I feel like most of tech had already sold out by 2014. Really by the late aughts it seemed to be all gone; that was when apple and its philosophy had taken hold. Not that apple was the only force in that direction, it just felt like the apotheosis of the greedy and controlling mentality. MS had plenty of greed, but they were willing (in some circumstances) to play ball. Google seemed to love interoperability in the early-to-mid aughts, but look at it now.

Yes, one of the worst people on the planet is absolutely controlling his decisions: RFK jr

I feel like Kurt Cobain would think this was hilarious

Go find a successful and ambitious person to fall in love with, marry, and be a happy male housewife.

Fun fact: the word husband comes from house-bond, i.e. homeowner. So "house-husband" is in a sense redundant.

Alternatively, find a job you are at least decent at and can tolerate. You don't need to love your job and be passionate about it to be happy.

Another brilliant take from the mind that brought us "Liz Cheney and Democrats' big tent strategy: Why courting Republicans works for Kamala Harris".

Look, I'm glad that these far right parties are losing. But it's going to take so much more than a few center-left parties winning one election cycle to end the rise of the authoritarian right.

I assume based on the headline that the person piloting the plane must have been a police officer

I was only half joking. They campaigned with Liz Cheney after all

This person notably didn’t say “my trans friends told me I was an egg, so I tried HRT just to shut them up.”

She kind of did, though? She says there were trans people who "WOULD NOT SHUT UP", so she obtained E and tried it "just to prove it wouldnt help" (second to last post in the screenshot)

How long until democrats are campaigning with him

As seen in last US election, voting for the ideal candidate meant the worse candidate won.

Is there actual evidence for this? Was there a higher than usual vote for 3rd party candidates in this election, and has that been determined to be the cause of Harris losing? Legit curious.

I'm sure the "waste, fraud, and abuse" folks will be all over this one, and not ignore it because WFA is just a thin pretext for gutting social services

I agree, women shouldn't serve in combat roles. Now guess what I think about whether men should serve in combat roles.

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Can we not? Why take a dig at poor people to make fun of a rich person?

It's unclear to me how they even could save taxpayers anything. It's not like when they fire a government employee, the money shows up in people's tax returns. I suppose they could fire the entire IRS so you just don't have to pay taxes at all, but then I guess you aren't a "taxpayer", and thus not worthy of consideration.

I feel much better now that I'm reminded of my insignificance, ty

https://massgrave.dev/ works just fine with ltsc as well and https://www.pcrf.net/ can always use more money

Maybe she's a religious studies expert who knows that Ostara is a whole cloth invention of a 19th century German man and that while the English name of Easter is probably derived from a little understood Pagan Goddess other languages use derivatives of Pascha but she didn't want to make a whole deal of it

Literally no one gives a shit about Liz Cheney

For some reason Democratic leadership seems to

Those were decisions to change the specific names of specific places, not a decision to handle country names in the general way OP was describing.

why did they decide

Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do. It organically happened the way it did for no particular reason other than it works well enough.

why don’t we change everything back to how the countries’ place names are pronounced by their citizens out of respect

Nobody cares enough to undertake this. I don't particularly care that people call the US by different names in their languages. People in Turkey aren't asking us to pronounce their country's name the same way they do. Most people are happy to apply the inverse golden rule on this, i.e., I don't pronounce your country's name the way you do, so I'm not going to expect you to pronounce my country's name the way I do.

Would it make things harder or would it allow us to grow?

Yes, but I think it would be a lot of work for not much growth. You don't learn a lot about a place by just pronouncing its name differently.