Yeah, but against people with portable ATGMs, like Javelins or NLAWs. Anything else is not going to make a dent in an Abrams tank.

Also, they’d be much more likely to send in IFVs, like Bradleys. They’re much “better” equipped to deal with “people”.

Not when the output is a pipe.

People who are “actor rich” aren’t the problem. AFAIK Clooney hasn’t done anything particularly immoral, he just played in some movies and got paid well.

You should be mad about the amoral corporations that are ruining the world, and the sociopaths that control them.

I have no idea, and I don’t particularly care either, it’s not like it was some wildly expensive cable (though I don’t remember the price) … I just know that I saved myself a whole lot of inconvenience.

Gold doesn’t tarnish so much and is also often used on computer edge connectors.

Yes, Gold is a noble metal, so it doesn’t like to oxidize.

So regardless of the fact that it’s about an optical connector here, and hence completely nonsensical, gold is actually a worse conductor of electricity than copper or silver. The point of gold plated connectors is not so much to improve the immediate audio quality, but to prevent oxidation of the connector over time, which can degrade quality and lead to bad contact. Gold is a noble metal, so doesn’t oxidize. I would think most audiophiles know this?

I used to have to replace the cable of my electric guitar every few years because the sound would get crackly or drop out intermittently, I eventually got one with gold plated 6.35mm plug and I’m still using that same cable 15 years later.

Would be nice to see the gaming industry pivot back to making innovative games within the constraints of hardware, instead of just expecting customers to throw ever more powerful (and power consuming) hardware at it.

To be fair half the world seems to forget Belgium is not all french sometimes

It’s annoying as fuck.

Microsoft/Xbox store used to be almost entirely French when visiting from a Belgian IP, even if you set your profile language to Dutch or English. Not sure how it is nowadays, I don’t come there anymore, but it was like that for at least a decade.

Amazon Prime and Netflix still have many movies and series in dubbed French only for Belgian customers, and not the original version with Dutch or even just English subtitles.

Many sites serve you a French language page by default if you visit from a Belgian IP, and then you have to hunt in the header or footer of the page for the language toggle. You usually can’t even read the cookie permission popup in a language you understand.

The logic behind the keep-right law is this:

1. It is illegal and dangerous to overtake on the right.
2. It optimizes the capacity of the road. If you are in the middle lane with nobody to the right of you, the space to the right of you can’t be used by anyone, because of point 1.

To address some of your points:

be in the way of people trying to get on

The onus is on the people who are trying to get on to merge properly. Moving over for people who are merging is generally discouraged. Personally, I only do it for slower traffic (large trucks) or with short, difficult on-ramps.

in, what, 4 seconds

The way keep-right is policed is that you are only expected to move back to the right lane if that lane is free for a reasonable distance. Police typically use a margin of 20-30 seconds or so of middle lane camping without passing anyone before ticketing you.

I’m going to merge when it’s -safe- to do so

As you always should. Keep right doesn’t change that.

I could technically squeeze in between two of the cars in the column I’m passing

See above. You are never expected to squeeze in between two cars. As long as you are passing you are allowed to be in a lane to the left of the traffic you are passing. The faster driver coming up behind you just needs to wait until you have finished your pass and have the space to move over.

Anyway, my point still stands. You may prefer your keep-your-lane logic over keep-right logic, but in large parts of the world it is against the law, and you should try to follow the laws of where you are. I’m not saying keep-your-lane logic is indefensible when considered in a vacuum, I’m saying you’re not in a vacuum so you should be predictable and follow the same rules as everyone else.

The logic still applies though

No it doesn’t outside of [parts of] the US.

For traffic to flow safely and predictably, we should strive to do what the law prescribes, so that everyone is on the same page instead of everyone operating according to their own made up rules. The law in most places is keep right if possible, regardless of how many lanes there are.

US defaultism much?

It’s possible those are still using Xwayland

You can use xlsclients to check.

wmctrl and xdotool don’t do anything for me with native Wayland windows. It only seems to work for applications that use Xwayland.

So while I can use it to resize and position xterm or urxvt windows, it does not work with foot or kitty or firefox windows.

No. Those are X11 only.

I had a bunch of wmctrl window placement scripts that I had to rewrite in kwin’s (awful) scripting language when I switched to wayland.

Preventing conception would be a genetic trait that evolution selects against.

A woman with your theoretical anti-conception genetic mutation would not reproduce, so this mutation dies out immediately.

Doing your part in a relationship’s reproductive planning is good partner behavior. This shouldn’t be a game where just one person is on the hook and the other is just along for the ride. Male and Female birth control do not exist as a one or the other dichotomy.

Except what the meme is saying is not that both partners should work together on birth control. It suggests that it should be on the man instead.

Meme also suggests that no work is being done on a male contraception pill, when in reality this is being worked on and has been worked on for decades, but there are good biological reasons why this is anything but trivial and certainly much harder than a female contraception pill.

Counterpoint: a woman taking birthcontrol is empowered because she is taking charge of her own reproduction. She doesn’t have to rely on or trust the man to take his pill. After all, she would be the one bearing most of the burden in case of an unwanted pregnancy.

Additionally, purely biologically it is much easier to reliably stop conception on the female side than on the male side. A woman only produces one egg cell per month, whereas a man produces millions of sperm cells per day.

I liked working from home at first, but after so long it becomes harder and harder to leave your work at “work” when your workplace is also your home

That sounds like a “you” problem. I just hit the shutdown button on my laptop at 17:00 and close the lid, and boom I’ve left work and magically instantaneously transported to my home.

the flexibility to work from home on weekends

Work … on … weekends?

I think your problem is that you’re a workaholic.

Our brains are not wired to do such a dramatic difference in mental activity in the same location.

Sounds made up bro.

It’s bad enough having to hear my colleagues in teams meetings, I don’t see why I have to smell them too.