Trump bears an economic grudge against Taiwan and wants Taiwan to pay for US protection. He also says: “Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It’s 68 miles away from China.”
@t3dotgg
To Google, bandwidth is essentially free. They default to lower quality to make it start faster, which is really important when they're jamming ads at the start.
@buccocapital
Because they're doing weird accounting tricks where they're "paying" their executives like a billion dollars in stock that isn't really worth anything but allows the company to realize no profit.
@rustbeltenjoyer
Actually it has secret guns aimed at the passengers' heads which immediately kills you when it detects an incoming collision. It's unreliable though and has many false positives. This has already killed dozens of drivers.
@jacobrintamaki
Zoom is a performance you have to put on. A phone call lets you put your verbal mind to work while the rest of your body is able to do anything else.
@BeijingPalmer
@Claudius3600
also throwing a possibly-innocent person under the bus is more palatable than considering that the NHS might have some systematic problems
@agraybee
I have increasingly started to wonder how much US polls have been affected by iPhones starting to prominently label unknown calls as "Potential Spam" in Fall of 2022.