Well, in some niche cases (rural living and wild animals) I can be convinced they can be a tool. But generally that ‘tool’ is just violence.

2A ppl want to have violence as an option, which rapidly turns problematic.

Letting the government have a monopoly on violence can indeed be problematic. I would be more amenable to the 2A arguments if they weren’t such arrogant fucks about it.

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A bro-job, for good measure

You’re forklift certified?? I bow to you

I’ve used something called “System UI Tuner” in the past. It does what you ask, in that you can modify which status car icons are shown, amongst other things.

Haven’t tried it recently, not sure it still exists or works with newer versions of Android.

The Amazon item reviews web page just barely works, but improving it doesn’t generate money so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah and now I have to go door to door to let my neighbors know about how great a time it was

Didn’t they literally hide under a cardboard box like MGS? haha

my family

I don’t think

you made it about you, doofus

Inflation, yes, but you’re missing the spirit of the complaint.

Damn there’s so much to agree with. The way you’ve found a common thread in all this, it puts into words many criticisms I’ve started to foster. growing up in capitalism with such a far reach (into our private lives) and high speed is absolutely leaving it’s mark on the culture.

Well, how do you define middle class? Is there a certain income bracket that needs to be met? Or is it the middle slice of 3 equally sliced segments of the US population?

All y’all’s “all y’all” for all and for y’all

A MacBook is very good at what it does. If you tried to spec out a laptop/portable computer for similar tasks, the Mac would be pretty competitive and have longer battery life.

Once you try to do anything that apple didn’t intend for it to do (play games, for example) or if we turn to desktops then the value proposition goes away pretty quickly