Oh, I know that, and you know that. But as always it comes down to identity politics. And someone who has made "gun owner" not just a description but a critical part of their identity is very threatened by the concept that the second amendment was one of the many compromises given to slave owners.

So in this case I approached them with their own words "I'm protecting you against govt tyranny" and pointing out that cheering on Masked Government Jackbooted Thugs is an odd way to do that. Will it make them think? Probably not; better men than I have tried to get those neurons firing. But we do what we can.

I agree 100%, and I do not and never will own firearms. But the idea behind the Second Amendment was that if our government ever became evil, sending jackbooted thugs to punish and kill people who the govt didn't like, then the Second Amendment would save us.

Sadly, with masked govt agents breaking into houses without judicial warrants, handcuffing kindergartners in class, and killing peaceful protestors, the 2A folks have shown that they are all Team Government Jackbooted Thug. Just about everyone who said "I need guns to defend against a tyrannical govt" have been shown to be a weak mewling whiner who has the backbone of their TACO god.

Kinda like how we have the flawed but still useful VPPA not because certain folks believe in privacy. We have it because certain weak mewling whiners cared about THEIR privacy, but couldn't pass a bill that protected only weak mewling whiners.

If your desire to strip the executive branch of powers changes based on who is in power, you are probably a conservative. They have no deeply held convictions which cannot be quickly changed when someone else is in charge. Does the deficit matter? Easy, just ask them who is in the White House. Obama? The sky is falling! Trump? I have never heard of this "deficit" nor of "inflation"!

If you believe the govt needs congress to represent the voters, and executive agencies to calm the changing tides of populism so that the govt can improve the lives of everyone not just an excitable but dim group of voters energized by some recent (mis)information, you are probably a liberal. They want the govt to help people even if their guy is not in charge at the moment.

Since IMAP is a functional superset of POP3, you can use IMAP just like you use POP3 (to fetch and then maybe delete) if you desire. You may need to do a bit of coding, but that's hardly Google's fault.

Though since TFA is about gmail fetching via POP3... if your lightweight embedded app is using gmail, I guarantee that POP3 fetch is not your first (or eighth) problem.

Eh, maybe? More likely Google doesn't want to support a needless-for-99.9% feature. And they're probably tired of people complaining that "Google is hacking me on Port 993!!!!! My firewall says so!"

(Yeah, I was once told my company was hacking another company, because someone there was using our published tier2 NTP server.)

I mean, you can use IMAP as a POP3 replacement if you want. IMAP is a strict functional superset of POP3. Gmail won't use it that way, but we've already established that you don't use Gmail as a POP3-to-POP3 passthru so you shouldn't care about TFA.

Though, since TFA is about Gmail fetching from a non-gmail account via POP3, not fetching from Gmail via POP3, nothing will change for your use case. Unless you are using Gmail as a POP3-to-POP3 passthru, in which case gods help you, because they're the only ones who have a chance.

It's the usual issues. If you acknowledge that homeless people are actual people who have problems which can be partially or fully solved, then you need to work on the problems. If you think of them as vermin, then you can feel smugly superior while doing nothing (or making the problem worse). This is a common way for the religious to ignore their lord's teachings without feeling bad, though the religious are not the only ones who do this.

Sure, plus faster reflexes, bigger muscles, maybe cat ears and tail. The wealthy will always get a disproportionate share of the pie. But as long as those who need this tech can get it (which includes both "availability" and "affordability"), that's okay.

There is a danger of a Gattaca world, but there is always a danger of a dystopia. I could wish that fewer Americans would be cheerfully voting for dystopia to "own the libs" or "stop woke" or something moronic like that, but whatever.

I mean, sure, we could go right to THE INFERIOR HUMAN MUST NOT REPRODUCE (funny how the speaker always puts themselves in the superior category, even though such statements demonstrate a inferior mental capacity). Or, plan B, we could fix those major genetic problems so that inherited diseases are not longer inherited (and, even if they are inherited, they are no longer a problem).

RFK Jr. is a nutjob. When you are spiraling in conspiracy mental breakdown, party becomes more vague. Democrats have nutjobs (which used to include Mr Brainworm), but democrats have this habit of not giving nutjobs any power or position, not even Assistant Dog Catcher. Republicans, however. have welcomed nutjobs with open wallets.

So, on the one hand, there are just as many "liberal" nutjobs as "conservative" nutjobs. But since republicans are happily giving them cushy government jobs with power over health policy, most of the nutjobs are now republican (by wallet, not by political leaning).

Yeah, but I don't really blame people. LLMs work so incredibly well and produce amazing results. Even AI experts are impressed by the results and non-AI experts are often seduced by the results. Well, except for the anti-AI folks who, as usual, see all of the warts and none of the benefits, and are thus exactly as idiotic as the all-AI-all-the-time folks, just in the opposite way.

In truth, AI does mostly-great work and will replace many jobs over the next decade; translation jobs are very high on that list. But they need systems to double-check them, some computer and some human, because the mistakes AI makes are often hilariously bad (hallucinating relevant cases in legal filings) and often subtle and hard to detect. People want to replace people but expect AI to not need validation, even though most all-human systems have (and need) validation.

I'll admit that "good enough to get the point across" is often not good enough for support pages, especially for non-experts.

Linux phones have been available in the past; I assume you can still get them. The question is: are they better, or just more ideologically pure? Because ideology makes you feel all warm and special, but is kinda shitty at paying the bills. Or actually working.