Then it has to be tax funded and will never be self sufficient unfortunately. That means if political winds change, these products will die.

This is just me being a realist. I would of course prefer all of Europe to move to FOSS for the public sector.

And use the tax money to help fund open source alternatives? Yes please

She’s been giving him shit for about 2 decades now, not sure it’s anything specific she said.

Basically, read it as “you should kill yourself if you’re not exactly where your ancestors lived 10000 years ago”. That’s what these people seem to think, they just don’t want to say the quiet part out loud.

I live in a country where we have a very large amount of Russians, many of whom completely lack citizenship because they moved here during the soviet occupation so didn’t get automatic Estonian citizenship after our independence, but also haven’t gotten Estonian or Russian citizenship after the fact. This number has decreased over the years because most people have acquired some citizenship, but we still have tens of thousands with no state at all. I can’t imagine simply deporting all of those people. In fact, we’re now giving out citizenship to children of non-citizen parents who have lived in the country for at least 5 years, to avoid creating more stateless people. This is despite the fact that a lot of those people getting citizenship are also the descendants of settlers, with roots in a country hostile to our own. Those people’s entire lives are here, who are we to uproot them just because we were here first? It’s too late now.

I’m more postulating that to actually be moral, you’d need to still be moral when it’s not about being liked or having a better chance of survival. Do good because you want to do good. A system of morality based on “if you don’t act nice, you’ll have a more difficult life” is more of a set of rules being imposed on a person than morality on that person’s part.

Rosie O’Donnell the comedian and talk show host? THAT’s who super strong and brave mr. Trump is afraid of?

I haven’t tried Graphene, but I think I did get my banking app working on my backup phone running EvolutionX or something. I forgot the name of the ROM. 3-4 years ago when it was my main phone running Lineage, the banking app didn’t work and then they messed up the stock ROM with Android 12, I just straight up gave up on Android and moved to iOS. Now Graphene is starting to sound better by the day, but I’ve since started using a banking app that outright blocks GrapheneOS -.- Suppose there’s no way to get around having two phones if I want privacy AND support for all the apps I use.

The wait 5 minutes joke never seems to hold up in my region. Usually if it changes in the middle of the day, it’s not changing back. Usually it changes at night though.

In Smallville, I think mama and papa Kent had help from papa Luthor in the paperwork department so officially they adopted an orphan. I don’t remember what, if anything, happened to the original orphan whose info they used.

Estonian is umbrohi which is kind of like “not grass” so pretty similar to Deutsch here

Ah, but is he currently paying for said expensive private security?

Yea let’s go back to index.php and the 5 second load time for every clicked button

Yes, lock them all up if they’re guilty. Trump, Clinton, Gates…

Does it matter? Neither one eats the bull and even if one uses cheese then that doesn’t come from the bull at least. Maybe one of his lovers

So it’s not free market after all because the big 3 can make vehicles at home and sell abroad while the others have to make them in the US for the US market. In what way is it not a form of favoring the domestic auto companies?

China subsidises industries it wants to dominate in, allowing them to sell for less than cost. It’s why the EU also tariffs Chinese cars.

Also for anything the big 3 make in the US, I believe they use union labor? Not sure if they did for Aussie market cars.

The US actually heavily tariffs foreign-made vehicles that could skirt the CAFE requirements the way American trucks do. Light trucks suffer the Chicken Tax and can only be made in Canada, US or Mexico to bypass that. Been that way since the UAW boss asked LJB to do something about the German imports growing.

Well, nearly half a million mostly union jobs would also be lost, causing a minor recession at the very least. Even if the jobs partially come back in the form of BYD plants, they probably wouldn’t be union jobs.

What Ford European line? They discontinued the Mondeo and their minivans. Now it’s hatch or crappy SUV. Or Mustang. Oh wait. Focus is end of life too now. It’s mustang or crappy crossover SUVs only.

Java 8 to 21 + spring boot 2 to 3 brought the need to change a lot of dependencies, but often they were drop-in replacements. That was mostly Jakarta stuff. On the Spring side, a lot of things we used were deprecated, but that was not related to the Java version.

Did not take a huge amount of time to upgrade anyway. But maybe our systems weren’t the most complex in the first place, a lot of our applications were pretty small.