Indeed, women are neither uniform nor immutable.

In a good long term partnership you both make an effort and can often find hot and interest in each others interests.

was when a shitty call center I worked for illegally fired a guy. As he was cleaning out his desk He was grinnin' ear to ear over the lawsuit he was gonna file.

The HR rep (an absolutely enormous woman) came darting out to catch him in the parking lot. Never knew someone that heavy could move that fast. He had his job back that moment and the firing manager was reprimanded.

You can just use Wi-Fi and a VPN tunnel on your phone. No need for separate device. Logging in can be done via biometrics, another long solved problem.

>Until it spits at you, of course.

What if you fill it with perfume instead?

Not in this config, active time is less than an hour and fuel tank it comes with is tiny.

Rifle and shotgun will almost certainly have a different pattern of felt recoil (timing of recoil impacting the carrier and force of recoil impacting the carrier) resulting in more difficult recoil control rather than easier one.

You sure you're responding to the right person?

Yeah I'm not offended as such, but I am often mystified.

I've never found it very simple, and it lacks so much by the way of tweaks that unless if perfectly fits then tough.

For standard desktop stuff, XFCE is excellent. It's efficient, be straightforward, and customisation is possible but not necessary to get started, and generally very unsurprising in what it does. It's not a trend chaser so every version is just an updated spin on the one before.

I generally use FVWM, which, well you'd likely hate my config, but I've spent nearly 3 decades slowly bending out around me and it has nothing superfluous to get in the way, and lots of tweaks for programs that think they know better...

But yeah if you just want a straightforward desktop that's not a straitjacket, XFCE is I reckon where it's at. I never got into KDE, I flirted with window maker a bit, but personally I find gnome also too much like a cut rate knock-off of commercial systems, not the best Linux that Linux can be.

I would say though trust the gnome desktop is dominant to the point where it had a huge amount of influence to break things that don't fit within it's philosophy. Combined with the occasional target obnoxious quote from some of the core people, I can see where some of the annoyance comes from.

Funny that to you, "Israel" and "Jews" are synonymous. As if all Jewish people unconditionally support all actions of the state of Israel, even those which are highly controversial within Israel itself.

This false synonymy creates an extremely harmful backlash. Stop doing it.

which is that this doesn't solve anything. If China wants to manipulate us they can do it like Russia does with troll & bot farms. And it's probably not a good precedence to set that our government can block off an app from a nation that isn't formally sanctioned.

That's one thing, illegally settling lands that they were not handed by the US through the UN is another.

And yet THOUSANDS OF YEARS after the region we're discussing was settled by others.

Those sopwith planes were fighter-bombers. Snipe and Camel could both carry "four 9 kg (20 lb) Cooper bombs".

https://airandspace.si.edu/col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ukraine is not free

Give me a list of Ukrainian prime ministers since 2000, and compare it to a list of Russian presidents since 2000 . Thanks in advance.

Even before the conflict it was the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe

This is not even remotely true. Ukraine's Rule of Law Index in 2022 was 0,50; contrast with NATO members Turkey at 0,42 and Hungary at 0,52. And its scores were dragged down by the consequences of the war in Donbas.

with a military second in size in Europe only to Russia (hence the poverty)

Ukraine's percentage of GDP spent before the current invasion was 3,2%, and that was *with* the ongoing Donbas conflict . By contrast, the US, at peace, spends 3,45% of its GDP on the military. For some European contrasts:

Azerbaijan: 4,5%
Armenia: 4,3%
Russia: 4%
Greece: 3,7%

Before the 2014 Russian invasion, Ukraine's percentage of GDP spent on the military was 1,6%.

I am simplifying the situation just as much as is called for.

Publicly held corporations exist specifically to separate the people profiting from a corporation's actions from responsibility for those actions. They have no other purpose as literally everything else a public corporation does can be done by some other type of entity.

Yep. For all its drawbacks the PC was an amazing platform for its day.

When it came out, nothing could beat the Amiga for versatility, though. It was even better at having all kinds of stuff on its bus at once than the PC was. The bus wasn't any faster than 16 bit ISA in the real world, but it was at least a dozen times more convenient.