This is largely an American problem, although it is spreading due to global media.

I blame it largely on Calvinism and the prosperity gospel:

“Good things come to good people” -> “If good things didn’t come to you, you’re not a good person” -> “Poor people are poor because they are bad people, and we should not help them” -> “It’s okay to help billionaires, they wouldn’t be rich if they weren’t good people”

A lot of poor people have this view in the US, which you would think would make them reconsider it, but they solve this with mental gymnastics: They and their in-group are good people, so obviously it’s okay to help them and the good things are coming any second. Another reason not to tax rich people, they’ll be one soon!

No ally of the US would look at them the same way ever again. To be fair, they already don’t, but this would propel the US from “bad ally” to “second cold war enemy”.

The key to becoming bilingual is consistency. Kids quickly settle on one language if they catch on that everyone in their sphere speak it. Therefore it helps a lot to have certain people in their lives exclusively speak the minority language around them. Otherwise they’ll soon stop speaking the other language.

Also, it’s important that kids overhear adults conversing in both languages. If all conversation only happens between adults and children, they are in my experience a lot less likely to want to speak that language, and they also miss out on a lot of vocabulary. Reading books helps with the latter, but not the former.

If this kid is growing up in Poland, they will inevitably learn Polish. The parents don’t need to, and also shouldn’t, be the ones teaching the child polish. That job is best left to native Polish speakers. This will ensure that the child learns both languages well. There’s no point in the child learning how to speak polish with a heavy Ukrainian accent.

They also love making their cars extremely complicated, so maybe it’s better if people need to do some research before taking apart something they can’t reassemble.

You realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.

I have a job like that, but I also have kids, so…

Ads don’t need to make you explicitly go out to buy the product to be effective. All they need to do is make you feel more familiar with the brand next time they and a competitor are next to each other in the store, and you need to decide which one to pick.

TL;DR: For stuff you’ll need to buy anyway, brand awareness is all the ad needs to do.

If side loading is actually allowed on iOS it’s exclusively because the past few years of lawsuits forced them to, and they keep trying to block it in new ways. Android can only be equally bad as Apple at worst, because Apple is as bad as they are legally allowed to in a given jurisdiction. So picking iOS over Android over that specific issue seems odd. They get brownie points for having blocked it from the start?

Doesn’t iPhone already have pretty much the exact restrictions that are coming to Android?

Solving it in his state is certainly a good way of spearheading a national solution.

As for you considering the statement racist: I was expecting a lot worse based on the headline. I don’t think grouping by race when looking at health statistics is inherently racist. Race can be relevant to health outcomes, among other reasons due to racism, and so one should be allowed to discuss that.

Deciding to ignore the problem because it predominantly affects a certain race is racist, but that wasn’t what was stated in the quote earlier in this thread, despite the headline suggesting it was.

I think he’s pointing out that this is a federal race-connected issue, not a local state issue. As in other states have similar stats if you group the numbers by race.

If that is correct, that’s a fair assessment. He should obviously work with the rest of Congress to solve that national issue, though, and he should really spearhead it if it affects his state more.

Those were two separate statements; one wasn’t meant to explain the other :-)

I’m sure this has changed a bit since the old (very popular) king died, but back then you would probably rather go to prison than face the angry mob that would summon if you insulted the king.

It looks like you’re relying on media automounting to access the drive, but this is happening too late for Docker.

I would suggest creating the empty folder and explicitly adding the mount to /etc/fstab instead. This should mount early enough, and even if it doesn’t it needs an empty folder for the mount point anyway.

Edit: Make sure you reference the partition by UUID, because the device name of USB devices sometimes change after a reboot.

They probably figured hurting her or locking her up would be too bad PR. Which is ironic, considering they’re okay with committing genocide.

Change, yes. But everything except his ego will do just fine if he drops down to 1% of his current wealth.

You mean his reputation. He’s still the richest man in the world.

That makes some sense. When you’re smuggling something you want it as pure as possible, so it takes up less space and is harder to detect. You cut it with something else after you smuggle it.

The same thing happened during prohibition. They smuggled hard liquor, not beer.

I think this is more that American exceptionalism makes them incapable of getting inspiration from other countries, so they end up doing something entirely different. If it’s better, the rest of the world adopts it as well, and if it’s inferior, the rest of the world points and laughs.

E-check is definitely in the point and laugh category, while payment apps based on phone number or email like Venmo are getting copied by various other countries. Granted, I don’t think the US was first with phone-based payments, various developing countries in Africa have had it for ages. But I do think they came up with it independently, because they habitually ignore innovation done anywhere else.

Except for apps like PayPal, Venmo, Zelle and Google Wallet, all of which allow you to transfer money to an email address or phone number, there is no convenient electronic way to transfer money from individual to individual in the US. The only other real alternative is handing over cash or writing a check. You can technically do a wire transfer, but those are really designed for stuff like buying a house or something, and usually either cost money, take days to settle, or usually both.

I can’t speak for every other country, but in Norway we’ve at least for a couple of decades taken for granted the ability to just initiate a transfer of money to someone else’s bank account. You just enter the number and amount in your Internet Bank, and it gets transferred free of charge either overnight or instantly. It’s how we’ve done everything my whole adult life.

In the US, the prevalent way to pay rent is still to either write out a physical check or enter the numbers from a check into some web interface which is then somehow able to suck money out of your account. Sometimes a bank will offer to mail the check on your behalf, but it’s still very much a check.