You don't even need to actively use it. Just keep it running in some corner of your house as a tor node.

If you like arch but want a plug'n play distro, just do a plug'n play arch-based distro. Garuda is braindead easy.

It's the micromanagement. When earlier games became tedious, I could just pick a quicker game speed, and I would suddenly feel like I was playing with more momentum. But in VI, it actually kills momentum, as if driving the slightly faster route to work at the cost of particularly frustrating traffic, since the most tedious micro isn't turn-based, but city-based. You only have to plan districts/improvements once per city, so I find I can still have fun with VI if I play suboptimally (i.e., tall) on tiny maps and with mods that let me cram more civilizations into the game. I've probably put in a few hundred hours this way.

But I'd rather just play IV or V.

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying either, but nature vs nurture wasn't settled in nurture's favor. It's somewhere in between.

Linux is modular, not fragmented.

Except Gnome. Fuck Gnome.

Either scalloped with cheese, boiled in chicken broth until the broth boils off and the potatoes are basically already mashed for you, or my laptop.

To be fair, 35 is middle aged in my economic class. Just not hers.

You had me until STAR. STAR is just approval voting with extra steps, since min/maxing your ballot is the easiest way to game it, and, perhaps I'm missing something, but I have no idea how a runoff is actually supposed to stop it. Seems like a waste to give a middling score to someone I'd want in the 2nd place spot. I'm open to alternatives to RCV, but I don't see STAR as an improvement.

The Appalachians were historically the eastern boundary of the "midwest". Considering that western PA is to the west of the Appalachians, those Pennsylvanians may, in fact, be correct.

Adults are worse at passive learning than kids, but focused learning works just fine. You're probably better off buying/pirating something like rosetta stone than you are watching sitcoms.

We do what we always do. We fight the baseless propaganda we hate with the baseless propaganda we like, and then when called out on it, we justify its posting by saying, "Isn't it crazy how easily this could be true though? It's like there's no difference between truth and satire these days!"

/s, obviously

DuckDuckGo might be more private, but it won't solve the SEO problem. I know they have some of their own trackers, but in practice duckduckgo is basically a front-end for Bing.