Out of curiosity, what functionality do you miss with xfce? I have been using it for a few years and find it overall ok, although I do have a few issues.

Per capita, which is the only measure that makes sense unless you're stupid, any developed country of significant size is doing better than the US. Make of that what you will.

Actual terrorists will buy a ticket and find ways to get on the plane legally, so what are we really worried about here?

Dual Shock 4 controllers are getting quite expensive though, a friend of mine is looking to buy a new one and they are twice the price as I saw them a few months ago.

"It is not perfect therefore it is not better than anything else that exists".

This is how strong your argument is.

I don't use rust, I am certain that people from the rust community can be annoying with certain claims, and I still see that rust can bring significant security improvements over C without being a magical tool that prevents anyone using it from writing any unsafe code.

The market is so good at deciding that it gave us global warming, the ozone layer hole, dirty air, dirty water, a mental health crisis, a crazy over-communicating society and people needing three jobs to make ends meet. Thank you market forces!

The US is trying really hard to let China take its place as Europe's first ally these days! Do you also think that big US tech companies are entitled to European citizens buying their products? What about Chinese companies, are they entitled to US citizens buying their products? I hope we agree that double standards are bad.

He has enough money for several thousands of lifetimes of very expensive leisure. So paying the bills is not the reason.

Ah but that should be illegal regardless of the topic at hand. Children are vulnerable, targeting them shouldn't be allowed. It puts so much pressure on the parents too. Everybody relevant that we should care about loses. The only ones who win something are the people trying to sell stuff by manipulating kids, fuck these people.

Why the quotes around "pro"? Are these wrestlers not paid to wrestle?

But that is a different statement, you are basically taking the racism away from the previous statement (which was made by someone else).

Said like there is no such thing as Jewish people in Africa, India, or (!) the middle East. I mean it's a very weird way to classify people, are we talking about nations, regions or cultures? None of them work for the intended purpose here.

The implicit assumption you are making is that your voting system should be accepted and not challenged. Not voting can be a form of challenging it. On the short term, you're right that it favours whoever wins the election. On the long term it's not so clear, the more people protest, the more a violent change of voting system is likely.

They have already been doing that for a while: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Ffrenc...

You are, in fact, disregarding that education (and more generally environmental factors) influences IQ. Otherwise you wouldn't have made the first claim. If you want to make this claim you have to prove that, when accounting for environmental factors, your statement is true. Short of that, you're just wishfully thinking. It is disturbing that your wishful thinking is of racism, there are happier things to wish for.

Thank you for this very precise reply, it absolutely and unambiguously answers my question. You sound very smart!