 3 seconds., then represent to the court that as far as they know, people read the things. Except that have a whole shitload of web logs that say otherwise.
Of course, in the end, the minorities are only offered what the majorities are willing to accept, so the notion that weâ(TM)ve had any choice is s completely fraudulent position.
I guess Bad Faith is our chief product these days, though. The shell of this nationâ(TM)s greatness is now buried in 800 pages of fine print, oh and donâ(TM)t forget arbitration clauses too since our legal system is now engaged in a race to the bottom with every other industrialized banana republic.
Haha, tricked you! You totally didnâ(TM)t see the fine print on page 89! Oh well, should have read the contract. Now pay up, bitch!
And the home...
Of the....
Brayayayave....
Insurance rarely pays out big claims anymore. They try to âsettleâ(TM) for less, and when you try to sue, you find out they have an arbitration clause.
Bad faith has been de-facto legalized in the insurance industry and it is very much a gamble when, if, or how much you will get paid.
People feel âoeprotectedâ. That is until they try and file a claim. They pay premiums for years only to be offered half when the time comes, and are told to take it or go to a rigged arbitrator who will give them even less.
Maturity is the point where you realize that most things youâ(TM)ve been told is a lie. Insurance is one of those things. Itâ(TM)s hardly the surefire protection that people think it is, and is a straight-up gamble in the USA.
A lot of people die fresh out of rehab, after their tolerance has been lowered to the floor, and they try to resume use. People often donâ(TM)t OD until they have a period of abstinence. There are 110 year old Chinese people who have been addicted to opium since their teens. Prohibition and the drug war kills far more people than opioids.
If by that you mean that I am able to correctly differentiate between the politicians looking out for our interest and the politicians who seek to destroy our internet, our country, and the concept of basic decency - then yes I have fallen into that trap.
You’re good. You’re so good. If only more people could see the obvious.
You embody goodness and all that’s good, and pure and holy in the world. If only everyone were like you, dare I say the world would be a perfect place.
I hate people who aren’t you. Why do they even exist?
To fuck up the world’s that’s why.
But not you.
Not you.
Oh no.
No, no.
Not you.
Thank you for telling us about you. For reminding us that what you do is good, and what others do is bad. That’s a very novel human outlook. Few people view what they do as right, while viewing what others do as wrong.
In fact, I’m almost positive that you’re the first.
Except that Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor of Net Neutrality, while republicans are 99% opposed.
Hmm it's almost like there is a clear difference between the parties an a critical issue at impacts all of us.
You might even say that the bothsiderism that people who are stupid or intellectually dishonest constantly engage in is absolute fraudulent nonsense.
Oh my. Did he really just gloss over the legendary corruption of the Democratic Party in the USA, while wagging his fingers at others for their party being corrupt? My god. The lengths we go to in order to convince ourselves and others of our righteousness. If only anyone ever bought what we were selling.
Anyway, so yeah, you really got them. How dare people suggest that both parties are corrupt! Why, they must be absolutely delusional. At least you don’t vote for corrupt politicians. You vote for those fiercely ethical politicians known as Democ... I’m sorry, even in jest I just can’t do it.
You’re going to make one lucky psychiatrist a rich man someday.
Kind of interesting that those obscene profits come from the people who claim to hate them. Millenials are the most well-travelled generation in history. They only care about climate change when it’s time to talk.
Do as we say, not as we do, amirite?
You want we should chain them down instead so they can’t keep pouring billions of dollars into oil company profits? What do you do, by the way? Just drive to work and the grocery store, or do you forget about the climate when it’s convenient for you to do so as well?
Oil company profits don’t come from the hand of Satan. The majority comes from affluent progressives, who take more flights per year, and fly more miles, than so-called ‘conservatives’.
If you think we should start jailing them for pouring billions into oil company coffers, say as much.
We know, but the 10% get what the 90% will accept. Vote corporate corruption or throw your vote away, the tell them, and they buy it. Democracy is government by people with an average IQ of 98. We canâ(TM)t expect much better.
Then hit me with a data cap thatâ(TM)s the same as those paying for 1/10th the speed. At least Iâ(TM)ll hit my cap sooner than they will, though! Suckers!
People routinely show they do not give a fuck about their private data.
Thatâ(TM)s pretty much what certain people want you to believe, and itâ(TM)s not hard to do when the statement is right about most people.
By and large, the economy doesnâ(TM)t work well for the most discriminating consumers, because the 10% gets what the 90% will accept. Most companies will gladly dispense with their top 10% most demanding customers, so with few real alternatives, those who two care either have to knuckle under and have their privacy violated while shaking their fist, or cast of technology altogether and become sustenance farmers.
Critical thinking begins at an IQ of around 110, and 2/3rds of humans are below this. People with IQs under 100, and almost certainly those with IQs under 90, could not care less about their private data. Alas, the sub-100 population dwarfs the 120+ folks, so as it so often happen when certain things hit critical mass, average people determine the market... where the market goes, what companies expect us to tolerate, etc.
Itâ(TM)s not that âoepeopleâ donâ(TM)t care, itâ(TM)s that the people who do care are vastly outnumbered.
This is the main problem with Democracy as a form of government too. Itâ(TM)s idiot rule. You have twice as many below-average people as people in the creative/technical classes, and all the votes count the same. Candidates donâ(TM)t have to make sophisticated arguments to win. In fact, quite the contrary more often than not.
Bottom-line, there are plenty of people who care. Millions. Most of them are in the technical class (sysadmins, developers, etc). Itâ(TM)s the masses that tend not to care, and this is the demographic that companies cater to.
Itâ(TM)s overly-simplistic to use this Darwinian numbers game as evidence that nobody cares.
Here in the USA, just 3 months ago, a potential land âlordâ(TM) asked for all of my kidâ(TM)s Social Security Numbers. I said NO but didnâ(TM)t get the place. The decision was mutual. Iâ(TM)d already made a deposit and I asked for it back. If Iâ(TM)d been more desperate Iâ(TM)d imagined Iâ(TM)d have had to give it to them. This story is just a harbinger of things to come as the master/slave relationship becomes more formalized as decades pass by. There will be fewer companies to work for in 100 years, and this employers will be able to ask for all kinds of things. Having bought off the lawmakers, there will be no one to put a stop to it.
Itâ(TM)s not here yet, and likely wonâ(TM)t be in our lifetimes, but it will get there. Critical thinking begins at an IQ of 110, and 66% of people are below this threshold. The masses will vote to enslave themselves, and the rest of you will have little choice but to go along with it. Kicking and screaming no doubt. Your only way out is to join the ruling class and become one of the oppressors. The people canâ(TM)t be saved from themselves. I think even Lenin came to the same conclusion.
Heys Slashdot, Iâ(TM)m not trying to be a penile implant (it just happens to come naturally), but is there really no way to fix the Apple quote thing? I mean, sure, Apple is a company made up of fuckwads and brainwashed users, but are iOS devices really so rare that you every post made by one should be mangled so mercilessly? Sure, as an Apple user, Iâ(TM)m used to taking up the pooper on a regular basis, but surely in 2018 thereâ(TM)s solution to this problem in the message board software somewhere, no?
Sea-Tac airport is once again breaking travel records, and traffic is a jammed as ever.
Study after study finds that, the more likely one is to believe in climate change, the greater the carbon footprint of the person.
Self-described âoeprogressivesâ take more flights per year, and fly more miles than self-described âoeconservativesâ.
Municipalities fail to highlight climate-change as a thread when it comes to selling their own municipal bonds.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence which shows that even the most vehement believers in climate change, almost completely disregard its threat when it might incovenience them. This would not be the case, for instance, if an asteroid were hurtling toward the earth.
In the end âoedo as we say, not as we doâ, is simply not an affective stragegy. Climate Change as an issue is little more than a dog whistle for proponents of the current oligarchal rule. Generall people whom the government has served quite well, to the point that they donâ(TM)t understand anyone who doesnâ(TM)t trust the government to do everything for them.
Evidence that people are actually worried about climate change it is scarce to non-existent. Since the more affluent one is, the highe oneâ(TM)s carbon footprint on average, this is simply not the working-classâ(TM)s problem to solve. You guys could go a long way toward solving it all by yourselves, and your dirty little secret, is that you donâ(TM)t need the non-beleivers to believe in order for you to do so. Youâ(TM)re just using them to scapegoat your own continued inaction.
Scapegoating the working-class for the sins of the affluent is usually a successfull ruse, the dead horse has just been beaten one too many times lately.
Youâ(TM)d have better luck waiting a couple years then trying again.
When people arenâ(TM)t sure where their next meal is coming from, they could not care less what the sea-level in Malibu will be in 60 years.
When you have all of your immediate needs met, though, you can afford to suffer one moral panic after another, and even make up threats altogether if you have to. You know, like fretting over whether or not trans people are offended because they have to poop in a closed stall in the menâ(TM)s room.
If youâ(TM)re worried about the climate, explain to mellinials, the most travelled generation ever, that a single flight in coach puts out as much CO2 per person than a private automobile for an entire year.
Then, ask them how they can take that flight back home or the holidays when it means the certain destruction of the planet.
Maybe when everyone else sees you all start to truly sacrifice for the issue, they will to.
Maybe.
Or you can just do the âoedo as we say not as we doâ thing, since it will at least convince the afflient progressive that youâ(TM)re one of them.
And really, isnâ(TM)t that the point? Or do you really think we think that you care how comfortable our deplorable grandchildren will be in 80 years?
Why donâ(TM)t you people feel like you deserve Appleâ(TM)s love?
Maybe itâ(TM)s because you donâ(TM)t.
Some of you replace you iDevices every 2 years, and not the recommended every 3 months.
Face it, you donâ(TM)t deserve to be able to repair your own devices. If you cared about Apple, youâ(TM)d simply replace them.
But no, youâ(TM)re all special. Itâ(TM)s YOUR device because YOU paid for it and YOU want to repair it... you you you you you.
You disgust me. The lot of you. All Apple has ever tried to do was show you how to love. To show you how to live. To show you how to be the person that you were capable of becoming. To fullfill the great promise that is you, and to give you a pathway to happiness, life, and love.
And you wipe your smelly, pimple-covered asses with it, throw it on the ground, and shout âoeme me me me!â
Well go to hell, because Apple owes you nothing! You are not fit to smell the farts of iPeople! You know, people with 2, 3, 4 devices. People who donâ(TM)t care how much RAM is in them. People who... well, people who are not you.
If you donâ(TM)t love Apple, well, youâ(TM)re pretty much a serial killer, or worse, an Android user.
donâ(TM)t worry, just tell them that you had a Twinkie for lunch. Fine, a case of Twinkies.
You made Lil Kim look like an amateur, though.
Iâ(TM)m sure Apple will richly reward you for your loyalty. No, really, any day now they totally are going to be all like âYo thanks dawg, hereâ(TM)s a free Mac Pro!â(TM)
Yeah, you tell him! I mean, look at that loser, he lives in a country thatâ(TM)s so shitty that he only feels comfortable posting his opinions as Anonymous Coward! Hahahaha... looooooooser!
Dude! Do we try to shit on your purchased identity? Do you know how fucking hard it is to cultivate a talent? Days! Months! Years even!
Fuck that!
Squarely in they brown eye at that!
Imma buy me an iThing then go around saying things like âoeDonâ(TM)t buy it if you canâ(TM)t afford it, thenâ.
Cause I ainâ(TM)t no poor person, and ishit is how I tell certain people that Iâ(TM)m better than they are. Not to mention, it kicks up the ole self-esteem a notch or two, cause between you and me, Iâ(TM)m otherwise pretty ordinary. I just like the feeling I get when I buy ishit cause it makes me feel special. I totally let the girls see my iPhone at the bar too. It kinda says âI may have a small weiner, but Iâ(TM)ll at least take you to a nice dinner before prematurely ejaculating after catching a glimpse of your nipple (iOS doesnâ(TM)t allow icky girl parts in its apps, and I respect bitches too much to objectify them by thinking of them naked.)
Iâ(TM)m no athlete, not much of a musician, and Iâ(TM)m not one of those techy nerds like you. Iâ(TM)m one HELL of a consumer, though, so how about you leave my source of pride alone? I mean, we all need our own bag, amirite?
I may buy my identity, but I have the receipt, so leave me alone and go pick on someone who takes pride in what they do, not what they buy.
By the way, its that same fraction of a fraction that make the products and software you take such pride in purchasing. How quickly you want to toss them aside and ignore their complaints when you think thereâ(TM)s even a minor benefit to you. Or did you think it was the hot milf across the street churning out those cool IOS games that you just love to play? Go ahead and ignore them, though. Whatâ(TM)s the worst that could happen? Itâ(TM)s not like the average people couldnâ(TM)t do it themselves, right?
The pesky smart people must be eradicated! The top technologically literate people must be sacrificed for the good of the average people! Itâ(TM)s the only route to profit! We must stop allowing the smartest of us to dictate the path forward. Our corporate masters are our only hope! The smart people must be rooted out wherever they congregate, let they fester like a boil and their knowledge spread! Join us, the many, the proud, the average consumer! Reject the pompous superiority of those who might fix their own machine, and embrace the loving acceptance and warm bosom of the corporate evangelist as he leads us to the promised land where all problems are taken care of by our benevolent masters! Rise up and cast off the shackles of those oppressors who are smarter than average, for it is they who will keep the share price from reaching itâ(TM)s true potential. Be average. Be proud. Buy shit. Happiness awaits. All we must do is let go and let Apple.
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Can you image, no liability whatsoever for Big Pharma? Eh, Iâ(TM)m sure theyâ(TM)ll do the right thing, Youâ(TM)d be a nutjob to think otherwise.
There are no side-effects to vaccines whatsoever, and anyone who worries about side-effects harming their children should probably be imprisoned or chopped up and sold as meat.
I mean, how crazy do you have to be not to trust big companies with a get-out-of-lawsuit-free card?
Pretty damn crazy!
Thstâ(TM)s My story and I sticking with it.
Approve of me! Approve of me dammit! Tell me Iâ(TM)m good and not one of the unwashed, uncool working class! I need your affirmation and I need it now! I love the ruling class and all that it stands for!
Not sure why some of you persist in calling these things âcontracts â(TM). Contracts are negotiated. These things are wish-lists on the part of the company, and are chock-full of unenforceable and some sometimes illegal clauses. Once upon a time, the USA was one of the greatest nations on earth. Now, instead of innovating, our largest corporations more or less exist by seeing what they can swindle and trick citizens into by sneaking it by in 27 pages of legalese. Itâ(TM)s been said that you can tell responsible from unreasonable actions by figuring out what would happen if everyone did them. In the case of reading adhesion âcontractsâ(TM), the economy would grind to a halt, and nearly every company that depends on people ignoring these things, would go bankrupt in short order as people encountered one 30-page âcontractâ(TM) after another after another. When your very business depends on people not reading the things, itâ(TM)s pretty disengenuous to state that you actually expect people to read them. Of course, you could always force the issue and disable the âI Agreeâ(TM) button until sufficient time had passed for an average person to read it. As it is, companies allow people to click though 10,000 words in 3 seconds., then represent to the court that as far as they know, people read the things. Except that have a whole shitload of web logs that say otherwise. Of course, in the end, the minorities are only offered what the majorities are willing to accept, so the notion that weâ(TM)ve had any choice is s completely fraudulent position. I guess Bad Faith is our chief product these days, though. The shell of this nationâ(TM)s greatness is now buried in 800 pages of fine print, oh and donâ(TM)t forget arbitration clauses too since our legal system is now engaged in a race to the bottom with every other industrialized banana republic. Haha, tricked you! You totally didnâ(TM)t see the fine print on page 89! Oh well, should have read the contract. Now pay up, bitch! And the home ...
Of the ....
Brayayayave ....
Insurance rarely pays out big claims anymore. They try to âsettleâ(TM) for less, and when you try to sue, you find out they have an arbitration clause. Bad faith has been de-facto legalized in the insurance industry and it is very much a gamble when, if, or how much you will get paid. People feel âoeprotectedâ. That is until they try and file a claim. They pay premiums for years only to be offered half when the time comes, and are told to take it or go to a rigged arbitrator who will give them even less. Maturity is the point where you realize that most things youâ(TM)ve been told is a lie. Insurance is one of those things. Itâ(TM)s hardly the surefire protection that people think it is, and is a straight-up gamble in the USA.
A lot of people die fresh out of rehab, after their tolerance has been lowered to the floor, and they try to resume use. People often donâ(TM)t OD until they have a period of abstinence. There are 110 year old Chinese people who have been addicted to opium since their teens. Prohibition and the drug war kills far more people than opioids.
How else was he supposed to warn potential buyers that the reviews were fake? Personal email to all Amazon customers?
If by that you mean that I am able to correctly differentiate between the politicians looking out for our interest and the politicians who seek to destroy our internet, our country, and the concept of basic decency - then yes I have fallen into that trap.
You’re good. You’re so good. If only more people could see the obvious.
You embody goodness and all that’s good, and pure and holy in the world. If only everyone were like you, dare I say the world would be a perfect place.
I hate people who aren’t you. Why do they even exist?
To fuck up the world’s that’s why.
But not you.
Not you.
Oh no.
No, no.
Not you.
Thank you for telling us about you. For reminding us that what you do is good, and what others do is bad. That’s a very novel human outlook. Few people view what they do as right, while viewing what others do as wrong.
In fact, I’m almost positive that you’re the first.
You.
You.
Good.
So very very good.
You.
Except that Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor of Net Neutrality, while republicans are 99% opposed.
Hmm it's almost like there is a clear difference between the parties an a critical issue at impacts all of us.
You might even say that the bothsiderism that people who are stupid or intellectually dishonest constantly engage in is absolute fraudulent nonsense.
Oh my. Did he really just gloss over the legendary corruption of the Democratic Party in the USA, while wagging his fingers at others for their party being corrupt? My god. The lengths we go to in order to convince ourselves and others of our righteousness. If only anyone ever bought what we were selling.
Anyway, so yeah, you really got them. How dare people suggest that both parties are corrupt! Why, they must be absolutely delusional. At least you don’t vote for corrupt politicians. You vote for those fiercely ethical politicians known as Democ... I’m sorry, even in jest I just can’t do it.
You’re going to make one lucky psychiatrist a rich man someday.
Yes, I am going to keep posting this until you knot-heads get it.
Kind of interesting that those obscene profits come from the people who claim to hate them. Millenials are the most well-travelled generation in history. They only care about climate change when it’s time to talk.
Do as we say, not as we do, amirite?
You want we should chain them down instead so they can’t keep pouring billions of dollars into oil company profits? What do you do, by the way? Just drive to work and the grocery store, or do you forget about the climate when it’s convenient for you to do so as well?
Oil company profits don’t come from the hand of Satan. The majority comes from affluent progressives, who take more flights per year, and fly more miles, than so-called ‘conservatives’.
If you think we should start jailing them for pouring billions into oil company coffers, say as much.
We know, but the 10% get what the 90% will accept. Vote corporate corruption or throw your vote away, the tell them, and they buy it. Democracy is government by people with an average IQ of 98. We canâ(TM)t expect much better.
Then hit me with a data cap thatâ(TM)s the same as those paying for 1/10th the speed. At least Iâ(TM)ll hit my cap sooner than they will, though! Suckers!
Thatâ(TM)s pretty much what certain people want you to believe, and itâ(TM)s not hard to do when the statement is right about most people.
By and large, the economy doesnâ(TM)t work well for the most discriminating consumers, because the 10% gets what the 90% will accept. Most companies will gladly dispense with their top 10% most demanding customers, so with few real alternatives, those who two care either have to knuckle under and have their privacy violated while shaking their fist, or cast of technology altogether and become sustenance farmers.
Critical thinking begins at an IQ of around 110, and 2/3rds of humans are below this. People with IQs under 100, and almost certainly those with IQs under 90, could not care less about their private data. Alas, the sub-100 population dwarfs the 120+ folks, so as it so often happen when certain things hit critical mass, average people determine the market ... where the market goes, what companies expect us to tolerate, etc.
Itâ(TM)s not that âoepeopleâ donâ(TM)t care, itâ(TM)s that the people who do care are vastly outnumbered.
This is the main problem with Democracy as a form of government too. Itâ(TM)s idiot rule. You have twice as many below-average people as people in the creative/technical classes, and all the votes count the same. Candidates donâ(TM)t have to make sophisticated arguments to win. In fact, quite the contrary more often than not.
Bottom-line, there are plenty of people who care. Millions. Most of them are in the technical class (sysadmins, developers, etc). Itâ(TM)s the masses that tend not to care, and this is the demographic that companies cater to.
Itâ(TM)s overly-simplistic to use this Darwinian numbers game as evidence that nobody cares.
Itâ(TM)s not here yet, and likely wonâ(TM)t be in our lifetimes, but it will get there. Critical thinking begins at an IQ of 110, and 66% of people are below this threshold. The masses will vote to enslave themselves, and the rest of you will have little choice but to go along with it. Kicking and screaming no doubt. Your only way out is to join the ruling class and become one of the oppressors. The people canâ(TM)t be saved from themselves. I think even Lenin came to the same conclusion.
Paul Revere existed before the 40s, but not during the 40s. Just saying.
Wait, let me guess, I need to buy a quotation mark conversion dongle for $29, donâ(TM)t I?
Heys Slashdot, Iâ(TM)m not trying to be a penile implant (it just happens to come naturally), but is there really no way to fix the Apple quote thing? I mean, sure, Apple is a company made up of fuckwads and brainwashed users, but are iOS devices really so rare that you every post made by one should be mangled so mercilessly? Sure, as an Apple user, Iâ(TM)m used to taking up the pooper on a regular basis, but surely in 2018 thereâ(TM)s solution to this problem in the message board software somewhere, no?
Study after study finds that, the more likely one is to believe in climate change, the greater the carbon footprint of the person.
Self-described âoeprogressivesâ take more flights per year, and fly more miles than self-described âoeconservativesâ.
Municipalities fail to highlight climate-change as a thread when it comes to selling their own municipal bonds.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence which shows that even the most vehement believers in climate change, almost completely disregard its threat when it might incovenience them. This would not be the case, for instance, if an asteroid were hurtling toward the earth.
In the end âoedo as we say, not as we doâ, is simply not an affective stragegy. Climate Change as an issue is little more than a dog whistle for proponents of the current oligarchal rule. Generall people whom the government has served quite well, to the point that they donâ(TM)t understand anyone who doesnâ(TM)t trust the government to do everything for them.
Evidence that people are actually worried about climate change it is scarce to non-existent. Since the more affluent one is, the highe oneâ(TM)s carbon footprint on average, this is simply not the working-classâ(TM)s problem to solve. You guys could go a long way toward solving it all by yourselves, and your dirty little secret, is that you donâ(TM)t need the non-beleivers to believe in order for you to do so. Youâ(TM)re just using them to scapegoat your own continued inaction.
Scapegoating the working-class for the sins of the affluent is usually a successfull ruse, the dead horse has just been beaten one too many times lately.
Youâ(TM)d have better luck waiting a couple years then trying again.
When people arenâ(TM)t sure where their next meal is coming from, they could not care less what the sea-level in Malibu will be in 60 years.
When you have all of your immediate needs met, though, you can afford to suffer one moral panic after another, and even make up threats altogether if you have to. You know, like fretting over whether or not trans people are offended because they have to poop in a closed stall in the menâ(TM)s room.
If youâ(TM)re worried about the climate, explain to mellinials, the most travelled generation ever, that a single flight in coach puts out as much CO2 per person than a private automobile for an entire year.
Then, ask them how they can take that flight back home or the holidays when it means the certain destruction of the planet.
Maybe when everyone else sees you all start to truly sacrifice for the issue, they will to.
Maybe.
Or you can just do the âoedo as we say not as we doâ thing, since it will at least convince the afflient progressive that youâ(TM)re one of them.
And really, isnâ(TM)t that the point? Or do you really think we think that you care how comfortable our deplorable grandchildren will be in 80 years?
Maybe itâ(TM)s because you donâ(TM)t.
Some of you replace you iDevices every 2 years, and not the recommended every 3 months.
Face it, you donâ(TM)t deserve to be able to repair your own devices. If you cared about Apple, youâ(TM)d simply replace them.
But no, youâ(TM)re all special. Itâ(TM)s YOUR device because YOU paid for it and YOU want to repair it ... you you you you you.
You disgust me. The lot of you. All Apple has ever tried to do was show you how to love. To show you how to live. To show you how to be the person that you were capable of becoming. To fullfill the great promise that is you, and to give you a pathway to happiness, life, and love.
And you wipe your smelly, pimple-covered asses with it, throw it on the ground, and shout âoeme me me me!â
Well go to hell, because Apple owes you nothing! You are not fit to smell the farts of iPeople! You know, people with 2, 3, 4 devices. People who donâ(TM)t care how much RAM is in them. People who ... well, people who are not you.
If you donâ(TM)t love Apple, well, youâ(TM)re pretty much a serial killer, or worse, an Android user.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Ok that was funny
Nobody listens to nerds!
Now Imma gonna go use my software, which was all written by gangsta rappers and their smoking hot ghetto-as bitches, ya heard?
Yeah, you better have heard.
Get off of Slashdot, nerd.
donâ(TM)t worry, just tell them that you had a Twinkie for lunch. Fine, a case of Twinkies.
You made Lil Kim look like an amateur, though.
Iâ(TM)m sure Apple will richly reward you for your loyalty. No, really, any day now they totally are going to be all like âYo thanks dawg, hereâ(TM)s a free Mac Pro!â(TM)
Any day now. Just wait, youâ(TM)ll see.
I mean it.
Just wait.
I know, Inknow, we all need a dream. I mean, how many times can you tell your âpartnerâ(TM) that her jeans donâ(TM)t make her ass look big?
And they totally donâ(TM)t. Itâ(TM)s her ass that makes her ass look big, amirite?
Awww yeah, you know what time it is ... high five up top!
So, yeah, I donâ(TM)t blame you. Iâ(TM)d be all âoefuck fuck fuckity fuck motherfucker âoe too.
Just make sure you clean your piss off the toilet seat this time. You donâ(TM)t want a repeat of last weekend do you?
Of course you donâ(TM)t.
(No really, go clean the toilet before she gets home. You can swing your dick online later)
Wait ...
Fuck that!
Squarely in they brown eye at that!
Imma buy me an iThing then go around saying things like âoeDonâ(TM)t buy it if you canâ(TM)t afford it, thenâ.
Cause I ainâ(TM)t no poor person, and ishit is how I tell certain people that Iâ(TM)m better than they are. Not to mention, it kicks up the ole self-esteem a notch or two, cause between you and me, Iâ(TM)m otherwise pretty ordinary. I just like the feeling I get when I buy ishit cause it makes me feel special. I totally let the girls see my iPhone at the bar too. It kinda says âI may have a small weiner, but Iâ(TM)ll at least take you to a nice dinner before prematurely ejaculating after catching a glimpse of your nipple (iOS doesnâ(TM)t allow icky girl parts in its apps, and I respect bitches too much to objectify them by thinking of them naked.)
Iâ(TM)m no athlete, not much of a musician, and Iâ(TM)m not one of those techy nerds like you. Iâ(TM)m one HELL of a consumer, though, so how about you leave my source of pride alone? I mean, we all need our own bag, amirite?
I may buy my identity, but I have the receipt, so leave me alone and go pick on someone who takes pride in what they do, not what they buy.
Kthanksbye
By the way, its that same fraction of a fraction that make the products and software you take such pride in purchasing. How quickly you want to toss them aside and ignore their complaints when you think thereâ(TM)s even a minor benefit to you. Or did you think it was the hot milf across the street churning out those cool IOS games that you just love to play? Go ahead and ignore them, though. Whatâ(TM)s the worst that could happen? Itâ(TM)s not like the average people couldnâ(TM)t do it themselves, right?
The pesky smart people must be eradicated! The top technologically literate people must be sacrificed for the good of the average people! Itâ(TM)s the only route to profit! We must stop allowing the smartest of us to dictate the path forward. Our corporate masters are our only hope! The smart people must be rooted out wherever they congregate, let they fester like a boil and their knowledge spread! Join us, the many, the proud, the average consumer! Reject the pompous superiority of those who might fix their own machine, and embrace the loving acceptance and warm bosom of the corporate evangelist as he leads us to the promised land where all problems are taken care of by our benevolent masters! Rise up and cast off the shackles of those oppressors who are smarter than average, for it is they who will keep the share price from reaching itâ(TM)s true potential. Be average. Be proud. Buy shit. Happiness awaits. All we must do is let go and let Apple.