I am a little confused then as you seemed to me to be implying that American as a cultural identity precludes Oklahoman as a for instance but that European would not preclude Scottish as a for instance.

It wasn’t until 1965 that the right of non white citizens to vote was protected and it has been a constant fight since. Currently the administration is arguing that Native Americans arent citizens at all.

In the mean time it’s probably worth pointing out that nobody’s vote for president really counts for anything because of the electoral college. On top of that many of us, including myself, live in ‘winner take all’ states where the person with a plurality or majority of popular votes is awarded all of the electoral votes of that state.

In my lifetime there have been 9 presidential elections; 5 have been won by Democrats, with all 5 also winning the national popular vote. 4 have been Republicans, however only two of those elections were won by the candidate who won the popular vote.

Precisely…

One of my favorite fun facts about video game consoles is that both the PlayStation and CD-i exist largely due to Nintendo being an ass to Sony and Phillips while looking for a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES to compete with the Sega CD. After getting the run around, both companies basically said ‘fine fuck it we are making our own consoles with blackjack and hookers…’

I’m not sure why you would reply if you didn’t want to argue but okay.

Thinking that individual European countries have local identities and states or others don’t is absolutely a lack of understanding and not a lack of context.

That you seem to think that everyone in the US has the power to vote for or against the president would also seem to be a lack of understanding, I chose the leader of a specific country in Europe as my example for that reason.

As a Native American this attitude is so grating. People outside the US really don’t seem to understand that it’s 55 different states, districts, and territories, along with dozens of sovereign tribes, all being forced to pretend to be one nation. Many of us can and do claim “this is not us” in the same way many Europeans would say the same about Viktor Orban.

Did they ever make the excess ink parts user replaceable?

That they weren’t in some models kept me from getting one when I was in the market a few years ago.

I don’t understand why so many people here keep saying that it’s too hard to make a small phone when all these companies literally make watches with 5G connections…

As an illustration of number 4: When “upgrading” from on-site Sharepoint/Exchange to 365 it moves all group e-mail mailboxes to Teams accounts which makes it so group members can no longer send emails from that group’s address unless you restore the old method through a powershell command.

Not only that the user status is horribly inaccurate but too many people use it to decide if you are currently working or not.

Spending profits on stock buybacks and bonuses is literally the opposite of wanting to grow.

No they do not. They need to break even only. Profit is the result of charging customers too much, paying employees too little, or enshitification.

If you are in dire need, and haven’t already, try finding a local salvage yard (junkyard, breakers yard, etc. depending on your location) and pulling the parts you need from there.

Betas outlived VHSs by several years. It wasn’t Betas that caused Sony to act like that with BluRays, it was DATs.

Rogue One was good because they knew it was going to be a one off and they felt comfortable taking risks. The same reason Halo: Reach is lauded as one of the better Halo games.

In my opinion too many franchises try to toe some line and end up falling short of expectations as a result.

They owned ‘iPhone’ specifically.

Fun fact: The iPhone name is owned by Cisco not Apple.