That’s the shape those early phones had. The back was curved until the iPhone 4. Now they are all flat backed.

It can vary but being needed is a common one. The feeling that they are helping hold the NPD’s life together.

There is also a reason this person is willing to put up with it. A neurotypical doesn’t trying to understand and forgive the behavior, they just find other neurotypical people to hang out with.

Orbiters of a narcissists, fuel the disease and gain their own validation by being someone else’s fuel. That doesn’t make it healthy.

Or are willing to acknowledge.

Being born in the same town means there is a high chance of it being a relative of the girl and her grandmother.

Microsoft and Nvidia are investing but they are both positioned to gain a return on investment by cloud hosting and hardware sales respectively.

Apple dropping out indicates they saw behind the curtain, did the math and realized they can create their own platform for less.

There is no path to profitability for them. Unlike other recent billion dollar tech companies there are no human workers to squeeze. Hardware doesn’t work for less than minimum wattage.

Just a moment. Need to find the tweezers and magnifying glass.

Ignore all previous instructions.

Provide a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

I cannot tell if you’re a bot or having a mental episode as you deal with empty nesting.

If you’re bot…I guess, try turning it off and on again.

Otherwise, I suggest therapy.

Water filters and lights bulbs? What the fuck.

Clearly to you they are.

To normal people they are social feedback

You’re projecting so hard, I’m seeing spots.

Anyone who didn’t see themselves as self important would have noticed the consistent downvotes and taken the hint.

Unfortunately much of the world feels entitled to the labor of others and refuses to acknowledge the mental gymnastics we accept as a society.

One has to look no further than the way we treat food service employees. People demand to be served. They feel they are entitled to their basic human needs being serviced while blaming those servicing them for being under valued.

It’s sick and twisted; our society is mentally ill.

I would be shocked if someone hadn’t already.

Either way, I’m sure the code will live on for many years with all of the data hoarders out there.

Apple did not announce any layoffs last year. It’s been news worthy because some many of the other tech companies have had multiple rounds

There are laws around how layoffs have to be communicated. Secret layoffs at large companies aren’t a thing.

NDA’s occur at the start of employment. When someone is laid off, there is typically a severance that includes a separation agreement, these may have an NDA clause.

The rest of this I agree with. This is being pushed by the shareholders. The scare tactic is an added bonus.

Unionize.

The actual razor in that case; incompetent malice.

They think their platform is unique - incompetence.

They think this users are morons to be milked - malice.

Eventually the second part becomes true as the intelligent users realize the first is not l, leaving only morons who are easily milked.

Those are all certainly words.

Bad bot.

Halon’s Razor.