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Re: Fights break out as swarms of Apple fans race to get their hands on new iPhone 15 - 3 days ago

I understand that Apple is tight with their supply chain in order to minimize inventory glut, but on launch day I would expect someone like Apple to have made enough to cover the demand. I missed out on the 1TB 15 Pro Max as I was at work during the launch, and spent too much time deciding if I wanted to go with the 512 version instead. By Saturday morning there were no 15 Pro Max's anywhere clos

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Re: Refurbished EOS R7 RF-S18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens $1299 - 3 days ago

I saw that. That is an amazingly great price! I'm tempted to pick up another one, the R7 with the 18-150 makes for a nice, relatively lightweight walk-around.

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Re: Driver died after Google Maps led him off a collapsed bridge - 6 days ago

People, READ THE ARTICLE, all your questions are answered there. QuoteWashington Post “It would be one thing if the bridge washed out that night,” Zimmerman said. “We have evidence that for years, Google knew this was a road that was not passable.” ::snip:: Two years before Paxson’s death, a local resident notified Google on two separate occasions via the “suggest an edit”

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Re: Anybody else seeing faster battery drain with IOS 17 and Watch OS 10 - 7 days ago

I didn't see any drop in phone battery drain, but watch battery drain is incredibly bad. It's been like this ever since the early betas, and I've reported it multiple times.

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Re: Tony Northrup - iPhone 15 Pro cameras: misleading and disappointing - 7 days ago

Quotedatbeme Here's a pretty thorough dive from the former DP review guys: Yeah, I was going to post this link. While it doesn't refute Tony's assertions, it give a more balanced view based upon actual usage. If you can get through the clickbaity thumbnails and headlines, as well as the sponsorship ads in the beginning and end, most of the Northrup videos give good information. I find t

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Re: A simple non-invasive test can now condemn a woman to prison or death for having had a medical abortion... - 13 days ago

For the crime of aborting...

by Sam3 - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Just made an appointment to get the new Covid Vaccine - 14 days ago

QuotergG I didn’t know the new shot was out now. End of this week, I believe. Pharmacies are making appointments ahead of the arrival of the vaccine.

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Re: Anybody planning to get an iPhone 15? - 15 days ago

Me, possibly. My daughter, almost definitely. She's coming from the 12 Pro Max and wants cinematic mode (she's studying film production in school.) and more storage.

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Re: ‘ 1 student dead, 2 others injured in school shooting in Greensburg, Louisiana ‘ - 15 days ago

I wonder if the 14 y.o. shooter was bullied, had enough and lashed out.

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Re: Praying WA public school coach who won SCOTUS case quits job, lives in Florida - 16 days ago

QuoteDeusxMac Quotepdq They want to convert you to their religion. They intend and plan to convert you to their religion. And failing that, they'll settle for at least requiring you to live by their edicts. And if you don't live by their edicts, this will follow:

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Re: Hunter Biden/“Biden crime family”/Biden impeachment all falling flat - 21 days ago

QuoteTed King Quotepdq QuoteSpeedy I hope they impeach the president. That will move him up in the polls. John Fetterman holds similar views: Quote“Go ahead. Do it, I dare you,” Fetterman said during an interview with a handful of reporters in his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday. “If you can find the votes, go ahead, because you’re going to lose. It’s a loser.” … “It woul

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Re: Hunter Biden's firm exchanged more than 1,000 emails with Joe Biden's VP office - 23 days ago

QuoteAllGold No one was questioning whether there was a problem. And it turns out--there was. Without Russian interference, Hillary would have won. Also, without bonehead Comey announcing another investigation into emails two weeks before the election (which turned out to be absolutely nothing), Hillary would have won. Completely, 100%. Comey's announcement was stupid, it certainly appeare

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Re: Only Women Bleed - 29 days ago

I don't think the fear played up is that there will be rape, but that lots of creepy guys will be ogling young women.

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Re: Whats your favorite browser now? - 29 days ago

I use Safari on the Mac or iOs, unless I get to a site that won't work in Safari, the Chrome. On Windows I primarily will use Firefox, falling back to Edge to get to certain in-house sites. Edge uses Chromium, by the way, which is why it seems very Chrome-like.

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Re: Dog repeatedly escapes shelter and heads to nursing home - 29 days ago

Thanks for posting this. What a sweet story.

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Re: New Republic: 'Trump’s Trials Don’t Interrupt His Campaign—They Are His Campaign' - 30 days ago

QuoteGGD Quotegadje If he actually shoots someone on the 5th Ave, I guarantee that person will not be a white person. And that's exactly why he worded things the way he did, "he wouldn't lose any votes". He'd shoot someone that would never vote for him. Most probably a POC trans person. "I did it to protect the children" he would then say.

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Welcome to 'Friendly' Gunner Forum - 5 weeks ago

How about if the powers to be simply rename this forum into "'Friendly' Gunners forum" as it seems like every other post is about guns, or non-gun related posts get hijacked and turned into gun posts. I'm getting sick of these. It doesn't help that the most popular, highest response posts are all gun related. As if anyone is going to change anyone else's mind on the issue.

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Re: console_lation?!....the Atari 2600 console is coming out soon.... - 5 weeks ago

Where is Space Invaders? That was the breakout game for the Atari 2600 console. Asteroids and Pac Man should have been included as well.

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Re: ‘ Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000 ‘ - 7 weeks ago

QuoteFilliam H. Muffman As part of the right to repair movement, I would really like to see regulators make it illegal for manufacturers to sell hardware with features locked behind yearly subscription paywalls. I completely agree. I feel the same about camera manufacturers doing the same thing.

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Re: Am I reading this right? Houston public schools turning into prisons? - 8 weeks ago

Oh, it gets better, cameras in the classroom, teacher evaluations based on test results, centralized lesson plans. QuoteHouston Public Mediapremade lesson plans for teachers, classroom cameras for disciplinary purposes and a greater emphasis on testing-based performance evaluations Why don't we just put robots in the classroom and call it good. and add guns so that they can shoot any mass k

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Re: The Silly Season goes full throttle: House UFO Hearings - 2 months ago

Where's Fox Mulder? I'm sure with his testimony we'd blow the secret X-Files wide open.

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Re: Dump visits my city to fundraise - 2 months ago

QuoteDeusxMac QuoteMr645 And today Brandon takes the day off Don’t know about this Brandon you’re so enamored with, but yesterday Joe Biden… “President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.” “Pre

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Re: Who’s running the iOS 17 public beta? - 2 months ago

Not bad for an early beta. The biggest issue that I have run into are apps periodically freezing. Closing the app and reopening it takes care of that. Watch OS 10, however, needs work. It is a huge battery drain, my watch won't last even 24 hours before going dead.

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Re: Highly regarded Tenn surgeon sacrifices self to 2A - 2 months ago

QuoteRgrF QuoteLemon Drop Quote$tevie QuoteLemon DropSome opinions do not need to be regarded with seriousness. My bad. I thought people being shot and killed was a sad thing. Tacky, out of context put down. Congrats! Glad you don't do snark or sarcasm. On serious topics. It's truly wondrous how the right wing do what they do. In this case get what ought to be two like minded people dis

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Here we go again... salon says no to TQ+ - 2 months ago

Let the discrimination begin (or continue): QuoteNewsNation The owner of a hair salon in Michigan said she will deny service to certain members of the LGBTQ+ community, just two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled in a favor of a Colorado businesswoman who argued a state law barring discrimination violated her free speech rights. Christine Geiger, who owns Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse

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Re: Are young people losing hope? - 2 months ago

I think social media is having a huge impact. Most youth are on their phones, getting info from certain Social Media sites, watching only certain influencers. I do think the SM site algorithms do drive people (youth in this case) to more and more negative and/or siloed channels/sites. It is also not helping that society is moving more rightward, or, at least electing more extreme right-wing leade

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Re: Garbage people against nature - 2 months ago

Maybe close it off next year. Then when people complain, they can be told that it's thanks to last year's revelers leaving a trash dump.

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Re: New Tesla accessory, probably not fake... - 2 months ago

Quotecbelt3 QuoteAllGold Yikes. I think it's weird that the world never standardized on one side or the other. Don’t get me started on Metric… Well... the world did standardize on metric, it was just one kind-of big country that decided it was too special to do that.

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Re: (OT-about as far as possible) Anya Taylor-Joy's hair is spectacular - 2 months ago

Quotegadje QuoteAllGold Quotedavester That is not a good look. The hair, specifically, or the woman in general? The shoes!!! Stilts?

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Re: “ Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts With Social Media Sites “ - 2 months ago

Tiangou, thanks for the explanation.

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