You might be making the classic correlation-causation mistake, in that promiscuity causes mental health issues and substance abuse; it may very well be that both the sex and the drugs are symptoms of underlying psychological or psychiatric issues, and I can believe that in a society that judges them harder for it, women might be impacted worse.
Sure, but those known text attacks were made significantly easier by German operators using (and reusing) non-random and easily guessable encryption parameters. Once the keyspace became small enough to search, they were able to brute force the encryption.
Also, the popups are designed to be annoying in a way that you click through blindly. Companies can easily comply with these laws without being as obtrusive, e.g. using gradual permissions, using less jarring ui elements, or simply reducing the scope of their cookies in the first place.
As someone who quit WhatsApp a while back when there was a big scare about a change in ToS (and everyone was promising to jump ship to telegram/signal), I cannot overstate the importance of the network effect. For a platform with a userbase this size, the critical mass of users required to pull everyone over to a new platform is simply massive. I'm on both other platforms, and although I see many of my contacts there, they are simply not active. They prefer WhatsApp, and unless something cataclysmic happens, they'll remain there.
It seems quite strange to attribute the actions of a group individuals to some nebulous force - "the left". It's weird to see such reductionism to a binary axis for something as complex as the intersection of politics, commerce and personal values.
Sorry, I interpreted your comment as a oblique way of saying his purchase of a Tesla was a financially irresponsible choice vs say, buying a van or similar utility vehicle
During the Christian dark ages, the occupants of Constantinople lived within walls they did not have the knowledge or skill to engineer and build. I imagine that a post-apocalyptic society may feel the same.
Interesting - in our country we have street-level stormwater channels which are separate from sewers, and drain straight to streams, rivers and ultimately the ocean. Is that sort of infrastructure not present in Belgium? I can imagine retrofitting that kind of thing into older urban streets may be tricky, but seems like a wise investment.
I come from a country where most people drive manual transmissions, and the rule of thumb is that you're replacing the clutch at 150-250k kilometers. Automatics have torque converters instead of clutches, so that's probably a non-issue. I do imagine that they're much more integrated, and without a sacrificial clutch plate to take load shocks, the entire system will give out after a certain distance. This is all conjecture though.
The Venn diagram of people who are obsessive enough to become the type of expert to go to Antarctica and sexual predators has a larger overlap than the Venn diagram of most professional populations and sexual predators.
French interventionism in Africa has increased dramatically since then. Their military operations in CAR definitely reduced the death toll of the entire conflict over all, as a recent example.
He's simply affirming the claims made by the company that now owns LangFlow, and he is in the position to make those claims in good faith - what you do with those claims is up to you.
To your footnote, you're not wrong, but climate change is a better and more encompassing description for what people experience: more extreme weather, be it heat, cold, precipitation or drought. We can't feel an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees, but I can certainly tell you that we just experienced the hottest summer peak temperatures on record.
Silicon wafers come from a large single crystal that has to be grown. It's not a trivial engineering challenge, as you would suggest. There's a supply shortage for the entire semiconductor industry that is driving up prices.