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Obsidian Blackbird.'s avatar

Great information! Its amazing that countries that over civilize start losing traction...

Universe 25 !

Professor Axelrod's avatar

We do get very fond of our creature comforts and, looking about, it does seem like we've become some rather strange mice of late.

Obsidian Blackbird.'s avatar

The "Beautiful ones " always made me laugh.

Professor Axelrod's avatar

Pretty sure UBI would get you more of those than we'd like to really admit

Top Shelf Theology's avatar

I shat myself at "Chinese firm Lenovo bought Motorola’s cellular business and IBM’s laptop business," I was wondering what happened to my favorite model of phone - the Moto - and ThinkPads, yet here I was buying THREE Lenovo laptops for my kiddos in the pandemic, with no clue they were Chinese. Fuck man, I've been had!! Fuckin' Chinks, *and* the libs that enabled them! #Reindustrialization

Professor Axelrod's avatar

Oh, that had escaped your attention? Yeah, the day IBM exited the personal computer business was a pretty depressing one. That’s been a while - back in the oughts; IBM pivoted to being a professional services firm like Deloitte and bounced their PC biz to Lenovo in 05; Moto sold off their cell phones (Motorola Mobility) much more recently… but still does the handheld radios and various other tech, but roughly half their company went to Lenovo.

Top Shelf Theology's avatar

Holy fucking hell, yeah all of that flew under my radar. Shit.

Again, praying for #reindustrialization

Professor Axelrod's avatar

Ah for the good old days when IBM actually made stuff and wasn't just a body shop for consulting services

Ponti Min's avatar

If Apple's 1984 advert was made today, we all know Apple would be the baddies