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I think most republicans imagine living in a big scary city to be something like living in Escape from New York or something. They spend so much time making everyone terrified about big city living. It's kind of funny how right wingers are allowed to just trash blue states and big cities endlessly with a non stop barrage of slander, hyperbolic fear porn and straight up hate... but if whenever anyone prominent on the left says something slightly disparaging about small towns or red states they lose their fucking minds. It's also funny hearing Fox News propagandists (and Trump) doing it because every last one of those vile lying grifters lives in Manhattan. These guys wouldn't last 10 minutes in small town America. They are so full of shit.

My bet is that this is resolved before they get pulled from the shelves. Another goofy thing about this is that Apple didn't actually issue a press release or statement about any of this. They announced it ONLY through a statement to 9to5mac, which is just a small independent enthusiast site.

Won't matter.

When a new thread about an apple product goes up do you guys get some sort of bat signal with the android logo on it or something? "Wait guys, I gotta stop what I'm doing and make snarky condescending comments on products I do not use and have no interest in. Be right back!"

Don't buy one then. Problem solved. (no one is buying Apple Watches for this feature. it doesn't work as well as a $30 Walgreens blood oxygen sensor. it's a back of the box bullet point feature no one actually uses. they needed some new stuff to talk about for 5 minutes in a press event like 3 years ago and then never talked about it again)

Support will continue. They are already apparently working on a software update that disables or changes the blood oxygen sensor somehow that will let them continue to sell the new models. I'm sure this will be resolved in a matter of days or weeks. It's kind of funny, since the blood oxygen sensor doesn't even really work that well and is a feature that probably used by roughly 1% of Apple Watch users. They could probably just turn it off with an update and no one would even notice.

I don’t have a lot to add besides piling on the total shit show that is discord. I don’t really use it much, but there are a few communities for games I play where it is the only source of information… and woof, the UI feels like it was designed by a million monkeys with a million typewriters. It’s so bad I’m not even sure where to begin to criticize it… but as a super casual user without a lot of experience with it, I find everything about to be completely unintuitive, baffling and user hostile.

I’ve always believed that if republicans really wanted to get rid of illegal immigrants all they would have to do is come down super duper hard on the American businesses who employ them. Pass a bunch of laws that excessively punish any business found with undocumented workers… But of course they will never do that, because the hard truth no one wants to admit is that our economy (and those businesses) are dependent on these laborers. It's also funny that the vast majority of the very industries that depend on immigrant labor are the same ones that give so much support to the party that is constantly calling on measures that would actually harm their bottom line. Republicans don’t actually want to fix the problem, because then they would lose one of their main methods of keeping their audience outraged and angry.

He's a miserable fuckface who deserves to be miserable.

At first I thought that was a different actor or a CGI face swap or something... but that's just what he looks like? He's 62? How much adrenochrome is Eddie Murphy mainlining?

If Trump wins in 2024 the very first day he's in office they should impeach him for all the money his kids made while he was in office (and right after).

The grunge effect on the text makes it look really ominois. These surely are serious people doing serious things very seriously.

The hateful bullshit the right wing media machine peddles works much better when it's directed at a specific "other" or nemesis they can identify. The entire playbook is DIVIDE, ANGER AND CONFUSE. They don't really even need to win, they just need to keep everyone angry and frustrated. Turning Taylor Swift into a villain really checks off a lot of boxes for them, so I can see why they would find it appealing. Anything to keep their army of brainwashed fear-filled simpletons enraged and 100% focused on completely unimportant nonsense while they quietly maintain the same power structures that keep them down in the first place.

Seems like this would be a lot to try to cram into one movie, but it looks, uh... interesting...?

I’m pretty sure Fox News is actively trying to start a giant culture war feud with her.

I mean, if people know the risks, let them make their own decision. But yeah, whatever... I won't drink it...

I've started watching Shoresy, which is far from perfect, but good mindless dumb nonsense. I like it more than Letterkenny, mostly because we're big into hockey in my house. It's almost comical how much of a total ripoff of the classic 70s hockey movie Slapshot it is though... they don't even really try to hide it. It has to be on purpose... it sure as hell wasn't a total accident.

I saw a post somewhere that he made more money making Cameos in one week than he was paid in his entire time in congress. It might be funny, but let's not send this miserable sack of shit any more cash. George Santos is earning six figures from Cameo videos WWW.SEMAFOR.COM “Sarah Jessica Parker, Bon Jovi — he’s putting numbers up like that,” says the company’s CEO. At any rate, this is surely very front loaded and a few months from now the world will have moved on and no one will care.

The badge system makes me wish for my longtime dream of a side scrolling Metroidvania Mario game. How cool would it be to have a Mario game with a giant connected map and permanent unlockable power-ups... you know... a Metroidvania, but Mario. I've wanted one for decades now and I'm surprised Nintendo has never tried to pull it off. Feels like a no brainer.

I find the badge system to be kind of weird. Seems like there are a few that are just so much better than the rest... while simultaneously... all of them feel pretty useless because every level has to be reasonably beatable without a player using them. Overall this game gets two big thumbs up from me. I'm slowly working my way through it. I love the goofy "Wonder Flower" portions of levels and the overall level design feels fresh and unique and not repetitive. Controls feel tight and not floaty. Some of the previous years 2D Mario games had controls I just found weird. My main issue with the game is that I find the overworld to be confusing and pointless. I feel like I'm always lost and confused and feel like I'm probably missing out on secret levels here and there. It's also goofy we're always earning all these seeds and purple coins and whatnot, but at no point in the entire game so far have I ever once reached a locked level on the map that I was not able to just instantly open and just go into. It makes all of the stuff we are collecting feel completely valueless. And, while overall I like this flower world or whatever, all of the levels feel kinda similar. Mario games do a good job of taking you from world to world and throwing a bunch of similarly themed levels at you... lava world, ice world, jungle world, desert world... etc... Mario Wonder all pretty much feels exactly the same to me. Oh, and I love the talking flowers. If someone had told me that the new Mario game featured overly cheerful witty flowers that talk to you and crack little jokes I would have rolled my eyes and assumed they were just terrible... but no, they never fail to amuse me. They add a lot of character and flair and fun to the game.

The vast majority of successful entertainers come from extremely privileged backgrounds.

I just paid that much for a 1TB version of the smaller Xbox. Oh well...