True, but we’ll have a glut of vaccines by the end of the year. I’ll take an annual booster. Combine it with my flu shot.

Those code monkeys should quit their jobs in shame.

@george-k said in No charger for you!:

Back in October, Apple was being mocked by its competitors for not including a charging "brick" in the box with the new iPhones. I have, at last count, 3 of them sitting, unopened, in my desk drawer, so I certainly didn't miss it.

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Well that didn't age well, did it?

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Samsung is now believed, based on regulatory filings, to be removing the charger from the Galaxy S21, which is set to be unveiled on January 14. This may now be more likely considering that Samsung has deleted its "the most basic as a charger" post from social media entirely, as spotted by HTTech.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has also now confirmed on Weibo that the company's upcoming Mi 11 phone will not come with a charger due to environmental concerns. Jun said that smartphone users already have many chargers, so including another with the Mi 11 would contribute to an unnecessary environmental burden:

Xiaomi Mi 11 is officially unveiled with brand new packaging, so light and thin.

Behind the thinness, we made an important decision: in response to the call of technology and environmental protection, Xiaomi 11 canceled the included charger.

Today everyone has a lot of idle chargers, which is both a burden to you and on the environment. We are well aware that this decision may not be understood or even be complained about. Is there a better solution between industry practice and environmental protection?

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I'm so old that I remember when Apple was mocked for not including a floppy drive on the original iMac.

Oh and back in 2016 Apple was mocked by Samsung for not including a headphone jack. The Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) doesn't have a headphone jack....

One heads up, George . Their fast charging fat brick was first introduced with the iphone 11 generation (if I'm not mistaken). This is the long rectangular charging brick with a USB-C input rather than the smaller traditional square block.

The big brick charges the newer iphones significantly faster - so it's worth picking up. By faster, I mean 15-20 mins is enough charge to get me through the day.

The President never needed twitter. His engagement was always in a different league.

If he set up "www,Trumpthoughts,com" or something, people would visit it.

And Big Guy Biden.

@aqua-letifer said in "Try to Just Slow it Down":

@loki said in "Try to Just Slow it Down":

@aqua-letifer said in "Try to Just Slow it Down":

@89th said in "Try to Just Slow it Down":

The biggest takeaway for me is while the Capitol was being invaded, he was more worried about calling a congressman instead of calling the national guard.

Hey, and 89th gets it!

Except the timing is off. Congress was still operating normally after the call concluded. But it’s a good rant.

You're completely full of shit.

Trump first called the personal cell phone of Lee, a Utah Republican, shortly after 2 p.m. ET.

The Capitol was broken into at 2:11 pm. Barricades were breached at around 12:30. Trump knew what the situation outside was before he made calls.

I saw a timeline of Congress and when they were alerted and when Pelosi left her perch on the floor. I am not going to bother to google it. Go ahead if you think I am so full of shit.

@loki said in Antifa:

Many people don’t believe Antifa even exists. And not just nutters

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The gift to gab. Now that is virtue signaling at its finest.

@lufins-dad said in "I'm not a magician.":

What the hell else is he going to say?

How about nothing? He doesn't owe the press to try the case on the courthouse steps.

@loki said in When it snows in Texas...:

@jon-nyc said in When it snows in Texas...:

coffee all over my keyboard.

Maybe a smaller coffee cup for those hands might have helped.

You think trump hacked my account?

@lufins-dad said in First Doses First strategy:

What do the doctors say? What do the vaccine developers recommend?

Doctors are split and developers are answering the wrong question.

overt ourism? Sounds like a good neologism. Ourism is a good word to use for our current scourge of identity groups and their sense of entitlement. It's getting way too overt.

@horace

You’re a Trump supporter in Contra Costa County. Doesn’t that qualify?

@George-K lol

@89th said in Old prediction:

Lol smells fake

Probably. Probably someone took all the video clips, and put a new soundtrack to it. 🙂