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Biden’s debate performance sets off alarm bells for Democrats
  • Trump would only win if the Democrat party found someone seemingly more inept than him.

    I am impressed that the Democrat party managed to present not one, but two outstandingly incompetent candidates. In a row. That's some bottom of the barrel advanced scraping techniques right there. They even managed to get a representation of both sexes.

    I'm sure Mr. Biden will be terribly distraught, as soon as he is able to understand what's happening around him at the moment.

  • Ukraine to Protect Its F-16 Fighter Fleet by Basing Planes ‘in Other Countries’
  • It's not even politics, It's just math. NATO has superiority in economy, industrial output, operational equipment and manpower.

    Plus they're too close to Russia for asymmetric warfare rules.

    I would bet on it, but I'd sure as hell wish we could all get along instead.

  • One of the world's richest women will support Trump if he promises to back Israel annexation of the West Bank
  • Yeah maybe it started out that way for sure, but after so much death people on both sides are starting to consider other options. You can see that in Israel right now, people who are rejecting this narrative of either us or them. Maybe the crazies will always think this way, but over time people will be willing to make concessions. After all what good is it to rule a pile of rubble constantly under attack ?

    A half promised land at peace is better than an entire promised land constantly in war economy. It's not only quality of life we're talking about. The entirety of the Jewish people is being blemished and shamed by the current actions of Israel.

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  • Have you considered using the bookmarks tab (ctrl + b) and creating a series of folders to organize your work ?

    Here's how i do it. I made several folders of topics with subfolders of sub topics for relevant websites for each topic. So for instance, you'd have cooking as a topic and then main dishes as a sub topic and desserts as another sub topic.

    When working on a project, I'd make the topmost folder for projects and within it Projectname. Whenever i want to work on that project, i click ctrl + B, right click on the sub project folder and then click on "open all tabs". Voila, similar functions using the native commands.

    Once your project is done, create a folder and move it to the bottom, name it Archives and drop your old projects there.

    You can even have a R&R folder, where you put all the tabs you usually open when you're just navigating for leisure. Or an Organization and Planning folder, where it opens all your email accounts and your calendar app of choice, as well as your organization software like Notion, or Jira or so if you use it to have a workspace to organize stuff before getting to work, so you can best address your emails with either calendar blocking or just scheduling and writing notes.

    I also suggest backing up all your favorites regularly through export into your hard drive and later into an offline drive. That way, if your pc breaks, you can just keep going on a new pc. Or you can use firefox account and sync it.

    Feel free to create workspace folders as you see fit for your organization workflow.

    I also have a shopping folder where i add things I'm thinking of buying so i don't fall into the trap of impulse buying. Or things i might need to buy if something is about to fail, like an old phone or boiler or just clothes i like.

  • One of the world's richest women will support Trump if he promises to back Israel annexation of the West Bank
  • I'm guessing that's because no adequate partition of a continuous extension of territory with an equitable distribution of viable habitable construction space and access to resources and the Mediterranean has not been made yet since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

    I can assure you even the most militant, radicalized Hamas members would leap at such proposal with smiles on their faces. Even if it benefited slighly Israel more, they'd still do it, no problem.

    Do you truly believe any proposals so far have been in any way, shape or form even approximately fair in the same measure for both parties ?

  • One of the world's richest women will support Trump if he promises to back Israel annexation of the West Bank
  • I'm no anthropologist or anything, but I'm pretty sure the annexation of the West Bank would guarantee a permanent guerilla terrorist force operating within Israel's borders for the foreseeable future. Israel would never know peace. In 200 years they'll probably still trying to snuff out terrorist cells constantly killing civilians.

    Just with this war they have created thousands of fresh new volunteers for Hamas both within and outside the general area of the conflict.

    The way out of this is more empathy for the Palestinians, not less.

  • ‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]
  • It's very likely if this passes people who used to be tech illiterate will start using pre encryption, such as the darknet's favorite PGP, before sending anything over, as all channels that are compliant will become insecure channels.

    Much like it happened with vpns, chat encryption and ad blocking, people will be quick to catch on with a simple youtube video. Then we'll have sold our privacy for pretty much nothing.

    I wonder how long it will take for these very technologically inept politicians to realise you can't legislate the internet to protect children, nor it is their job. Parents are the ones who are responsible for monitoring their children's internet usage. Make child monitoring software more accessible to parents.

    I'm glad to see those taxes being put into pointless endeavours while our world is festering with inequality, recessions and climate annihilation. Pretty sure soon enough children won't need protection, because there won't be any children left as no one can afford them in order to sustain our billionaire population.

  • Is Stremio a honeypot?
  • It does when you're watching. I have sys monitor widgets with rainmeter on my PC and whenever I'm watching something, it cpu is at least 5 or so degrees hotter and there's 5 mb + network activity on the upload. You can check yourself on system monitor.

  • ‘Not genocide’ says Biden after ICC warrants sought
  • Sure thing "not genocide" Joe.

    US investigated themselves and found themselves innocent of all blame in the murder of thousands of people. Israel was innocent too, funny that. No need to check.

  • Gaza Strip pier project is completed, U.S. military says
  • The US as a country is wholly complicit in this genocide. Both their major parties are 100% in support of genocide. Their universities are investing millions in weapons factories that create the tools of the genocide. Their taxpayer dollars go towards directly funding the genocide. This after the 20 years long wars they caused in the middle east with the countless suffering caused by that.

    I am disgusted at Israel and the US. Never forget what the US really is. How can any of us from "third world" countries see the US as anything better than the worst that China and Russia have done ? They're all cut from the same cloth.

  • Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED
  • It might sound like a pretty obvious thing, but have you tried changing the tools into the "Tabbed ribbon" that office uses instead of the classic old 90s organization scheme in options ?

    I have come to notice that when people who don't really work with computers very well, in particular boomers, say that they can't stand LibreOffice, they mean they don't like the layout of the tools, because they can't find anything they need. I suppose they just got used to where everything is with modern office.

    Just change it and see if she will like it better. Usually solves it for the boomers i help. Nothing is holding LibreOffice back more than their default layout scheme. They really don't know their target audience's pain points AT ALL. Just goes to show why you need to study your users using the product without being explained anything.

    I don't get why their default is a layout that has been outdated for 24 years. Nostalgia or what? Only really old people who used computers in the 90s a lot will intuitively find it useful.

  • Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • It's only incoherent if you were thinking the US was looking to uphold liberty and democratic values.

    It's not at all incoherent if you were thinking the US is upholding its industrial corporate complex, which sometimes happens to line up with humanitarian motives. It's actually pretty coherent in that regard.

    It's one of those cases where correlation does not meet causation.

  • Biden condemns university antiwar protests, says 'Order must prevail'
  • What i figure from this is that the only reasons the Democrat party doesn't win more often in the US, is that they're really, really, really bad at their jobs.

    Like take Hillary for instance. She only lost because she managed to look more incompetent than Trump. Now Trump is doing his darnest that no one will be more incompetent than him, but by all the starts in the universe, genocide Joe will give him a run for his money

    Stay tuned for the election with the worst presidential candidates that the US could produce. It's so embarrassing, i fear my face might freeze in the cringe.

  • Putin claims landslide in Russian election and scorns US democracy
  • Personally I'd say score voting would make the most sense. Essentially it works like this, you get a list of parties and you vote them 1-5 on how much you agree with them. This changes the whole dynamics as you now aren't choosing who will rule, but how much you agree with each party ideologically and forcing you to research on their proposed mandate plans. It also serves as sort of an evaluation of how do you think each party has been addressing the country's issues before the election.

    Mathematically, this may not ensure always the most happiness, but it ensures the least unhappiness compared to all current known voting methods (you can easily find research on how this was calculated in many papers on mathematics).

    Personally i would also propose returning to the old Roman and the first proposed French republic system of having 2-3 consuls of the most voted for parties and they take turns proposing legislation to a senate that's a direct seated representation of the voting results.

    As an interesting tidbit, the reason we have a president/prime Minister with all the power in most western democracies, is because Napoleon altered the original proposed 3 consul system into a prime consul with all the power then minor ministers because he was aiming to become Emperor and wanted to centralize the power. Our democratic systems are strongly influenced by the first French republic post the French revolution.

  • Email admin
  • The survey fatigue is real. Everyone keeps begging for reviews nowadays. Even random things like public parking.

    I grow resentment at any business begging for reviews. Hire a consultant and third party to auction your service, I'm not doing it for free anymore. Specially because they don't even read the comments you write or reply. It's just nonsense an intern will put into an end of quarter ppt for some average mediocre manager.

  • [FFVIII] Yoshinori Kitase Would Change the Combat System in a Final Fantasy VIII Remake
  • I think i only used draw in my first few playthroughs before learning how to refine magic from the obscene amount of cards and mug items i had just lying around.

    Even beating first optional boss, the mechanical spider x-something at Dollet doesn't require draw at all. You can get everthing you need by playing cards with the students at the library, cafeteria and front gate.

    It seems as if draw was meant as a last resort in case you didn't wanna play cards or were stuck out of magic to junction. I do think they should explain you will unlock ways to refine magic from GF abilities in the tutorial though.

  • Secret plan against Germany
  • That is true, if all the history you've ever learned was the history that came in your highschool books. It's a very simplistic take of a complex situation meant to be easily digestible by teenagers. I mean no offense.

    Which is fine i suppose. If you think it's fine for you, then it is and i am happy that you are satisfied. I understand not everyone shares my curiosity for ww2 political history, however, I am very much not a nazi. I'm not even right wing. It would be nonsensical to defend right wing extremist ideology.

    Criticism of the treaty of Versailles has been thoroughly written by many non nazi historians from allied countries. It just doesn't add much to the conversation to just write "nazi propaganda". It's not really an argument at all. No premises whatsoever. You could have just dropped your dislike because you feel you disagree and moved on.

    Although i am very willing to read your thoughts if you could develop them a little more than that. I'm always willing to listen to a strong argument in favor of the treaty of Versailles and if you have a take i find insightful, perhaps even change my mind.

  • Secret plan against Germany
  • To be fair to Germany, Hitler was the clash of two trains of thought. Should you punish a country for the crimes of its ruling class through fines and territory claims?

    In medieval eras the country was property of the kings and the peasants were their rightful "tools", so punishing them was seen as fair, which is where the Versailles peace agreement came from.

    In modern eras, the country belongs to no one and the ruling class is just that, the ruling class. Punishing people or taking land is seen poorly in international courts, regardless of what the country did in the war.

    Hitler came to power because of how the allies treated the Germans after WW1. Had the allies implemented a restructuring plan, like it happened with Japan and Germany post WW2, instead of implementing border gore and impossible to pay fines, Hitler would have never been able to do anything, seeing as he was significantly unpopular. But if you trap a population between an impossible choice, this is what you get.

    So you see, Germany couldn't have produced anything. The right wing might see a substantial representation increase in the parliament because current parties have been incompetent in handling migration over the last 10 years and refuse to listen, but the conditions that caused Hitler's rise to power are not currently met. Not even close.

    Which is why i think you are not right in this matter.

    Banning AfD would be incredibly stupid. Votes are a representation of concerns in a population. Ignoring the issues causing the votes and banning a party does not remove the concerns, just our visibility of them.

    Europe in general needs to either drastically improve the integration mechanisms for migrants or reduce migrant throughput to levels which the current existing mechanisms are capable of handling. The current methods of just ignoring the problem and not giving a crap is clearly not being effective and thinking this is just a problem of ideology is exactly what's wrong here.

    Banning parties is irrelevant, banning nazi symbolism is irrelevsnt, cordon sanitaire is irrelevant, declaring fascism illegal is irrelevant. Those are symptoms and if we only treat symptoms the problem just changes faces.

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