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I would have worded this differently, but you're right in that it's probably a good idea not to give anyone an extra excuse.

"Oh but we had to" isn't a great excuse, but it is one, and if you take away the threat, it takes it away that argument.

Once you get out of a monoculture, you start to better appreciate that 'best' is a subjective term.

Some distros are better for some users (and purposes) and others for others.

But it's got to be Mint ;p

Some of us are old enough to remember when it was 01 811 8055. There wasn't a catchy jingle for it at the time though.

How about that spelling of "diarrhoea"? The US decided to go with simplified spellings and they chose to go with one that only dropped the "o" from the British spelling. Only that? I can see at least two other letters that could go.

A podcast or a stand-up could probably get a few minutes out of that, easy. Not necessarily a good podcast or stand-up (or internet comment), but definitely a couple of minutes either way.

"Reasonable", unfortunately, is subjective. Just ask Rupert Murdoch.

Religious conservative nuts feel the same way about people who are in favour of abortion as many people in the US feel about health insurance CEOs.

From certain standpoints, assassinations appear acceptable.

This could all depend on where you're living. I get the impression you're in a country that may have been or may currently be an enemy of Russia (or thought of as a threat by those running Russia right now). If that's the case, could your folks be Russian ops in some form?

They would have stopped having those sorts of conversations around you as you got older and they'd deny that they said anything of the sort for those you did remember.

The phrase "we won't wait (for) when the war starts" could mean that they're going to do whatever they need to do even if there's no actual guns, bombs and fighting going on. You know. Cold war things.

There's that phrase that Khrushchev allegedly said about the US, for example. Putin has revived all of that. Assuming it ever went away.

There have been periods where one of my accounts was getting an ad-length black screen with buffering throbber (I hate that name) and, the most recent time, it was accompanied by a pop-up asking me if I'd like to find out why that was happening. Yeah. I know why that's happening, thanks.

Then that stopped happening again. Either they gave up or UBo have worked around it somehow. Never ending arms race.

FYI: Depending on your politics, you may also want to avoid Proton.

Wait until you learn that postfix conditionals are syntactic sugar and the compiler* turns that line into the equivalent of $debug and print(debug message), putting the conditional in first place, a lot like the ternary operator.

* Perl compiles to bytecode before running.

The ternary operator itself isn't implemented in terms of and (and or) but it could be.

One witch made one man trans. It doesn't mean that the mission of all witches is to give out gender dysphoria, nor does it mean that trans people are trans because a witch did it. Life assigns these sorts of things apparently at random anyway.

I mean, a true sceptic could imagine that the witch in this comic had no magical power at all, but her words filtered down through the man's psyche to where he has always been struggling with his identity, and they gave him the excuse to face it.

There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition

I knew that was true back in the day, but I haven't tried dual booting in a long, long time. Also, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft's current incarnation to "accidentally" decide that that "empty" partition would be great for virtual memory and the hibernation image.