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It is deeply amusing to see a NATO state and occupier of Afghanistan wax poetically about the rule of law and territorial integrity.

The Greek MFA makes some good points about the threat of Turkish incursions, but I wish they'd be less hypocritical about it.

As someone with mobility impairment, putting a CD in a player and pressing buttons to play was never pleasant. In fact I was often stuck with whatever five CDs were left in the player. CDs actually haven't gone away, and you can still use them today. I am glad the world has moved on though.

How does this work for you then:

Spotify allows the vast majority of music listeners far more access to far more music than ever in history.

Single-use gadgets can be blessings for the disabled and differently abled. The author of this article is sneering at the disabled for having different tool needs than herself.

My 80-something grandmother uses a garlic press and several sizes of vegetable holders for slicing veggies. I guess she's just so uncool.

A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings.

Literally 100% of the documents I process are sent to other people. So collaboration and sending documents are core functionality.

Why does it matter if decriminalization and regulation are floated as "magic bullets" or not? The Nirvana fallacy so often shows up in discussions of drug policy.

It literally does not matter if decriminalization is "only 5% effective" (in whatever metric you're using to measure success, which here is just marijuana sales?). Sane polities implement laws that don't have 100% effectiveness.

Are you going to take your bucket out to the Great Plains and capture some of that water?

Some Amazon Kindle books DO have "real" page numbers. It's an additional feature that must be supported. The problem of page numbers on reflowable text is much more difficult than it may appear.

"Free speech doesn't exist in this country:

[several hot takes follow]

FREE SPEECH IS OVER!"

Do you not understand how silly you look?

American culture warriors desperately want to be oppressed.

Individual rights are, by their very nature, political rights. There's no hard separation between the two concepts.

Do you really think that the subject of a Wikipedia article should decide whether they are notable or not? Seems a bit hypocritical given your deletionist stance.

A compendium of knowledge can't be a compendium of knowledge if it has too much knowledge in it?

There are tools such as VIA which handle firmware for you, so you can just change a key in the GUI.

I feel sorry for you.

You get infuriated that talented modders and hackers perform research and entertain you for free?

>When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to understand the environment is just huge.

I have literally been running Windows 11 with the taskbars on the side for 6 months

The people who are buying Chinese knockoff pirated flash carts, are not the same people pulling out their credit cards for paid support. Also, retro gamers are a notoriously difficult and time-consuming market to support.

You are really complaining about people "making presumptions" downthread, and then claiming to speak for literally all Americans in this one?

If you eliminated qualified immunity, only fools would become government officials.

Taxes and import duties on electronics wiped out this difference for me. Seriously the highest prices I've ever paid for electronics.

Those are pretty bad examples. Mario Kart and Smash are literally some of the top selling games of all time. If their "wacky ways" are played and enjoyed by 10% of players, that's still millions of sales.

You're assuming an objective reality. Events may not truly occur without an observer.

It is definitely cheaper to eat at a hawker center than to cook for a single person, but one must be choosy. At least in Malaysia, many similar venues don't even offer ANY healthy options.

People opposed to affirmative action like to use verbal tricks. For example, here OP has described affirmative action as "racial discrimination", which is perhaps technically true, but not as most people understand the term.

Just because you don't spy on your neighboors means that Mozilla can and should spy on their users? What?

This question assumes a lot... and that isn't what happened.

If I trust Microsoft enough with my privacy to control my operating system, then I trust Microsoft enough to have my phone number. So this issue has not arisen for me.

Surely the cited 0.10 USD per package delivered, plus fuel expenses, must be a typo?

Orbán literally is a staunch revanchist. Not sure how you can say Hungary is not revanchist when its powerful and noisy dictator constantly talks about Greater Hungary. Also not sure why Slovakia banning an anthem makes Hungarian revanchism any better.