"It says EU laws -- which have sought to make it easier for smaller firms to compete with big tech -- have resulted in some Apple features and enhancements being delayed for European users"

Restrictions are not features for users, despite many hostages' Stockholm syndromes to the contrary.

"So unless your sport involve ZERO upper and lower body strength, it makes sense to separate sports by sex"

Per your own logic this is based on the importance of strength only. Therefore this assertion only makes sense if it's a sport where dexterity cannot make up for strength.

You don't know what Ad Hominem is.

It is NOT insulting people.

It is where you say an idea is wrong because someone said it. It may also be accompanied by an insult to attempt to support the argument.

When someone says only an idiot would believe something and then explains why, that is not Ad Hominem. It's just an argument with an insult next to it.

Feel free to object to the insult, but don't make shit up.

You can get sales figures for bookstores from their SEC filings. a quick Google shows library traffic is easy to find too and it's been declining. I don't think I need to remind everyone to State a bookstores in America.

Don't think it's that it was them being lazy I think it's that the stuff you are talking about is already known so they wanted to do a proper survey.

There is nothing wrong with a self-reporting survey as long as your data set is large enough and representative enough. I haven't read the study though so not sure how good this one is. But again given what we know about the state of bookstores and libraries it's likely to be correct.

When Tim pool got outed as a Russian asset. Tucker Carlson too but I mean at that point we already knew it was just getting formalized.

And there were a couple dozen other popular right wing YouTubers and pundits who got caught taking hundreds of thousands of dollars directly from Russia State media without disclosing it.

I'm not really calling out right wing hypocrisy because the right wing is completely incapable of the emotions of shame and self-awareness that are associated with hypocrisy.

I mostly just wanted to remind everyone that right wing media is a Russian state-owned operation and if you are consuming it you are consuming media that is an enemy of your country. Might as well just boot up some old Soviet TV at that point.

Every time I see a flood of press attacking the Democrat party I can be sure the Republican party just did something especially nasty.

The hard part is there is so much nastiness right now I can't pick one. There's the fake Epstein file release where they just released a bunch of files everyone already had and acted like everything is good. There is the attempts to distract from the big beautiful bill by renaming it. There is Trump's rapidly declining health and clear signs of senality that even our news media can't sane wash ..

And things are moving so fast it's possible I missed something.

Especially kids. My kid had orders of magnitude more homework than I did. And when they went to college it was just nuts.

businesses don't want to train and they have deep pockets so they went to the government and they took over the school boards and they changed things. They basically added a ton of on the job style training to college education.

They didn't want to pay for that at the high school level so they just heaped on tons of homework.

I've said this before but when my kid was in high school it was not uncommon for me to get up to go piss at midnight and find them still doing homework. Parents complained and in their senior year it backed off a little bit but just a little bit.

That's one of the defining aspects of my life. Big business and Rich assholes will make my life a fuck of a lot worse and me and everybody complains and they back off a little but when they're done we're worse off because we never get back what we lost.

Look at facts, look at what was mentioned. Look at what wasn't mentioned. The article says it has real world potential, it doesn't say it's inexpensive (or even ready for the real world). There's no analysis at all of the drawbacks.

Right now, the CCP is in the process of formulating its next five year plan. Groups are hyping up their accomplishments in order to justify the funding they've been given and ensure continued funding in the future.

I've had lambic, no clue on whether it was authentic or not, I didn't enjoy it though. But I still don't think it's bad, it's just not for me.

This is a strange conclusion to make, since you don't know how much the process costs. (Note: literally begging the question).

It's really common in medium-to-large companies for all the managers to get together every year, and discuss who will get a raise/promotion and who will not. The number of raises available is limited, so if the manager wants to get a raise for someone on his team, he/she has to know how to fight for it.

The number of raises/promotions is limited in order to keep payroll as small as possible.

The evidence was deleted :D

It is and always has been insane that all these governments run mostly on Windows.

A lot of them use to use a lot of IBM mainframe stuff behind the scenes, and there's still a fair bit of it around underpinning things, but pretty much all of the new projects are Windows-based.

They've wanted to conquer the whole Arab world since forever, and they are now attacking pieces of it outside of Gaza. They wrote themselves a book that said it was all theirs, and now they're trying to make it come true. The evangelicals are helping them try because they believe it will bring about the end times. As it happens, there's several of the foretold signs around right now, so they naturally think it's working and are doubling down. In the bargain, we have the tools and equipment to make it happen, and long since furnished the technology to Israel to try to make it happen sooner. But they kicked out Netanyahu and things were looking relatively sane for a while (though the Israeli settlers never stopped stealing more land or murdering more Palestinians) and we're all supposed to believe that none of it is their fault. This would be funny if it weren't actually terrifying that people can believe that.

They specialize in two things. Doxing gay and trans people and trying to encourage them to commit suicide. So it's absolutely not going to fly having a kiwi farms user hand out their actual identity.

This is one of those cases where the worst sort of person is doing something that needs to be done. But for kiwi farms I have genuine mixed emotions because they are hiding behind anonymity to commit actual crimes.

I suppose it's possible they cleaned up their act a little bit because they were taken offline when even the cdns who run the white supremacists wouldn't touch them because of the legal liability. But either way that's the whole point of going to kiwi farms so I'm not sure what else they would do.

4chan has problems but there is at least a community there that aren't just cruel psychopaths. Honestly if the owner wasn't such an ass wipe I think the form would be pretty nice.

Soon there won't be any Palestinians alive in Gaza.

It won't take him forever to finish his genocide.