aboardRat4

Okay, I misunderstood you, sorry.

Yes, the system as you are describing it makes no sense.

Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination based on national origin

Maybe the USA is like this. I haven't and seen such an interpretation of "national origin" anywhere else in the world.

I have only ever heard the term "national origin" with respect to _citizens_. E.g. you were a Pakistani, married a Chinese took Chinese citizenship, you are a Chinese citizen, but your "national origin" is still Pakistani. Of course discrimination on the basis of something which is not in the documents is illegal. You are a Chinese no matter where you were born. But if you are born as Pakistani and are still a Pakistani, then the term "national origin" makes no sense.

Your proposed scenario seems like it breaks anti-discrimination law.

Again, possibly the USA is unique in this respect. Where I live (as well as my previous country) the anti discrimination law is strict, but it only extends to the government institutions. And I'm finding it baffling that it may happen to be otherwise in other countries.

State universities cannot reject students based on race or sex. Buses must carry everyone regardless. Police must accept complains from all. Of course.

But prohibiting private people from freely exercising their basic rights of liking and disliking whoever they want (and consequently making or not making commercial agreements with them) is such a mind-blowing example of tyranny that it's hard to even imagine for my third-world brain.

But... basically any human activity changes forest composition.

Only 30% of the forests are primeval, and those 30% are not in Europe.

Forests are not "natural" for thousands of years.

There are other triggers besides heat.

The amount of studies (or corals and algae) seems to be insufficient. I clearly remember the alarmist wave of the 2016, which turned out to be, well, not entirely unjustified, but clearly exaggerated.

Glyphosate has made forest fires worse.

How? How does this work?

Bleaching happens when the symbiosis breaks down due to elevated temps.

The first part is correct, the second is unknown. In 2016, 84% of corals bleached, the highest number. Did global warming peak in 2016?

I admit, saying "prosperity" was provocative. It's probably not a sign of prosperity. But what exactly it is a sign of, we have little idea.

The states certifying their own elections is the next convoluted system in the way of unrestrained tyranny, after states controlling identity verification.

And what stops the US from mandating that States provide their citizens with a universal ID of an agreed form? Just like with the elections?

Isn't it nice to have a guaranteed way to prove that (1) you are you, that (2) you are a citizen, that (3) you are over 18, and that (4) you live where you live?

Guaranteed in the sense that (a) it's available instantly, (b) everyone _has to_ accept it, because it's universal.

So you don't have keep paid utility bills with your address, just show your ID card. You don't have to "register as a voter" ever again, just show your ID before getting a ballot.

If you are worried that your tenant might happen to be an illegal migrant, and would risk being deported instead of paying rent next month, just make him show an ID before signing a rental agreement.

Forest fires are natural.

Coral bleaching seems too actually be a sign of prosperity, not suffering.

If you don't own the software, the software can do many things to break nix' relocatable binaries too.

So basically the passport can be made a universal ID, fairly easily, it's just some people in the higher circles don't want it to be.

All of that is probably true, but playing YouTube on such a cheap TV is a very valid use-case for Firefox.

Yeah, I'm also curious.

The USA has one of the biggest and most convoluted systems of government in the world, one of the only few where people actually need lawyers to navigate it.

Passport card can be revoked over fairly small amounts of late child support

This is clearly ridiculous and not in any way connected to the reason passports exist. It's just purely bureaucratic tyranny.

Even the stated goal of "preventing people from running away to other countries" doesn't work, because the USA doesn't have border service check the passport _on leaving_ the country.

How is it TSA can accept a Veteran Health Identification Card or photo identification card issued by a federally recognized tribe, and the passports from every country in the world, but not a state-issued ID which is not REAL ID-compliant?

They can only accept them before IDs are implemented of course, as a poor substitute. After national id documents are standardised, it's just them, nothing else counts.

How is the built-in website translation story in Firefox?

It's broken.

The button is there and is clickable, and there even is an animation near the address bar, but it doesn't actually do anything.

What were the models?

They all had problems with very sporadic hard crashes

I had such an issue recently, on a laptop with an Intel igpu and an Nvidia primus card.

I'm not a coward, so I debugged the system, and found that the crash was caused by the Intel i915 driver trying to do some tricky hdmi related mumbo jumbo with the hdmi port that wasn't even connected to the igpu, it was connected to the nvidia gpu.

When I contacted intel bugtracker, they just said "ah, Nvidia... well, even though their kernel module is open, it's not on the mainline kernel, so go fsck.ext2fs yourself".

Where I live, we have 50 inch 8k TVs for 180 USD.

Of course you can.

You can always set "RESOURCE_PATH" and load your files from there.

Many people here seem to think this change will allow for people to package their Linux apps to be portable across distros/distro releases.

There is no need to make binaries portable across the distros, because Linux is a source based OS. You can always just compile anything for your own system, just don't forget to submit the buildscript to the repo.

Well, it's a very lazy way of disagreeing.

Why the minuses? Where am I wrong?

Of course not.

Or at least they won't enjoy it.

Physical activity is enjoyable for most people, whereas mental is painful.

When MPEG-5?

It's a shame that HPE doesn't make graphics workstations any more.

Well, I might have been too harsh. Listening is better than "skimming". It is actually slower, so you're retaining more.

greatest novels of all time

I was forced to read it at high school, finished about a quarter, didn't enjoy it a slightest bit, and managed to sabotage the rest of the reading successfully.

Many people told me that the book just wasn't fit for my age and maturity level, so I promised myself to re-read it as an adult. Now I am executing this plan.

I am still not impressed. Of course, the language is much better than what youtubers are speaking in, so listening is more pleasurable, but overall the book is underwhelming.

Dostoyevskiy himself admitted that the book is a merger of two drafts, none of which he managed to complete on its own, and indeed it feels like that.

The first component (which had been called "Drunkards" before the merger) is about the life of alcoholics. I cannot really reflect, since I never drank any alcohol at all. Perhaps it could teach me how to deal with them, but so far the most conclusion I have drawn is just "avoid".

The second component is a so-so detective story. It could have been better, if the protagonist hadn't been clearly mentally unwell. You know, any plot involving insane people is not really worth reading, because admitting that your character is a madman is basically saying "his motivations are not what real people have". Any question of the form "why did he do X", are immediately answered with "because he is a madman". Okay, fine, now what about actually describing real human behaviour?

That can be accomplished with a read-through of the SparkNotes

No, not really. I can feel it quite well when something like this can be accomplished. Sometimes I start listening to a book, only to find out that listening doesn't work, I _need_ to see the words in order to understand what is going on. This happened more than once, so I am confident that it's not an exception.

they don't have local reporters digging into local stories and so are not worth reading.

National newspapers don't have reporters digging for stories any more as well. Actually, for many years.

90% of newspapers are buying or reposting their stories from news agencies, such as Bloomberg or Thomson-Reuters.

90% of their activity (in turn) is rewriting press-releases and going to press-conferences of top 500 companies and government bureaus.

In the CIS we have "local telegram channels", but they are mostly run by magistrates' press secretaries, and usually don't report on anything significant, and usually just praise the district prefect and post thinly veiled ads.

Americans also get much less of their news through reading than they once did. In 1975, about half of 20-somethings said they read the newspaper every day. Today less than 10 percent do.

Most of the news are not worth reading. I listen to news when eating, and I am very glad I don't have to waste my reading span on this crap.

I'm usually listening to the stuff I'm expecting to be not really worth retaining, but useful to skim though once.

Like "crime and punishment".

But for any given mood, moment or taste, there's only a finite amount of A-grade stuff.

This finite amount is still enormous. I have downloaded many gigabytes of music from rutracker, and I don't think I'll get through it by the day I'm dead.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lAA2dU8RmhA

Tl;dr: different races have different fertility peak ages.