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Has anyone yet seen one of those phones? Was it a honeypot all along? (A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by dmbche 4mo ago
Has anyone yet seen one of those phones? Was it a honeypot all along? (A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield)
Edit0: they seem to exist and they have a headphone jack? Incredible.
- ipython 4mo agoI was going to say that I saw some unwrapping videos online, but then I saw... https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/936018/trump-mobile-t1-phone-still-hasnt-shipped https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/936018/trump-mobile-t1-phon.... Personally, I still use my BidenPhone, which was an upgrade from my 2009-era ObamaPhone brick. /s
- nathanmills 4mo agoWas the /s needed?
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- kibwen 4mo agoYou misunderestimate the gullibility of the average human. The \s is always needed (though the interrobang is also acceptable).
- swores 4mo agoThere have been quite a few punctuations proposed for indicating sarcasm, but interrobang not one of them - that (‽) is literally a combined ? and !, and is (per wikipedia) for "a question in an excited manner, expresses excitement, disbelief, or confusion in the form of a question, or asks a rhetorical question". This page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation - has sarcasm ones (but I don't think any are as well known as the interrobang, which itself isn't exactly universally used... though personally I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone)
- khazhoux 4mo agoI find all "/s" tags to be offensive to comedy. Can you imagine "A Modest Proposal (/s)" ?
- kibwen 4mo agoTwo peeves in one here: The "/s" is just punctuation, same as "!" or "?" or even ".", which was a radical suggestion at one point. Punctuation isn't bad, it's not necessarily good either, but it is often useful. It should be judged based on whether it improves the ability to communicate via the written word by encoding nuance that would have been expressed verbally. And A Modest Proposal isn't comedy, it's also not sarcasm, it's satire. Modern satirists may have confused themselves into thinking that the point of satire is to be subtle, but this is a disastrous idea. Satire is political commentary, it's supposed to be so over-the-top and starkly obvious in its intent that it cannot possibly be misconstrued as accidentally arguing in favor of what it's trying to argue against. This is why, for example, Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is bad satire: if someone has to ask "is this satire?", or someone has to helpfully point out that something is intended to be satire, then it's bad satire by definition.
- khazhoux 4mo ago/s is not punctuation, it's an explanation. And explaining the joke kills it, and also insults the audience. Sometimes the ambiguity of a statement is itself powerful, as it reveals how one side can wholeheartedly believe something the other finds absurd. One should only use /s if the comment is really so devoid of absurdity that it can be misinterpreted. GOOD: Trump has done a lot of good for Americans /s BAD: Trump is the greatest human ever born and is entitled to prima nocta with all brides /s Re: sarcasm vs satire. You're mostly arguing the dictionary. The /s "sarcasm" markup is used when satirizing some POV, not just strictly for sarcasm.
- fn-mote 4mo agoYou overestimate the number of native English speakers here, and underestimate the difficulty of decoding tone from short written text.
- zikduruqe 4mo agoThe real joke is the "Obama Phone" meme from back in the day, is from the Lifeline project that was started by Reagan. It's funny to see how all the history has been scrubbed from the Wikipedia entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_(FCC_program)&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_(FCC_pro...
- neogodless 4mo agoIn theory, maybe? This is behind a paywall... https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-phone-review-t1-hands-on-specs-u24-shipping-rcna345657 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-phone-revi... Title: Trump Mobile T1 phone test: device no longer ‘Made in the USA.’ Heading: We tested the Trump Mobile phone. It was 9 months late and no longer ‘Made in the USA.’ And then there's https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-t1-trump-phone-is-the-same-color-as-scrooge-mcducks-gold-coins/ https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-t1-trump-phone-is-the-same... (linked in the sibling comment at The Verge) "Trump Phones Are Finally Here—And People Aren’t Happy"
- tzs 4mo agoFrom the CNET article: > There is a headphone jack, but it's on the top of the phone. They say that like it is a bad thing. I've always preferred the headset jack on the top because if I'm using the device while sitting and the jack is on the bottom it interferes with resting my phone holding hand the table if I'm at my desk or on my chest or leg if I'm the couch. The main argument I've heard for jack on the bottom is that most people normally put their phone in their pocket with the top down, so if the jack is on top you have to flip it. Google is telling me that jack on top was the norm in the early days of smartphones but gradually changed as the pocket argument won out. Of course this wouldn't matter at all if more phones rotated the screens so that the display was upright even if the phone is upside down. Then everyone could have the headphone jack where they want.
- dmbche 4mo agoI think it's about when you put your phone in your pocket, you have to have it top-up while most people put it top-down, shortening the lenght of the cable and pushing against the connector. In that optic top jack is worse, I believe
- malfist 4mo ago> Of course this wouldn't matter at all if more phones rotated the screens so that the display was upright even if the phone is upside down Generally I don't want to get my skin oils all over the lenses on my really expensive smart phone.
- craftkiller 4mo ago> they have a headphone jack And an American flag with the incorrect number of stripes. I wonder which 2 colonies they decided weren't worth including on their phone.
- platevoltage 4mo agoI'm going to guess New York and Massachusetts.
- Zigurd 4mo agoThe two surplus stars are going to Alberta and Greenland.
- ChoGGi 4mo agoOh.. you're not kidding. That's uh something.
- eudamoniac 4mo agoThe text is stylistically the last stripe
- craftkiller 4mo agoWow, if that's actually the intent then that's _deeply_ disrespectful to the tens of thousands of original Americans who died in our revolutionary war.
- adam12 4mo agoWhy all the hate for headphone jacks?