Disposable vapes shouldn't exist but if they have to, they should have at least a one dollar per unit (not per pack) deposit to ensure that they get returned.

It's not just us. As long as it's anywhere it can reach everywhere due to modern travel. It's the same as when the gates foundation announces it's eradicating something but they don't go to certain countries so it's just a lie

Ad Hominem does exist, but suggesting or outright saying that someone is too stupid to understand an argument is not ad hominem.

Ad hominem means "from a person" and it is specifically making the argument that some person's argument is incorrect because of something unrelated about them.

This is the opposite! This is saying that something is true because someone's argument is allegedly bad. It is just an insult.

If the statement is "you're wrong because you're stupid" then it's Ad Hominem.

If it's "you're stupid because you're wrong" then it's just an insult.

It's still shitty as insults are for responding to insults, not arguments. When someone has resorted to them for any other purpose then they are generally conceding the point, as it's an announcing that they have no further argument.

When Diogenes said that in a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face, it was an insult, but it was apt enough. Insults have their place. But it wasn't a substitute for an argument :)

Insults are not ad hominem.

There is no such thing as an ad hominem attack.. It is an argument and fallacy.

Insults can be attacking. This one was. Taustin is a dick who's defending a billionaire and therefore an idiot. But it's still not ad hominem

Zuckerfuck says anyone who trusts him is a "dumb fuck"

Guess what?

You wouldn't know a fact if it was reported by the USCG

IME that's more common for cities. For rural areas like the one I live in now nobody gives a shit. In fact we weren't even required to have trash collection until a year or two ago.

Most people are prosperity worshippers. They think anyone successful deserves to be successful. Therefore they think corporations are great and we should listen to what they tell us. They've also never known anything else.

Nobody is pretending you're an adult. There's no value in that.

What you're defending here is Reddit being shit.

Why would you defend shit?

There are three possible purposes for guards aside from alerting someone with more authority. Sometimes a guard will have 1, 2, or 3 of these duties.

A few guards actually prevent access to things.

Most guards are there to be a visible deterrent.

All guards are there to be a witness. For some, this is almost the only thing they're there for, aside from maybe calling the cops if something happens.

A robot should be able to handle the latter two of those jobs, even if it's not very good. Preventing access is a job with a lot of scope and which requires discretion and robots aren't good at that. Neither are lots of humans, of course, but all LLMs are problematic in this regard. They have no consistency, they're guessing every time. And nothing less complex can even pretend to handle all of the complexities of that job.

In my area this happens once a year. Unless you want to have something big sitting around waiting for collection for up to 364 days, you may wish to take it to the collection point yourself.

So I'm gonna go ahead and rate that only 10% yes, and 90% no.

Compiz was GREAT even if you ignored literally all of the visual effect "slop" as you call it. It's got a great set of tools for controlling windows, including window rules which are very powerful. If you don't know about those other tools then you should perhaps have spent more time in ccsm back when it was relevant.

Unfortunately, as you say it is for X11 only (although for me that is not a drawback because Wayland is still bad, especially if you have Nvidia and I do) and more importantly it is not well-maintained software and it's therefore flaky AF, so it's not relevant now.

If you have a decent CPU it might run on that at half speed or so.