I found the strips featuring Asok to be very sympathetic to that character. Those strips showed that Asok was being mistreated and the reader was supposed to feel sympathy toward Asok, just as the reader was supposed to feel sympathy toward Dilbert when Dilbert was mistreated.

Tina represented the sort of person who could take any comment as an insult. I've worked with such a person; there's comic value in Scott's pointing out such flaws in a co-worker.

I am not trying to explain away Adams' words. He spent a lot of time showing why his advice would be beneficial to those wise enough to follow it.

This is tenuous, but there is a connection here. First of all, we're not talking about modern Antifa, rather the German Antifaschistische Aktion circa 1932. From wikipedia:
'Antifaschistische Aktion was established by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) based on the principle of a communist front and its establishment was announced in the party's newspaper Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag) in 1932. ... (skip several paragraphs) ... Occasionally, the KPD cooperated with the Nazis in attacking the SPD and both sought to destroy the liberal democracy of the Weimar Republic. ... In 1931, the KPD under the leadership of Ernst Thälmann internally used the slogan "After Hitler, our turn!", strongly believing that a united front against Nazis was not needed and that a Nazi dictatorship would ultimately crumble due to flawed economic policies and lead the KPD to power in Germany when the people realized that their economic policies were superior.'

The above is in agreement with Adams' defense of Adams' statement, as cited in his youtube episode #1120. He admits he was baiting trolls, and was (but did not admit) that he himself was trolling.

Saying that Antifa was allied with Hitler was a gross exaggeration; any "alliance" between Antifa and Hitler was a common enmity to capitalism. A reasonable argument can be made that Antifaschistische Aktion did help Hitler rise to power. I am not competent to evaluate that argument.

This sort of flame bait was something that Adams engaged in frequently. I think it did him more harm than good.

Adams wrote several books, a few of which are regarded as beneficial to readers:
"How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" which gives lots of advice on how to improve yourself to better deal with life;
"Reframe Your Brain" which gives advice on overcoming psychological barriers;
"Loserthink" on spotting and reversing harmful mental habits.

Adams claimed to believe that we live in a simulation. In my opinion, the simulation hypothesis is thoroughly debunked and outright stupid.

Adams did a lot of study on persuasion and how to fool people. In my estimate, he substantially overrated the power of persuasion. He considered Trump the super-master of persuasion, and over time Adams' awe of Trump's persuasive abilities leaked over into respect for Trump's opinions and actions. This was not a good thing.

I think that Adam's net effect of humanity is positive, and that much of the angry criticism of him is a result of not reading the full story.

Adams deliberately and foolishly made his comments so that they could easily be misconstrued by the stupid and malevolent. I'll paraphrase one thing he said, "Don't live near people who hate you." That's excellent advice, which was warped by his enemies into "blacks shouldn't live in white neighborhoods." It's no surprise that this happened, and if you listened to his podcasts at that time you would have heard him say "I wonder if this is going to get me cancelled." He was deliberately trying to get out of his comic strip contract; his main failure was that he underestimated the negative reaction.

The BBC should not be relied on. It's been caught many times editing out relevant context.

The record of government owned automobile companies is not impressive. Trabant, for example.

It's been 25 years, but back then inspections in Connecticut and California were for pollution only.

Semicolons allow more structure and hierarchy.

If one sentence with a semicolon is used to replace two sentences separated by a period, it is often the case that a common context can be assumed, allowing redundant words to be dropped. Greater accuracy can be achieved.

The sentence-with-semicolon may require more concentration to understand. but the choppy style of short sentences leaves the reader with the job of mentally assembling the sum of the ideas in the short sentences.

Sperm stem cells make sperm cells and other sperm stem cells. If early in life, the donor had 5 sperm stem cells and one of them mutated, from then on 20% of new cells would be the mutated form.

This is not my area of expertise. I'm just offering a hypothesis.

"When a country has most of it's [sic] citizens all ... speaking the same"
Switzerland has four official national languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. The first three are in common use.

Assimilation means that the incoming people adopt the culture of the area they're entering. Assimilation is their job, and in many cases they're not doing it.

The Swiss have historically acted to maintain the value of their currency by not "printing money for themselves" as much as most other countries do. That's an honorable and honest thing to do.

Switzerland's fertility rate is currently below replacement level. Consequently, even with a strict population limit, openings for new residents will keep popping up as people die.

It would be hard to keep the dashboard top clean enough to prevent reflections in the windshield even if the dashboard top were very black. There is nothing to stop you from using flat black spray paint on your dash.

The Materials Today article seems to indicate that all the tests were performed at either 6K or 270 mK. It's a long article and I don't know why they didn't mention any room temperature measurements. It's going to be a long time, if ever, that this tech is usable in a home computer.

The alleged purpose of antitrust laws was to prevent domination of an industry no matter how it was achieved. In practice, antitrust laws have been used to intimidate or destroy political enemies.