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What mistakes? Everything’s come out perfectly according to their plan.

What is exactly an American issue? Because all the issues here are not exclusive to the US, they’re pervasive all over Europe, and as far as I know (second hand), the rest of the world as well.

No amount of primaries can solve it either, imo. The problem is parties. One party, two parties, many parties… they all end corrupt. A politician loyalty is not to the voters, or the people, or country. It is first and most to the party, because the party put them in that place, and it can take them away if they don’t stay on their lane. Parties can be, and so most have been, easily infiltrated and corrupted since money is what wins elections.

It is not a matter of more or less aggressive, some materials dissolve more easily in one type of solvent than in others. You can try, dissolving a teaspoon of salt in water is much easier than in oil. Have you ever eaten chocolate or drunk water while chewing bubblegum? Here the opposite happens, the fats in the chocolate dissolve the bubblegum rubber and make it softer while water doesn’t, it just chills it which makes it firmer.

Now plastic, rubber, or paints, finishings… can be many different things. IPA is safe to use on natural rubber while oils will make it swell and degrade, or even melt it. But most rubbers are synthetic, basically rubbery plastic. These plastics and other engineered materials can have all kind of different properties, while looking exactly the same. So the only thing you can do, other than research on that particular material and solvent, is trying it on a safer or hidden part of the thing.

In my experience: oil isn’t good on most rubbers, IPA is ok. For metals (iron, steel, mechanical parts…), contrary to you I usually advise to clean them with oil/grease, alcohol is appropriate if you don’t want it to be oily, only in rust resistant metals. Consumer/industrial products paints and finishings are usually fine with both ipa and oil if applied swiftly and dried quickly– acetone, kerosene, toluene… will strip them away probably. For wood, almost everything will fuck it up.

Parking is cheaper No TSA fingering your asshole Tickets are cheaper Safer travel On the ground Can take the next train if late

These aren’t (completely) true where I live, it’s still more convenient to take a plane or even drive to go to another major city 500-600km away, which is ridiculous specially considering that it’s consistently ranked among the best high speed rail systems in the world.

money, the copyright and the politics

Of course, the things that haven’t affected the internet or haven’t been affected by it at all.

You can check this channel. Also here’s a good installation guide in case you need it.

Divert all the power from life support to the thrusters!

Car: turns off the AC while going uphill.

Had to take a look at it and… nope. It seems clearOS is a linux (or you know gnu plus linux) distro, but clearOS mobile is android.

I see people all the time who seem to go overboard

I don’t have an answer to the question, but wanting to point out that ‘overboard’ here is highly subjective. For example, from my (poor person’s) point of view, I would consider five plastic surgeries for a young lad like yourself way overboard.

Maybe not ‘main’ and ‘appendix’? Both could be, like, actual wives idk.

I think op doesn’t mean ‘first wive’ as in ex-wife.

[Copy paste from my other answer] It was a rhetorical question, sorry that wasn’t clear. I know that knowing details about my private life can be useful for an employer to estimate how exploitable I’m going to be. What it meant is more or less ‘Not their fucking business’, asking personal questions in an interview is a big red flag for me, how about ‘are you thinking on getting pregnant any time soon?’? I’m sure most companies would like to have that information too…

And now it serves yet another minor purpose: it’s another flag that might point to the interviewer using ChatGPT to bullshit things.

No, it only does for the unprepared: ‘Hey, chat gpt, give me a list of hobbies that would make a good impression in a job interview’, or just bullshit through it: ‘I volunteer, I play some [team sport], I like hiking, hitting the gym, reading, playing the guitar even though I’m not very good…’.

It was a rhetorical question, sorry that wasn’t clear. I know that knowing details about my private life can be useful for an employer to estimate how exploitable I’m going to be. What it meant is more or less ‘Not their fucking business’, asking personal questions in an interview is a big red flag for me, how about ‘are you thinking on getting pregnant any time soon?’? I’m sure most companies would like to have that information too…

Recruiter: ‘What are your hobbies?’

My brain: ‘Don’t say fucking your mom, don’t do it. DON’T. YOU. DARE. SAY. FUCKING. YOUR. MOM!!’

Recruiter: ‘You’re using chat gpt aren’t you?’

Me: ‘yep, that’s definitely it. Absolutely…’

What do the things I do in my personal time have to do with being selected for a job? Fuck these people, I’m sure the process before reaching these interviews is highly automated (with or without llms). If companies are going to use all kinds of ai bullshit (on top of the usual non-ai bullshit) workers ai-bullshiting back is only fair.

No thanks, I’m still full from lunch.

That rouge one droid: ‘You’re being appreciated. Please, do not resist.’

I am from a ‘developed’ EU country. The first three days of sick leave you get nothing (this accounts for the vast majority of ordinary leaves) then 60% of the ‘regulatory base’ (which takes out ‘pluses’ or ‘bonuses’ that in some trades/jobs make for a substantial part of the wage) till the 20th day from there 75% (again without those extras).

In 22 years of working I’ve not been paid one single sick day.

Wait, you Frenchies have 100% pay for ordinary sick leave??? I guess we’ll have to get some hi viz vests and a handful of lighters over here.

Edit: is it just for civil servants? Do workers for private companies get a 100%?

What about the eu people not caring about skin colour part? Also, how is it racist to point out that people care less about this woman than they do for Thunberg because she’s not white?