The equation they are thinking of, though, is “will the cost of those who actually quit using Windows outweigh the cost of building and maintaining this feature.” Funnily enough the inability to move the taskbar is what finally pushed me to Linux full-time, but the overwhelming majority will complain and stick to Windows.

Default subs were already heavily astroturfed garbage. Smaller subs still generally fly under the radar, for now at least.

Yeah, Ukraine was part of Russia for like 200 years, and had the same culture of embezzlement and graft. It takes a long time to unlearn that, but they’ve been working hard at it (as evidenced by this anti-corruption agency)

“Return to China” doesn’t even make sense from a historical standpoint. Xi must have studied under the same history professor as Putin.

Given the horrible legacy of Japan in Taiwan, the fact that Taiwanese prefer to align with today’s Japan than China illustrates just how much they don’t want to be governed by the CCP.

Goes to show how impossible it is to get an Italian to stop talking.

Classic. The Monroe Doctrine exists to ensure only the US can meddle in the Americas.

Inflation is arguably down mostly because of austerity measures which have not addressed any fundamental problems, only kicked them down the road.

Except, if we were to read the article, things are materially worse than when he took office:

Milei had predicted a V-like recovery with the creation of new jobs in a more prosperous and stable economy. Instead, the economy stalled out, declining in the second quarter compared with the previous three months. Unemployment is at 7.6%, up from 5.7% when Milei took office. And Argentina has about 200,000 fewer jobs since he took office, government data shows.

I wonder if this ties into our general disposability culture (throwing things away instead of repairing, etc)

Eh, she’ll probably just be Abe 2.0, but without the exhortations for people to fuck more.

No, I excluded India because they only intermittently had great power status. Iran was one for 2000 years and China for… 3000 or so? India was too at times but not in a consistent fashion - it wasn’t even really unified for at least half that time.

Tagging @BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com as well as this is in reply to them.

Iran is a country with remarkably smart people.

It always has been. Look at the Islamic golden age for example - so many of the great artists and polymaths were Persian. They have such an incredibly rich culture with a VERY long history, easily up there with China who I’d say is their only real competition in that regard.

Yeah, but it’s always other people getting thrown in the meat grinder, it would never be me!

Me yelling “enhance” at my router so it blocks ads better

I couldn’t even list all the horror stories I’ve heard firsthand about Samsung appliances, including massive damage to people’s houses caused by leaks.

Why stop there? Ctesiphon or bust.

We all know it’s the rightful territory of the Senatus Populusque Romanus. It’s just a matter of time.

You nailed it. Attention accrues to them because of their money and the power it gives them, not the other way around. Without his money and control of OpenAI, Altman would be - along with Elon Musk - just another dork posting on Reddit during his shift at the electronics store, and would get the attendant amount of public attention. He’s no smarter or dumber than the average guy, but we don’t devote news articles to whatever the average guy thinks about something he heard on a podcast during his commute.

I use the prebuilt Hetzner one and have no idea either.