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Day 5 of Inktober

“Long”

#inktober #inktober2017 #myart #staircase #mountain #nature #ink #black and white #acrylic #paint

"When you're in your bee suit and you feel sweat running down your back, that's fine. If you feel sweat running up your back, that's a bee"

-Some beekeeping advice my mom gave me today

lumpawaroospaceprincess-moved-d

I thought “bee suit” meant like a bee costume until I read the word beekeeping

merlelavie

so dark haha

Day 4 of inktober “underwater”

#inktober #underwater #myart #blue #sea #light #ink

“Poison” Inktober Day 3

#inktober #myart #girl #internet #addiction #facebook #poison

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Day 2, Organic, home-grown, glutenfree, free range, grass-fed Cheeseburger!

“Divided”

#Inktober Day 2

#inktober #mrjakeparker #myart #wolf #dog

Thorfinn from “Vinland Saga”

Inktober Day1 “swift”

#inktober #inktoberincentive #myart #fanart #vinland saga #mrjakeparker

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‘Caroline’ rapper Aminé using his national television platform effectively

blkbruja

go the fuck off

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the-future-now-deactivated20170

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

orasgiveaways

This is really important and let me tell you why.

My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.

So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life.

She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?

“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”

toenail-draws

I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year. I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.

blood-and-pastry

Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?

xxxtictacion

You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.

tachyon-at-rest

Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple.

All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years.

Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all.

Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple.

sodomymcscurvylegs

Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.

merlelavie

hell yeah dude

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#TeamKatniss

swagintherain

it seems that they violated 5th an 6th amendments but it doesn’t bother anyone in this country.

thego-dworks

Please spread this

warandpeas

Burn

wnq-music

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

Stevie Nicks (via wnq-music)