Sounds like a chargeback situation to me. And making sure never to do business with BestBuy again.

Ro Khanna, Hakeem Jeffries and of course Nancy Pelosi.

When a large part of your origin story is being the number one weapons dealer in WW2 with geography conveniently placing you out of range for major infrastructure loss… We really can’t be suprised.

I’m dumb, password is passcode in this case. Just don’t include any letters lol.

So… How do you set a passcode?

It was not a colonial based introduction but it was institutionalized by colonists.

I’m glad that we agree modern capitalism is problematic and the history of colonialism (and the modern Western world) is predicated on evil, exploitative, inhumane and non-egalitarian principles.

I didn’t say that they couldn’t have bad socioeconomic practices without [the West]. I simply stated that a forced assimilation to a capitalist worldview has occurred globally (the alternative being destitution) and which has reinforced the idea that wealth is virtue.

If we’re going to have an honest reflection on caste, we first need to acknowledge that the West treated all colored peoples as low caste for hundreds of years (and it still does in many ways through neocolonialism). Inequality is inherent to modern Western capitalist dogma, just as it is in a rigid institutionalized (courtesy of colonial legacy) caste based system.

Thats because the Western capitalist worldview has spread globally.

Many of these countries had more socialist systems after establishing their respective post colonial governments but embraced more protectionist strategies or had sanctions placed on them by the wealthiest (Western) nations for not playing ball with the neoliberal capitalist agenda.

Basically, the West stole from them for centuries through settler colonialism, left with the riches and then said ‘you better do things our way or we will refuse to do trade with you and you will continue to starve’

The world has had no choice to embrace it, for better or for worse.

Western capitalist mores are actively brainwashing us into thinking wealth is virtue. Might is right. It is not.

The original article says women. Unless they are using women with small hands as code for children.

I would hope a social studies teacher would understand the pitfalls of Western orientalism and Western cultures obsession with describing other groups as ‘its’ rather than as whole persons.

But if we’re going to objectify people, why don’t we get real technical about it. Why not move manufacturing to other east Asian countries? Even outside of East Asia, you can find many countries with less labor protections and large populations where you can select for millions of people with small hands. Why China? Anyone who is being intellectually honest knows that hand size was not the central reason.

If this is widely accepted then Western culture has a long way to go when it comes to facing its history of racial objectification. Because this sounds less like a valid rationale and more like modern phrenology presenting itself as business and engineering acumen.

Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said. In a recent analysis the company did to explore the feasibility of moving production to the United States, the company determined that it couldn’t find people with those skills in the United States, said two people familiar with the analysis who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html

They’re supposedly paraphrasing “supply chain experts” but they could definitely paraphrase better.

Western culture is built on a foundation of race based hierarchical brain rot and isn’t it remarkable how it always finds a way to remind us of that?

Making laws with the intent they will be broken is different from having an understanding they will be broken.

People break speed limits every day. There is no intent they will be broken but an understanding that it will happen. Overall though, people obey them and roads are safer as a result.

I feel that parental responsibility and carefully crafted regulation can coexist to protect children. Device makers can also make it easier to access such settings or a “kids mode”.

I think most parents know techbros have created an internet that is generally not safe for children and do their best to take measures to account for that. Any system that empowers parents to do that is welcome.

Kids today are not tech savvy. UIs are streamlined and bugs are much less common in popular apps so they have to do less self directee troubleshooting to learn from.

Regulation doesn’t always have to produce absolute prevention, even strong deterrence can be impactful.

We’ve seen how excessive porn consumption impacts the development (particularly of boys) so increased regulation is a thoughtful move.

Western capitalist neoliberal dogma, which has largely been adopted globally, has us working against each other rather than towards a common good. That dogma dictates that we should see poverty as laziness and entitlement and wealth as aspirational and fulfilling.

You have the understand that your culture is not predicated on logic, reason, or the scientific method. Its designed to feed the capitalist machine and perpetually increase productivity. That’s the only real outcome measure.

Starting school late will make it difficult for parents to get their kids to the bus stop / school on their way to work. We can’t disrupt the productivity of the parents - that’s the priority.

WFH decreases the control your employer has over you and also diminishes the value of their real estate. Will someone please think of the capitalists?

Housing homeless people is socialist. We musn’t disincentivize productive behavior!

Drugs and all “crime” must be allowed to happen and then stamped out by force. Only then can we use fear to control populations and define an outgroup that becomes our baseline for dehumanization.

All of this is by design in Western and many other modern cultures. It was never really a question of knowing better.

Fascists are a threat to all life, including those that they define as their ingroup. They just feed them into the military machine in perpetuity. Totally on board with an antifascist Thanos.

Orrr we could sterilize fascists while the rest of us work towards egalitarianism and protecting the sanctity of life unlike these degenerates.

No, really, people like this should get a maximum of three comments on racial purity per lifetime before they get a guillotine to the nutsack.

Has a higher star rating than El Salvador and Alcatraz according to Expedia so I’ll take it.

Maybe we shouldn’t be letting fascists march out in the open like this.