I wonder if this is a holdover from when you could navigate windows completely without a mouse using only the keyboard and shortcuts.
You can absolutely still do that now. At worst, you install power toys and use the accessibility option to move the mouse with arrow keys.
Why should abelsim be given latitude that we wouldn’t extend to racism, sexism, or anti-Semitism?
My opinion is that embarrassed bigotry in private is still bigotry. It’s good that those with such feelings recognize the harm that they bring (or at least the public shaming that they can suffer), but it makes for a simpler life to just excise such hatreds whenever you can.
The same folks sending “the left are subhuman!” to the right aren’t also sending “the right are Nazis!” to the left. That would be a duplicate signal and inefficient.
Instead, they’re sending “both sides suck” to the middle.
Because right-wing propaganda is “become Nazis, the left are all sub-humans” and the left wing propaganda is “what the fuck, the right are all Nazis!?”
It’s hard to spot propaganda when it’s just the truth spoken loudly.
Go read the actual text of the US Constitution . The answer is a quirky technical “well, theoretically yes but practically no.”
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/section-2/clause-1/
The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
That last emphasized line means that if the US Congress were to impeach and remove a president for bribery or a criminal conspiracy, they could also negate any pardons given to POTUS’s collaborators.
Of course, since no US President has ever been removed from office by congress’s impeachment power, and it’s uncertain if a post-term impeachment and conviction would itself pass the inevitable SCOTUS appeal, this is even less likely than the US Congress awarding a no-majoroty electoral collage vote to the other major party.
Asserting that the vast majority of people don’t think is about as bold a statement of bigotry as you can make.
Most thoughts are boring, trite, and unoriginal. A small minority of us have the training, resources, and reputation to translate their thoughts into textbooks and policies and institutes, but the thoughts they have aren’t in general any higher quality than the rest of the species.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Value for resources is also highly subjective.
If I have zero water and $50, but you have 50 waters and $0, I would value one of your waters more than one of my dollars and you would value one of my dollars more than one of your waters. And so we would trade, and both be happier for it.
Because the killings are targeted actions that are arguably justifiable in the face of tyrannical action.
If a story broke about a criminal gang who all wore identifiable colors and claimed the right to stop anyone you saw and bully them to the point of death, you’d demand that effective (violent) action be taken to stop them. But because the gang is “the police” and nominally controlled by elected officials and the courts, there is a public policy reason to treat both their misbehavior and the public reactions thereto as something categorically different.
(I’d be all in for abolishing police costumes and requiring them to act only within the bounds of permissable behavior for the rest of us, FWIW )
Sex in heaven is really good, but gets boring after awhile.
So, you’re a (1) university student (2) in a fraternity who encountered a fellow student (a) who is verbally and emotionally abusing an intimate partner.
(1+2)*A = you are a member of two distinct organizations which have some form of code of conduct, and have at.the very least an ethical responsibility to inform about the presumable violation of said codes of conduct.
Do not begin an intimate relationship with either “Beth” or “Ben”. Especially not out of anger.
Your fraternity and university both should have someone you can talk to about reporting unethical actions, who can refer you to people far more knowledgeable about the rules, responsibilities, and laws that apply to you than pseudo-anonymous strangers on the internet ever could.
“slave” means someone who cannot choose to stop working for another. If you can seek alternate employment or even just choose to stop working there, you’re not a slave.
It’s common practice to use the noun in a poetic sense, such as “wage slave” or “corporate slave”, but such usage doesn’t rise to expanding the definition of the word.
“possibly possible” is either redundant or unclear. Try:
“Not Necessarily necessary” is definitely redundant and unclear. Try:
(Unless you’re talking about taking antibiotics for anything but a bacterial infection, in which case “wasteful and dangerous” is better phrasing.)
Potable Alcohol is tasty for much the same reason fat and carbs are tasty – it’s calorically dense.
It’s also habit forming, much like caffeine or nicotine or THC,.in that it causes a temporary but enjoyable alteration of our neurochemistry.
(It can also be addictive like nicotine, in that regular use can lead to illness-like withdrawal symptoms.)
And, it’s also a solvent with distinct properties to water, allowing for preparations with distinctly different tastes from other foods. Which makes alcohol also slightly like salt or spices, in that it changes how other foods taste.
Karl Marx didn’t even write The Communist Manifesto in English. Neither he nor Adam Smith nor King Charles II have plenary authority to declare the single meaning of words. The idea that “socialism” is just a baby step between capitalism and communism is, again, propaganda by capitalists and communists.
Words in English don’t have inherent or unchangeable meanings. It’s a misuse of the language to assert a definition different than what someone else is using and then argue that they’re supporting the definition you asserted. Self-described socialists generally dont want to progress to Marx’s idealized communism, which is why they don’t call themselves “marxists” or “communists.”
You’re absolutely right that currency has no internet value (just as.words have no implicit meaning!), but your leap from that to asserting that the use of currency implicitly means capitalism is such that I question what you mean by “capitalism”.
(And note that I didn’t say “money”, since that’s generally a broader topic than currency and can include things like electronic benefit cards, informal IOUs, or PTO hours.)
From a “real communism” perspective, most of the western world operates in small collectivist communes with gender-neutral bathrooms called “families.”
For larger economies, 20th century communist countries were created before the internet, and had no efficient way to allocate resources without money… They really tried, though, which is why most are either no longer communist (USSR), adapted a capitalism-compatible free market (China), or are small near-pariah states (Cuba, n.Korea.)
Currency, be it gold or dollars or renminbi or bitcoin, is an extremely efficient way to represent value and allow the exchange of value without government dictate or personal relation. The use of currency is so useful that if you try and just ban it someone will eventually re-invemt it, unless you provide a more efficient replacement.
My point is not to argue how pure 20th century communism was. Only to point out that “capitalism” is not a synonym for “economic system that uses money” anywhere except in the propaganda of capitalists who want you to accept that we have no alternative to their inherently abusive system.
This is capitalist propaganda.
Capitalism isn’t money. It’s not free markers or even private ownership.
Capitalism is simply an economic model which says investment equals ownership – that the rich tool that loans $5,000,0000, to the young couple building a startup deserves 90% of the profit and the right to sell off every asset at whim, workers or inventors be damned.
It’s a thoroughly modern and European invention, and there are dozens of cognizance and feasible alternatives to it which still use money, including 20th century communism.
Most laptops or other portable computers are not repairable. Heck, even desktops these days are highly integrated with often just three chips and maybe a graphics card inserted into a motherboard.
If you really want reduced telemetry, switch to Linux NOW and only use systems that F/OSS folk approve of.
If you don’t need a PC for gaming, consider something like a raspberry pi.
How so?
The comic looks like a pretty clear joke that identified the issue in a straightforward issue.
“professional athlete” is a very low bar and is not the ticket to an easy life that you suggest.
https://en.as.com/nfl/what-is-the-average-nfl-player-salary-n-4/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_league_football_(gridiron)
Elite and famous athletes have very high potential earnings, but stand atop a very large pyramid of hopeful amateurs and less-elite but still full-time-for-money professionals.
Not to question anybody shitting on windows ME, but keyboard-only navigation is a core windows feature, since it’s a consequence of accessibility
No extra software needed; installing the power toys just makes it easier and a little more discoverable.