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dwazou , (edited )

From the article:

Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said.

China has millions of people who migrate around the country to work in factories as Apple revs up production around a new iPhone. They often work from the summer until Chinese New Year, when production slows down, so Apple’s suppliers don’t have to pay them for a full year of work. They live in dormitories connected to factories with assembly lines longer than a football field, clustered nearby component suppliers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html

Is it wrong? Well, I'm actually not sure.

The Financial Times revealed that the iPhone X was manufactured by underage Chinese teenagers:

https://www.ft.com/content/7cb56786-cda1-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc

dwazou , (edited )

A woman just wrote to the New York Times:

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/bc329a5c-90df-4916-882b-48d3737886f6.jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpwhwcm4es24

Response from New York Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander:

Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.

I can point you to the comments of Patrick McGee, author of the new book Apple in China. On a recent podcast appearance, he said "The tasks that often are being done to make iPhones require little fingers. The fact that it's young Chinese women with little fingers like that actually matters. Apple engineers will talk about this"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrvKbVlXwAEFLjs?format=jpg&name=large

https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpwokddpo22k

dwazou , (edited )

They are simply quoting supply chain executives.

Full response from the New York Times:

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/f87cca2e-4358-46e1-aff7-d8b53e7dc41c.jpeg

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpwhwcm4es24

dwazou ,
dwazou , (edited )

His government is giving away public land to corrupt foreign businessmen (1).

His political movement was ranked the least transparent in Ontario (2).

He blames bike lanes for traffic jams (3).

His brother was a drug addict (4).

His family is linked with violent organized crime (5)

I'm not Canadian.

It's unbelievable that a guy like this is running the largest Canadian province.

Shame. Shame. Shame.

dwazou , (edited )

Yes, because the only thing this region needs is more people killing each others, more violence.

Why can't some people oppose a genocide without calling for another genocide?

dwazou , (edited )

Do you see this guy ?

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/5a160df7-e0ab-45f6-b31b-e892a15b1097.jpeg

His name is Shantanu Narayen. Chairman and CEO of Software.

In 2010, he made $875 000 dollars a year.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7945715/Adobe-chief-Shantanu-Narayen-believes-he-doesnt-need-Apple-or-the-iPad.html

Today - 15 years later - he makes $43 million dollars a year :

https://aflcio.org/paywatch/ADBE

Like most big company CEOs, he makes sure only friends are named on the board.

For him, it's just a game. "How high can I go? I love milking these stupid peasants"

Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished ( apnews.com )

DIKWA, Nigeria (AP) — Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state....

dwazou ,

USAID spent $38.1 billion in fiscal year 2023. (1)

Sounds like a lot of money, right? Well, actually no. It's less than 1% of the US budget. In 2024, total federal spending was $6.8 trillion. (2).

To give you a perspective:

Since October 7th, the United States spent $17.9 billion dollars on military aid to Israel (3). Israel is a rich country with universal healthcare (4).

US millionaires and billionaires evade more than $150 billion a year in taxes, according to the head of the IRS. (5). Gabriel Zucman, a highly respected economist (6) came to a similar conclusion. In a recent paper, Zucman found the richest americans evade taxes on 25% of their income (7)

According to leaked tax returns, in 2016 and 2017, Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes. And he paid no income tax at all in 10 of the last 15 years. (8) (9).

The US is not in financial trouble because of vaccines to kids in Africa. Period.

Elon Musk claims USAID employees are thieves/scum. He keeps accusing them of fraud on his social media X. That's another lie.

In 2024, the Office of the Inspector General audited USAID at the request of Congress. The 70 page audit report found no evidence of fraud.

dwazou ,

Elon Musk is from of Africa. He grew up in a wealthy african family.

His massive cuts will impact war refugees and some of the poorest people in Africa. People who, for no fault of their own, were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This is how he gives back to Africans.