the more reasonable parts of the internet

:)

My current is now going on 8 years and I have no intention of replacing it. About time for a new battery tho

You can bet on basically everything somewhere. The betting market is the way to go if you want real odds of what’s happening tomorrow. They have a financial incentive to be accurate (half-joking).

1, 5 or 20 depending on temps

Well this wasn’t on my bingo card lol

Someone in the US care to explain?

Possibly sim cards! More and more phones have the option for e-sim, which companies seem to want to push on us.

To answer my own question, approximately 1900km of which:

• 80km on foot (if my smart watch is to be believed)

• 700km in car with at least one other person

• 1120km on my own in my car

Mint is a great starting point. I might also recommend having a look at KDE (the desktop environment) which will feel very familiar coming from windows and is available on quite a few distributions. I use it with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - less beginner friendly than Mint, but still an ok plafe to start.

People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.

If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.

Swedish citizen - not Swedish. It’s frankly appalling that integration has been handled so poorly that there are people who’ve grown up in the country since childhood, yet haven’t even the most basic values of Swedish culture. A failure on so many levels.

Meanwhile google slapped me with nine captchas to fill out a form like wtf?

I’m rather surprised that ingredient entropy did not account for continuity of the ingredients. Having too high continuity would end up in “not salads” (hamburgers, pizza, sandwich) whilst too low would put you into puré, sauce and definitely soup/beverage territory. Whilst there is a subset of soups/beverages/salads that have a similar degree of soupiness, outside of that subset you’ll find degrees of soupiness that are undisputably not soup and undisputably not salad.

They are tied, because the other two freedoms are intrinsically linked to the first. If a thought is not permitted to be expressed, then it is, for all intents and purposes, prohibited.

Consider how often you forget something. I write things down to remember them. If that thought, expressed, were considered criminal, then it becomes a limitation also on thought itself.

should have the ability to restrict hate speech and threats of violence

Who decides what is considered hate speech and threats of violence?

The rest of your comment indicates you’re aware of the vagueness of these terms (and existing instances of regulatory abuse).

IMO any sufficiently large online platform should constitute a public space for purposes of these freedoms, essentially removing the ability of individual organizations to direct public discourse through platform ownership.

This is what inevitably happens when freedom of thought, speech and expression is limited for essentially any reason. Once the tools are in place, they will be used, abused and inevitably end up in the hands of someone you disagree with.

Sometimes

There are plenty of things that Americans, in general, actually agree on. As much as the expression is disliked, there is a broad center that endorses at least moderate reform.

The problem is the fptp system that bundles people who are okay “just a little reform but not too much” with actual regressives, and people who actively support moderate reform with those too progressive for the “just a little” folks.

The end result is stagnation in popular issues due to the inflexibility of the electorate and enabling less democratic influences to dictate policy.

Doing something that gets your org banned by a government that isn’t even the one you’re protesting seems not only ineffective but counterproductive to me.

Censorship laws in the UK are quite dystopian, but even in less authoritarian countries, this kind of action would result in serious consequences.

Finding out part of fucking around.

Countries don’t usually take kindly to people or organizations that break into military bases and vandalize equipment.