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You can upgrade to Windows 11 LTSC Enterprise IoT - it has leaner hardware requirements, but also less bloatware

The president, as head of arguably the most powerful military in the world, has enough military strength to enforce pretty much anything on anyone in the country if he wishes to.

You can use any ~2010 or newer laptop and install Proxmox on it. Voila, you have a server with low energy consumption.

Sure, do you have a link?

> Would you feel the same about a game where the player runs around raping women, or capturing and lynching escaped slaves? It's just pixels!

If we are already okay with mass murder in video games, then absolutely yes.

> There are some things that should not be normalized in society.

Who gets to decide these things and based on what?

It's kind of fucked up that we are almost used to murder in various media (movies, games, etc.), meanwhile even slightly explicit sex is much more taboo. I do vaguely understand why this is (religious beliefs that formed our understanding of what is acceptable and what-not), but I am still surprised that this is how it is even with the rise of Atheism in recent decades.

Of course not, you'd have to label as 837 kJ

Looks great!

> A lot of churches do have some socialising after services. Just serving coffee or something afterwards

I assume this is referring to churches in the US? I have never encountered this in Europe

> happy, as long as they follow the rules and don't speak out

Whateva happened to the strong, silent type?

I'm not from the US, so I may have get wrong, but didn't the Founding Fathers envision that people should be able to collectively rise up and overthrow a tyrant? Hence the right to keep and bear arms?

Of course, from a practical sense this does not seem possible, since the current US military, which a tyrant president would have direct control over, would be infinitely more powerful than a revolutionary group.

> doesn't make an objective goal for every person on earth to achieve.

The walkability of cities is linked to increased happiness in people, so there actually is merit to saying that it is objectively good. Walkability encourages you to literally walk past large amounts of people, local businesses and plenty of outdoor activities that you have the opportunity to take part in.

> Where is the productivity gains going?

To the top 1%. Technology advances rapidly, but work hours don't decrease.

If the court orders cannot be enforced, it does indeed not matter

> it's prohibited by the Constitution

Even if it is illegal, does not mean that anybody will actually do anything about it beside challenging the administration in court and giving them a slap on the wrist at best.

High speed rail seems like cool tech, but I guess it doesn't compare to the Boring Company Tesla tunnels or whatever.

The cost of living is smaller in most countries in the EU, though. Also, most get free healthcare and free higher education, so it evens out considering these benefits

Europeans don't just dislike capitalism. They've been indoctrinated into thinking that if a business makes money, it must be cheating.

Those are some big assumptions about 750 million people. Would love to see the data on this.

> In America, a 20-year-old can drop out of college, code an app in his dorm, and become a billionaire. In Europe? Good luck.

Assuming that's the case with you, right? And if not, then why not if it's so simple? Everybody knows that these cases are extremely rare, but they do happen both in the US and in the EU.

> The ultimate proof that Europe's system is broken? Its smartest people leave. Engineers, doctors, entrepreneurs, they all flee to the U.S., Switzerland, or Singapore, where they're allowed to keep what they earn.

Again, would love to see the data on this. Based on my own personal anecdata, one of the reasons why IT engineers don't move to the US despite being offered to do so is because they enjoy the other benefits of living in the EU, like high-speed rail, free health-care, free higher education, being car independent, childcare benefits and having more days off.

> Take note, Discord.

I highly recommend Legcord[1] - it's a alternative, open-source client that has very good ARM builds

1. https://legcord.app/

> I can safely say this doesn't apply to the majority of the population.

That's a pretty bold claim, would love to see the data. The only thing I know that applies to the majority of the population is that they breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, and even with that claim I am not 100% confident.

Although I do agree with the sentiment, you should handle sensitive information if you are not capable of properly doing so.

The point was to find out if malicious actors could use such tools for convincing interactions, and although I do disagree with their approach, I think that it would be impossible to conduct such a experiment with user consent on a subreddit scale.

I am definitely not a bot!

> Cat(1) is just 36 lines of C.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it around 800 lines[1]?

1. https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c

> Cars exist and are foundational to modern living

I assume you are talking about North America here, because that is certainly not the case everywhere

> I uninstalled it when it started to uglify the icon on my desktop when I neglect daily exercise

That's actually hilarious

> "Well, I can't invest in the US because in the worst case, non of our secret weapons function fully, Russia blows us away, and all my real estate and manufacturing investments go up in smoke."

Can't speak for others, but I stopped investing in the US (more specifically, ETFs and stocks) after the current administration called Europeans ungrateful and parasitic.

> But I'm also a realist.

A realist would prepare for the worst

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