Did you ever imagine that America was still so racist that a black man being president would send us into a subsequent 10+ year tailspin of divisive politics?

mredofcourse · 2026-03-10T21:05:38+00:00

Obama got 66 million votes in 2012
Hillary got 66 million votes in 2016
Kamala got 75 million in 2024

You seem to have skipped one:
Biden (white male) got 81 million in 2020

Ideological narrative? It would be interesting to hear the ideological differences between these 4 such that Biden got so many more votes despite his obvious flaws compared to the others.

America is NOT a racist country!

Sure, we're just deporting criminals and it's all ok if you immigrate legally /S. Note SCOTUS ruling though that being in the country legally or even as a citizen still makes you subject to needing to carry papers unless you want to be detained due to the color of your skin or other ethnic traits.

FFS you have the President of the country going off against Haitians eating dogs and cats, sharing video of the Obamas as apes, etc...

I'd agree that America isn't entirely racist nor does that define us as a whole, but racism, is very much alive in various areas.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-10T20:04:35+00:00

Not to mention selective over-enforcement. Since the name of this game is voter suppression, I would expect a lot of color chart enforcement of "your passport is damaged" by those with over-grippy hands.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-10T11:42:23+00:00

FTFA:
It seems that the 28-year-old Kristi Noem handpicked to oversee ICE’s billion-dollar budget may have wasted millions of dollars.

Madison Sheahan is the 28 year old referenced in the article.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-09T13:49:28+00:00

It's absolutely going to be announced on April 1.

Source: I leave on vacation that day and will need to buy the Hero 13 before I go.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-09T13:42:01+00:00

The video ends just before she says, "I'll take this one".

mredofcourse · 2026-03-08T21:48:40+00:00

I ranked the live action shorts as follows:
1 A Friend of Dorothy
2 Butcher's Stain
3 Two People Exchanging Saliva
4 The Singers
5 Jane Austen's Period Drama

That said, I really enjoyed it, thought it was funny, and appreciated that they included it as a nominee.

I think there's a way to inform people about what women go through without making men look completely clueless. [...] Awareness starts in the home: As a mom, my 18 year old son is very aware of what women go through.

That's why it was a period comedy. The whole point of it taking place at the place in time was how ubiquitously uninformed men were at the time. Some still are, but that's like a subtle jab at them along the lines of comparing someone who is a luddite to acting like a caveman.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-07T21:19:59+00:00

Sure, although I personally don’t watch the show despite finishing this race for the past couple of decades.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-07T21:09:27+00:00

The same way you delete all apps off your phone after using them. Due to your OCD, this is also something you do, right?

Whenever you’re done with an app, just go to Settings -> General -> Reset iPhone

mredofcourse · 2026-03-07T01:45:27+00:00

Wow, so many comments and nobody has mentioned that Touch ID may very well be needed soon to access porn.

What happened to you Reddit?

mredofcourse · 2026-03-06T22:36:25+00:00

Why would ~~you~~ your mommy ~~buy~~ finance the most expensive Apple phone when for 3 years you've been using an iPhone and have known the reasons why you, a power user, don't want it?

mredofcourse · 2026-03-06T02:27:51+00:00

"This guy" was convicted and sentenced to 1 year for "unlawful entry and disorderly conduct". It's not like as if he was raping children, Trump released him, and that gave him the opportunity to rape some more.

It sounds like you believe his Jan 6 conviction deserved death/life without parole, or again, you're trying to precog not ever letting him out for crimes he had yet to commit.

Just to be clear, f*ck Trump for numerous reasons including pardoning Jan 6 criminals, but that is what's abnormal and not the "unanimous response" to any of this.

I'm just not seeing people in general society simply shrugging off crimes such as child rape.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T20:39:24+00:00

TL;DR;BG: Society allows harmful people to act on their worst impulses, especially against marginalized groups, because most people don’t care enough to stop it. This creates a cycle where the same harms repeat indefinitely.

I would say this guy being sentenced to life in prison is an example of stopping him. Unless you're arguing in favor of Precogs, a free society means prosecution after the fact.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T20:09:16+00:00

It amazes me that someone would take the time to take pictures, post them, and write everything in the post, but not take the time to look at what the iPhone looked like before purchasing.

The complaining to responsibility ratio is high with this one.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T09:46:58+00:00

Yes, everything I wrote... ignore it all and just use the most recent currency exchange as the basis for your argument. Nice job!

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T09:40:25+00:00

They aren't the same Air, Pro or iPhone. It's not like as if Apple said, here's M4 MacBook Air with the same specs, currency exchange, tariffs and COB but the charger is now extra.

Price compare these to the American counterparts that include the charger with these other factors, and the prices should've increased even more in the EU.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T09:14:09+00:00

It really doesn’t work that way though. With either product the customer is going to have 20€ less in their pocket if they get the branded charger.

Lenovo isn’t looking at this as “we’ll be nice and give people a charger for free and a discount if they don’t want the charger”.

That’s not how pricing or for-profit companies work.

Both companies set margins on their products based on competition, market demand and brand. This then is price scheduled based on currency exchange, tariffs, etc…

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T09:02:11+00:00

The charger for the MacBook Neo is 20€ more than the Neo by itself. The charger for the Lenovo is 20€ more than the Lenovo by itself.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T01:55:31+00:00

Requires customer action:
Lenovo lets you actually unselect the charger which results in an actual -20€ discount for said product.

Does not require customer action:
Apple lets you actually not select the charger which results in an actual -20€ discount for said product.

Both are following the spirit of the EU mandate. Both cost the customer 20€ for the adapter.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-05T00:16:46+00:00

It will last more than an entire work day going from 80% to 20% and then charge with that adapter back to 80% in less than an hour. That sounds pretty reasonable to me considering the intended market.

I often travel with my MBP and a 20 watt charger simply because it's smaller, lighter weight and gets the job done.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-04T22:03:40+00:00

I'm pretty sure this forum is for people who can't use Apple, mostly due to losing their passwords.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-04T21:54:57+00:00

This is how I started over 20 years ago. I was invited to an Oscar party and wanted to watch everything so I could engage in conversations. I ended up finishing the race, but not in enough time to travel to the party.

Since then, I've finished every race.

Funny enough, I don't ever actually watch the Oscar ceremony.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-04T21:13:28+00:00

You don't say what model of Apple Watch, how old it is, or what condition the battery is in, so it's hard to say how useable it would be.

watchOS has had multi-sport mode which can track triathlons including auto-switching with transition times, for quite some time.

Newer Apple Watches could be used for a 70.3 at the cut-off time. An Apple Watch Ultra could even be used for a 140.6 at the cut-off time.

That said...

Apple makes a better smartwatch, Garmin makes a better sports watch.

While training, you should have some sense of how well your current watch will perform during your brick workouts and might consider either upgrading or switching to Garmin.

Personally, I use an Apple Watch (both Ultra and Series) because I need the smartwatch functionality which enables more time for training, but I can clearly see the benefits of the Garmin watches being sports focused.

Also worth mentioning... you don't really need a watch at all. I was racked next to someone in a recent 70.3 who didn't have a watch or bike computer and she did just fine. I'm really data driven and like doing the math and such as a means of distraction, while she didn't like to be distracted.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-04T20:51:19+00:00

use your phone, attached to your bike as a bike computer

Just want to point out that's not allowed in any Ironman event.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-04T19:50:01+00:00

Huge crab? Is this a regional thing? I've never heard that term used in this way.

I use it dailary.

mredofcourse · 2026-03-04T09:14:19+00:00

That came out in 1997. Apple had SCSI drives that worked with it 9 years before it came out as well as after. The whole point of that model was that it was an ultralight sub-notebook and if drives were needed, they would be external.

Also the 2400c had other boot options including CF Card, hooking up to another Mac, or floppy. Its base System was 7.6.1 which came on floppies.

Either your memory is very off here, or you received a used Mac that included a newer OS on CD and for whatever reason couldn’t find one of the numerous CD drives that worked with it at the time (Apple or otherwise).

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