We can barely get our government to protect us from medical price gouging and unfair practices. They care even less about a dog or cat than they do about a human being.

I would remain indifferent towards all religions.

Who are you hanging around with that is mocking the people that named Mars?

There’s a reason and the reason will likely be revealed to be kickbacks and payoffs.

It’s dimensional lumber so it’s not actual size but before they started shorting them for profit, they were called 2x4s because they measured 2 inches x 4 inches. 4x4s, 6x6, 1x8, 2x12, etc. They all represented actual dimension of the lumber but you’ll notice that today, they are basically 1/2 inch short in every dimension so a 2x4s actual measurement is 1 1/2" x 3 1/2".

If you tear apart the walls or look in the attic of a home built in the first half of the 20th century, you’ll see lumber that actually measures their stated size.

I don’t think I have a preference, both bring me a lot of long-term joy. My family is big on poems for birthdays and holidays and they are also great at meaningful gifts. My daughter made a father’s day playlist on Spotify and wrote an entry for each song with her memory of what we were doing when she heard the song. I often play it and have read the accompanying notes so many times, I’ve memorized it so I get a little burst of dopamine for each song, no matter what I’m doing or where I am.

While I agree with your entire sentiment,

powerless/spineless the rest of the gov is.

I would add “less openly but equally corrupt” to your summation.

Not for any reason having to do with security or usability, 1P had always been great for me in those areas. The reason I left them is because, while I was fine being unimportant in regards to their future improvement plans, when they wanted to charge me 30% more for new features that only benefited their business users, I was unwilling to stay with them. This article is a good example of what I mean. An entire update post regarding all the changes for business users and for the personal user? It goes on to say “don’t worry, your experience won’t be negatively impacted”. I will never agree to that kind of price hike for what is basically “we won’t make your experience shittier”.

https://1password.com/blog/a-unified-future-whats-next-for-our-end-user-experience

I would think it would be obvious but the answer is numbers and guns. A corrupt government would be unable to fight against 10s of millions of armed militants.

Although your question was “How would we fight” and although many Americans like to cosplay as well-armed superheros, there will never be a number of citizens large enough to risk their lives, safety and comfort for a greater good to achieve a successful uprising. The way “we would fight” would be sharing videos somebody else made on social networks, impotently arguing in comment sections and finding echo chambers to talk to like-minded individuals about how terrible the other half of America is.

Play is already sandboxed and as was explained to me on their forum, separate profiles do not further isolate apps from each other so I operate with a single profile policy to keep the complexity down. Keep in mind that privacy is not my primary concern but rather the usability of a smartphone so Ymmv.

I understand your point but if it’s obvious, it’s likely easily-guessable and although you are thinking in terms of regaining access to your account, it’s just as important to keep other people from being able to gain access to your account by either guessing it or using social engineering to retrieve the answer.

I’ve used a password manager for many years (1password then bitwarden) and have never had an “oh shit” moment. I use a master password that I’ll never forget, have never needed a hint and have never lost or corrupted a password. I feel that as long as you treat your password manager as something that’s important and deserves your careful management, you’ll be a-ok. I have never once had an issue that was created by the manager itself.

Making the MP hint obvious makes it pointless, in regards to the security to every password you have stored.

That depends, would it work as well as our efforts of banning guns and drugs?

Meta and everything they do and stand for is why I chose Signal over Whatsapp.

It made no positive change in the surplus of weapons on the street. The only people that turned them in were people that would have never used them in the first place and many people in the deep red areas, like where I lived actually went out and bought more guns because they saw it as the beginning of forcefully taking their guns from them.

I would suspect that the only people that benefited from the program was the weapon industry and might have even helped get the program in place.

I consume content here via all/new so my block list is used to make sure I don’t see users, communities and instances that keep me from enjoying my time here. It’s lengthy but does the job well.

Perhaps it’s more complex than a single reason but I believe all scenarios would most likely fall into the bucket of “things were that easy for them and they lack the critical thought to realize that it’s not that easy for everyone else”.

Boomers were buying houses and cars with only one person working, retiring at a decent age and living on mostly social security.

Generational wealth has ensured that their offspring would never have to struggle.

Some settled into a job that truly does pay for all their necessities.

etc., ad nauseum.

Basically, it’s a throwaway statement and I don’t think anyone should lose any sleep feeling like they need to further discuss it with them or defend themselves. They are clearly incapable of stepping outside of their knee-jerk assumptions to find out if they’re accurate or not.

Bugatti Veyron.

I had no idea either but I did find this while Googling(Kagi-ing?)

https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/04/why-is-filipino-spelled-with-an-f.html