In theory you can host your own Flathub alternative, for software that Flathub rejects, but not for Snap. So Flatpak is more distro-neutral then Snap.

But yeah, any suggestion that Flatpak is "distro lock-in" is plainly wrong.

Women can come back to their job after they get their babies born. This is a fact. And if the boss fires a woman for her pregnancy, the company will be sued for discrimination.

Education system shaming teenage mothers out of education path and/or the lack of assistance of them getting back into education path after childbearing is a systemic discrimination.

In baby boomer era, it was okay or even expected to leave school and get into job market by the age of around 15. "Teenage pregnancy" or "student pregnancy" was a non-issue.

A job working adult can continue their career after pregnancy. Why college is an exception? It is not teenage pregnancy the wrong. It is the education system that discriminate teenage pregnancy the wrong here. Back then average school life ended earlier, thus the conflict was less obvious.

So far, all the age verification tools in use create juicy databases of online-offline identity matching. Such databases are dangerous. They let criminals exploit and hurt people. They let totalitarian governments monitor and threaten anyone who dare expose their crimes.

All these politicians in support of such online age verification are either totalitarians themselves or useful idiots / puppets of those totalitarians.

iceland doesn't mess with the clock. Saskatchewan and Yukon in Canada don't mess with the clock. Russia and Belarus don't mess with the clock. Argentine doesn't mess with the clock. Some of them are further away from equator than you.

Please put the discussion onto summer/winter office hour vs summer/winter clock time. Put down your strawman. My standpoint is if your geolocation requires a shift of timetable, do it properly. Let clock time stay continuous and international communication reliable.

In Hong Kong, we get seasonal school hours and timetables, where each school publish their own timetable and decide their own day of switching. Horse racing (gambling) stop at the hottest days of the summer. Otherwise, no change of timetable for other facilities.

Moving the clock instead of proper timetable shift always sounds dumb to me. Clock shifting may look like a clever trick in the pre-globalization era, when everything happened locally. But nowadays it is just an invitation of trouble. The clock complication adds a lot complexity and risk of mistakes in distant communication.

Rationality may be fundamental to good governance but not fundamental to democracy. The foundation of democracy is the knowledge that power corrupts people. Democracy is the way to put the elites and/or dictators in check.

Maybe you can defend that the "Sydney Sweeney" look is co-owned by you and the "real" Sydney Sweeney?

See Cab_over for real trucks design that somewhat resonate with your idea. Outside America, a lot of trucks are designed such that the driver sits before the engine.

Satire stuff shall look clear to everyone's eyes that the face is keyed on the video. Satire stuff shall not mislead audience into thinking what they show have really happened.

Social platforms are hard to stay decentralized. There is a strong financial and economic advantage in centralization.

What we need is pull down the curtain that hide those private judges. A company can't make decisions by itself. It is the people who own the company or employed / contracted by the company who make decisions. Content take down and account ban judgements shall not be allowed done anonymously. A country can't get judicial justice with all the police and judges be anonymous from their people. Same for online platforms.

As long as the society doesn't find a way to penalize the fast-fashion business model, the trend of product enshification will go on and infect every non-luxury goods.

We don't let children use calculators until certain age, after they have learnt all the basic math.

AI chatbots should be regarded similarly, with a higher restriction until a lot later than calculators.

The computer only knows the user types a bunch of characters with a particular keyboard layout. The computer doesn't know which exact language a character belongs to. There is no automatic and reliable way to assign the language metadata. Multiple languages can be mixed together in the same document or database record entry.

Since multiple languages can mix together, Unicode must focus on characters and embed whatever language metadata into some form of characters. Side channel is not going to work.

The only valid reason of a computer to support case insensitive file system is for "Windows compatibility". Therefore, the actual correct solution is to do what Windows do, call it ms-case-fold() or whatever. How it is done in natural language shouldn't even matter. Let Microsoft take care of that.