Lower quality? Lol.

I’ll give you a chance to look up the Mix Fold 3. And then any other equivalent phone available in the US market.

Even excluding the folding aspect, the screen sizes and overall thickness means it looks and works exactly like a non foldy. 50W wireless, 120W wired charging. 1TB of storage, 16GB of RAM. Leica lenses.

On top of that, zero of my data goes to the US government at it does on carrier branded phones. I will give all my data to the ccp if they want it. I have no interest in what they do with it. I have very high interest in what a five eyes nation does with my data and information.

Love the Chinese phones. None of this crap US stuff is enabled. It’s baked into the system ROM so it is there. But on mine it has never transfered any data, not even ever been active. It’s just dead code taking up a few megabytes.

It was a Ukrainian mission directed by the USA. Before you downvote do even a basic amount of research. There was a great finding recently that tracked down the who and the how. A chartered yacht with 6 Ukrainian special forces planted the charges and it’s not an unknown anymore. They used fake passports, left out of Rostock Germany, and Germany traced it. They found the people via camera and entry. They found the yacht itself still with explosive residue on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/

https://apnews.com/article/nord-stream-pipeline-attack-russia-investigation-4b7cb8117f420985b0d887117eebd786

Unfortunately the majority of people are idiots who just do this in real life, parroting populous ideology without understanding anything more than the proper catchphrase du jour. And there are many employed professionals who are paid to read a script, or output mundane marketing content, or any “content”. And for that, LLMs are great.

It’s the elevator operator of technology as applied to creative writers. Instead of “hey intern, write the next article about 25 things these idiots need to buy and make sure 90% of them are from our sponsors” it goes to AI. The writer was never going to purchase a few different types of each product category, blindly test them and write a real article. They are just shilling crap they are paid to shill making it look “organic” because many humans are too stupid to not know it’s a giant paid for ad.

Headlines like this should be illegal.

Apple is forced by the EU to stop being a dick and open up their ecosystem. Apple is also purposefully making the experience so terrible that nobody will dare use it.

I hope the EU sues and bankrupts them.

So apparently any non patriotic American content is removed here too. When America commits genocide it’s censored. Got it. Left reddit for poor moderation, leaving here. Peace.

I also have some that look just like that, and it’s the blaster bit because it stickies directly to the face of the device to control buried in a cabinet. The led is shielded and stuck directly next to the other devices receiver.

Suffice it to say, there’s no standard. And if the OP doesn’t know what it is, they probably don’t have the rest of it to make it do anything cool. Last I checked they were about $5 on Amazon for the whole getup, so I’d just e-waste that.

You label them as terrorists. Others label you the same way. If you fail to see how your global actions are never in the wrong, you have worse common sense than North Korean propagandists

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It’s part of an IR Blaster setup. That looks like the “blaster”, aka the IR LED Transmitter. Most receivers have multiple ones to catch reflections and such

I guess that’s why Farmer’s Only exists

So the unhappy people are… Almost everyone. Got it.

Not everything is religiously or racially motivated. Sometimes people dislike you because of your controllable actions.

In 2022, $100k/yr puts you in the 77th percentile. Having your ruling class be in the top 23% of earners is very low.

Not for anyone in the country since there’s a federal minimum. Don’t be stupid you lose all validity. And absolutely the barista at Starbucks doesn’t deserve the same pay as someone running the whole country. You have to be very stupid to not understand that everyone’s value of work output is not equal. Nobody with the skills to make more is making $5/hr. Not everybody has the skills. No matter how you want to pretend, humans are not all equal in their abilities. Try a fight with The Rock. Go head to head with Ken Jennings in Jeapordy. Go carve a marble statue. If you can do it the same way, cool. Chances are you can’t. And so you won’t be compensated the same way as someone who can. If you can’t find where you shine, you’ll never make much as your skills are mediocre at best.

You have zero idea how “work” works not in a service position then. You’re always working. Those dinners, events, and even interactions like getting food at a restaurant is working. That’s literally the point of a representative in a representative Republic going back to when the Romans did it.

100k/yr is a shitty salary for anyone in 2024 with a modicum of responsibility.

$100k/yr plus benefits is nothing. That’s a junior engineer salary. You want the people guiding the way your entire country runs to be paid less than the UPS driver that hands you cat food in a box. Doesn’t make sense.

Pay politicians a salary that would make taking bribes useless and you’ll find they won’t. It will also attract better candidates. If you keep trying to elect bottom feeders for the lowest possible salary, you get what you have now.

The problem is you don’t pay them very much comparatively and so they take bribes and “gifts” to make up for the salary. Just look at Clarance Thomas. He said he needed a raise or he’d go full on corrupt. He did not get a raise. He went full corrupt.

If you want your politicians to be loyal to a country, you pay them. If you want them to be loyal to corporate interests, you let the corporations pay them. It is obvious the path the US has chosen. Contrast that with Singapore for an example of paying your elite government officials an actual salary and how corruption drops to zero.

The evidence clearly shows Americans have maxed out their cards and are riding debt while buying only essentials. That’s not good. That’s ignorance of impending doom.

It’s also NOT good for anyone who hasn’t got a new job in the past couple years. If everything around you is 20% more expensive and you’ve received a 3% raise, things are very bad for you.

It is very good currently for those with 401ks and can leverage, use, or sell the gains they are getting.