I agree with your reservation about Manjaro. However, you did get one thing wrong:

They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips…

That was Pop!_OS (unless it happened a second time??)

Can I ask why?

I've heard some people argue it's because religious views can conflict with a job, but if that's the case, the issue is the employee's not doing their job not their religion. Lots of beliefs can conflict with a job, and if that's the case, a person has to decide whether they want to keep their job or not.

Another argument is that simply the presentation of religious symbols in public is offensive to some, but that seems to be an extreme version of "Safe Spaces" while just skipping over tonnes of preceding steps.

Also, it seems convenient the whiter the religion, the less likely their are to require their worshipers to wear expressions of faith. On the other hand, religions like Islam and Sikhism that just happen to be practiced by more brown people require outward expressions of their faith. So a Christian who is super faithful, goes to mass daily and spends all their free time in prayer can work for the government as long as they keep their cross under their shirt, while a Sikh who might not be all that religious has to decide if they want to risk being shunned from their community.

P.S. Separation of church and state means those organizations shouldn't influence each other, not that individuals can only be involved in one or the other.

Daylighting is defined the first time it's used. I think it's useful to define and use a term when you're going to use it 6 more times in one article.

Hoboken’s traffic fatalities were low before it ever implemented Vision Zero — it had one road death a year between 2015 and 2017, the last year there was a road fatality.

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this is a notebook with an Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz (2 cores, 4 threads) with 8 GB RAM and installing and upgrading on xubuntu 23.10 was already really, painfully slow.

Have you put an SSD in there, or are you still running on spinning rust? In my experience, even a cheap SSD will make a huge difference.

They're almost exclusively being imported as antique vehicles. I don't think you're going to find a cheap, useful, 25-year old Chinese EV, but all the power to you!

I agree with your points on childcare, though I don't think this is the right place to discuss it.

I disagree about splitting hairs. Being specific helps avoid confusion. So many times in discussions about utilizing more Nurse Practitioners, either online or in person, someone says something like, "I don't think I'd trust a Nurse with that. What do they know about diagnosing conditions, etc, etc, etc." It's gotten better over the past little while, but the confusion is real, and I think it's worthwhile to keep it clear.

I definitely agree with you about the data, but people's feelings do matter, that's why we're currently experiencing a vibecession.

That's a quote from Malaysia's commodities minister, so I don't know if you can trust it. The article also says

The Asian nation is the world's second-largest producer of the widely used commodity, whose production is blamed by environmentalists for fuelling the destruction of the great ape's habitats in both Malaysia and Indonesia.

AVs don't have a driver, instead they have 1.5 operations staff per vehicle.

It's not happening.

Thank you for providing a good example! I'm really not sure what the status of Taiwan's Sovereignty would be, but it's definitely something to think about.

While I agree that SFH aren't the solution, what @rab is suggesting could be part of the solution. NJB talked about Streetcar Suburbs, which often consist of these types of homes but are illegal to build pretty much everywhere in Canada. Wartime houses (what I've always called them, I've never heard "Strawberry box houses" before) usually don't meet minimum lot size, minimum lot coverage, minimum setback, minimum parking, etc. as required in "modern" zoning, plus the roads they're built on are often too narrow to meet current engineering standards.

If people insist on having a SFH, these types of homes should be possible but our zoning has over-regulated and made it illegal to build anything different.

I would hope any company I'm a customer of would at least require a warrant to release my data to law enforcement. I know I'd be disappointed in most companies, but I feel if I'm paying them, they shouldn't concede until they are at least be required to release my data.

EDIT: a word