I know, I was just being silly for the sake of being silly on that one heh.

Fining Apple tens of billions of dollars is genuinely a great start towards making it not financially viable for them to break the law, so I’m all for it!

I get what you’re saying, but I strenuously disagree with your central assertion that there’s no point in legitimate criticism of a sitting president as long as there isn’t currently a better president available.

You don’t just get a free pass to commit crimes against humanity because there’s nobody lined up who wouldn’t.

That’s lumping the US president in with the likes of Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Benyamin Netanyahu, and other presidents whose subjects aren’t allowed to criticize their worst actions.

It does for the genocide denying Zionists whose ONLY goal is to convince people that the actions of the Israeli government are justified. I suspect that the one you originally addressed was one of them, if not just a thoroughly gaslighted useful idiot 🤷

Which in turn ignores the fact that only Biden is CURRENTLY the president and accountable for his own actions (which include material aid and political cover to the point that the US in general and the executive branch in particular is an active PARTICIPANT in the genocide rather than just a biased bystander) and that he’s acting against the wishes of not just the vast majority of the people who voted for him, but also the majority of the population in general.

I don’t like the use of the term either, as it makes legitimate criticism seem disingenuous if not downright Trumpian, but that doesn’t mean that it’s inaccurate.

Nothing except for deflection of blame for the many war crimes of the fascist apartheid regime of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

up to 10 percent of its global annual revenue

Should a DMA violation be repeated, fines can reach up to 20 percent of global annual revenue.

That’s over a thousand dollars!

Throughout the past several months, Apple has made a number of changes to comply with bypass the DMA

Fixed that for them

We are confident our plan complies with the law,

It most likely doesn’t.

and estimate more than 99 percent of developers would pay the same or less in fees to Apple under the new business terms we created.

Translation: current fleecing levels will remain

All developers doing business in the EU on the App Store have the opportunity to utilize the capabilities that we have introduced, including the ability to direct app users to the web to complete purchases at a very competitive rate.

You’re still free to pay us for using the cheaper services provided by others.

As we have done routinely, we will continue to listen and engage with the European Commission.”

We’re paying close attention to find out how best to bypass the law without paying the fines

delaying the rollout of Apple Intelligence — the company’s name for a suite of generative AI features that will debut in iOS 18 — and some other features in the EU. “We are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us to compromise the integrity of our products in ways that risk user privacy and data security,” the company told Bloomberg.

Translation: they won’t let us monetize every tiny bit of data with no compensation or even notice

Fuck Apple. Fuck their walled garden profiteering bullshit. FUCK their blatant lies about it.

No no, they’ll provide FANS to serve as butlers. Fetch the odd cool drink, ice cream or condoms. That sort of thing

Right behind you!

seems to mostly offset the loss of total productivity with better productivity-per-time

Actually, it MORE than offsets it, leading to MORE overall productivity from not having exhausted and unhappy workers

Government official affirms that fascist war criminal isn’t arbitrarily exempt from international law. Zionist genocide deniers flip out. Film at eleven.

“Motherfucker”.

It was since removed, though.

Well that’s just fucking great!

As bad as Trump is, he isn’t championing and encouraging extrajudicial killings (at least not yet) like Duterte

He IS praising Duterte for it, though. As you implied yourself, Trump getting back in the white house will guarantee extrajudicial killings. Probably as a matter of stated policy rather than just something cops aren’t discouraged from.

That is however something your average Filipino voters were drawn to and supported with thunderous applause.

The country fell for the rhetoric of a demagogue. The US, Russia, Hungary, India, Israel, Belarus, and Japan all elected a fascist demagogue as their leader within the last 10 years.

I’m sure you consider some of those shithole countries but would you say that they all are, or do you admit that a country’s demagogue leader isn’t 1/1 indicative of the country as a whole?

Of November? I remember something about a gunpowder treason and you should too! 😛

Perhaps they (her lawyers) got worried about all her completely justified complaints about being snubbed for awards 🤷

As someone who considered Suits somewhat of a guilty pleasure, that ad is absolute mirthless garbage lol. The top comment on the video is spot on.

I thought for a second that the GP, the celebrity chef and the astrologer was the same person and had some pressing questions 😄

As do I!

UNRWA: Children are dying completely preventably due to the intentional actions of a genocidal apartheid regime

Disingenuous Zionist idiots, obviously lying: you’re Hamas

So damn relieved to see my country on the list of signatories to this letter in spite of our piece of shit foreign minister (and former prime minister who had more or less quit politics only to change his mind and start yet another useless neoliberal party because he couldn’t live without the free first class flights) insisting on not recognizing Palestine even as the rest of Scandinavia does!