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That is very reductive of the whole situation. The Egyptians are not singularly focused on helping Palestinians; it is far more nuanced than that.

Bottom line, Egyptians are not interested in supporting millions of refugees inside their border. So the border stays closed to mass immigration.


All that may be true.

Also true: If Egypt opened the border and Israel objected, Israel would take swift military action.


No, why? Israel would celebrate.

But NONE of the Arab countries want to help Gaza people really.


> No, why? Israel would celebrate.

This is directly contradicted by Israel's actions in the Gaza War. Egyptian control of the crossing was not enough, so they took it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/israel-ra...


Israel would object to aid and weapons flows into Gaza. It would be fine with Gazans leaving the Strip. The problem is there are currently zero takers globally for a significant Palestinian refugee population, in part, as other comments have mentioned, due to the history of Palestinian refugee populations in the Middle East. (To my knowledge, Palestinian Americans have been fine and productive members of society.)


Racial theorists are out in full force today.

I do wonder if you all can hear yourself: a lot of subtle implications of genetic defects in Palestinians' character and selective understanding of geopolitics in the region, or just basic societal dynamics.

I invited another commenter to transpose their reasoning to groups it's less popular to openly discriminate, I'd suggest you do the same.


Saying that no nations want to take Palestinian refugees does not make you a racist.

The fact remains; no Middle Eastern nation wants Palestinian refugees, not for their genes, but for their politics.


"Saying that gays steal does not make you homophobic": technically true, but you're being selective with your understanding of facts.

Most states (talking about decision-makers, not populations) don't want to take in large groups of refugees, not because of their genes or politics, but because it has a cost and risks (in terms of integration, gov perception, fuelling far right parties, etc.). Nothing to do with Middle-Eastern/Palestinian.

Even though there are examples of massive refugee intakes by states, everywhere, including in the Middle-East, including of Palestinians, including voluntary.


I'm not saying anything about Palestinians themselves. Only the opinion of others about them.

I'm saying shop owners think that gays steal.


if egypt opened the border, it would mean weapons and bombs flowing from egypt into gaza.

thats not something israel would be excited about


More like refugees flowing out, which Egypt doesn't want to deal with.

The Palestinians didn't help their cause with Yasser Arafat's Black September uprising in Jordan. Then they topped that up with strong support for Saddam when he invaded Kuwait. Like the ones in Kuwait were literally betraying Kuwaitis to the Iraqi troops.

Oh, and did I forget Lebanon? They literally fomented the civil war.


I mean "open the border" to allow Gazans to leave to Egypt. But Egypt (and none other Arab countries) are accepting refugees from Gaza.


I hope you guys are aware of the Church of Kondo?


Unfortunately not being updated anymore. :/


I was not, thanks! Username does not check out.


I am now!


With their phones and other stuff, sure. But colours in laptops haven't been seen since the toilet seat iBooks.


The MacBook Air has had colors for a while. Not particularly bold ones but they did blue and rose gold.


Those are such muted colours, I don't think anyone views those computers as coloured.


Dell took a stab at colors with the Mini netbooks circa 2008.


You're absolutely right; the Apple Silicon transition really lowered the years of support of their later Intel machines. The same thing happened with the G5 machines, and the last Motorola 68000 Macintoshes in the early 90s.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/some-macs-are-gettin...


Framework as a company is not old enough to even hit the limits of Apple's macOS support: around seven years.


You're decrying this supposed issue, that multiple countries are all copying one another for legislation. You've repeated this multiple times in these comments.

And yet, after all this, you're not interested enough to remember who's behind this important issue for you. If someone really cares they should get informed.


So they don't really care, so what. It's Meta who are supposedly lobbying.


> you're not interested enough to remember who's behind this important issue for you

You're demanding that others spoon feed you peer reviewed evidence that water is wet. As you say, if you really care you should expend the effort to inform yourself. I myself have no need at present for the hazily remembered details. The only thing at issue in the here and now was the absurd claim that there's no centralized lobbying effort involved.


> if you really care you should expend the effort to inform yourself.

I don't care. Unlike you, I am sufficiently informed about how legislatures around the world operate to know that coordination of this nature is common, anodine, and the way they have enshrined a global economy that has unlocked unfathomable wealth.


Same thing with phones in school. When it's banned by a legislature, every kid's like this is actually great six months after being enacted.


Appropriate username!


Hey let's make a very versatile laptop with tons of options for consumers, and let's not offer the other Standard Canadian French keyboard, let's just have the old one Windows forces on people.


You could get a blank keyboard, and nice transparent stickers.


People age and change; Jony Ive overstayed his tenure at Apple, through no fault of his own. Cook, not being a product guy, kept Ive with massive incentives. Build Apple Park, take care of software, here's a bunch more stock. That led to very misguided products. Laptops without MagSafe. Ever so thin phones for no benefit. A pen that charges in the most insane way.

Ive should have left shortly after the death of Steve. He was creatively spent at Apple.


You still can right now.


Do Apple provide the necessary technical details for others to write it? I think wasn't that the complain with Asahi effort?


No, but I think it’s unlikely that Apple actually has this information in a format that it could easily publicly release. They aren’t going to make any special effort to make Linux on Mac easier, but they also aren’t actively blocking it.


They decided to leave the bootloader unlocked. I guess, in today's anti-consumer tech landscape, that's nice of them.


It's more complicated than that. The bootloader can maintain the chain of trust for macOS while allowing unsecured OSes next to it.


Well, I was more talking about the fact that you can still install Windows 11 on an Intel Mac right now; the drivers are still there for those few Intel macs still supported.

As for Windows on ARM, I'd bet that if Microsoft had managed to figure out their own product, Apple might have been tempted to support it. I mean why go through all the trouble of developing the most advanced firmware on the planet to support a fully secure macOS next to an unsecured OS if you do nothing with it?


> As for Windows on ARM, I'd bet that if Microsoft had managed to figure out their own product, Apple might have been tempted to support it.

That was totally up to Microsoft [1].

[1]: "Craig Federighi: Native Windows on M1 Macs is 'Really up to Microsoft'" — https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/20/craig-federighi-on-wind...


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