In the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, guys named Tripp Mickle still write racialized nimble finger stereotypes into the pages of the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk8.0OqH.hxuqGc1wREXl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Thank you for your understanding.
Sad that becoming an adult means giving up your childhood dreams.
Not tiny Chinese women and their little hands.
No words…….
Maybe, but to my mind David remains at the very top of the heap of 20th century violinists.
Still have puzzles thru their app, though, so still paying them $3/mo.
Let him cook.
Life imitating art. Again.
This 100% gotta be a bot or a human with a seriously fucked update sense of humor.
I can’t believe I read that today! 🤣
https://youtu.be/96iJsdGkl44
Bluesky! Give me an edit button, and my life is yours!
/What./
/s
I'm guessing the owner will tear this down and build a 2500 sqft home. At about $750/sqft (construction costs have soared), that's probably $5.5M all in.
Nope, no housing shortage here!
In the US people just wanna talk shit all the time and play too much. 🤷♂️
Also, nobody wants to buy inferior overpriced products made in the USA.
Think culture not training. Our culture does not pass down positive attributes across the whole, like self discipline, integrity, hard work, maturity etc.
We play too much and talk shit all the time. 🤷♂️
I am not exaggerating about the shit talking and playing all the time. It’s literally toxic and if you have those positive attributes you see it.
https://bit.ly/4jnEtx0
Could *maybe* make a "bring back shop class, with a serious scope and sequence" argument out of it.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
it's bc of her generation
the "Silent Generaton" they are labeled
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
One of my favorite comedies of all time. The video on that one is very much like American late-night infomercials.
I probably mangle those lines once a week.
They're boxy, but good.
Yes! I want to go to the bathroom...
And when called out on it doubled down with anonymous "experts".
Sounds about right.
The hypocrisy is what enrages me the most.
😊
And no one, No One, wants to be the doofus who says “Let’s repeat *that* wonderful experience.”
More than a few only come from China.
They also have to move around the country like agricultural migrants do here.
Different labor laws is a big reason it won't happen here.
The Marshall Plan was too successful. Harumph!
It's all automation, or dispenser + electric torque screwdriver. Cheap phones, or flagships.
the Chinese are better with small things and it "turns out it's not because they have small hands, it's because they have a big tooling industry".
#Trumpf wants a bigger tool!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iJsdGkl44
https://bsky.app/profile/johnpontoon.bsky.social/post/3lpwgqrybsk2s
They are also a dictatorship, so there's a downside
And their demographics are giving them the yips
It used to, in the 70’s and part of the 80’s. Under Reagan, though, the US govt started tax incentives for offshoring.
[grabs the Wite-Out and a Sharpie]
... it’s on there now.
I always like to see which Ivy produced NYT fuckwits.
https://youtu.be/96iJsdGkl44?si=mQJv8IrMKR6b2z_t
The WHOLE thing is devastating!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/
Perhaps give him meaningful employment for the first time in his miserable life?
But someone in the Trump admin will quote Mr. Mickle to explain why children should work in the US iPhone factories.
What are we doing here, boys 🥴
Children have even smaller fingers and that's where you are currently heading
https://bsky.app/profile/thaiwood.io/post/3lpwpjhbrhk2m
Who knew?
And he’s got big flapping hands like a goalie.
"Sure thing dad"
"No no son a nimble finger Phillips, Jesus haven't I taught you anything"
My father said the aim was too tie a knot with cotton within the confines of the outer cover of a matchbox.
Second is so handy to try to prove any old thing.
@nytimes.com
today I learned small fingers are a skill
Not because "they have small hands," but because they have been doing this work for decades.