This is the same tone set by the people who whined that we were refusing to vote for Biden and oh look now Biden isn’t in the race anymore because we refused to accept him.
Keep accepting the one candidate that they spoon in front of us without asking if we actually want that one
That’s disingenuous. The property manager very much is NOT paying $30k for a new roof. The landlord is. The property manager just executes the maintenance plan the landlord is paying for.
I mean, I did. Highly recommend. Spoiler alert almost all the non-USA people places a multinational company would offer to post you don’t have guns
Try and have a logical discussion. Graft is the problem and a system that allows it will produce it however it is easiest to express.
A uniform is just an idea. It can be an excuse for graft, or it can just be a simple dress code with multiple competing vendors. I’m sorry your system is corrupt but many aren’t.
Is that a joke or serious? Link? I just see the bottom middle as yellow, no number in it.
That’s some serious graft. But nothing to do with uniforms as a policy. My daughter’s public school has a uniform of sorts but it I just color and style based, not specific required brands
The alternative is PRIMARY HIM. That ass doesn’t deserve our vote and his hubris that he will get it no matter what is driving this country into a game of chicken with madness. He must retire and the only way he will listen is if we credibly refuse to support him NOW
Too little, too late. Retire. Make way for those not beholden to utterly corrupt PAC money
Meme would be more accurate to say European social democratic. .
Speak up, call your government reps. Your apathy is what they are counting on to avoid change
I looked it up since you seem moderately interested in discussing facts. The iPhone 15 has, according to ifixit, these locked parts: biometrics, display, battery, rear camera, selfie camera, wireless charging assembly, and rear lidar assembly. So no not everything, just a few high value (attractive to thieves) parts.
Just this week in the news many planes were grounded because of the discovery of fake parts.
When you take your phone to a third party repair shop, what guarantee do you have that they actually use real parts?
It should be up to you you say? Before this pairing stuff started my friend’s partner brought her iPhone into an Apple Store for repair and was informed that the entire phone was fake. Purchased for full retail price from a vendor that was selling fake entire phones.
That kind of quality dilution is risky. People on amazon constantly leave negative reviews for products they bought ON AMAZON that were fulfilled by counterfeit inventory. This problem is not hypothetical
Wow. The anger in there is so intense. The fact is that phone theft is a huge headache around the world. It doesn’t matter that your phone is biometrically locked. The instant thieves snatch it they disassemble and then sell the parts on the gray market.
The only way to fight this is tagging all the internal parts with some way to know that they are in the phone they should be in.
Building a viable service market that allows anyone to slap in a new part is hard to accomplish and harder still if you want to deter theft.
Or sure, just assume everyone is evil.
A monthly fee seems idiotic but yes please do it! Please!
That said I think a $5 signup fee on Mastodon or Lemmy that is not refunded if you get banned would seriously help stop bots. They only make pennies per bot and if you make their cost even minimally painful the economics fall apart.
Ran out of beans and my partner brought home Blue Bottle beans and I had very low expectations given the bag was from a big box store. Sacrilege. But actually the cappuccino I made tasted pretty close to their taste in store so I’m impressed at the consistency.
Network effect is a hell of a drug