Why would anyone want this? I literally stopped using my desktop after like Win98. I just put everything in the Start Menu. Now, with Windows 10/11 searchable Start Menus, I don't even need to keep the Start Menu shortcuts structured; I can just start typing the name of the program and hit Enter when it comes up. Actually seeing the Desktop would be very, very weird for me, since I'm usually running every program Maximized at almost all times. The only time I use unmaximized windows is when I want to drag stuff from one window to another or when I want to do a task that involves looking at one program while using another. These scenarios, while quite common for me, never involve exposing the desktop. The several windows just get resized an end up taking up the whole screen together. I'm not even sure if there's any icons at all on the desktop anymore, since I only ever see it for a few seconds after a reboot, before my browser restarts. And, for commonly used programs, I just pin them to the taskbar, leaving even less reason to use the Desktop. The whole Desktop metaphor has definitely run its course.

The only person I know who I've seen actively use the desktop in recent years is my dad, who's in his seventies and has a program that can't be pinned to the taskbar for some reason (it's very old and it launches a different program after login, which leaves a second icon on the taskbar, while the launcher icon sits there unused. My dad hates this for some reason, so the launcher icon sits on the desktop.) Also, he doesn't like typing if he can avoid it, so the Start button's search feature goes unused, so he likes to have shortcuts on the desktop for stuff. It's weird, but if that's what he wants, I'm not going to fight him over it. I also can't get him to use an ad-blocker because some of the right-wing news sites he likes get pissy with ad-blockers and he doesn't want to pay for them or learn how to turn off the adblocker for specific sites. It doesn't help that those sites will happily tell you how to remove the adblocker entirely but not how to turn it off just for their site. Assholes. This means that I have to remove his malware on a regular basis.

Well, except for the journalists of NPR. Those guys are the most serious journalists you'll ever see. That's why Trump and his cronies tried to destroy them by defunding public broadcasting. And, no, I'm not being sarcastic. The only reason they all seem like a bunch of liberals is because reality itself has a liberal bias. They (NPR) and the BBC, AP, and Reuters are the most neutral news agencies to ever exist. That's why Republicans (let's be real, Trumpsters) hate them so much.

I reread 1984 a few years ago and the thing that really struck me is what Orwell got wrong: the notion that you need to erase evidence of factual data (at great effort/expense) in order to propagate lies. It turns out that you just need to shout a little louder and a lot of folks will eat it up.

Which should have been obvious by then, but which was not even obvious to me when I read it the first time (in HS - around '84). But at this point we've all very much lived through it (and continue to).

The number of people who care about what's factual or actual isn't enough.

I don't think squaring the circle is a good example here, since the problem isn't so much a find the number problem, but a find the answer while restricting yourself to a few specific operations problem. So the non-algebraic solution doesn't count because it doesn't follow the rules. People knew what the answer was as a number that you can calculate for ages. They weren't sure if you could do it while following the arcane rules of ancient compass and straightedge constructions. It's turns out that the answer is no.

So my partner (who irrationally worries about such things) will consent to buying one.

That's it.

The reasons don't need to be good. The arguments don't matter at all. 600 mile range is what some people expect/require from their vehicle.

I'm pretty sure that parades help, too. Let's not leave those out.

No.

USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) plays a significant role in global family planning and reproductive health, providing contraceptive supplies and support to developing countries.

I've got news: atoms are not 2 dimensional. I can't help but think any publication that prints this stuff isn't worth the paper it's no longer printed on.

That's just kicking the can down the road. Besides, every function needs memory to store its definition, so you've saved nothing.

Flat butts are the thing!

Now that's good thinking.

Dude. Did you see the poster's name who you were responding to? 'nuff said.

It wasn't California who decided to base both houses on population. It was SCOTUS. They said that it violated equal protection to have geographical based representation that didn't spread the representatives equally based on population. They also said that you have to actually reapportion every ten years or so. Before then, a few southern states apportioned their representatives at the turn of the twentieth century and then didn't do it again because the old districts kept more black people from being represented than if they updated the boundaries. SCOTUS said that was BS, along with strictly geographical districts.

Another interesting thing about that 74 drinks per week statistic is that it works out to almost exactly a gallon of beer per day. I guess they're well hydrated then.

A drink is a standard amount of alcohol. It's specifically defined as 1.5 fl. oz. of 80 proof liquor or the equivalent in any other form. This works out to 12 oz. for most American Lagers and 5 oz. for most wines. Mixed drinks typically have two shots of liquor and so are usually two drinks, but this can vary. Regardless of form, a drink contains 0.6 fl. oz. of ethanol dissolved in however much whatever.