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Apple was never built for people making less than $80k/yr. I'm not a fan boy, but Apple will do just fine. They can scale and cut employees if needed. Their margins on products are fucking insane.

Run a business and you'll understand. I'm running a 2015 iMac. Never had to restart it or do any of the other shit you'd have to do with other PC's. $17/mo for a high preforming computer. I've built websites, marketing material with Adobe infrastructure, photography, etc. I get shitting on the price of Apple, but the alternative is massively shittier in my world at least. A $500 PC with windows is shit. And I'm talking consumer level, not developer/engineer machines.

I've been using a $400 refurbished Lenovo for 10 years. Less than $4 a month for adequacy.

"Apple products aren't expensive, they just cost more than some people can afford."

I have noticed that they are more competitively priced than years ago.

I have a large old MacBook Pro which is too heavy to take anywhere.

I'm liking my $120 Asus lightweight laptop with Pop!Os Linux lately.

I don't like all the "integration" stuff they are incorporating into Macs lately.

Those commie systems and endless promises of a better future if you just work harder comrade!

clambo says

Little did I know that is was not paid for.

LOL! I think the base plan is 'paid for', it's the Cadillac fins you are financing.

Whouda thought? Does this so called 'leak' mean they are trying to unlock their tongue tied French Kiss with Zelensky et alia? A patsy will be revealed.

https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/28255

Now imagine the shitshow the French pension system is...

It'd be even more annoying if they just didn't send you the SS checks and told you that Biden needs the money for Ukraine.

Ceffer says

It'd be even more annoying if they just didn't send you the SS checks and told you that Biden needs the money for Ukraine.

Biden does not need your money for Ukraine, because that cretin Vlad Pedo Pukin has provided him with $350B to play with. Mwahahahaha.

No, you can't have any of it.

Update after doing my tax return with HR Block.
My first post was partially in error.
I wasn't taxed on my entire Social Security payments; my taxable amount was a couple thousand less, although my medicare payments were $3000 something.
So, about 2/3 of my medicare payment wasn't taxed after all.

A good thing about using tax software is you learn about the tax code.

This year I'm happy to not write such a huge check as last year; of course I'm also happy not to pay anything to California.

CBOEtrader says

There are more members in that NXIVM sex trafficking club than KKK members.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/actor-allison-mack-released-from-prison-for-role-in-sex-trafficking-case-tied-to-cult-like-group-nxivm/

‘Smallville’ actor Allison Mack released from prison for role as ‘slave master’ in Nxivm sex cult

“Smallville” actress Allison Mack has been released from federal prison after serving less than two years behind bars for her role as a “slave master” in the upstate Nxivm sex cult.

Mack, 40, was sprung from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California outside of San Francisco Monday, Bureau of Prison records show.

The TV actress was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2021 after pleading guilty for her role in helping to brainwash women into becoming sex slaves for Nxivm leader Keith Raniere.

Indiana Jones says

The cause of the crash seems conflicting and debatable, so let's look at motive. What is the motivation to take down the whole plane? To kill at least one person on board. Who? 230 people perished and it is a lot of research to find connections.

Here is the passenger list:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/twa800/list01.htm

https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2013/07/27/twa-flight-800-and-911/