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OP is just classically racist, equating immigration with violence.

Why do you assume it has to be landlords providing inexpensive, short term housing?

While this doesn't do anything to threaten MS flight simulator, it's still charming. Google Earth is a delight to experience in VR if you ever get the chance, and the flight sim mode is likewise.

Folded paper won't?

I'm a senior at a big tech company. You can do this in America too. Just communicate with your manager and set the boundary. "By the way, when I'm on vacation I'm away from devices, so let's coordinate beforehand if there's anything critical path."

Nine months of data during a pandemic and nationwide civil unrest during the first year of a new term of a new President.

I guess I struggle to see how that's controlling enough variables over a long enough time span to be meaningful.

Who puts sunscreen on their hands? People in the sun who want to avoid wrinkles and burns and skin cancer on their hands.

If it's exposed skin, it gets sunscreen.

I think it's pretty objective. It's honestly possibly even a bit of a pro Israel framing given how passive and soft it is.

I don't think you can be authoritarian and socialist. The structures of strict hierarchy necessary to be authoritarian necessarily oppose the egalitarian goals of socialism.

Many, many socialists condemn the Soviets, and even fought against them. Very few socialists believe that forcing the populace at gunpoint to be communist is a good plan.

> the liberal democratic US empire. It may be evil in a lot of ways

May be? It's absolutely evil in a lot of ways. It's an active participant in multiple genocides at the moment. And has been for a long time.

I guess it could be worse, but being stuck laboring under Saruman's orcs and pointing at Mordor and going "At least we aren't over there" isn't exactly a defense of the situation.

My kitchen, office, living room, gaming computer, entryway, and bedroom are all separated by sets of stairs.

So that's six robots for me?

I'm glad someone caught this.

I strain off the loose white and poach, poached eggs can be made in advance and rewarmed too, but I prefer to do them while the sauce is coming together.

I make eggs benedict probably once a month or two. It's really fairly simple with an immersion blender. Comes together in like a minute. Timing the poached eggs and the sandwich elements is a little tricky, but not materially more difficult than, eg, cinnamon rolls from scratch.

Do you have stairs in your house?

My unpopular opinion: Valve is basically a parasite or a landlord. They've been so successful it's hard to imagine a world without them, and they say "you gotta give the parasite its due" and we believe them and comply.

It's been kept around because they treat their customers ok, but they absolutely exsanguinate their developers.

And their engineering culture is... odd. They hire senior people and then let them all fuck sound aimlessly. Their APIs are terrible, their infrastructure is all over the place, they still have patch Tuesdays. But because they are the landlord that owns every house in town, what are you going to do, not pay rent?

Gabe is out there cruising the world in a billion dollar yacht, eating thousand dollar meals. All that came off the backs of developers who actually make the games.

If you think most people "are just terrible", I think you've let cynicism corrupt your thinking, and I don't think we're going to get very far by talking.

I believe the opposite -- people fundamentally want to help each other, and we've structurally set up our society to force people out of that mode and into a competitive mode. Read "A Paradise Built in Hell", when push comes to shove, communities care for each other.

If we covered everyone's basic food, housing, education, and medical needs, I guarantee you'd see crime and addiction plummet.

Furthermore, going after scrap metal sites makes an important business harder and fails to be inquisitive enough about the reasons why the thefts happen at all. Maybe we should try to understand why people are stealing copper. (Presumably poverty, drug addiction, lack of opportunity)

Oh, extremely fuck Erdogan. Despots don't deserve the time of day. If that's your reason to keep it Turkey, then fine. Probably still not turkey, though. We can check back after Erdogan is gone and see how you feel about Türkiye then.

Lying to customers is shitty behavior. They'll ask.

Do you feel this way about apps that gather information about you? "It says it has no tracking cookies.." Or apps that sell your email address? What if I claimed my product was vegetarian?

Like, wtf kind of attitude is "just lie about it".

> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand

This is very much not settled, and very much depending on your market. Selling games to gen-z? Yeah, they are going to care a lot.

How do you remove the travel time for the right hand between the mouse and keyboard. The problem isn't the mousing itself, its the dual input responsibility of the right hand.

Pretty tepid health care reform, pretty tepid climate change legislation. These things are described as hard fought victories, and "the biggest ever". But they still are pretty mediocre capitalist, corrupt systems driven pieces of legislation that stop far short of actual wellbeing for the governed.

The Dems are excited to move .01% further than they ever have before and call it "consequential". Dems are the party of "we won't say gay marriage is good, but we'll offer domestic partnerships... in some states" as if it's some grand gesture.

The party needs to wake up, stop accepting these garbage barons, and starting building policies that inspire people.

That attitude is, frankly, pretty misanthropic. "Why should I do anything for anyone who doesn't do it for me first" is how you get nowhere.

So here's your why: because they asked you to and you are better at it than they are. If you need smug superiority, you could use that too, I guess.

People change their names and nick names all the time. I don't go and check every value of theirs before I use their new name. It's really not that complicated.

Rolling coal is extremely not niche. I live in a progressive place and I see it regularly.

I'd encourage you to pause and learn about the culture from the many posters here before making surface level assertions.

I'd encourage you to express this sentiment without the slur. Disability advocates have been pressing hard to reduce its usage.

Have those countries made those requests?

I was gearing up to suggest that diaeresis very absolute valid English, but dug in a bit. It's not just a u with a diacritic. Ü is a separate letter in Turkish, with a more "ooh" or "ouh" like sound. TIL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)

Yes? It's obviously the case that countries can ask this?

We can choose not to do it, I guess, but place names change all the time. Istanbul vs Constantinople. New York vs New Amsterdam. Myanmar vs Burma. Czechia vs Czech Republic. Swaziland vs Eswatini.

Has Germany said they should be called Deutschland by English speakers?