You mean the Central Asian countries?

Very few rules are arbitrary. A rule may be bad, or no longer relevant, but there must have been a reason someone went to the trouble of making it. Once you can figure out that purpose, you can accept or reject it. But until then, you must consider the possibility that your knowledge is simply incomplete.

it’s a Chinese game but the default VA is JP

I don’t think JP is default. EN was default for me, and I switched to CN / JP as soon as I could. (Also I’ve heard that the EN / JP translations are often inaccurate and that you should cross-check story details against CN.)

Subject-Object-Verb is actually slightly more common across the world’s languages than Subject-Verb-Object.

They are not ‘just west’ of 90E. 90E is the line passing between India and Indonesia. They are also not in the middle third as you claim below. The middle third would be bounded by the 60E and 120E lines, which you can see in the map (one west of India, and the other passing through Australia).

Japanese has fewer sounds, and as an Indian I can already make most of them. On the other hand, the grammar is very subtle and tricky.

As for how they sound, I would say that Japanese sounds warm and energetic, while Mandarin sounds soft and polite.

No, it is roughly in the middle of the Old World. The middle of the Eastern Hemisphere is further east, in the Bay of Bengal southwest of Myanmar.

As an aside, it’s not the ‘Arab speaking world’. You could try ‘Arab World’ or ‘Arabic Speaking World’. Neither of which is technically correct, since Iranians, for example, neither speak Arabic nor consider themselves to be Arabs. ‘Muslim World’ might be better, if half-Christian Lebanon doesn’t object …

The only correct system is 0ver.

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/93

If this was the issue you’re talking about.

Say what you want about Korea but their decision to develop nukes was 100% correct.

I believe this is an X issue, not a Mint issue. Most other distros have switched to Wayland, but Mint will use X until Wayland is mature enough.

The Communist Manifesto details the natural rights of everyone to equality and shared prosperity.

I read it a long time ago, but my memory is that the Manifesto (and its writers in general) discard the idea of ‘natural’ rights, arguing that legal / moral principles arise from the economic conditions of the time.

Marxist Communism is a bit myopic as it really deals with factory work

Marx’s biggest scientific contribution is the development of a ‘materialist’ (here meaning ‘physical’) theory of history. I feel that his specific stages are too eurocentric, but the general principles are universal.

The Manifesto is a call to action, so it is somewhat simplified theoretically and deals specifically with the issues and conditions of the time.

We were always supposed to put punctuation inside quotation marks;

Isn’t this a US English thing? In India we were taught to close them like brackets - i.e., the one that opened last closes first. So

‘Don’t wait. I will come later.’

But

He said ‘I will come later’.

OS ads, website ads or app ads?

• For OS ads, it depends on the manufacturer. Some don’t have ads. For Xiaomi devices, ads can be completely removed by disabling a single app. Avoid anything by Samsung.
• For ads on websites, use Firefox with uBlock.
• App ads are the hardest to remove. You can try blocking ad domains at the OS level, or disable ads in each app’s settings (if they give you that option).

You should be trying to break everything you’re told, as soon as you’re told it.

Yes, but you also should try to understand why a rule / convention exists before trying to change it. You cannot create a better solution until you understand how the current solution came about, what its shortcomings are, and why people still use it.

India.

Yeah, that’s common in India. Everyone is expected to learn the local language, English, and (in most places) Hindi. So people from different states communicate with each other in English. Similarly, the Union (=Federal) government uses English and Hindi while each state and territory can decide its own administrative language(s).

Of course not. Wtf?

6-7 hours in India (0900-1500).