I’m surprised you didn’t hear about that, because it was a huge controversy. it was limited to a few countries though (or maybe only the UK?)

Spear-wielding infantry continued to exist well into the gunpowder era, whereas swords were pretty much only used by cavalry at that point (ironically the disappearance of armour made swords relevant again, in the form of the sabre)

Yes, but the creation of the sword was for killing people. They were a status symbol because of that.

Not really “because of that”. The heyday of the sword was during antiquity. Swords as a fighting weapon were later eclipsed by spears and polearms, and yet nobody wore any other weapon as a fashion statement. It’s just that swords were much more expensive to make then a pollaxe or what-have-you, so they were owned by nobility.

Did swords have any purpose besides killing people?

For the last several centuries of their widespread existence, swords were an archaism worn by people as a status symbol and to show their belonging to an in-group - like pickup trucks today in the USA.

Definitely a normal country full of well-adjusted people. We can see evidence of that on a daily basis.

I’ve tried several of these and have to wonder how the author came up with these suggestions, because they’re very different than their American “counterparts” on this list. With that said, I’ve been doing my part and haven’t bought a single bottle of anything from the US since this started. i do miss bourbon - it’s my favourite liquor - but I’ve gotten to try a bunch of nice ryes and other whiskys, irish ones in particular.

Edit: that article actually looks like ChatGPT content, which explains why it’s so bad and inaccurate.

Are they going to start shooting ICE detainees instead?

Americans have been huffing their own farts for so long about their country being the ultimate expression of democracy that they came to see it as an immutable fact of life rather than something that needs constant tending, and now they don’t know how to do it.

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.

I don’t understand how there could still be demand for this… Grays have been popular in aviculture for decades, so there’s no shortage of breeding stock available without needing to resort to taking animals from the wild. Hopefully these measures make a real difference.

Dond Trump told his supporters to reject the evidence of their own eyes and ears. It was his final, most essential command.

Good point, I really shouldn’t jump to conclusions like that, it’s unfair to them. They could simply be distressed about the economy.

Just because they support Nazis and behave exactly as Nazis would, doesn’t mean they’re Nazis. We have to give them the benefit of the doubt until they have all of us up against the wall.

https://store.kde.org/p/2144146/

Krohnkite? It unfortunately doesn’t have anywhere near the polish and ease of use as the PopOS implementation, for example its easy toggling between tiling and stacking. Nobody comes close to the way PopOS has done it.

Yes, a lot of self-proclaimed centrists are rather right-wing but like to picture themselevs as occupying the middle of the bell curve. See also their use of the term “common sense” when they want to feel like their view is the majority one despite that not being supported by statistics.

Awesome, congrats to the team. I don’t use it anymore but I’ll always have a soft spot for PopOS as being the distro that finally made me a Linux fulltimer. I really wish KDE would implement their tiling system.

Leftists barely agree with each other, let alone anybody elsewhere on the political spectrum. You aren’t entirely wrong, though - there is a tendency to say that anything good is leftist and anything bad is right-wing, but right-wingers also do the same (see how anything they don’t like is either woke or communist, or both)

Look, Hillary - you’re never going to make me like TikTok, even with glowing endorsements like this!

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