Europeans, as a group, are *profoundly stupid* people. It's like Dunning and Kruger designed a civilization to prove their point.

      They are keeling over like flies due to stubborness. It's a good thing it isn't heavy rain, they might drown staring up at it with their mouths open.

Alternate answers
"Does this dress make me look fat?"

1 "Yes"
2 "No more than usual"
3 "I like a woman with some meat on her bones"
4 "It's not the dress"
5 "Congratulations! How far along are you?"

So, we are all worried about "forever" and "micro" plastics (the latter now appearing to be yet another "boy cried wolf" phenomenon). But, we think it is a super-great idea to make clothes out of a living organism that can easily replicate itself, in an order of life known to be extremely invasive, and also, hard to kill/remove?

Exactly. That's why DEI and other "assistance" just hurts the people that are supposedly "helped". Competence is the only legitimate goal, but now you have smeared everyone. It's part of the social justice trap.

And the world became a slightly better place. Some other immoral parasites will pick it up soon enough, though.

This same Cuba that has effectively ceased to exist as a country, not to mention no power for most of the last 2 weeks?

If I ever want to hear the stupidest possible take on world events, I know where to come.

Call me when they have the walking eye from Jonny Quest.

Yes, the pigs all squeal when you take away their slop.

Microsoft's problem is that every version of Windows is more bloated and more of a form of spyware than its predecessor. Coding it in Rust won't fix ANY of that.

    Fix? What do you mean, fix? The bloat and spyware is the end goal, not a defect.

That is absolutely correct, Plato's vision was a monstrous police state nightmare that did more to inhibit the development of Western civilization than any other single factor. When people talk of elitism and "rule by the enlightened" what they really mean is, effectively, a new branding for totalitarianism and disregard for the individual.

"Joe Sixpack" might be a nuclear engineer, brain surgeon, or astronaut - i.e. much smarter than you or your typical code monkey - who just doesn't care about the details of the OS, and just wants a simple solution to his annoyance.

Insulting them and thinking because you know how cookies work and they don't makes them an object of derision is why IT and computer people are held in such low esteem.

    Grow up, script kiddie.

The default color settings on most current TVs I have seen is blown out to comic proportions. That is, oversaturated to the point that the colors are "blocked". that is, there is no resolution, it's just "max red" or "max blue". Most of the time the color saturation has to be turned down substantially to prevent this.

      I am not sure what you are getting at with the hostility, I know this is slashdot but you seem to be taking it to the next level.

Not long ago at all. And it wasn't just the resolution, it was noise, color bleed, airplanes flying over, the wind, etc. Color bleed and color accuracy was utterly *abysmal* on analog, most of the time black-and-white was more tolerable. Now, you can get cartoon colors, but can be adjusted to give nearly perfect if you turn down the saturation enough

I am a pretty old guy and I don't know anyone who said or thought that, 2 seconds of HD viewing can prove it ridiculously false. to the point that viewing TV is a fundamentally different process. Baseball and Hockey on HD is transformational, you aren't picking up any small details in the good old days.

Size may better point, spreading the same pixels over a larger area means they are bigger, and depending on the viewing distance absolutely *does* make a difference, you do not need a study to tell you that. That is where the 4K or 8K *does* make a difference. What they are saying, really, is the same thing that Apple figured out long ago - the pixel dimensions at the viewing distance only has to be smaller than a cone or rod cell in your retina, that is the limit beyond which is it no longer important..

Hanoi, eh?