Some versions were better skipped, like 98 and 8.

Now there I have to disagree with you. Win 98 was what 95 should have been, if the devs had only known and Win 98SE was an excellent upgrade. I don't kow about Win 8 because I'd migrated to Linux long before that came out, but I found the various editions of Win 98 quite satisfactory, TYVM.

That's so true. It was probably best said back in 1949 in the song You've got to be Carefully Taught.

Funny, I grew up here in the USofA and have lived here for almost 76 years and I've never heard that before. And, although I'm a Republican, I've never hunted and I've never owned any firearms. I'm also not what you'd call a MAGA, but I am a 'Nam vet, and proud of it. Maybe you should consider checking your stereotypes at the door when you come here and remember, that not everything the Democrats tell you is true, just as much of what the Republicans tell me is hogwash.

I have no idea. I just know that the OP dragged them into the conversation in order to claim that all hunters are MAGA and that I called him on it.

No, I'm claiming that the OP not only doesn't know how many hunters are MAGA, he has no way to find out.

Given the number of hunters who are also MAGA...

And how do you know how many hunters are also MAGA? Is there something they have to list on their application for a hunting license that tells you they're MAGA, or are you just throwing insults a people you've never met because you (I presume) don't approve of hunting?

I wouldn't worry about that until Darth Helmet shows up.

Why are you blaming that story on me? I had nothing to do with it getting posted.

My suggestion is Scribus, as it's FOSS and fully capable of producing professional output, and in fact, is used by a number of professional publishers on a daily basis. If you want more detail, go to their website, look around and see for yourself.

That story does not support the claim that police used unnecessary force.

Oh, really? You don't think that shooting the suspect five times with a semi-automatic rifle at close range was unnecessary force?

When before did police stop people by saying "you're under suspicion of something but we have no idea what now we will search you". Come off it, this is bullshit and you know it.

No it isn't. A little bit of reading between the lines tells me that the alert didn't include any information about what the suspect was accused of, just that he was wanted. In fact, the only thing I can infer from the description of the incident is that he wasn't described as being "armed and dangerous," or whatever the British equivalent is because the bobbies would have put him under restraint as soon as he was out of his car, just to be safe.

OK, put a hidden directory in your website, fill it with several gigabytes of core files and other junk and list it in robots.txt as not to be searched. Honest search engines won't even look at it, but the rogues will spend bandwidth sucking it down and lots of expensive computing time trying to make sense of it. Serves them right!

And what makes it really weird is that every post was composed in a browser and all browsers, even in phones, have a spelling checker to avoid exactly that. Now, I understand that if you're using your phone to place the ad, backing up to correct a typo isn't easy; about the only practical way is to delete text until you reach the typo then re-enter the text and hope that you get it right this time, but that's a different rant. If you must use your phone that way, keep an eye on the text you're entering, and correct mistakes quickly, before there's too much deleting to do.

- Omitting inconvenient facts
- failure to seek out opposing views

And almost always, the inconvenient facts are those that support an opposing POV because the so-called journalist writing the article believes that it's his job to push his personal political/social/economic slant rather than the truth, and his "editors" want a site filled with thinly-disguised editorials instead of facts.

You don't understand. Many of the people religiously wearing masks during the pandemic honestly believed that wearing a mask would keep them from contracting COVID rather than preventing them from spreading if if they were contagious. Yes the masks served as an important part of keeping COVID from spreading, but it wasn't the way many, if not most people thought it was, and that's what I'm referring to as public health theater.