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Cookie banners happened because US devs didn't steelman EU regs.

EU sites have the same amount of cookie banners as US ones. (ie, all major sites have one)

Real ads but not ads that are loaded from the internet.

What you are saying is false, and on top of that, you can install a 3rd party browser on iOS and choose whatever search engine you want.

I don't see how it is uncomfortable. It would make me more uncomfortable if the anti-private transportation campaign started by the government and the media was working on the average Joe.

Arguably influencers were ads too, but they were still humans acting and reacting.

Do you think those influencers spend a single second reading the comments/private messages wankers send them? Unless they pay of course.

Non-boys clubs give seats to incompetent workers to increase percentages in a report. Boys clubs can hire whoever is more capable with no regard to those percentages.

Thankfully Joe has many other options than Walmart. But you only get one government.

It matters because if it happens to a private organisation that does not affect the average Joe. It's when it happens to governmental organisations that it matters because it means increased taxes and/or decreased useful public services.

The difference is that when this happens to a private organisation, it's not the taxpayer footing the bill.

experience data corruption on crash / power loss

You mean on complete system crash, right? Your application crashing shouldn't lead to files being fulls of zeroes as long as you've already written everything out.

It was round in 4:3. The game doesn't adapt that well to being played in 16:9

I didn't know Vermeij was posting these, thanks for sending this link. All posts seem recent

It fills with malware so much faster, too!

They should consider using Cloudflare.

I am the same kind of person, and believe me, it's a lost battle to try to explain how impossible it is to get to do something every day. People who are normal in that sense will never understand. Their concept of laziness or of that "ah, it's going to be hard to get on that treadmill today" feeling is completely different from ours. Their brains are wired differently.

Just read the answer below

The only thing ever stopping you from going out the door and running is putting on shoes and shorts, its easy to form a habit!

For people like us, this is akin to "if you are depressed, just cheer up!". It's ridiculous, bordering on the offensive.