Don’t leave the drink unattended

Isn’t that kind of necessary and what we did the last time? Add tariffs targeted towards products relevant to red states.

There’s probably history too, but in many cities in EU there’s a lot of assumed roma beggars living in the streets, which means it’s a pretty in-your-face practical issue to deal with every day.

White doesn’t really have the same connotations in europe. There’s sadly plenty of racism, but the skin tone isn’t the main discriminator.

It’s pretty good at starting services. It just keeps adding bundled things people wouldn’t use otherwise, in a fairly microsoft fashion

You know how you start hallucinating in a sensory deprivation situation? I feel a lot of UX people just aren’t talking to users directly and thus we get whatever they hallucinate is a good design, disconnected from any actual user needs. Any user feedback only comes after they’ve made their mind up and is seen as the users being wrong, as the alternative is harder to deal with.

It’s free so I can’t really complain, but I can use KDE instead.

Music recommendations are part of the core offering though and keeping play history is pretty vital for that. There might be local ways to do it but probably not as good

The vehicle contained it all pretty well, with the main exit for force and fire was via the window between the trunk and the cabin

Engineered like a tank… but the tank is a T72

I rented a car at some point where you had to input the address letter by letter using a little scrollwheel kinda thing.

Smartphones have issues, but the map thing is a killer feature in itself.

I had those. They were much worse.

If you want to know if your kid is LGBTQ+, respect them as humans when they’re growing up and don’t be trans- homo- etc-phobic. They’ll tell you at some point.

If they don’t tell you, take a long hard look at yourself

I don’t have a dog, but seeing a happy dog is a sure way to brighten my day!

It sounds like you might have some unresolved issues from childhood. Your family didn’t respect your autonomy so now you’re maybe hyper vigilant about getting controlled by others?

Not being able to compromise even on small things like where to eat seems like it could become an issue. Do you really care about every little detail like that or are you just in constant defense mode?

There’s a lot of nice people out there you could safely compromise with on smaller things for mutual benefits, so it can be worthwhile to work on.

Being aware of it and examining it like you are now is a good first step.

Perhaps you could try to compromise on something tiny, with someone who hasn’t abused you, and see how it feels?

Yeah it’s not hugely effective

If the permanent members of the security council didn’t have veto powers they A: wouldn’t have joined, and B: would go “you and what army?” if people voted to force them to do something.

It’s just a way to keep a high level discussion going.

On biometrics btw: they’re worse against police who could force you to unlock the phone, but if your worry is someone seeing your pin, biometrics fixes that

You can restart the phone or activate lockdown mode before going to bed and be safe from someone sneaking your finger print

You can want or need privacy without it being nefarious in some way

Locking your phone, setting it to auto lock, using biometrics so the pin is hard to steal, etc are all perfectly reasonable things to do. You have a right to privacy

If you have abusive and technically skilled family who have been caught spying on you with technical means, worrying they might do it again would be reasonable

If you constantly worry about something that you have no tangible reason to consider a credible threat, it might be some other issue, from anxiety to OCD. Perhaps try to talk to a professional?

I don’t think that’s an accurate representation.

Covid happened. It hit most countries like that. Now he’s trying to balance things again, against intense opposition

The root cause is not recent. The french have been overspending for decades. Look at the debt to GDP ratio over time.