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The word is used in the context of PTSD. e.g. "hearing fireworks triggered flashbacks from the war"

More generally, a "trigger warning" is a "content advisory warning" by another name.

Israel's malware industry is nothing new. Besides selling hacking tools to totalitarian regimes (another notorious example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group), they also peddle malware direct to the victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

Good thing Windows lets you ""sideload"" a real copy of VLC instead of forcing you to use the neutered crap from their appstore.

For now.

For me, it's Dracula.

I think most American politicians wouldn't care, if not for many Cuban Americans still caring a great deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban-American_lobby#Political...

1.6 million people is certainly significant, so you're not wrong. But leaving it at that without more information is likely to mislead people.

> The CIA World Factbook (which is based on 2013 statistics) gives the following numbers for the languages spoken in Iran today: Persian, Luri, Gilaki and Mazandarani 66%; Azerbaijani and other Turkic languages 18%; Kurdish 10%; Arabic 2%; Balochi 2%; others 2% (Armenian, Georgian, Circassian, Assyrian, etc.).[20]

> Other sources, such as the Library of Congress, and the Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden)[21] give Iran's ethnic groups as following: Persians 65%, Azerbaijanis 16%, Kurds 7%, Lurs 6%, Arabs 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmens 1%, Turkic tribal groups (e.g. Qashqai) 1%, and non-Persian, non-Turkic groups (e.g. Armenians, Georgians, Assyrians, Circassians, Basseri ) less than 1%.[22] For sources prior to and after 2000, see Languages and ethnicities in Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran#Languages...

> That would explain why he doesn’t appear in the abbey records or in Tudor surveys."

Perhaps this figure was simply considered too rude to write about.

Progress in the long run may seem inevitable, but certainty of victory can be dangerous in the short to medium term. Whig history ignores the possibility of setbacks. Progressive democracies have fallen to authoritarian dictatorships in the past, and there will likely be more examples in the future. Hubris is not your friend.

"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard." -Sun Tzu

You should allow your opposition to at least believe they have an alternative to digging in and fighting you to the bitter end. Even if you have no intention of allowing them to escape or surrender, you should let them believe it's still possible.

Not unless you enjoy being saddened and disturbed.

> but I'll be surprised if the backup software properly handles the potential errors well.

YMMV but I've found rsync to handle this kind of fuckery well.

> Sugar isn't "objectively bad" in moderation

Can't the same be said of heroin, which in the UK is prescribed as a medication under the name diamorphine? Both of these substances can be safe in limited quantities, and both of them exploit vulnerabilities in human physiology or psychology that results in over-consumption being a very common outcome. One of them is strictly regulated when not banned outright, but the other is freely given to any kid who has spare pocket change, no questions asked.

> By the time they reach high school: Every kid should know [statistics]

Maybe things have changed. But when I was in highschool in America in the early 00s, statistics was an optional math class offered to juniors. Nobody had taken stats before reaching highschool, which is what the GP calls for, and kids in the "artistic track" weren't required to take stats at all.

Dead sats in LEO fall.

Presumptuous poems are insufferable.

That CNN article is a crappy rewrite of this NASA press release: https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/222/study-projects-a-surge-in...

Because everybody knows what 'kidnapping' means, and everybody knows that it's a crime. Not everybody knows what extraordinary rendition means, or that it's a crime. The general public not knowing or caring what "extraordinary rendition" means was even used as a joke in the tv show Archer.

That was in 1988, quite a lot has happened since then. In the aftermath of it, Gaddafi was cowed and sanctioned. Libya became less far provocative and accepted blame for the incident. By the mid-00s, it seemed like the demise or reform of oppressive regimes like Libya was inevitable. America took Libya, still under Gaddafi, off it's list of state sponsors of terror. Gaddafi's reputation never really recovered though, and that reputation probably played a role in his eventual death (nobody cared to save him.) It seemed as though other leaders of repressive regimes were laying low, hoping the same wouldn't happen to them.

What we are seeing now seems like a return to form. Obviously all of this falls well short of the political violence seen in the 20th century. That's not an interesting observation. By that standard, literally everything after WWII has been a huge nothing-burger. That shouldn't stop us from observing worrying trends in the present.

Desperate? That's a positive spin to put on this. I'd say they're getting bold. They've always done stuff like this, but now they seem to care less about hiding it.

> Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive?

Not particularly, no. Some certainly are, but others require a great deal of activation energy to detonate. Nitroglycerine (another explosive medication) is notoriously touchy. But C4 is only mildly flammable; you can heat up your meal by lighting a piece of C4 on fire then put the fire out by smashing it with a hammer; it won't detonate like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)#Detonation

New's bogus insinuation that Non had ads or spyware makes me disinclined to buy this innocent justification.

If there is such a thing as a non-trivial commercial software project without office drama, I have never seen nor heard of it. I think drama occurs whenever and wherever there are a non-trivial number of people working together. It has nothing to do with linux specifically.

The nature of what different people consider insulting seems to vary greatly. I'd like to judge these supposed insults for myself. Have they been archived?

The angular size of Clint Eastwood is or can be made the same, by adjusting your distance from the screen. The difference is everything else about the experience, everything except the apparent size of Clint Eastwood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter

> In every one of these theaters I am always shocked to see how few people a classic pulls in. Went to see Blade Runner “Final Cut” at AFI on a huge screen and there were like 40 people. 2001 in a 70mm print was about half full. Inception or Interstellar in IMAX (the real one, 70 ft tall screen) was less than half full.

Maybe you chose bad examples.. but all of these movies are movies I like quite a lot and I would not have gone to see any of them in the theater. Why? Because I've seen all of them a dozen times already and I'm sure I'm not alone. If they want to pull in more people, they should probably pick movies people haven't already watched repeatedly to the point of fatigue.