Lobbying on its own is not the issue. Nurses’ lobbies and teachers’ lobbies, for example, work for a good cause.

The issue is that lobbying is done in private, and citizens don’t hear about anything until laws are proposed, by which time they already have momentum and are very hard to fight. And once laws are enacted, it’s even harder to reverse them.

Lobbyists are people working on behalf of companies whose job is to meet up with politicians to discuss their issues. Typically that involves some back and forth that may or may not be considered bribery.

You want a law to protect your business? You go talk to lawmakers behind closed doors about how some laws are needed to better protect children and also data centers, and subtly let them know that maybe your company might have a job for them in the future.

Those lawmakers then go out and propose these laws and they sell the idea to other lawmakers who approve them for the children and datacenters.

Where does one buy discs of bread for making bread?

Hmm… Best I can do is Ghana.

GOS’s argument over the attestation is that it’s essentially the same as Google’s system. It approves the devices themselves regardless of their security. An approved device isn’t more secure in any way just because it’s on the list. It’s just a way of arbitrarily excluding any OS that they don’t like while still allowing devices that are obsolete or behind on security updates.

All that olive oil has to go somewhere.

It has neither the positive reputation you assume

This is true. Quebec French is often looked down on by other native French speakers. It’s seen as a rougher version of the language, mostly due to its accent and different pronunciations, and often Quebecois’ simplified vocabulary compared to the French. But what the previous comment was about is that Quebec French is closer to what French sounded like a couple centuries ago, and the language in France has shifted in a different way.

nor do Quebecois say “le stationnement”.

Yes we do.

Quebec has a problem with English in particular as it is seen as overtaking its culture. As such, a lot of English words that the French have directly adopted are instead translated into Frencher versions of the words. Stationnement vs parking is one example, magasinage vs shopping is another.

Yes the word for cat is “chat” but the word for chat, in the online sense is also “chat” and it’s pronounced like the English word. It should also be capitalised because it’s a proper noun, eliminating the ambiguity that may exist.

IMO switching to Linux as a new user is no harder than switching from Windows to Mac, which I think is something more people can identify with and aren’t afraid of, for the most part.

It wasn’t meant as a serious statement, more so like another commenter put it, we’re not not apes.

I know what he meant, and it’s why I specifically mentioned that it’s not a question of race.

The point of my statement was to miss the point, because I know what he meant.

Obviously when we talk about apes, we’re not thinking of humans, we’re thinking of chimps and gorillas. But like you said, we’re not not apes.

It was a tongue-in-cheek pedantic statement.

Those sellers post their stuff on every marketplace they can, and just fulfill it through their Amazon store. Ebay, Etsy, Walmart, Best Buy, etc, are all full of Amazon sellers.

He’s wrong though. We’re all apes, regardless of race.

If it didn’t work they wouldm’t profit from it.

Advertising exists for a reason, and that’s becsuse it’s very effective.

Spies are so common all over the world, they called them diplomats and gave them their own offices.

The SC has ruled that the president is immune to prosecution for any actions done in an official capacity. Now I’m not advocating for the assasination of the entire Supreme Court, but it apparently would be legal, along with a whole host of other unsavory things that could solve many of those issues.

It’s not really weird. It’s something that’s going to happen at some point regardless. Like the article states, erosion made the arches, and it will eventually unmake them.

I’m running off a vague memory of something that was said about him, so I can’t promise it’s true. It may have been an apocryphal quote, but I choose to believe it.

The man who believes that you have a limited number of heartbeats and that doing sports will shorten your life? Say it ain’t so!

Have you ever cleaned out a lint trap? All that lint used to be part of the clothes.