What profits? AI companies are burning through money like crazy.

Completely agree. I’m hugely supportive of the EU, the things it has accomplished and the future potential. However, blindly agreeing with everything it does with black and white thinking is how we sleepwalk into our own authoritarian dystopia.

I am not quite in that demographic but getting pretty close. I’ve bought maybe a game a year for a very long time now. Most non-indie stuff is complete and utter trash. If I see a AAA publisher logo, I take it as a sign that it’s not worth my time or money.

In general, it’s true that Linux doesn’t need to restart for most updates. However, if you get a power cut right in the middle of an update, that could leave your OS in a really bad state. Therefore, for safety reasons, some distros (apparently including CachyOS) do updates in a ‘safe mode’ on boot, so that if there’s a power cut it just rolls back cleanly.

In short, how exactly distros approach updates differ slightly. A tradeoff between safety and convenience.

If you’re an EU citizen, just paying taxes does a lot.

Even without the ratcheting, assuming the percentages are well calibrated, it works on everyone equally no matter your financial situation. A wealthy person paying tens or hundreds of thousands of euros for going 5km/h over the speed limit learns the lesson very quickly.

In some countries, the fine is not defined as a definite amount, but as a percentage of yearly income. In Finland, a mild speeding ticket is half your daily income. That means for Musk, if he was caught speeding there, would have to pay ~38,000,000 EUR as a mild slap on the wrist.

[Arch’s] wiki arguably is the greatest of all

100% agree. Even as a Fedora user, in the rare occasion I have some obscure issue the Arch wiki is a godsend. Even though I’ve never actually used Arch, I’m still extremely grateful for the work they do on documenting every little thing for desktop Linux. A lot of that info is applicable for all Linux desktop distros.

If you know vaguely what you’re doing or are willing to learn, you can go with whatever and it’ll be fine.

Personally not a big fan of debian because they tend to be slower and more conservative on updates. Arch is a bit more technical, but very customizable.

I’m personally a big fan of Fedora. Software updated quickly enough to have all the bells and whistles, slow enough to not get cut by bleeding edge software.

Thanks to previous abuse of the war powers act (unironic thanks Obama), they can kinda do whatever in that front mostly legally. A previously used tactic they can borrow is just to claim the same force is now part of a coalition force, so now it’s not a US war.

Relevant XKCD

You’re 100% correct. I should have written “Taxation is only done by the individual member states”, quite right.

Taxation is done by the individual member states… for now.

Due to the creation of EU debt first for COVID, then for Ukraine the EU is going to need some way of paying it back sooner or later. Expect to see some Europeans lose their shit over the next decade at the inevitable federalization this will cause. Excellent news for federalists though.

Governmental messaging platforms. This video is about government workers.

Newton is for throwing with intelligence

The whole thing is an exploration of one concept: temporal pincer maneuvers. The entire movie is one, and you have 3 more during the movie (car chase, Freeport, Stalsk).

And when payment was late, that resulted in the first recorded labour strike

So I guess copyleft licenses like CC BY enforce mandatory ads, by your logic?

Helicopters with anti-tank munitions did not cause the end of the tank, it just led to the development of better supportive anti-air elements.

Drones with anti-tank munitions is not causing the end of the tank, it will just lead to the development of better supportive anti-drone elements.

Also, I don’t think you could ever “win a war” with just tanks. They always had been and always will be one piece of a broader combined arms system.

EDIT: I should clarify that there’s not one vegan philosophy. There’s many different philosophies that could lead to veganism. Animal personhood being the most extreme end of it, but vegans also include people who believe in harm minimization, people who just hate factory farms and live in cities, Buddhists, radical interpretations of halal, and more. I answered these questions from a harm minimization perspective.

General principle is minimization of harm. The classic example is “You’re on an island alone, slowly starving to death. There’s a pig. Would you kill and eat the pig?”

For quite a few vegans, the answer is yes. Luckily, that’s not the situation we find ourselves in, we can live healthy and happy lives without harming many animals in the vast majority of situations.

To directly answer the question: it depends. Is there an alternative that hasn’t been tested on animals? Is this medicine life-saving, or just very slight quality of life bump, like getting over a hangover slightly faster? Those questions would guide you to an answer.

To answer your chicken question, I don’t think there’s any moral issue with eating the body of a being that’s died of old age. I don’t think many vegans would do that anyway though, because after a long time without meat, it tastes “wrong” to eat meat (not sure exactly how to describe it). Same reason not many long-term vegans are that interested in lab-grown meat.