The more important question is why 50% of the population, minus ineligibles, don’t care about politics or think not voting means they have the moral high ground.
Many Americans are looking for unicorn politics and the rest of us suffer because of it.
And then you have companies like Google who are going all in on adblocking because that is their entire revenue stream.
I think your use of the term “irrational” there says something potentially undesirable about you. People hate her for a very good reason, regardless of the contents of her books.
People are assholes, and once the lid pops it is difficult to put it back on. What you did could have been the metaphorical straw that broke the camel’s back.
Don’t take these people seriously unless you feel that you have wronged them. They are dealing with their own shit, and you shouldn’t let them drag you into it. Apologize and move on. Anything they say after that is their poor attempt to cope with the situation.
When I switched from Windows the biggest problem by far was finding a good replacement for MPC-HC. VLC just feels clunky and mpv itself is just a cli app, not what a fresh Linux user is looking for. I did end up settling on Haruna since it has options that get me closer to MPC-HC than any other player.
Now that I am more familiar with Wine I am curious if MPC-HC would hold up.
My incredibly naive view on this is that with the first born the parents are full of energy and try their best to discipline (assuming the parents are not already dysfunctional human beings). When the next children come along they get progressively more tired and lax, or straight up angry and impatient. The younger kids then pick up these undesirable traits from their parents.
On the other end of the spectrum we have oldest siblings with some behavioral issues and the younger ones are like “nope, not gonna become like that myself”. I don’t feel like this group has the same controls as the other group from a study perspective.
Parents who maintain discipline with their kids through multiple kids are pretty rare and they are the unsung heroes of a civilization.
I have no sources on this except that it is this way in my family and the families of my parents friends.
I wouldn’t define that as being screwed, but they certainly are disadvantages. Fixed rates can work in your favor under certain scenarios like how the government is currently reducing bond rates which causes everyone else to lower their APY. Fixed rates mean you aren’t affected when the government decides to pay less.
If you are really looking to avoid devaluation of your portfolio then you can switch to purchasing valuable minerals like gold and silver (or the ETFs that track them), or you can invest in insured CDs. These won’t give you the big payout like stocks would, but they will never lose you money.
Just recently I sold off a lot of poor performing stocks and stocks of companies investing in AI and bought some gold and silver stocks as well as some CDs. I am not expecting to win with these - I just want to survive the inevitable market crash.
Obligatory warning, I am not a financial analyst and I will not be responsible for how you invest your money.
FYI this is very real social engineering that criminals use. These stickers seem harmless at first but can be pretty dangerous.
No. Monopolies that are monopolies because they offer a superior product that others don’t offer absolutely deserve their success. Monopolies that are monopolies because they hold others back absolutely should be broken up. The difference is in why they are a monopoly.
There are certain nuances when a company is too big to compete with - things like YouTube where video hosting is hella expensive. That is a grey area that I do not have an educated opinion on.
No idea. I’ve been to who knows how many specialists and nobody is going beyond the basic checklist and giving up afterwards.
I’m living through number one right now. The confusion isn’t the bad part. The bad part is being fully conscious of your confusion, almost like you are in a body floating over your own watching you do and think stupid shit you know you would never do. It is legitimately horrifying watching myself slip further and further by the day and nobody seems to think there is a problem.
Most supermarkets in my area, not just Costco, have one.
“Blame the author, not the language”
Says the person who screams they have never worked professionally with a team before.
There is no excuse to not use statically typed, safe languages nowadays. There are languages that let you build faster like Python and Typescript, but faster does not mean safer. Even if your code is flawless it still isn’t safe because all it takes is a single flawed line of code. The more bug vectors you remove the better the language is.
I have PTSD from people ignoring compiler warnings, so the squiggly kills the intent for me.
I am using CachyOS. I was able to find my way around because I knew what I needed to look up due to existing server experience, but a first time user would likely struggle a lot more.
There is a difference between going from a GUI based OS to a hybrid GUI/console OS.
For both iOS and Android the only difference is where things live. The processes are still the same.
This is not the case with Windows and Linux. If you want to install something in Windows you go to a website and download an installer. For Linux, you find out if there is a package. If not you go to a website and see if there is an app image or zip file. You then need to know where to place the downloaded file, how to get it running (making it executable), knowing how to chmod and chown (it is better to have to do it like in Linux, but it is an extra step), and how to add it to your desktop (there is no right+click and add to desktop/create shortcut option in Arch based distros like there is on Windows). If there is a service component you may need to go into command line and systemctl to enable it.
Your comparison to iOS and Android is not really appropriate.
Can confirm. Just switched to Linux about 2 weeks ago. I am happy enough, but there was a brutal learning curve. This was for a distro that is user friendly, too. I was able to install just fine, but actually getting my environment set up is an ongoing process.
Many Linux distros are getting there, but they still aren’t ready for casual users.
I have no idea how you and your other up voters read what I wrote and thought “semantics”.
Arguments are “I am right, you are wrong.”
Conversations are “I feel I am right, and you feel you are right. Let’s try to understand each other and figure out where the disconnect is and how we can meet on common ground to come to an outcome we are both happy with.”
There are nuances. Arguments have an undertone of superiority. Conversations have an undertone of trying to understand the other person’s perspective and realizing that if somebody has the same perspective as you then you wouldn’t be in the situation to begin with.
Now, I want to make it perfectly clear that there are some things where there is no room for conversation - things where facts are being disputed.
This post is an argument since I am too lazy to engage in conversation.
Maybe inbreeding or the result of a child pregnancy.