Henry Martins

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Portable device batteries that maintain at least 80% of their capacity after 1000 cycles are exempt. Meaning that most Apple and flagship Samsung Galaxy phones are likely unaffected.

This does nothing to actually encourage improvement for palestinians, it only empowers the israeli far right by convincing the general public negociation is a doomed strategy and only steadfast support for their country, no matter what actions it does, stands between them and anihalation.

Allow me to demonstrate the destructive might we now wield.

It was so fascinating from a psychological perspective. You do this horrible, unforgivable thing of telling a complete stranger neutrally pointing out the red flags in something theyre concerned about that they deserve to die a horrific and violent death, and before you do that you do the research to accurately he/him him. It showed this fascinating conflict between what they thought of themselves (Good People who make sure to be Trans Allies) and their outward actions (people who wish death upon others for challenging their pre-conceived ideas of the world. Objectively the actions of horrible people)

Copy paste. They all have the same fucking names and pictures!!! And the same exact story details(?????)

Even when there's a ceasefire, or when there wasn't electricity I'm gaze those scams STILL popped up.

All their messages send immediately. Like they're bring copy pasted. Actual humans take a few seconds to type stuff out. But no, you get 7 msgs on the instant.

Especially when it intentionally supports their prejudices.

They don't care about actually being good people. They care about their tribe perceiving them as good people. And that includes telling people who are clearly on the side of BadWrongEvil Israel to kill themselves. That includes making references to actions used by fascists against their political enemies, because the only wrong thing about those actions is they were not used against the Correct Targets.

It reminds me of people who believe conspiracy theories, for whom there is no way to break their delusion. Even if their conspiracy is disproven, they’ll just move the goalpost and keep believing. Happens to the Qanon folks all the time. Same with flat earthers. The number of predictions Qanon has made that were proven false is huge, but they keep believing.

Disbelieving truth becomes a form of control. It’s a way to simplify the world, to make it black and white with good and bad people in it. Their world is simpler if they ignore the truth. And it’s comforting.

Which means if you challenge that world view, you’re not simply providing evidence of truth, you’re an agent of evil, trying to make the world confusing enough they can no longer identify good or bad. You want to draw them in, make them evil like you. It doesn’t actually matter if you’re telling the truth—the truth from the mouth of the devil is always evil.

For that, I got a response that they don't "associate with zionists" and an immediate block.

Our chronically online weirdos can't drop that ridiculous idea, because then they'd have to stop quote mining every historical Jew who ever used the word "colonize," and they'll never do that.

So, they are left with a question: "Moon Colony, colonialism question mark???"

By wanting to migrate to colonize the Moon, we are living out white supremecist eurocentric dreams of white yeoman farmers finding terra nullis to expand into. This is inherently sinful Racist Actually.

The moon is a wasteland of cooled lava oceans, seared inpact craters, and irradiated deserts of toxic, sharpened dust. It has no life, at least no native life (some microbes might have hithiked on the moon missions), no local ecology, no liquid water, no breathable atmosphere, none of these basic measures associated with a place even remotely habitable!

There is *no one* to abuse there, and whatever abuse you can do to the landscape is nothing compared to the abuse it endures from the cosmos from merely *existing*!

Like, does excess fatty tissue have an health impact? Yes, but BMI is useless to evaluate what counts as excess, it varies wildly from person to person based on age, body type, athleticism and physique (powerlifters and wrestlers consistently get classified as overweight due to all the muscle), and many other effects, and people moralize it far too much, especially since actually changing one's weight long term can range from brutally hard with the means available to outright impossible due to medication.

I once had an economic conversation with a guy who was adamant that we should eliminate currency and go back to a barter system for world peace because "lots of people kill over money, but I've never heard of someone getting killed over a cow."

sephardi 

sephardi (ladino) 

ashkenazi 

moroccan

juhuri/kavkazi

bukharian

there's no need to be scared, just be aware.

toronto police are advising "if you see something, say something"

Having a *symbolic* boundary seems like the perfect way to preserve that tradition.

Since it meant avoiding travel beyond the domicile, with it being either one's home or the bounds of walled cities, and since modern cities tend to have a notable absense of walls, either it had to be adapted, or it would mean discarding the tradition, or de facto house arrest.