As an engineer I was immediatly annoyed that she isn't a tech/science person. But there might be a reason that we don't know, why they need a lawyer at the helm right now. And she at least seems to be aligned to the principles we need.

Sir, this is a steak house. We have hundreds of baby cows come here every year.

A used book for 12£ is maybe 8€ more than I normally spent on used books.

But will it still think this is car traffic?

Is this the beginning of a horror movie?

I did, mostly Audacious and Amarok. But, deserved or not, winamp has a special place in the heart of almost everyone in my generation.

Switched to Linux in 2005 or 2006. Been missing Winamp ever since. :) Finally.

Yeah, your highways are not great. But I don't really like to drive, so I'd prefer you trains. :) What use are high speed trains, if they are 2 hours late?

I am just coming from a thread discussing voting for Biden or not is okay under the current circumstances. Reality meets fiction.

Reading this, while being in Germany.

Lol, they used a "learning algorithm" for something we solved decades ago? The responsible engineer needs to get his degree revoked...

Is this really new? Haven't they been using soft computing methods since, basically forever?

A (single use) water bottle with a sport cap is basically a portable bidet. One can even easily adjust the water pressure.

Isn't it everywhere? Liberalism seems to be mostly nice talking with the aim to squelch regular people. I am turkish and I don't think it is much different in the middle east.

This discussion is funny from a German pov, as our main local liberal party (the FDP) is pretty right wing and has been so since the 1940s. "Liberalism" always had a quite neative connotation to me therefore. They are also the party most open to working together with the far right (the AFD).

Liberalism can be right wing or left wing. It makes more sense to structure the political specrum like this. But even that is far from prefect.

I think regardless of the platform it will get ugly when topics are controversial. How ugly it gets is mostly depending on the level of moderation. It doesn't need many trolls or ill willing people to derail a discussion among hundreds of good meaning people.

We also tend to concentrate on the things we consider unfavorable. If among 100 comments 5 are sexist, these 5 will get far more attention than the other 95.

I mean, I've seen people uttering death threads on YouTube, because the YouTuber used butter in a recipe, not margarine. One of several hundred comments under that video, but the only one I remember...

I don't drink alcohol and I am not irish. I am somehow offended ntl.

OK, great. I occasionally order at AliExpress and was kind of tempted to try Temu, because of the hype. WIll skip it then.

Is it worse than AliExpress?

All those old school (former) linux devs used to play DnD back in the 80s, right? Hmm. Satanic panic 2.0?