Don’t worry, that’ll be the US before too long. Then we won’t have to travel to see it!

Otherwise-smart people who just throw their hands up and say, “I just can’t do this high tech stuff!”

Motherfucker it’s easier to operate than your car, how do you even live

Cool! I liked Boston when I visited, but I’m the opposite of you weather-wise. I really need to find a progressive place with warm weather. SoCal comes to mind, but $$$

What is this magical city? I’m not being snarky, I promise

Oh no, he didn’t pull first! Now there are twice as many people who will die, in conflict no less!

Yeah, you’re right. I would still never consider going back. Evil fucks

Ok now stop paying Joe Rogan a billion dollars a year, and then I’d consider coming back.

There absolutely are commemorative Trump coins made out of gold, sold to rubes at several times the price of the metal.

Let’s be realistic: not preventing, more like protesting

That’s deep state antifa demoncrats doing it, they control Big Grocery!

See, there you go! Now, for the mix-ins: you can’t just go buy a Snickers bar, that has a plastic wrapper and HFCS. Making your own Snickers is so much better and rewarding. And you’d better mix it in by hand!

Sounds to me like you’re a quitter

“You use a machine to make your own ice cream? A hand crank doesn’t use electricity and produces a superior product.”

I am shocked…shocked! that Google would let a product die on the vine and cease supporting it. Google assistant is dead, long live Gemini assistant!

As predicted, here come all the purity tests.

I know there’s no way to definitively prove it, but in my mind Apple is the safer alternative vs. anything Google. I know you can do custom roms and all that, but let’s face it: It’s a huge pain in the ass. I know, I know, “It’s not really”… I beg to differ. I went through my purity phase with degoogled roms and all that. Due to driver inconsistencies, updates breaking things (even the phone part), and the inability to use a lot of “normal” apps, I gave up and went with an iPhone. Apple’s business model is to sell you the thing at a higher price, thus reducing the incentive to sell your data or enshittify. Yes, that will degrade over time and I’ll reach a threshold at which I’ll reevaluate my options. Given the two major choices, I choose the less terrible ecosystem of the two.

I refuse to have any Google or Meta products on my iPhone. I know that makes me lame here, but we should also understand that any normie would never go to all the trouble of OS tinkering. The are a lot more people who want to degoogle vs. the people who understand how to do rom flashing. Criticizing a person’s degoogle effort as “not good enough” does nothing but drive people directly into the arms of the very evil we wish to diminish. This is a community to banish Google, not everything backed by a for-profit corporation.