Will be good for the upcoming economic protest.

He stinky.

Russia gifted the U.S. Embassy with a beautiful plaque.



It was given the name "The Thing" when, 7 years later, it was discovered to be a listening device.



Invented by the great scientist Leon Theremin (inventor of the Theremin musical instrument)

Here's the story of the device.

https://hackaday.com/2015/12/08/theremins-bug/

Theremin’s Bug: How The Soviet Union Spied On The US Embassy For 7 Years

Technical.
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/thing/index.htm
Very advanced technology for Nineteen Freaking Forty Five!!!

Imagine what technology Apple put into the trinket, or, one might say "The Thing".

How smart is Trump and his bunch of ideologue ass-kissing Troglodyte lackeys?
Try ZERO.

Happy listening, Apple.

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Paranoia is its own reward!!

Just sayin', chumpie!

Stress out and die!

A Thriller! No spoilers.
It's great.
April 17, 1964.

An excellent episode.

or used anything Apple, ever. And this disgraceful groveling is the best example of why I never will.

That there is a menaceocracy.

Ala GODFATHER II. The telephone company giving El Presidente de Cuba said solid gold phone, just before he was run out of the Country by the rebels led by Castro.

I just hate Google too much. Tim Cook leaves me cold as always.

My IPhones were too expensive to discard anyway ..damn price gougers.

It’s a good thing I never use products from these creeps on any basis but “okay this is the least creepy thing on offer”. It’s not like Pichai doesn’t do his due diligence re being the sub in the Trump-tech creep sub-dom relationship.

50 shades of grey with Trump and the tech creeps! In the ultimate irony, no doubt a Trump-supporting tech company will churn out an obvious farce like that using shitty AI.

This does go to show that all that wealth and power really does come with a huge psychological price tag..when you have to be polite about Trump.

I am not American (usually don’t declare that since I don’t want MTG to witch-hunt EarlG and Elad as in collusion with foreign threats . To make things worse my state here in the Global South is one of the few communist states here and legitimately quite corrupt and awful..though that’s really all politics here).

I went to school in America and was married to and still am close friends with an American. That was when I found DU. Those days you didn’t go to a gulag for having a political opinion as a non-American. But even then I was aware of the MTG mentality.

But I self-deported in 2014 due to my precog abilities (kidding-about the precog part. The universal disinhibition of these times makes me forget that a satirical tone may not be convey itself via text. Don’t want to smear DU as a haunt of people who believe in precogs
;-/).

.And now my country here in the Global South is reeling under hideously high tariffs. I am wondering how it will all affect my pocketbook. Not well is my educated guess..

If it keeps his grubby hands off Apple's DEI policies, I'm all for it.

Do I agree with it, no. However, I understand what Cook is doing to survive in these unprecedented, and treacherous times. Ultimately, with a break on tariffs, consumers will get a break on prices, as well.

Apple got screwed over on the India tariff situation, after investing a lot over there. And if the semiconductor tariff goes through, that’s going to make it very expensive for them as well.

His ultimate loyalty is going to be to the shareholders. If kissing Trump’s gigantic ass makes it a little easier to keep up their margins, that’s a win as far as he and the board are concerned.

Win-win.

what choice does one have when they loathe Microsoft? Apple products, while insanely expensive, always work well for me.

He also said this in the face of WH pressure on DEI programs. What some may call pandering, I call it doing the superficial shit it takes to run a business while sticking to core principles. One of the stronger corporate DEI statements around at a time when most companies were going slash and burn.

Just something to consider before we throw him under the bus for “getting down on his knees” to Trump …a slur that’s about as non-DEI as it gets, especially when directed at a gay man.

“As the legal landscape around this issue evolves, we may need to make some changes to comply, but our north star of dignity and respect for everyone and our work to that end will never waver.”

I'll always prefer Apple products, which offer greater personal security than any other brand of phone, hardware, or OS. I gave up PC's in 2007 and have never looked back.

The ongoing security problems our govt has are the result of its mentality of ongoing purchasing of PC systems.

It is disgusting and nauseating to watch.

Damn the American people for falling for Trump's BS.

Maybe Melania should be worried.

Leaves a stain you can never wash off, Tim.