• 0 Posts
  • 332 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 15th, 2023

help-circle





  • /sigh

    Because things have always been the way they are today.

    The point I’m making that you’re either ignoring or that you’re not understanding is that Rolex’s weren’t always so expensive, especially when you consider they’re mechanical and not digital, extract power from your wrist’s motion and have been known to run decades without any maintenance all in extreme conditions… and all that at a time when your cheap five dollar watch didn’t even fucking exist, and has never been able to replicate it’s endurance. Rolexes started as the affordable-but-reliable option and became the highly-valued, expensive pieces they are today because of their utility.

    Completely unlike lambo supercars, which have always been temu ferrari, and catered to a very select group of stupid people.

    that you think rolexes fail just demonstrates you don’t actually know what a rolex is, or who used them. and that’s okay. but don’t sit there and pretend like your $5 cheap piece of crap whose band will break inside a month is comparable. It’s laughably not.











  • Among- the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization In Palestine.

    The current visit of Menachen Begin, leader of this .party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States.

    • A letter to the editor of the NYTs, from December 1948, signed by many, including Albert Einstein.

    It goes on, but I think you get the gist. And I’ll just add, it’s a most disturbing political phenomena of our time, that this has been allowed to progress to something that rather looks like death camps.



  • Except that’s not what happened in the pi and that’s not what is happening in the cars.

    You’re paying for that hardware whether or not you also pay for the keys. You own that hardware. You would be offended if you bought a house and the previous owner said “oh and if you want to use the rooms, you’ll need to buy room keys”.

    You should be offended at BMW. And Broadcom.

    You get that, right?

    R pi paid Broadcom for the chips. Then you paid r pi for the pi. Broadcom didn’t give anyone a discount there.

    And you’re ignoring decades of scummy lawyering and lobbying to make the proprietary codec bullshit legal.