Exactly!!! ¡!!!

It depends, but I would rather deal with a pack of 20 Brits than 3 Russians and their klingons.

Americans, stop thinking their accents sound smart! Look! Just look! They’re as stupid as us! And drunker, which is fine, but still! We are the only country that still takes them seriously!

There are a lot of people who think “customization” of an OS goes no further than changing the wallpaper. How many people have the same 8-charachter email password in 2025 as they had in 2003 when they signed up for Yahoo mail?

The more grannies that have a kid help them get on Linux, the more people experienced with Linux there are to say “Oh, you’re still on Windows? Why?”

1 million percent correct here.

100% yes.

I am privileged to be able to travel for fun, but also live in and get immersed in other cultures thanks to work.

The Americans that spend 5 days in Cancun, an all-inclusive in DR, or “went to Africa” by touching Morocco on a day trip from Spain…ugh. Y’all look bad saying box-ticking is anything else than that. It’s not a competition; what did you actually personally gain from the experience? What makes you grow as a person with greater understanding of our world? Sometimes the answers surprise you, but largely, it’s about saving money and being a dick to people you wrongly assume don’t speak English.

Yeah. I’m aware, and it makes me sick.

But not as much as the fact that the Republic is over. Strap your survival pants on, pal.

What does seem to be a point of agreement for Europeans that live in the States for years is that the US is so huge that for most people, there’s no reason to leave. Whatever landscape you want can be had, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle. Geography makes it easy to never have a passport and experience 20 lifetimes of places. It actually is an amazing and diverse place.

That being said, getting an outside perspective of the world is an entirely different thing. Until an American gets their exceptionalism challenged by someone, it’s an internal emotional paper tiger. It typically benefits Americans to leave the country.

I won’t touch your point about most dangerous. I don’t agree, but won’t engage because I don’t want to end up in a Palintir database. Delete this post unless you want CBP searching your phone next time you re-enter the country.

Off hand, I would say an iPad or tablet, maybe with the accessibility settings to max. Load books all you can, a few movies. If you did a large format eink tablet, movies are out, but audio and books are still in play, even apps for soduku or crosswords.

I got a couple kidneys that are gonna ding me here.

Seriously, though, people regularly travel with luggage and watches and shoes worth more than $500. How are Pokemon cards any different?

There are some bacteria that when they die, release toxins that are harmful. So cooking alone isn’t enough to render them harmless.

From the Canadian food agency’s website:

Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, E. coli O157:H7, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium difficile.

Just a clock and a calendar? That’s not the limit of what these things do, but that’s easier to get that functionality without ads.

https://usetrmnl.com/

https://dakboard.com/site?ref=wheresyoured.at

More DIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58QWxoFvtJY

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-build-a-wall-mounted-family-calendar-and-dashboard-with-a-raspberry-pi-and-cheap-monitor

It’s 30% satire. Some of the white ones were terrible Lefties that have been to a college and so they didn’t re-hire ALL of them.

This is a thing pushed by American media. It’s a Boomer-era panic over summertime picnics and somehow mayonnaise causing potato salad to immediately after 30 minutes outside a refrigerator to become fatal if consumed.

It’s also the product of misunderstandings of buying meat at a supermarket, wrongly assuming that meat that is not refrigerated for more than 15 minutes will basically kill you.

Panicking about food poisoning is a moral panic about “bad parenting” and blaming people when it wasn’t widely known what causes food poisoning: not washing your filthy hands, cross-contaimination, and poor hygiene overall.

I’ve lived in West Africa and bought and cooked and safely eaten meat that had sat on a wooden plank lightly covered in flies before I got there to buy it. I survived. Mayonnaise will outlive humanity before it molds or goes bad at room temp.

Sure, but this is a heat map. It’s only relative, not objective. If most of these were 3 months old, and one was only 2 months old, the 3 months would all be in the green.

The age of a VPN isn’t a good indicator of how secure it is.

So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?

Also, heat map conditional formatting favoring free is a bad metric. Free VPNs steal data, and Tor isn’t a VPN, so this skews all the other paid options to seem negative.

DDG is just Bing results. I thiiink Qwant might be as well.

Heading for? Lol. Are in the.

Not hooty owls, it’s a conferencing thing.

It’s a good call to post, but waaay too soon IMO too bother with it. It might simply be flash in the pan marketing for VC funding and not work. It might be a total scam. It might be legit and poorly run. It might be the real deal. It’s hard to say without more data.