BrooklynMan

it’s totalitarianism vs freedom to have intelligent discourse

bigotry isn’t “intelligent discourse”, and calling out bigots for their bigotry isn’t “totalitarianism."

A Siberian Gulag will do that

Is there really a difference between those two things?

A British MP, you say… oooo

You can just set your phone to wipe after X wrong attempts and do that, ending the issue.

Or how about, “quotes Hitler”?

got stuck in a sand trap on the back nine

Original article from Fox News, of course.

at least it would be a cool story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

you can almost certainly just rent them for a short time.

from another comment:

https://gravity.co/

it’s 2023, and… yeah… this story sounds like bad sci-fi, so it’s probably true. I’d read he article, but I’m afraid I’d see the word “unobtainum” and throw my phone across the room.

does the Lebanese government think seeing all that pink (omg, so much pink in that movie) is going to make people gay? lmao

really, though, that movie was so pink, it cured my heartburn

damn, beat me to it

pff, of course they are

followed by as much of the Star Wars Christmas Special as I can take.

it helps if you watch the RiffTrax version. it helps a lot

from what my friends have told me, that novelty wears off real quick, and is replaced with the concern it will break or wear out— which happens more frequently than manufacturers claim. if not the screen itself, then the hinges, which were a common problem with the old flip-phones, too, back in the day.

I mean, you like what you like. I’m just speaking from a practical standpoint in that any moving parts = a high manufacturing cost and higher rate of defect and breakage. the primary advantage of the “candy bar” form factor is that it reduces/eliminates moving parts and potential points of failure from the physical design.

I admit… I really do miss the idea, even the feel of flipping a phone shut. hell, I even miss slamming a phone down to end a call. angrily jamming my finger into a screen to end a call is REALLY unsatisfying, and often ends in my throwing my phone across the room, and I’ve thankfully developed the habit of throwing it at my couch to save on replacing expensive smartphones, lol. but, until tech evolves tot he point where we get phablets a la Westworld or Legion that can unfold into a super-slim tablet rather than fold down into a flip-phone from the past whose screen could actually just break at any moment because the tech was rushed…. yeah, I’m not interested.

yeah, I can understand.

like, if this were, say, 1942 and I wanted to take aspirin for my headache, I’d try to find another manufacturer than Bayer.

I still do, for that matter.