Never was a problem back in the days when all phones had removeable batteries.

More to the point, having to dispose of perfectly good devices because of old batteries.

Batteries can be recycled, most of a phone can't.

The battery itself can be waterproofed, the only vulnerable bits then would be the contacts, which can easily be protected against water damage.

Ditto the phone.

It's not an issue.

More to the point, they won't be able to slow your device down to make you buy a new one, just because the battery is more than 5 minutes old.

Good.

They should insist on removeable storage (micro SD) too.

I set out to learn as many flavours of BASIC, but they were launching a new micro every week (1982) it was impossible to keep up.

So I bought a second-hand Jupiter Ace, and had a go at Forth instead.
THAT was a real eye-opener.
Compact and much faster than BASIC.

And kinda lives on in Postscript

Buying Apple doesn't solve the problem - it just means choosing a different US tech corp to end up locked into.

Open source and document formats is the correct way to go. And it's free.

The UK should have done likewise years ago, when Germany started the ball rolling.

But Starmer hasn't got the balls to kickstart moving the UK away from Trump's tech buddies.

They laughed at us because Americans were stupid enough to "vote" him back into office. Now they look at us with disgust and distrust.

AOC: “If the determination is that Donald #Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room & in unfolding scenarios, then he's not fit to be president”

But not all women want to be approached or spoken to.

This is a whole can of worms you're opening.

Pretty much business as usual.

Right from the very start, Iran was saying that no talks were taking place.

I'm curious who Trump was dealing with, if it wasn't Iran?

Yep. It's totally mad that they can't even agree what they agreed on.

Did nobody keep minutes of the meeting?

And in the meantime, Israel keeps dropping US bombs in pursuit of their agenda of genocides.

Even muzzled, he'd keep barking.
And the press would keep quoting him, no matter how deranged he gets.
It's getting pathetic, now.

While I'd like to see him face justice, I'd settle for something much faster and more permanent.

Trump attacked Iran while they were still negotiating.

Not once, but twice.

Why would anybody trust Trump?

#NeverTrustATrump

Scrap all AI crap, it might have a chance

I note that the source of the poll isn't mentioned, but I think it's the Daily Heil.

Which is odd, because the one they held the other day said 73% of Brits wanted to rejoin the EU, completely flying the face face of the Fagash Führer and their typical readership.

Of course, they don't report that

You can get that direct from the horse's ass on the ironically named "Truth Social".

But did you see MAGA trying to twist his threat to end the Iranian civilisation, by bombing it back to the stone age?

Show them his exact words, screenshotted as tweeted, and they claim either that he didn't say it, or that he did say it but didn't mean it.
Or it's just a "typical CNN" witch hunt.

It's not really a case of being smart enough. The press are often given an advance briefing notice about what is going to be said, so they can have the story ready for when the real announcement is made.

That doesn't really work with Trump because he just makes everything up as he goes along.

Isn't that what I said?

I doubt they'd need to talk him into it.

Just casually mention that they have a copy of the Epstein files. He'd be desperate to do anything they asked.

Including assisting a genocide.

So he's saying we should all go and get jobs where we get paid in tips?

But who would make the guns? The planes? The armaments?
They are what has bern propping up the US economy for decades.

If everybody gets paid in tips, who's paying taxes? It's certainly not the big corporations.

Proper news would be more useful and therefore should attract more clicks.

But I suppose some people have a kind of morbid interest in seeing what the persimmon-hued pedo has said this time.

In the same way that people slow down to look at car crashes.

I'd rather they fact checked and if untrue, didn't quote it.

It's not like Trump understands the context anyway.

If you want to know anything about the world, you have to get news from somewhere.

Unfortunately, Trump dominates most of it. And not for the right reasons.

That's precisely my point.

Journalists should be investigating stories, not being force-fed them through the orange orifice.

No point printing his lies, you're just giving them credibility.

I want journalists to do proper journalism, not parrot-like repetition and pass it off as a scoop.

I want the sort of investigative journalism that brought down Nixon.

I'm astounded that the whole USA hasn't.

Trump has turned the whole economy into a huge ponzi scheme.

$136 TRILLION in liabilities.

$113,000 debt for every single citizen.

A lot of people don't seem to realise that this sort of manipulation doesn't actually create money.

It moves it.

From the poor suckers who invested in the belief that the markets are fair, to those that know and ensure that it isn't.