Not to me. The Cavendish wasn't widely planted in Indonesia until the early 90's. As a child in the 80's I had access to the Gros Michel banana (pisang Ambon) and I didn't like it . In the tropics the ripening process takes place over a very short time. My recollection is that the Gros Micnel was less stable than the Cavendish, and when it turned it was unpleasant.

I think that a persons appreciation for Gros Michel is going to hinge on whether they are repelled by strongly sweet flavors. If you like bananas with a touch of brown on the skin you're going to be more appreciative of sweeter varieties.

I had similar reactions to pineapple. To me an overripe pineapple is repulsive, and the risk of encountering that spoiled flavor made it a fruit to be avoided.

You can in fact set LibreOffice to default to saving in one of many file types, including xlsx for spreadsheets and docx for text documents.

Options > Load/Save > General > Always Save As

That's the MAGA addiction right there. Anger. Gotta watch Fox, listen to Hannity, whatever it takes to get their fix.

Maybe some people can enjoy a drink of bourbon without affecting behavior. Others it turns into monsters. For those of us of native descent, bourbon and its like are death in a bottle.

Right. Because what children watch, listen to, or think about are not important. /s

I have seen parents who become utterly absorbed in their activities on a computer for hours on end, barely aware they have kids in the house. I have no doubt that this could damage a child's emotional well-being. But having seen this obsessive behavior I'm skeptical that the same damage is done when a parent scrolls through Facebook and is briefly distracted. It may be no different than someone watching a football game and ignoring their kids chattering at them. My guess is that what matters ultimately is that the parent does recognize their children's needs and respond to them. I don't think delay in response is necessarily harmful.

Models have the North Pole arriving at the Bay of Bengal sooner than anybody would expect. Christmas will be awkward until we change our vocabulary..

Presents will be delivered by the jolly Buddha and eight tiny elephants?

I didn't intend to challenge your credentials myself. I only meant to push back against the dismissal of an argument based on the misused ad hominem rule.

The ad hominem rule doesn't shield a speaker from scrutiny when they actively use their background to establish credibility. The author explicitly cited his history at Microsoft to give weight to his call to make LibreOffice "AI-native." Since he introduced his professional background as a credential, evaluating his financial motivations is entirely relevant. It is a question of conflict of interest, not a logical distraction.

I don't know why you think that calling it a new industrial revolution should make people feel better, or why people should adapt to it rather than fighting it. The industrial revolution eventually improved lives for many people, but it also came with a horrific price. People, including children, were forced to work in dangerous conditions that they rarely encountered while working on a farm. The lack of infrastructure led to breakdowns in sanitation, and spread of deadly diseases. The life expectancy in Liverpool and Manchester before the industrial revolution was about 30 years. In the early 1800s, life expectancy for urban workers dropped to 17 years in Liverpool and 19 years in Manchester.

The industrial revolution fueled the rise of Marxism precisely because it caused so much harm to so many people. I've spent the last year learning about AI and encouraging people to do the same, because understanding the machine is necessary to mitigate harm. But that doesn't mean that we should allow AI to consume half the world's electricity, or that we should gleefully embrace every opportunity to use it.

You might get a different answer to the survey if you changed how you ask the question. Would you rather have a data center as your neighbor, or would you prefer to live next to the breached containment pools of radioactive water at Fukushima?

I do not oppose nuclear power plants because of their impact on my quality of life. I oppose them because the long-term dangers outweigh any short-term benefits. I simply do not believe that humanity can responsibly operate nuclear power plants and store their waste products for thousands of years.

The evidence so far is pretty clear. In less than one hundred years we have had a partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, an explosion at Chernobyl, and a massive disaster involving multiple plants in Japan, where radioactive material escaped into the environment. Those are just some of the power plant accidents. There have also been accidents in the storage and processing of nuclear material, weapons testing disasters, and the theft of nuclear material that could make its way into the hands of terrorists.

I think the party should go straight for the jugular. The Democrats should push for a 95 percent tax on anyone with over $100 million in assets, then use that money to balance the deficit and shore up social security. Any money left over should be distributed back in the form of tax rebates. The only way for Americans to regain control of the country is to eliminate billionaires.

Nobody earns a billion dollars.

A failure of judgement or lack of expertise on the part of the contracting organization doesn't mean they were engaged in fraud. I think we can apply Hanlon's Razor to this:

That's not how the rules of debate normally work. It's up to the person making the claim to support it.

Would you care to expand on that? This article from the Journal of Hand Surgery says that nerve grafts were invented in France, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the history goes back further.