My wife is ADHD and cannot stop herself from chewing through an entire box of gum if she buys one, then spends the evening moaning in pain on the toilet. 😬

I’m literally downloading something on it now. 😅

Before Trump South Korea had assurances that the US would help defend it, including falling under the US nuclear umbrella. Now it has nothing.

I’m not defending the US imperialism or saying that somehow that Korea should tolerate the ongoing occupation, but at least there was some theoretical benefit for Korea before. Now there is literally none.

I didn’t say the US is sympathetic to North Korea, I said its leader is. Similar to how the US leader is sympathetic to Russia.

Right on.

The US leader is very sympathetic to the North Korean dictator, so why would South Korea want his soldiers there?

Good point. He’d be 71 when taking office if elected. I don’t want anyone working at that age.

I guess Visual Studio is not VS Code? (I don’t use Windows, but do use Visual Studio Code at work.)

Apparently it was 50 days:

https://pipiscrew.github.io/posts/why-window/

You can also just put on a mask and throw someone into the back of your car and take them away.

Thanks. This is worth a watch independent of this particular bogus infografic.

What do you mean to say? It’s not clear to me.

We don’t use any parental controls. Our kids have always been very trustworthy. I disabled all Google parental spying and blocking for my son as soon as the age limitations would allow it. (My stepdaughter was under the thumb of her father’s monitoring for a long time. She had to face his wrath when she turned off location sharing with him on her iPhone… her second year of college.)

We had to brow-beat my son into getting a WhatsApp account so he could chat with his classmates (his actual friends use Signal, but WhatsApp is what group chats mostly use in Holland). 😅

That’s what my son’s school does.

We’ve had a mobile phones ban for students in the Netherlands for a few years now. Our kids have been scared away from social media by my wife’s ingestion of fear-based mainstream news and by my anticapitalist ranting, so it doesn’t really impact them. 🙈

Slightly better, since presumably adults at the school have mobile phones, instead of having to use the limited land lines.

The problem of being distracted in class can be solved by having two phones? Weird!

Also, any non-trivial system has failure modes that are not binary. Like, if your convertible car has the roof stuck down you can drive it, but you will be sad if it rains. So, is the car “up” or not? Similarly, if your site has writes offline for a database upgrade, but reads work fine, is it “up”?

The concept is just advertising and something that makes sense to senior management, but provides no actual useful metrics.

Apparently they meant, “never again… to us”.

I mean, people want healthcare and education and affordable housing and food. People don’t want foreign wars of choice. So… maybe? 😅

Money?

There are only two states with ranked choice voting, I think: Maine and Alaska. A number of smaller municipalities also have it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States