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https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/bruce-castor-trump-impeachment-trial-defense-opens-20210212.html In case anyone was holding out hope for any more MODERATE REPUBLICANS to grow a spine: "Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) praised the presentation during a break in the proceedings, saying 'they are putting on a good defense today.'"
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Finally, Crooked Hillary may be brought to justice:quote:
Gotta love how people who would have died at the hands of Trump’s mob had they caught them are going to vote to acquit the man who incited them. Feel like there’s a word for it that the alt-right really likes... PATRIOT, of course! 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/bruce-castor-trump-impeachment-trial-defense-opens-20210212.html I mean that was before her and Collins asked the defense team a question and they didnt bother to answer it in the slightest. So while there is no chance there will be enough to convict, I am going to bet there will be more than a few republicans voting for it.
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Police have the discretion to give elderly pacifists brain damage for breaking curfew. It's just our glorious system. https://twitter.com/MikeBaggerman/status/1359984548512210950
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Because being able to self repair has always been something that was looked for in an apple product.
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Yeah I’d actually go out of my way to buy a easily repairable phone if givin the option. I read about some euro phone that ifixit gave a 10 on and was fairly impressed but of course it’s not in American markets.
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ded posted:Because being able to self repair has always been something that was looked for in an apple product. Well it hasn't been, but it should have been. It's easy for people to not worry about what happens if something breaks as they're buying it, so I like the idea of having to show off how repairable a product is at time of purchase if you're going past a certain economic threshold to better get an idea of the price of ownership. More idealistically, I'd like to think that a culture which values repairability would, over time, grow to me a more technically savvy culture over time, and also value some of the ideals that may be necessary to survive climate change.
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I'd imagine that it's not just self repair, but also the ability of independent businesses to do repairs. Apple's iPhones actually brushed up against this in a big way a few years ago; the (at the time, new) phone would intentionally disable TouchID if the screen was replaced.
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I looked up how to replace the battery on a 16” MacBook Pro and you might as well throw the thing in the trash instead Half the poo poo is glued down and you have to disassemble nearly all of it
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Not saying I'm going to, but are there any places that have put odds on Trump being acquitted by not getting the votes with 51-50? Can't be more than +115.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Not saying I'm going to, but are there any places that have put odds on Trump being acquitted by not getting the votes with 51-50? Can't be more than +115. bad bet imo, Romney already voted to convict once and has no reason not to do so again.
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There is no way he’s convinced
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Naramyth posted:There is no way he’s convinced Oh absolutely not, I just don't think the vote will be 51-50.
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Fallom posted:I looked up how to replace the battery on a 16” MacBook Pro and you might as well throw the thing in the trash instead it is, but that being said my apple poo poo has lasted about a billion time longer than windows or android stuff for me. I still have a macbook pro from 2009 that gets use for silly poo poo, an imac from 2011 that I threw a ssd into and ive had the same phone forever now. regardless im stoked about what france has done
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:it is, but that being said my apple poo poo has lasted about a billion time longer than windows or android stuff for me. I still have a macbook pro from 2009 that gets use for silly poo poo, an imac from 2011 that I threw a ssd into and ive had the same phone forever now. I had one of the early iPads and it was an impressive piece of hardware. What was more impressive though was the refusal to allow it to get further OS updates which locked out apps I used rendering the entire device useless. I was basically just using it to read PDFs of journal articles and comics and websurfing so it wasn't something that suffered performance-wise as it aged in any way. Given the cost of that device and the fact that it was "broken" intentionally etc I haven't really bought any Apple products since.
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Apple pitched to investors that the goal was to make them that way to push planned obsolescence and keep the Apple purchases going. Right To Repair should be a National Law.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Oh absolutely not, I just don't think the vote will be 51-50. You’re right! There aren’t 101 votes.
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Mr. Nice! posted:You’re right! There aren’t 101 votes. There are if the VP casts the tiebreaker 
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isnt it 67 senators to convict?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:There are if the VP casts the tiebreaker It isn’t tied at 50-50 because this is correct: Hot Karl Marx posted:isnt it 67 senators to convict?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:There are if the VP casts the tiebreaker There’s no tie breaker. They need 67 votes. Efb horribly
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CommieGIR posted:Apple pitched to investors that the goal was to make them that way to push planned obsolescence and keep the Apple purchases going. Lol, remember how John Deere fought right to repair? We're never seeing right to repair here, there's an army of lobbyists to ensure it never happens. Also gently caress apple. Yeah, you might get more lifespan from your apple product, but I'm not paying 2-3x the price in cult premiums when a $100 motorola or $300 Acer is available. Iphones are a stepping stone to a Jitterbug anyhow. This is your next step from an iphone. 
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Mr. Nice! posted:It isn’t tied at 50-50 because this is correct: Technically it still is since the wording of the Constitution as to when the VP gets to vote is "Unless they be equally divided," so Kamala would get to cast a ballot at 50-50 regardless of whether or not it actually matters. e: It's right there next to the clause that assigns the VP the role of protecting the space-time continuum, read your constitutions people!
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Oh, just to correct my ignorance...VP wouldn't cast a vote because its not a tiebreaker? And based upon my math there wouldn't be a need for the VP to cast a vote in a supermajority vote because there could never be a tie. e: Thank you Ace as always.
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I will say that upon review of this helpful article I don't think any Vice Presidents have cast a tiebreaking vote in a pointless situation since it is, well, pointless, so I'd avoid betting on a 51-50 result regardless 
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quote:Also gently caress apple. Yeah, you might get more lifespan from your apple product, but I'm not paying 2-3x the price in cult premiums when a $100 motorola or $300 Acer is available. A $100 phone is not the same as any flagship phone, whether it be Apple or Android. If the cheap rear end phone meets your needs, go for it but there are significant differences, i.e. camera, performance, FaceID (are there any Android phones that have a similarly secure facial recognition system yet?), etc. But beyond hardware the reason why I stick with Apple is the integrated ecosystem in which my laptop/phone/tablet all fully integrate without thinking about it, coupled with their clear corporate commitment to user privacy & data security.
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I enjoy my overpriced MacBook and if it broke I would probably save for another MacBook.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:isnt it 67 senators to convict? Yup, but with McConnell saying acquittal, I'd be surprised if its 52-48.
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Flying_Crab posted:A $100 phone is not the same as any flagship phone, whether it be Apple or Android. If the cheap rear end phone meets your needs, go for it but there are significant differences, i.e. camera, performance, FaceID (are there any Android phones that have a similarly secure facial recognition system yet?), etc. Oh it's no flagship, but can process plenty well for average person camera use or dicking around in spreadsheets. People think they need the newest samsung or apple to do their poo poo when realistically they could get by on something years old. It's similar to everyone wanting unlimited data and then using like, 2gb a month. People exaggerate their need to themselves and end up paying out the rear end for it. I do get that you're buying integration with apple, and that's handy, but I don't see the value personally. I'm not shuffling documents or files to/from my computer on any regular basis, and a usb cable is always laying around anyhow. Paying several hundred if not a thousand bucks or more to avoid using a cable is not in my economical wheelhouse. For what it's worth, most android interface stuff is garbage compared to apple, but again, not paying to avoid having to think a little harder or scratch my head for a bit.
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We're getting witnesses: https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1360606289819222027?s=20
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I got on the iphone train because I touch computers for a living and I want something that’s real simple. I returned to the apple train after using a flagship Samsung for about a year because the apple keyboard understands my flailing at the screen better than the Samsung or google keyboards. Also it feels like every default and design decision was made exactly backwards from apple stuff and that’s annoying.
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Is that a stall so a vote doesn't happen today. Because that feels like a stall. I feel the opposite about apple keyboards. Any time I used a macbook my typing would go out the loving window. I haven't tried an iphone keyboard, I'm just used to hitting backspace anyhow. I will say the keyboard on my old google 3a was better than the one I'm using on this moto, but that's more response than key location. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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There was a Pretty Darn Big earthquake over in Japan. Not bad enough to cause a tsunami or collapse buildings, but a lot of people had stuff falling off their shelves. It probably won't even make the news outside the country, but there are some pretty funny videos coming off of twitter, https://twitter.com/j1RNorOI4sezSR6/status/1360600035138834437 like this guy in his bath during the earthquake, https://twitter.com/himei42/status/1360595666775379971 or this guy's anime figures falling off the shelves. EDIT: It's also about a month away from the 10th anniversary of the big earthquake and tsunami that killed over 15,000 people, and the epicenter was in nearly the exact same location, which is pretty creepy. Spoggerific fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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Spoggerific posted:There was a Pretty Darn Big earthquake over in Japan. Not bad enough to cause a tsunami or collapse buildings, but a lot of people had stuff falling off their shelves. It probably won't even make the news outside the country, but there are some pretty funny videos coming off of twitter, This reminds me I need to make sure my bookcase is strapped to the wall with earthquake straps. I don't have any anime figures but I do have... well, other action figures. Shut up don't laugh at me.
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ded posted:apple kind of built itself on being that special snowflake that you had to get a genius to fix so that you would want to buy applecare because you felt like you needed it. Well in that case specific case it’s because the secure element in the processor and the fingerprint reader must have the same private key. It’s so your fingerprints cannot be read out or your the fingerprint reader spoofed. The problem with repairability is that soldered down and glued components are both cheaper and perform better. A soldered down module is more resistant to vibration, doesn’t have the added space and added cost of the connector, doesn’t have the signal degradation from conductor contacts and so on. As an example, DDR4’s base JEDEC specs were originally 2133MT/s, soldered down LPDDR4 started at 3200MT/s. Unfortunately even if there’s a repairability score of 0 next to something people will probably buy the smaller, better performing, waterproof version of a product.
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As Nero Danced posted:This reminds me I need to make sure my bookcase is strapped to the wall with earthquake straps. I don't have any anime figures but I do have... well, other action figures. Shut up don't laugh at me. lol?
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It's alright. I thought my friend here was past that stuff, then one day I noticed some funko pops in a corner on a bookcase. Then I saw more. Turns out he has a tote full of them. At least his comics and old GI Joes are worth something. He doesn't buy funko pops anymore, but hasn't developed enough shame to put them away.
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