iMessage is one of the largest enablers of ostracization and teen bullying. It’s a stupid cult - people see green text in their chats and they freak out. Apple knows this extremely well, and profits from it. Apple couldn’t give two shits about the degraded security either. They know this pressures their users to be locked in to their platform, and pressures people outside to buy into it or suffer being on the outside of their cult. This quick move to cut off Beeper makes Apple’s disregard for teens, security, and their own users painfully obvious. So long as they can coerce people into buying into their locked and incompatible system, Apple will continue to fuck everyone.
China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.
Congressional Republicans have for months repeatedly written to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland demanding he appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, the president’s son, over his business dealings....
I am so confused why a federal special counsel is being appointed to investigate a guy who is not an elected official. Is it really just because his dad is president, and that’s it? That’s the bar? Why isn’t this just being investigated in the normal justice channels?
It is deeply disturbing that Trump is still in the lead for the Republican nomination despite his multiple indictments, multiple sexual transgressions, complete ineptitude in things like economics, foreign policy, freakin’ covid, and his open hostility towards democracy, rule of law, and the US Constitution. He openly used the presidency to enrich himself and his family at the expense of US taxpayers, American democracy, and world stability. His open love for dictators like Putin should be sending shivers down the spine of every anti-government right-winger, and yet they still rush to embrace this guy as their best choice. Their best fucking choice. The guy that doesn’t even pretend that he doesn’t want dictator-level power. I guess that’s what the Republicans crave.
China’s foreign ministry has criticised a brief US visit by Taiwan vice president William Lai, saying he was a separatist and “troublemaker through and through” and Beijing would take strong steps to protect its sovereignty.
I don’t get it. If OP believes so much in the things they post, why play innocent? Fucking own it OP, you spineless twat. If you pretend you’re all ‘ooh I didn’t know’, and your post history says otherwise, then you’ve admitted the shit you post has evil intentions.
Nobody wants to have to defend free and sovereign nations such as Ukraine and Taiwan from agressive expansionist foreign powers like China and Russia. But here we are.
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android [UPDATED] (techcrunch.com)
UPDATE: Beeper, through their Twitter account, is saying that they’re working on it and “hope to have good news to share soon”:...
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Jordan Activates Right-Wing Pressure Campaign in Push to Win Speakership (www.nytimes.com)
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Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)
China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.
Mobile homes could be a climate solution. So why don't they get more respect? (grist.org)
We like to denigrate manufactured housing, but new units are better for the environment....
Republicans Wanted a Special Counsel Investigation of Hunter Biden. Now Many Oppose It. (www.nytimes.com)
Congressional Republicans have for months repeatedly written to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland demanding he appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, the president’s son, over his business dealings....
Trump heading for Republican 'coronation' as 2024 rivals struggle to stop him (www.reuters.com)
China vows ‘vigorous’ response to US visit by Taiwan vice president (www.theguardian.com)
China’s foreign ministry has criticised a brief US visit by Taiwan vice president William Lai, saying he was a separatist and “troublemaker through and through” and Beijing would take strong steps to protect its sovereignty.
Russia Expands Oil Exports To China Via Arctic (www.breitbart.com)
Russian tankers that would normally carry oil to European customers are instead being rerouted through the Arctic to China.
‘Bribery during war is treason’: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy fires army recruiters (www.aljazeera.com)
Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week (www.reuters.com)