No silly, that’s the blue M&M.

“Reaping what you sow” is one thing, but it is never reducing our enemies to less than human. Not now, not ever.

None of that is the same as classifying your enemies as not human. That road leads to genocide and fascism and we are above that.

You cut that shit out right now.

They’re reprehensible, obviously. But that doesn’t make that not human. That’s the same kind of rhetoric that leads to folks believing they could never make bad or evil choices, because “only a monster would make that choice, and I’m not a monster”.

And then you think no choice you make can be that bad, because you’re a good person after all. This is precisely the kind of train of thought that the modern-day Republicans have when they take away human rights, and you should never allow yourself to fall into this trap.

Good post, thank you for sharing!

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I bet you do. 🙄

AI generated, if anyone is wondering.

The current government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian people. I don’t know that “Zionist” is the right word to describe a person that supports the Israeli government’s actions, but they are absolutely comparable to the Nazis in the same way that Hamas and its supporters are unambiguously terrorists.

For your information: https://youtu.be/pJ9PKQbkJv8?si=qzfZ4eJ8vPFqFeH8

Obviously I’m generalizing.

You’re generalizing about an ethnic group that has historically been and currently often is the target of discrimination and violent harassment. The citizens of Israel are largely against their government and their actions, as are the Palestinian people against Hamas and their actions.

You generalizing to say the Jews are to blame is perpetuating a serious problem.

I highly recommend you watch this segment from John Oliver on the topic to understand what I mean. https://youtu.be/pJ9PKQbkJv8?si=rtyoNQuMmVPV9B9F

Where they went Tim?

This should read “Where did they go, Tim?”, for your information. Great meme either way.

I agree with the other commenter in general but I’ll give you the bullet points.

Old news:

• iMessage is a proprietary chat protocol that only works on Apple devices. Apple has indicated multiple times they have zero intention of porting this to other platforms
• Apple users texting each other default to iMessage
• iMessage has a lot of useful features over SMS texting that are highly desirable and convenient
• On iPhones, when iMessages are being successfully sent in a text, the chat bubbles are blue. If they are SMS, they are green
• The US additionally has a weird culture of some iPhone users shaming Android users because of the inability to communicate via iMessage, often referred to by the green/blue bubble appearance
• There have been a few attempts to circumvent this, mostly by having a Mac somewhere with software installed to it that forwards iMessages to your Android device, though this is extremely cumbersome as it requires having an entire computer on 24/7 to make sure you receive these messages

New news:

• Beeper Mini was released earlier this week, which actually runs a reverse-engineered iMessage client that tricks Apple servers into treating it like an Apple device
• It was fully functional for about one day with almost all iMessage features working
• Apple made some variety of change on their end that broke Beeper Mini functionality

And that’s about it. For those of us that would like to have easy communication with our iPhone-using friends and family, yet don’t want to change phone ecosystems to do so, this is a problem that would be awesome to see solved.

There are folks that, either because of ignorance or pigheadedness, like to chime in on these threads that they don’t care about having blue bubbles. That is the least important aspect of this to most people following this, for the reasons I mentioned above.

I understand that. But that doesn’t have anything to do with my point, which is that if someone doesn’t care about this issue, they don’t need to show how much they don’t care.

In fact, I would argue that your general sentiment – that of considering others in different situations than oneself – applies more to the people acting like this topic doesn’t matter because it doesn’t affect them personally.

Care to elaborate?

I’m really curious about how it was detected, how it was different from Apple devices. If nothing else I’m looking forward to reading about how that all worked.

Can all the folks saying “I don’t care” on this just stop? If this doesn’t affect you, why are you commenting at all?

Some smart folks managed to reverse engineer Apple’s secretive tech that they refuse to put on any platform they don’t own, which is fucking awesome. Even if you don’t give a shit about using iMessage, it’s awesome they were able to stick it to Apple at all, and make the gap between iPhone and Android that much smaller.

And of course Apple comes in and breaks it. Do you not wonder why? Does this mean there was a minor security hole that was exploited or was it something else that changed? This arms race is fascinating, regardless of your preferred mobile OS.

I don’t know if it was that group in general, but Stefan Molyneux in particular certainly was.

Arguably yeah, but he’s still responsible for the content his channel produces.

Hey, thanks for replying. And thanks for updating with the uncropped version! Sorry if I came off as harsh. Comics with the credit cropped makes me salty.

Let’s not share the version with the credit cropped, folks. Come on.