Answer - It does not matter because

Answer: it does matter because country borders make no difference to global warming. You're pointing to a bunch of people saying "you should go from emitting 1/3 as much as me to even less because you all live in a different place from me". While drive a car with the fuel efficiency of the 6000 SUX.

5) Everyone decided 'derp tariffs bad' so (2) will be filled by China, and poorer client states

The way you're god-emporer did them was worse than "derp" it's down right dementia. and you know it. But maybe someone with dementia (but only as long as they're note an Evil Democrat, honest pathological lying Republican dementia is good) appeals to the kind of person with your level of critical thinking.

Not all tariffs are bad. Trump's were absolutely insane. That concept, that is that someone can in terms other than pure "good vs evil", is beyond you.

When an unqualified woman writes a bad script that doesn't get shit canned in pre-production,

Absolute unmitigated bullshit.

And yet when the poorly qualified Josh Trank and Jeremey Slater contributed to the absolute stinker of fantastic 4, noone shat themselves screeching about DEI.

That's because all the DEI whiners are a bunch of unmitigated hypocrites.

I'm not sure you've ever... read a book, frankly.

When a woman writes a bad script it's DEI. When a man does a bunch of neckbeards yell about how it's the producer's fault akshually and if only the director could release his cut then there'd REALLY the great film we know it must be.

You know, the Snyder cut. That hot mess.

So capitalism doesn't work? There's a Dow-Jones cabal propping up their share price while they burn money being woke? What on earth do you think is going on here?

Apart from a persecution complex on your side of course.

The look was one of the things I liked about Master of the Universe

Masters of the universe. That 's' is surprisingly important.

Right so you do think Americans are shit.

Personally I don't.

I'm not sure I can be bothered to argue with the man who screams invective when basic highschool physics gives results he doesn't like, rather than accepting the results.

I'll add your lack of understanding of this to the pile including physics, C/C++/Rust and geography.

Yeah I'm not a fan of Apple for many reasons.

Shame because their SOCs are legitimately really good hardware wise. Shame about the poor practices, user hostile stuff and general apple obnoxious. Oh and the mediocre operating system.

Unless there is a zebra crossing: the car has priority.

Not in the UK. You ain't the centre of the world, bucko. Some countries don't absolutely prostrate themselves on the alter of the car.

Yes, but the car has priority

Spoken like a true German. Not here it doesn't.

Obviously, the car is expected to brake ... Which is obviously law wise a little bit silly situation.

It really isn't. The person driving the piece of heavy machinery that can kill someone easily is expected to take reasonable care to ensure they don't kill someone. Yes even if the driver might be mildly inconvenienced and have to take 3 extra seconds at most to get to their Very Important destination.

Android is weird. Don't forget that google didn't create Android: Android was first created by some company then bought by google. The Android people were pretty weird, frankly and had some odd ideas.

For one they HATED C++, in a really irrational way. I remember a forum thread when them declaring outright that certain C++ features simply COULD NOT work on Android being then disproved by another poster who showed a hand compiled gcc doing those things only to have them double down. They were incredibly insular and basically reinvented a ton of stuff pretty badly. V4L2 basically worked, and at the time they went through several camera APIs which worked worse before finally beating their own one into shape. Basically the original API was entirely designed around the idea that the only use was making a camera app (unlike V4L2 which wasn't tied to an idea of an end use), which they reluctantly discovered wasn't all anyone wanted to do. Also copy/paste. They were definitely from the "lol X si teh sux0rz" crowd. But you know what? The ICCCM from 1989 describes how to copy/paste anything in X and that still is how it works today. And it does work[*]. Android still has trouble with anything other than text in some contexts because they were insular and decided they knew best.

Then they got bought by google. The company who's motto is basically "we know we're the best why would we do it differently", so one insular, arrogant company bought another insular, arrogant company and you have Android as a result which is like Linux but cursed because the people who made it originally and maintain it now are al insular and believe they know best.

Oh and also don't forget Zawinski's CATD. Also that Sturgeon's law applies to software "engineers" as much as anything else.

Yay. Anyhoo have a nice weekend.

[*] The old "problems" with copy/paste in X were down to a number of factors. In the late 80s and early 90s, anything other than text was hard because that stuff was big compared to the size of the machines. Pus there weren't interoperable formats like HTML to exchange data. So few people implemented it, and that meant few other people did because nothing else could do it etc etc. Also a lot of people can't read and implement a straightforward spec. It ain't that hard. But basically the modern, working copy/paste is just a straightforward implementation of a spec from 1989 built on primitives from 1987. And Android fucked it up.

I've yet to break 1k on a computer system because it's just not that necessary.

I mean yeah as you say you're not doing anything especially intensive. I spent 2 and a half grand on my last desktop (excluding upgrades). RTX2080Ti, 64G RAM, Ryzen 9 3900X. Quite a beast in its day, though showing its age now compared to more modern machines. Mostly been used for deep learning (which is really a Linux first task) and a bit of 4k video editing and creation.

I'm an Apple fan; I'm typing this on a 2018 Mac Mini that I spent roughly $2K on -- but it's 2026 and that Mac is still running just great. That works out to an amortized cost of about 68 cents per day -- which is to say, negligible compared to my other expenses.

I'm a Linux fan, typing this on a 2010 Thinkpad W510 that I spent no idea how much on, probably 2k plus some upgrades along the way for not much. The amortized cost is very good. Definitely showing it's age, and I think the hardware will conk out or the CPU will just be too slow before it really passes out of reasonable distro support.

Even so, now it's got 32G of RAM and 1TB of flash so it's better specced in quite a few ways than many new laptops.

The fuck though? Android have a weird fetish for taking Linux tools and then disabling features which work perfectly well and it turns out also work fine on Android if you use ASOP and the upstream tools.