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What? Does a fire extinguisher connect to Apple servers? Does a fire extinguisher secretly being a bomb affect the security of others? I don’t know if you could

What? Does a fire extinguisher connect to Apple servers? Does a fire extinguisher secretly being a bomb affect the security of others? I don’t know if you could have come up with a worse metaphor.

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
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jrflowers 3y ago
If you think about it, blocking an app and stealing your fire extinguishers are both actions that a person or corporation could theoretically do. Since they are both actions, they are equivalent. Therefore blocking an app, burning down your house, baking a pie, writing a sonnet, doing a backflip are all the same thing.
- willseth 3y ago
  Ahhh and to think all this time I thought I knew what a metaphor was. It’s literally any comparison! Silly me!
  - jrflowers 3y ago
    It’s spooky. If you think about it if Apple can block an app what is to stop them from breaking into your garage and modifying your car to talk like KITT from Knight Rider but instead of being helpful it makes mean remarks about your clothes that make you cry?? What if Apple filled your refrigerator with concrete? They could build a brick wall in front of your house and paint a replica of the outside on it so you run into it like a looney toon!
    - willseth 3y ago
      Shit. E2EE encrypting my refrigerator brb
  - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    Really, your comment is equivalent to a black hole or pomegranate, since they’re all things.
    - willseth 3y ago
      I didn’t even realize my mind could expand to this level.
      - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
        It was always that level! Those are both things too!
        willseth 3y ago
        Ok giving up software to become a monk now.
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ysofunny 3y ago
It's a new more advanced fire extinguisher that is 'smart' and has a touchscreen and it smells really nice* and what's even better, it's going to become illegal not to have one in california! so you better invest NOW!!! go to double U double U double U blah blah blah dot yadda yadda yadda *full disclaimer, this technology is patent pending** **doubly full disclaimer, "patent pending" in the sense that the invention is still to be invented, the panel of experts said 20 (more) years!
maxlin 3y ago
It does work as a metaphor because if Apple could force you to use their iExtinguisher and ban others they absolutely would, with the argument that they are improving fire safety.

What? Does a fire extinguisher connect to Apple servers? Does a fire extinguisher secretly being a bomb affect the security of others? I don’t know if you could have come up with a worse metaphor.

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago

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jrflowers 3y ago

If you think about it, blocking an app and stealing your fire extinguishers are both actions that a person or corporation could theoretically do. Since they are both actions, they are equivalent. Therefore blocking an app, burning down your house, baking a pie, writing a sonnet, doing a backflip are all the same thing.

willseth 3y ago
Ahhh and to think all this time I thought I knew what a metaphor was. It’s literally any comparison! Silly me!
- jrflowers 3y ago
  It’s spooky. If you think about it if Apple can block an app what is to stop them from breaking into your garage and modifying your car to talk like KITT from Knight Rider but instead of being helpful it makes mean remarks about your clothes that make you cry?? What if Apple filled your refrigerator with concrete? They could build a brick wall in front of your house and paint a replica of the outside on it so you run into it like a looney toon!
  - willseth 3y ago
    Shit. E2EE encrypting my refrigerator brb
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  Really, your comment is equivalent to a black hole or pomegranate, since they’re all things.
  - willseth 3y ago
    I didn’t even realize my mind could expand to this level.
    - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
      It was always that level! Those are both things too!
      - willseth 3y ago
        Ok giving up software to become a monk now.
        deleted 3y ago
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ysofunny 3y ago

It's a new more advanced fire extinguisher that is 'smart' and has a touchscreen and it smells really nice* and what's even better, it's going to become illegal not to have one in california! so you better invest NOW!!! go to double U double U double U blah blah blah dot yadda yadda yadda *full disclaimer, this technology is patent pending** **doubly full disclaimer, "patent pending" in the sense that the invention is still to be invented, the panel of experts said 20 (more) years!

maxlin 3y ago

It does work as a metaphor because if Apple could force you to use their iExtinguisher and ban others they absolutely would, with the argument that they are improving fire safety.