As an IT worker, Apple products are fine. Not my bag, but fine. Just different issues than PCs and Android. Apple fanboys, however, are just the worst. One of my bosses once wanted me to tear out and rebuild the entire physical network because he had a problem with Safari on one of his Macs.
The richest person (and I use that word loosely) in the world is the most enabled man-child in history, and the president is the second most enabled man-child in history. And we're here because the US is populated with men-children who elected a king in their image.
The county where I live voted Trump 3 to 1 in the last election. MAGA hats and flags are rare. I think they assume everyone here is on the same idiot page and don't need to signal group identity.
We call that the "baby hold", and our cat hates it more than anything. He also does that with his tail to protect his butthole from inspection/wiping after a failed poop. I don't know why we put up with him.
Billionaires and politicians say a lot of things. As long as they continue to hoard wealth like dragons while millions starve, I'm gonna think money continues to be a motivating factor.
That's not what hedonism is. Hedonism is the pursuit of physical pleasure as the primary purpose in life. The problem with that is our brains are very good at moving our emotional goalposts to adapt to our circumstances, so we end up chasing greater and greater pleasures in a process called the "hedonic treadmill."
Billionaires are a good example of this. They get their kicks from watching their bank account go up and acquiring new things. But their brains quickly adapt to the new "normal", and then they need a higher number or newer thing. It's never enough.
I'm already seeing a surge of AI simp trolls on Lemmy in the last few days.