The first season of The Office (US version).

I don’t know a lot about recreational drugs or street drugs, but aren’t they made less pure at the final destination?

Edit: very cursory reading puts cocaine at around 65% pure, which means about $600 per ounce?

or face unforseen consequences.

FTFY

There is a lot more spurious communication these days, mostly because communication is so easy. I’m not assigning good or bad to this, it can be a tool for either. But Marcus wrote Meditations about 2000 years ago, and it at least obliquely touches upon habits and forming them.

This could be the opening shot on CEO season.

You’re asking for a lot of deep thought from young people who are lashing out in pain or anger and frustration.

That’s why I find it funny. It would be like halving the resolution in a closeup of a massive, erect cock. No one would be confused about what they were looking at and their attention would be focused on it due to the resolution change.

I didn’t say this was an effective way to solve the problem, nor do I think the other poster’s assertion is accurate.

Another factor to consider is dehumanizing people is often the first step in justifying atrocities against them, such as the murder of this doubtless terrible CEO, and that has an impact on both the person doing the dehumanizing and the person or persons being dehumanized.

The usual impetus for slaying the dragon is to stop it from eating people.

We’ll have to disagree with the ribbon being an improvement, but the rest definitely count.

If MS had put any focus on allowing skins/themes for Windows, the touch market would have just been an extra feature. There is no technical reason they couldn’t have, as evidenced by the third-party apps that allowed legacy skins on previous versions, such as 8 and 10. But they needed that lock-in and forced experience, rather than giving people the choice.

There are decent GUI installers for most, if not all, major Linux distros. They may not be as full-featured as the CLI versions, but they are sufficient for average users.

Yes, Win2k, WinXP, and Win7 were all major leaps forward in various areas. Imagine if 8 had been just a major cleanup of Windows 7 and unifying the various settings paradigms, how much better that would have been.

If you put $10 million into a fund for each of your 10 kids, it would leave you with about $300 billion for all the other things. $299.9 billion, if you aren’t keeping track of interest.

It was a pretty good game a year or so in, and has only gotten better. I haven’t played for a while, but I put over 100 hours in first.

How am I supposed to take this seriously when it leads with “followed the Israeli regime’s defeats against resistance in … the Palestinian territories”? The only Israeli defeats I’ve been hearing about in Gaza are against their PR department.

There is a difference between nations and ethnicities, and there are many people whose homeland is ruled by others, or whose homeland is part of an amalgamation of different different ethnicities under the umbrella of a single nation. I’m pretty at least some of these countries that don’t recognize the country of Palestine recognize Palestinians as a distinct ethnicity.

None of that detracts from the general sentiments you raised, touches on whether or not Palestinians (or other ethnicities) should have their own nation, or excuses what I believe to be the Palestinian genocide being perpetrated by Israel.

The synopsis says the cables are already repaired, and it take more than a random merchant vessel to repair underwater cables.

This is kind of like saying, “What if only America existed?” There would certainly be some disruption, but it wouldn’t exactly be the end of civilization. Now, randomly distribute those people across the world, and it gets harder. But. The hypothetical plague didn’t kill 95% of the population, it made them infertile. That gives you decades to prepare and recover if you’re aware of the problem.