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No longer mentioning term limits... interesting

I thought it was a good OS but it does not play well with the newer HP laptops. Sadly had to revert back to Windows 10 :(

Then avoid The New Yorker

Title is a little clickbait-y and misleading, but still a very informative article

Ha! Moved to the States from Pakistan at a young age because parents were too liberal for Pakistan (still fairly conservative here) and I couldn't agree more.

One of the things that Eastern cultures gets so right, that seems so foreign in the West. The last time I shared a meal with a stranger was in college

I am surprised that the article didn't once mention the lack of advertisements on Netflix. The are inherently selling a different product than television by not having ads

[tobacco's] virtues rarely get a hearing, and yet the latter are many and great. To quiet nervous rest; to soothe a ruffled temper; to favour calm and partial thought; to steady and clear (not to cloud) a confused, overworked brain; to counteract the effects of physical exhaustion

Read that and my immediate thought was "Huh, I've heard this argument before."

I didn't find this article to be well researched. There is a minority of athiests living in Pakistan quite openly and no specific law in Pakistan carries the death penalty for athiesm.

As far as I am aware he has never been diagnosed by a licensed psychologist. Indications of sociopathic tendencies are not evidence enough that he is a sociopath, diagnosis is.

"Guarente has a third child ... but is unable even to find him, because he is a computer programmer specializing in encryption who has managed to scrub the internet of clues to his whereabouts" This made me chuckle