I offer you a very yummy Yum Nua Thai salad that uses sugar.

Definitely agree. I converted my E60 M5 from SMG with paddles to manual just because it wasn't fun. I'm not taking the car to the track, so might as well get as much enjoyment as I can on the street.

Didn't have this problem, as I could still shift up and down using the stick and it was just as fast (my motion - not the automatic clutch's) to click it twice or thrice.

ADL is a joke. Their definition of antisemitism was too broad before and even worse now includes criticisms of the State of Israel, so you can be labeled an anti-semite without even mentioning Judaism or Jews.

If I say "Jews are shrewd," I would immediately be labeled as an anti-semite, even though I haven't said anything negative about them. On the other hand, if I am a non-white person and say "Whites are privileged" nobody bats an eyelash, or at least no non-white person will. I read the links you provided. None of them tell me Musk is a Nazi. What I see is someone defending someone else's rights to say what's on their mind. Musk can easily ban ADL's account on X. Does he do so? I didn't think so.

And I just modded him up 1 point. Oh, wait ...

I think what you say depends on whether the dev has previously been coached, talked with, and given the options to improve. At some point the other person in a conversation has to know how enraged you are at the bullshit mistakes they're making. Where does it stop is yelling is too much? Is using harsh language to far? Is terse language too far? In some environments, you can't coddle underperformers forever.

For the record, I have had terse and harsh conversations directed at me and I may have felt bad at the time, but with some prospective thingking, I came to the conclusion that I deserve them. They helped me improve. They shaped me.

Having said all that, there's a different between abuse and being pushed via criticism. If it's truly abuse, you'll recognize it and you'll move on. If it continues to happen over and over, then maybe the problem IS you.

OpnSense runs on BSD as well. And it runs very well!

Over the years I went from iptables on a PC to a Linksys (for WiFi), then DD-WRT, then a Netgear with Open-WRT for many years, and finally in the past 3 years to OpnSense on a VM on Proxmox. By far, and I really mean that, OpnSense is the way to go. It does everything you'd need in a home or a small to medium sized business.

If you mean HIPAA specifically mentions 23andMe, then no. Of course not, but the HIPAA privacy rules still apply. It is, after all, your genetic, thus health, data that they are storing.

The part of HIPAA which 23andMe does not have to comply with is being forced to provide your data to you, which other healthcare providers do have to.

That's not fair. I don't know how much Edge differs than Chrome in terms of data collection. Obviously it sends all the data to Microsoft instead of Google. But Brave is based on the same engine as both of those and I wouldn't call it "the same shit".

I was a long-time Firefox user, but now it's dead to me (both Linux and Windows). All my work related browsing happens in Chrome and everything else in Brave. As much as people complain about the Chromium engine, for my needs (a few windows with many tabs - over 200 combined), Chromium kick's Firefox's ass.

I don't this that is correct. Obviously, in this case, the court ruled exactly the opposite of what you're saying. There are probably several factors that contribute to a decision on whether what something you did was illegal or not. Some of those are probably 1) did you have artistic input into the end product, 2) did you have any monetary gain from the end product, 3) did you mass produce the end product, and in particular to trademarks 4) can the use of your product be mistaken for/attributes to the original product/brand under the trademark, among other factors.

Depending on what you're doing with Mickey Mouse (I can paint Mickey Mouse on my child's bedroom wall without any repercussion), that still illegal in most cases. It's Steamboat Willy's likeness that just came into public domain.

lol. So you're going to limit my speed BECAUSE of someone else's shitty car? How many shitty cars do we need on the road before they warrant limiting everyone else's speed? Is 1 enough?

Back in mid-2000s I was driving on the highway and saw an Illinois state tropper cruising in the middle lane. So naturally I slowed down. Speed limit was 55 mph and the cruiser was going exactly 55. So I follow him for 5 miles. Not a nudge in his speed. So I'm like "What if I go 56 or 57? He's not gonna ticket me for 1 or 2 miles over the speed limit and in 10 minutes I may be out of his view". So I nudged up my speed and crept up to him and passed him, music blaring in my ears. After I passed him, I thought I was hearing something, so I turn off the music and realized he is on his car's megaphone, saying "The speed limit is 55. The speed limit is 55."

I have no doubt he would have ticketed me for going 2 miles over the speed limit had I not turned off my music and heard him, most likely because I had the audacity to pass him.

I'm sorry. The food you eat in cities, is it grown in cities? No? Oh, I see. It's grown in a farm out in the countryside. Someone has to plow that field and manage it, growing your food. That person is going to want a family. His wife needs a job not too far from where the farm is. His kids need to go to school, so they need teachers and bus drivers. The whole family needs a clinic and a hospital. Then they need a fire department, police protection, etc, etc, etc. You see where this is going.

And it's not just the farmers. Take a Tesla plant in Fremont, CA (an area I've very familiar with). The plant is not actually in Fremont, but 40 miles away. Again, people need to go to the plant to work, materials need to come to the plant (materials which themselves are produced in other plants which aren't in cities), and the whole story follows like the farmer's.

I think you city dwelers need to get your head unstuck from your asses and realize that without the suburbs, the city would not exist. Add to that the fact that you're advocating everyone should live the same way. You may like living in the city, but there are others who hate concrete and city blocks, not to mention the crime that comes with some cities (I live outside Chicago). Plus, last I checked, population of cities was in decline because of move to suburbs. I wrote a whole post about it a few months ago, citing statistics as well.

No. The solution is another drop from the local utility's transformer with 30-40 charging stations for an apartment unit of 250.