Still alive, has a purpose, steady job, daily physical activity. Doing pretty well actually.

Men are far more susceptible to be victims of violence, addiction, suicide, incarceration, mental illness, loneliness etc. already.

High male population nowadays is usually caused by elective abortions.

One less wife available for men leads to anger for those without one.

Incels already exist and at the same time the most attractive men have a wife, a mistress, and occasional hookups. So it Wildente necessarily change much. Except the side pieces could have actual rights and more societal respect by becoming wives.

Nothing ever happens

It’s unidentified of course.

OpenSSL has a whole list of serious security issues Heartbleed and go to fail is what I remember right away.

Open source software is full of bugs and security vulnerabilities. Most code doesn’t get read by more than two people.

Kerrygold is good, but really good butter is on another level.

GNOME has been going downhill since version 3. I used to be a diehard GNOME fan, but nowadays KDE is simply better in so many ways.

no moving parts

Mechanical bells in phones were nice. If you slammed the phone on the receiver you would get a nice ring from them.

People also didn’t own the phones themselves. They were usually rented from the phone company as part of the service contract. So the phone companies had an incentive to buy sturdy equipment. Consumers buying things for themselves often buy the cheapest they can, resulting in lower quality. Yes, lots of products today are worse than they could be, consumer demand for cheap devices plays a role here as well.

microwave ovens

There are only a handful of companies making the core component magnetrons. Various brands just package it differently.

My Bosch vacuum cleaner is 11 years old and works great. The only problem it has is weaker cable retraction. My Bosch washing machine is 7 years old and works fine. My Samsung fridge is 5 years old and great. My Miele dishwasher is at least 15 years old and works great. My no name brand cheap toaster is 17 years old and works great. So from personal experience, I think this is acceptable.

Bakelite is plastic

Yes, the usability and affordances are worse.

Landline phones were mostly plastic and took lots of abuse for years just fine.

A centralized platform providing infrastructure could be financed using a tax on every internet subscription.

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Enpass works well for me.

First I have to a banana on my ear.

Yes, the M series CPUs are fast. Running an LLM locally or video encoding are the only time I wait.

While the comic is true, the USA under Trump is still more democratic and free than most of the rest of the world.

You seem to know very little about Latin America.

Several African countries still have a population with European ancestry that owns lots of land for example.