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Comment by dghlsakjg

9 hours ago

Since when are users in this place shy about bashing Apple?

Plenty of hate out there of apple alongside the love.

In the very same comments sometimes, those frustrating geniuses

  • Inside of me are two wolves. One that’s like “F Apple” and another that is like “Are they going to do an M5 ultra or…?”

  • Adults can hold 2 thoughts in their head at their same time.

    • Paraphrasing F. Scott Fitzgerald? "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

      Holding contradictory ideas isn't the laudable skill. Any uncritical person can believe conflicting things without being troubled by them. The genius is holding such ideas in disbelief long enough to let evidence alter or evict them.

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    • Yes, indeed, complaining about them even though they're brilliant (tough love?) as I just did