imagine you are watching youtube on this thing and when an ad shows up, you can’t look away, even if you try to they can track your eye movement and just move the window, you can’t mute it, you certainly cannot install adblock on it, you are forced to watch the ad until it satisfies apple

WUT? Apple is very focused on privacy and the idea that a user can't mute or install Adblock is… weird. Safari has good ad-blocking options as well as built-in anti-tracking features to protect users, applications can't usually prevent the system from muting content and Apple doesn't really sell ads outside of the App Store.

If you want to worry about that stuff I'd suggest focusing on the Meta VR goggles or god forbid Google starts making goggles, both of those companies survive on ad revenue and have an incentive to enshitify their experience in ways that the Apple we know today would never do. Of course companies can change over time, but the ethic at Apple is to only make products they feel comfortable with their families using.

Picking a public fight with the spooks is just not smart.

Yeah, and sure he can pass a drug test if you consider:

LSD: 12 hour wash-out time for a blood test
Cocaine: 24 hour wash-out time for a blood test
MDMA: 24-36 hour wash-out time for a blood test
Ketamine: 24 hour wash-out time for a blood test, and it's easy to get a prescription for off-label use to treat depression

So basically, do all the drugs you want Friday night, by Monday morning you'll be clean enough for a blood test.

As long as I keep clicking, the machine keeps making paper clips, line go up…

Would you like to attend a lemon party?

Again? These keep coming back, "not actually" after numerous suites/investigations.

Steve Jobs had to die before AAPL paid dividends.

It is relatively large

I assumed that it would be…

Separation of Church and State: Good for the Church, Good for the State.

Who regulates spectrum in disputed territory? As an operator you have to pick who you're willing to piss off more, Russia has nukes and the capability to physically disrupt the Starlink network.