8 vaccine recalls in almost 70 years sounds like a pretty good track record, to be honest. How many food recalls have there been in that time to block deadly food poisoning? I would guess hundreds.

First of all, 15-year-olds do not get bottom surgery. This is just scare-mongering by MAGA extremists.

Secondly, yes: Gender-affirming surgery is settled science and is approved by all competent medical associations.

You want to know who gets a lot of gender-affirming surgery? In the United States, cisgender men with a condition called gynecomastia develop breasts due to a hormone imbalance. This is a completely benign and harmless condition and yet every year, over 24,000 men have them removed. Nobody says "why are these guys mutilating their bodies and removing perfectly healthy tissue!!!" even though they are doing it precisely because they are experiencing gender dysphoria.

No, it has been going on for a long time. The Special Military Fiasco probably exacerbated both the low life expectancy and the level of alcoholism in Russia.

It explains Russia, for sure, where alcohol is a leading reason the life expectancy for a male is 65.6 years.

Yup. The midterms are the litmus test. If they are free, fair and respected, then democracy in the United States is not quite dead yet. Otherwise... welcome to the Fascist States of Amerika.

Maybe. I live in Ontario, the world's largest buyer of alcohol, and all US alcohol imports have been stopped. Definitely having an effect, especially in Kentucky... no US bourbon being sold here.

Don't you know that if a document mentions the word "women", it's woke? And if it's not in Times New Roman font, it's woke? And if I stub my toe in the night, it's on that fucking woke nightstand? And any hint of wokeness means you have to clutch your pearls for at least four hours!

We really need a third, open-source alternative to Android and iOS. Sadly, given the secrecy of device makers and the incredible profit of captive stores like the Play Store and the App Store, I can't see this happening. :(

Many teachers are secret revolutionaries and still assign whole books

Well, that's dystopian. Holy crap.

Well, spam and malware filtering is best done at SMTP time with something like a milter.

Sorting into folders is usually done by your local delivery agent such as procmail or a program based on Email::Filter. Here I'm assuming you run your own mail server, but even if you don't, setting up a little Raspberry Pi with a USB hard drive to pull in all your email to a central IMAP server and then use that as your IMAP server lets you achieve this quite easily.

I love middle-click-paste. I could live with Mozilla et al. disabling it by default providing they give you a way to re-enable it. However, I fear that this is just step 1 and then step 2 will be to completely remove support for it.

Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users. But it's also important not to alienate long-time power users.

Sure, if you manage your own domain, that's fine. But I bet a lot of people used the feature to pop mail off their ISP's server using their ISP-assigned email.

IMAP lacks server-side filtering at the protocol level. If you use multiple IMAP clients on several devices, that is a major issue.

How so? And what sort of filtering did you have in mind? Anti-spam filtering and sorting of email into folders should be done at SMTP time or during delivery to your mailbox.

(b) is a failure on your part. Who keeps 200K emails in a single folder? Most IMAP clients can be told to only pull from certain folders, and to limit the number of messages they pull to the n newest messages. If you go with POP3, you either have your email scattered over multiple devices, or you have to tell your POP3 server not to delete the messages after you download them... in which case you might as well just use IMAP.

The Gmail feature seemed like a WTF to me, because didn't it require you to hand over your POP3 credentials to Gmail? That might even be against the terms of service of some POP3 providers.

And once more, the whole argument that one party is the party of evil, and the other is the party of good...

The first part of that conjunction is true: The GOP is the party of evil.

The second part, unfortunately, is false.

Lack of communication infrastructure, lack of energy infrastructure, lack of transportation infrastructure are three of the big negatives. When you have to fly in every single thing, building a data centre suddenly gets way more expensive.