Susurrus

This is neither new nor surprising. They casually break EU-US personal data transfer agreements like they're nothing. They know perfectly well they will be fined, but they profit infinitely more from breaking EU law than they have to pay up in fines. It's a simple business decision. The EU Comission is being very lenient here, like they've been for years.

From my experience, it's almost always "Chrome doesn't have feature x". It's the most feature poor browser currently in wide use. The only advantage that comes to mind is web dev tools, which: a) 99% of people don't care about, because they aren't web devs. b) Chromium also has, and it's like the considerably less infuriating twin.

Some people really will desparately do whatever it takes to cling onto Microsoft's slop, just so they don't have to spend an hour or two learning something new.

And if you do actually need Windows for a very specific piece of software or one of those 5 online games - okay, fair enough. But we all know the vast majority are just lazy and ignorant.

Deep thinking is never needed. Animals manage their entire lives just fine without it!

1. Added paragraph breaks and will try to use them actively.

2. As mentioned in another reply, I was referring to the base idea, and not to what people think or feel. Perhaps I failed to convey that effectively.

3. Probably true. Hard to say for certain, but as far as I can tell, 'aliens' are practically guaranteed to exist, while gods are the opposite.

Completely agree. I had the same experiences as a kid. Organized religious institutions always go against the religions they pretend to preach. Religious belief should be a personal choice, not a mass brain washing.

The Catholic Church requires that Christians indoctrine their children into Christianity since they are born. But this is the Church speaking, not Christianity or Jesus. In fact, the New Testament clearly says that it is perfectly acceptable for the family of a Christian to reject Christianity. The sole fact that they love the part of their family that is Christian, is enough.

But of course, barely any self-proclaimed Christians have ever opened the Bible, let alone read it. And the Church coveniently doesn't recommend reading it.

What you're saying is completely true, but in no way contradicts what I said. I was referring to the fundamental idea of faith. I never said people adhere to it, and that nobody actually thinks God, or whatever else, exists.

Obviously, a lot of people do. Just like a lot of people think the Earth is flat or that chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows. A huge number of people are uneducated, have been fed propaganda and manipulated for years. I don't think anyone needs any convincing that churches lie to and scam people on a daily basis for personal gain. But doesn't make faith or religion itself a lie.

Similarly, there's quite a few self improvement gurus who make up false ideas about self improvement and feed lies to their many, many followers. But does that make self improvement itself a lie, or a pointless dream?

Shitty solution to a shitty problem in my opinion. Quite often patients are indeed put into the ambulance immediately. Ambulances also have tons of medical equipment, none of which you can fit on a bike, obviously. Then there's the question of paramedic safety, especially given how many road accidents there are in the US. Plus, that would be a major cost for healthcare providers. Instead of 2 paramedics, you'd need 3 or 4, since they can't go solo, again due to safety concerns. Overall this isn't something we should be looking for alternative solutions to. You can't keep making workarounds for systemic issues, like horrible road/traffic design or society being severely uneducated.

Facebook used to have a team dedicated to analyzing their apps' risks to children's and teenagers' health. The team concluded that there are indeed many serious health risks for both children and teenagers, especially teenage girls. Shortly after, it got disbanded, and all its recommendations completely ignored.

The problem here is: the EU currently works quite well overall for its citizens, precisely because there isn't really one big player. It is considerably more difficult to commit crimes and atrocities on the scale of the US, Russia and China when you're small, weak, and all your close allies are watching you. I don't have any doubts that a united EU, a federation perhaps, like it was originally intended, would be the greatest power the world has ever seen. But it would come at a great cost to all of its citizens. In anywhere between 50-250 years it would most likely develop into an empire similar to the ones we have right now. Unless we could figure out some sort of new structure to combat these challenges, which in itself is a major undertaking.

So essentially the same thing as the US 50 years ago? And in some ways, kind of like Russia 200 years ago? Except it's progressively getting more civil.

Dealing with superpowers and empires is always unpleasant, and everyone would rather stay as far away from them as possible, but it's not always and option. Well, it seems we either continue the cycle, and swap US partnership for China partnership (then probably same thing again in a couple decades), or we break the cycle somehow.