Indeed, sounds like a legitimate win to me.

It’s basically a FOSS Chromebook.

Excellent. One step in the right direction. Good guy Germany.

Ehh, you might want to read about the origins of the bakers dozen.

Shrinkflation has been a feature of humanity for a long time, probably ever since we started trading goods.

It’s just easier to give less when your buyer would prefer that to paying a higher price.

This is cool enough that all Indo-European languages should start calling salmon Lox again.

With the right strategy and current technology, we should be able to evolve all current Indo-European languages back to a singular language over a thousand years or so. That would unite half the world in language.

A highly noble goal. We could call it, the Lox plan.

Get out of here with your reasonable, scientific explanation!

We want our outrage porn about smoked salmon, dammit!

/s

Honestly, I actually quite like them.

Not for everywhere and every time, but for casual dining, it is very handy.

If you are not jesting and seriously want to void the secrecy of the ballot and criminalize the act of voting…

Then you are as much a threat to democracy and the constitution as Trump is and I really wouldn’t mind if you went back to reddit and stayed there.

Writing in a candidate is still anonymous and should stay so.

So everyone gets a ballot with their social security number on it or something?

I know you jest, but chill dude. Not every reply is an attack.

If he’s disqualified for the office, those ballots will be void.

You can write in Arnold Schwarzenegger and he could get a majority, but those votes would all be void, since he is not a natural-born citizen.

What’s the saying that the Republicans love so much?

The US is not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic.

There is only one way to peacefully change the constitution - and that’s through an amendment.

Interesting article, but he has an obvious blind spot: a lot of liberals around the world also criticize Israeli policy.

Heck, most liberal Israelis I know absolutely abhor Netanyahu.

The criticism on Israel stems from human rights considerations and international law, not wokeism. All those 150 countries who voted for a cease fire in the UN can hardly be described as woke.

But yes, the issue is polarizing and it really wouldn’t surprise me if Trump wind in 2024.

Censorship is never the answer.

There are more than a billion Muslims in the world. Obviously, Bin Laden is an idiot. But within those billion Muslims there are enough other idiots that share his way of thinking. Enough that things like Hamas and ISIS are real threats to our societies.

I, for one, do not wish to engage in a holy war against these idiots on behalf of an Apartheid regime.

Neutrality in holy wars is a perfectly reasonable position to take.

If Netanyahu wants to desecrate their mosque, steal their land and kill their children, then we should condemn that. Not support it.

Our governments are painting a red flag on our backs and inflaming the stupid bull.

This will not end well.

Definitely recommemd the read.

Well, nobody is blocking them from joining a native tribe somewhere.

But those societies tend to have an even higher level of social control than what typical westerns think. And many also had regular skirmishes with bordering tribes back in the day.

What you are looking for is exactly the “big tract of land recently cleared of dispossed natives”.

Normally, on earth, there just aren’t big tracts of fertile land free for the taking.

It only seemed that way for colonials because they didn’t see what the army did the five years before they got the land.

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What I really want to see is a way to connect USB-C plugs with existing common cabling (either 2 or 3 wire electric cabling, or cat6).

The way I see it, most lighting and sockets for things like shavers, television, audio, routers, etc. could run over thick copper carrying up to 480W (10 amps at 48 volt). Cat6 with USB-C recepticles could the replace RJ45 with PoE and allow a backbone for things like IP cameras, routers.

Also, once the specs are specified, you wouldn’t actually need to use USB-C plugs. You could just connect the LED lights directly to the 2 copper wires and still use USB-PD to run lower voltage over them. But I can also see a USB-C plug be very handy to plug in light fixtures if you want.

Houses would then only need 110 or higher voltage for heavier appliances. But preferably with some kind of negotiated power delivery for higher voltage, that too could have improved home safety.

This will greatly reduce fire and electrocution hazards in homes.

In essence, it would make low voltage negotiated DC the standard in residential housing.

One of my life goals is to have a house with a pool. (totally unrealistic and unaffordable where I live), but drowning in my pool is a lingering fear.

This… Just confirms I probably shouldn’t. :-(

I am not a leftist, just a centrist humanist.

You’re just an apartheid fanboy.

Ah yes, just turn my comment into a strawman. Sorry, not going to feed the trolls.

The only party ignoring and abandoning the hostages and foreign nationals stuck in Gaza (whom you conveniently do not mention) is Israel.

Hamas would definitely be willing to give back hostages in exchange for concessions. And they also were willing to let foreign nationals leave, but Israel blocked the border, leading to the death of at least one of my countrywomen.

But Israel is blinded by rage and opporunism, so it prioritizes stealing land in the West Bank above freeing hostages.