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I also knock off car-first cities. A tram will not go full looney toons. And I expect that the professional drivers that are actually needed in a city will also not do it that often.

A bazillion understaffed forks ranging from unusable because they have more tinfoil hats than developers, and unusable because the single developer doesn’t understand why remote debugging shouldn’t be enabled by default.

People that buy commercial displays won’t tolerate adware on their monitors. Can you imagine having a screen in a store and it suddenly displaying ads that are not for what the store sells itself? This ensures there will always be an healthy demand for ad free displays.

Some premium brands like Bang & Olufsen sell TVs without adware, I think Panasonic TVs are mostly ad-free for now. Outside of that, most big brands will have “professional” or “commercial” product lines that also don’t have ads. But in all cases you’ll have to pay extra over the TVs subsidized by ads.

I fully support Romeo and Juliet laws to not punish horny teenagers for being horny teenagers, but a 6 year difference at 14 years old is completely out of any reasonable scope to make an exception. Doubly so when the guy was so nonchalant about it 20 years later.

Regarding what Bernie calls the risks “robot soldiers”, I think the Star Trek episode A Taste of Armageddon should be mandatory viewing.

War is not always avoidable, but it becomes less so if the costs of fighting it are perceived as small.

That goes back to the original Luddites. They weren’t anti technology per-se, they were were anti oligarchy.

Immigrants that accept that they are immigrants or self-described expats?

As long as you don’t try to make your surroundings a mini-'Murica you should be fine everywhere in Europe.

A catholic church in the US listening to the Pope on something that’s not an order to protect pedophiles? How did that happen? Did they read the part of the bible that immediately follows the nativity and found out Jesus was also a refugee?

Maybe you have more than 26 storage devices, but don’t know how to use folder mounts on windows, or are weirdly attached to bad design decisions from the 1980s.

TIL it doesn’t snow in Netherlands and Denmark /s

Does it predict people that allegedly finished university not knowing the difference between correlation and causality?

This reminds me of a fraud risk classification model I once heard about, which ended up being an excellent income-by-postal-code classifier.

Those are all thing that can be controlled by the direct lead on any well run company.

I know from my own work that some mediocre middle managers wanted a rigid technological enforcement of the hybrid work framework and are probably dreaming about rolling out a “feature” like this.

In this case, wanton disregard for other people, bordering on narcissistic solipsim.

1. Change the constitution:
   1.1. Make the election to the House use proportional lists by state.
   1.2. Move most of the competencies of the Senate to the House. Replace the current Senate with state government representation like the German Bundesrat or the European Council (but weaker).
   1.3. Introduce a prime-minister office to lead the government, elected by the House. Remove most executive powers from the presidency.
   1.4. Put term limits on the supreme court, and make the election happen by 2/3 majority in the house to avoid partisan crackpots.
   1.5. Change budget rules to prevent shutdowns, by keeping a limited version of the previous year’s budget if a new one is not approved
   1.6. Limit presidential veto
2. Call for Elections
3. Spend the time until the elections checking which conspiracy theories are true
4. Resign

1. could also be replaced with copying Germany’s home work constitution and changing it a bit.

All bubbles are good bubbles if you have the liquidity to survive the burst.

Ending up on an ICE concentration camp: priceless

To add to this, accept when people tell you it’s fine to pronounce their name wrong. My name is very hard to pronounce if you don’t speak my native language, and I prefer that people mispronounce it the “obvious” way, instead of trying to approximate it because then I have people calling me by 20 different variations, and sometimes I’ve no idea they are referring to me.

Works is different from works consistently across all browsers, or even versions of the same browser. I know most web developers got into their heads that only Chrome (and maybe Firefox if they are feeling generous) matters, but open source projects shouldn’t incentivise this.

Depending on the country, and depending on the gift, yes. Though it’s mostly not enforced.