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Brother I'd join you in complaining about this, but let's be honest, our lower back and knees do not lie

The US is not the "role model" for how a country should be or what a strong democracy is. Other countries aren't inspired by or jealous of you.

Why do you feel the need to make "suggestions" about how women could look better? Or in other words, why would be of your concern if somebody is or isn't smiling and looking good for you?

You'll notice this behavior often happens with women on the receiving end of the "friendly suggestion" but rarely does it happen with men.

Here's a fun little curiosity that profoundly annoys me: here in Brazil "cringe" accidentally got the wrong meaning. It was being heavily used online, so a famous TV news program decided to "explain what it means" to the older generation and accidentally explained it as "cringe means everything older generations are or do" so in other words, a lot of brazilians that aren't used to internet slang believe "cringe" means "somebody over 30" rather than actual cringe.

The external battery thing is absolutely ridiculous. I'm not an Apple fan and would not buy their products, but I can appreciate how devices like the iPod, iPhone and AirPods really did have extremely appealing design and a nice balance between performance and features and battery life and usability.

But the headset? Looks like they developed the entire thing, realized at the last minute they couldn't power it, and tried to convince people to walk around with a weird cable and battery pouch everywhere by using their tried and true "show happy white people in a commercial doing the thing, so people will feel like the thing is normal and cool and desirable" and that completely did not work.

Those systems are running frozen versions of Windows, they're not being updated. Microsoft could introduce a patch for Windows 10 and 11 that removes the vulnerability and people running old software on XP would still be able to run it. Or, at the very least, make it disabled by default but let advanced users and sysadmins re-enable the vulnerable code.

That's what they did with SMB 1.0, for instance. It's disabled on any modern Windows install, even though a lot of universities and companies still have infrastructure based on it. If you browse the "advanced system features" options you can re-enable it manually, with the knowledge that you're voluntarily opening up your system to well known dangerous exploits in exchange for backwards compatibility.

EDIT: So further reading that's exactly what they're doing. The drivers aren't loaded by default on Windows 10 and 11, they need to be enabled after plugging a legacy device type requiring it.

Quick reminder: anything can be turned into a book, anyone can write one. There's no regulating body, authority or even peer pressure overlooking the veracity of what's written.

Your weird uncle can write a self help book based on a random dream he had.

You might have heard a teacher complaining about using Wikipedia as a source... books aren't different, you need a lot of supplemental research to use a book as a source in order to verify it's valid as one.

Acetaminophen

Which is an horrendous drug that's extremely toxic for your liver, easy to overdose on, and only recently known to need a lower dosage for safe usage by women. However, it's the US' go to drug because of a commercial dispute and marketing campaign against metamizole, which may perhaps once in a blue moon if you're very unlucky and maybe perhaps predisposed cause immunological complications.

Acetaminophen is seriously scary to be taken as lightly as it is in certain countries. Do not buy it simply due to a cold or flu.