Your problem is that you chose an OS that respects you and treats you with dignity.

> Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them?

No

No! That would make you stand out with the fiery intensity of a sun.

How about personal canisters of chaff that get fired off whenever I enter a room? Before long, folks will get so annoyed with all of the metal fibers I leave behind, that I simply won’t be invited anywhere and my anonymity will have been protected.

If the metal bits are floppy enough it should add quite a bit of noise

Apple makes tens of billions of dollars per year on ads. Your conception of Apple and who they are have diverged.

Apple's ad revenue is ~5% of company revenue? It seems like the split could be a lot higher. They might have to give up something for that though.

You didn't mention the most important variable of the story -- how old the kids are. But I'm guessing over 8, since it wasn't a crine.

You know what they say: the most dangerous part of space flight is the car ride to Cape Canaveral.

I'm not a weightlifter, and 1lb steak (pre-cook weight) is a normal amd very reasonable sized dinner for me. Weird to hear that called "challenging".

Congress sets the president's salary and has the power to fire him. The president has no such reverse power. The legislative branch is clearly the more powerful. "co-equal" is a fiction made up out of whole cloth by Nixon to further his criminal activities.

Until the party system existed, this was true. As soon as the party system evolved (pretty much immediately), with the President nominally the head of the party and the President has at least 1/3 of the Senate, the President comes near to immune from dismissal.

At that point, combined with the recent Supreme Court decisions holding 'official acts' as non-prosecutable, has swung the power meter severely to the executive.

Every season of MasterChef Australia is available on the right tracker.

Haven't found any, certainly not any with active seeders. If you know of a tracker (that doesn't require super special invites), I'm all ears.

S01-03 only exist in SD, from S04 onwards Full HD files are available on all trackers that I happen to have too.

What is the vpn of choice these days for bittorrent?

there's only one that's not extremely shady and has working port forwarding. If you don't need the latter, just stick to Mullvad.

What is the one with working port forwarding?

Proton, at least for me

PIA also supports port forwarding from non-US regions. And the Linux solution is better and provides a stable port, unlike Proton's 'run this command every 60 seconds and hope'.

I only use OpenVPN (another reason to move away from Mullvad), not their own clients. I moved away from PIA in the past, I don't remember why, it was a long time ago.

I was happy with Mullvad for a long time, especially being able to buy their scratch cards, but now I had to move to Proton due to the deprecation of port forwarding and openvpn at mullvad.

But PIA is american anyway so that won't work for me, I'm not signing up with new american services anymore since Trump came to power again.

Even if that were true, how could you possibly know it?

Observing animals' behavior (in the wild and through experiments like the one here) and studying how their brains work to see that they often have the same kind of mental features as us (including whichever you'd classify as consciousness) - just at varying degrees of sophistication.

Some would argue that "consciousness" is something non-physical that has no impact on the physical world, and so is not physically detectable or responsible for any behavior, but I feel then it inherently cannot be whatever we mean by "consciousness" that we're directly aware of and talking about in the physical world (because that itself is a physical impact).