Banned from schools you mean? I believe that book is not required reading so it's not in the schools.

As for the 29 Bible verses that the "why don't they ban the bible?" people keep using to argue for validation of their distorted pov, most of those quotes are quite tame and involve calling some prostitute a whore (which she is) or are euphenisms for sex 'Adam knew Eve' to establish family lineage. Big deal!

The only one that is gross is the one where Lot's daughters get their father drunk "so they can lay with him" so the family will have decendants and continue on, since his wife was just killed. That is quite disgusting, but considering how the left finds nothing wrong with MAPs (minor attracted people), and relish movies like Cuties, and how California has just reduced the sentences for adults that have intercourse with minors, you would think the left is using that verse as a blueprint for how to live.

This IS big new because of this:
2019 Canadian election interference by China

This is something like Turdeau's 10th scandal and might even be bigger than blackface or his stupid wardrobe choices on a trip to India because it may have changed election results. By banning TikTok he's simply attempting to distract and deflect the issue of him being briefed by CSIS (think of it as Canadian CIA) that Chinese agents were actively interfereing in the Canadian election, but chose not to take any action because it benefited him and is party.

UI "modernization" use to mean more features, functionality, and overall general & measurable improvement; now it means to copy Google/Apple/MS/social media's crappy unintuitive unconfigurable designs and "do what everyone else is doing". UI design has turned into a fashion show where all the fashions are the same ridiculous fashion.

Besides, they already "modernized" the UI five or more years ago by:
-removing all color from the UI
-adding a hamburger menu which has no place on Desktop applications
-replace colorful, meaningful, and distinctive icons with ambiguious monochrome wireframe icons
-making older extensions incompatible
-removing any easy way to change the font size of any pane without having to write 300 lines of css.

I shudder to think what is in store for the upcoming "modernized" Thunderbird.

People caring about being bald just need to check their vanity level.

Do you feel the same way about the $100B+ dollars women spend annually on frivolous vanity crap like makeup, fake eyelashes, butt implants, botulism toxin injections, lip fattening injections, fashion, and custom-designed home decorations?

Diverting $1B away from women's $100B worldwide annual vanity fund to find a cure or reliable treatment for male baldness would not be money misspent since it would improve the self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-image of millions of men who go bald every year. Especially young men in their 20's or god-forbid, their teens.

A man wanting to feel good about himself is not being vain.

Ah yes, the good old, pre-modern medicine, no hospital days from centuries long ago. When 1 in 100 women died giving birth, and 40% of children died before they were 5.

You're quite the romantic.

Disclaimer. I have two shots and keep up with all other recommended vaccines, and I am not anti-vac.

But...
This is the most profitable vaccine in history. Governments worldwide are literally giving the pharmaceutical companies whatever money they ask for in order to produce the vaccines. First one shot, then we needed two, now we require booster shots, and soon we will likely need to be vaccinated against the Omicron variant. And then after that vaccinations for the Omicron variants. And so on and on with all the other upcoming scary dangerous mutated variations..

See this is where going? Covid shots in perpetuum. I've been saying for a long time that big multinational pharmaceutical companies will never let this cash-cow go. I hope I am wrong.

I avoid cloud-crap as well if I can.

And there are so many Adobe alternatives (I'm talking about Photoshop here) out there that are free, cheaper, and aren't cloud-connected subscription programs.

I loved Lightroom but the non-cloud version doesn't work on my M1 Mac. I haven't found an alternative that I like yet, which kinda sucks.

Most home & casual users that run Windows would be completely satisfied with the editing capabilities of Paint.net. It has layers and many of the basic and most useful tools that Photoshop has, and it's easy to learn and use. That's one of my most missed Windows programs when I switched to Macs a long time go, in a city far, far away. I'm glad to see it is still being updated.

The GIMP works fine on Macs so I will stick with that as a Photoshop replacement. It's just for home use. It's clunky, sometimes ugly (gtk version I think), filters can be slow, but if one sits down for a couple hours and learns it, Gimp really works all right. Better than right, it's good! If you take the time to learn it. I couldn't figure out Photoshop 4 either until I bought the book 'Photoshop 4 for Dummies.

She's a communist? Good nomination Biden!

Communism, or any extreme socialism has failed miserably and caused terrible direct suffering to everyone living under it EVERY WHERE IT HAS BEEN TRIED, and everywhere it has fallen and failed.

So let's try it again!

Yes, that explains why 15 Republicans voted FOR the spending bill and 6 Democrats voted against.

A very similar situation occurred with me-jumped from High Sierra to BS-and I couldn't agree any more with you!

OS & App UI designs across all OSes have become fashion statements or car designs like the Aztec or the Homermobile.

Do you want your livingroom furniture to be rearranged every six weeks in ways that make no sense, provide no benefit, and reduce comfort and familiarity for no other reason than 'it's what everyone else is doing"? On top of that the furniture gets nailed down to the floor so you are unable to change it without putting in some work and effort? :)

Now that rant begins. :)
Maybe I am crazy, perhaps slightly mad, but I detest and find incredibly irritating UI changes that provide no increase to the UX and most of FF UI changes are like this. A perfect example from a couple releases ago is when Firefox renamed "Undo close tab" to "Reopen Closed Tab." What is the point of that? None! What issue does it fix? None. What improvements does it bring? NONE! And yes, it's a simple 10 minute "fix", but that is besides the point.
I never dug into the reason why this was done, but I can imagine some VP proposed this change to show others what they are getting for her/his $600K salary, then sent it down to the Director, who told the PM, who told the Manager, who told the team leader, who told the senior developer,who told a junior developer to "fix this issue" and everyone along the way didn't speak out about the frivolousness and pettiness of that change, perhaps for fear of reprisal. Yes again,it is a minor change, but it is a perfect example of what Mozilla thinks is important and what Mozilla prioritizes. Fluff over function.

Rule #1 of UI design is if the UI works well then leave it alone. Don't add 50% more whitespace to context menus just because the other browser did it. Don't add round corners just because someone else did. Don't put grey text on gray backgrounds just because everyone else does it.

It's not just Mozilla, but UI change for the sake of change has permeated into all areas of software, but that is for another discussion at another time.

I still use Firefox as my main browser on desktops, but now only because it reliably disables autoplay of video & audio. If Vivaldi gets off their butts and implements autoplay disabling functionality, then I likely will switch to that.

Stuff like coming up with those silly grade-school level team building games and exercises during the annual company meeting. You know, the ones where they team you up with three or four remote employees-anyone but your actual team or any other team you communicate with.
She got paid $600k for fluff work like that, yet she still had the gall to think she should be paid the CEO's salary. She is not right in the head.

Whoa, settle down there junior. You need to cut down on the bleach when you wash your white-knight laundry. Everything in the npr article are just allegations-the words "allege" and "allegation" are used eight times, something you missed, or more likely, conveniently chose to ignore.

I know, right!
It's time for scientists, journalists (and website editors) to stop with these endless articles that state "A geological process was discovered on Mars that strongly might be, or just as equally strongly might not be, evidence for past life".

Science journalism in 2021 is completely pathetic, if not completely dead. Scientific "factual" articles are starting to sound like something grabbed from Coast to Coast AM and published it on some website as irrefutable proof of bigfoot or the Bermuda Triangle.

We've seen these "this might be evidence for life, but it also might not be any evidence for life" stories since the days of the Viking landers. (almost 50 years ago).

Not only that, Rotten Tomatoes has been caught numerous times manipulating low or negative audience scores to closer match what the ridiculously high or positive critical score is.