Potato colored in my case.

I’m sorry that happened to you. I set my iPhone to save one year’s worth of texts now and then auto-delete. Impermanence is a feature of life, not a bug. Think of the Buddhist monks that have their hundreds of hours of sand drawings erased by a kid stomping through it. It teaches them not to hold on too tightly to what was, but instead live in the moment. It’s tempting to save every last interaction with loved ones, but rewinding will never beat reaching out or reliving your favorite memories instead. Maybe life is telling you to let go.

Can we pretend that I shared the “I understood that reference” Captain America meme right here where it belongs?

43 percent thought God helped Tim Tebow throw touchdowns. Let’s keep this going.

What keeping this going might look like: Less than half can name all 3 branches of US government, with 26 percent unable to name a single branch.

Only about one third of Americans know that it’s Thomas Jefferson on the nickel.

These people vote.

I’m afraid this will be underappreciated, but you have my upvote.

…and my axe (or something)

But he has a robot maid and nobody has to cook.

Amen! There’s plenty of content to doomscroll through as well. I genuinely don’t miss Reddit as that part of my brain forgets it’s not Reddit. Hell, we should call Lemmy “I can’t believe it’s not Reddit” and hire Fabio to do a commercial.

User name checks out. I scrolled all the way down to make sure I can say this and still be original in this particular instance only.

Yes and no, fiduciary duty to shareholders plus they rely on China for manufacturing.

I might be cynical af but I believe China is a market they can’t ignore, but the UK, well…they can afford to send a message there. With some quick google-fu it looks like Apple sells more iPhones about every 8 days than it sells in the UK in a year. That’s comparing 2023 numbers for China to 2019 numbers in the UK for the record, I’m too lazy to look past the first few links really, and doubt that math would change enough to ruin the point.

They also wouldn’t pull out of the UK, they would likely just revert to SMS there in the messages app rather than give the UK a back door into their encryption.