Das ist nicht richtig, schon 1750 v. Chr. gab es Pfeifen in Babylon. Manche haben sogar Kupfer verkauft.

Alternative Erklärung: Programme wie Word – oder, wie hier, LibreOffice Writer – ersetzen diese Striche automatisch.

I expect it goes like this: Electricity is real and does things, yet it’s so mysterious and unseen! Just like god!

und einen Haufen an netten Kommentaren macht

Oh man, ich habe das völlig falsch gelesen und dachte sie reagiert permanent irgendwo mit dem Kacke-Emoji auf die freundlichen Beiträge anderer Leute.

Der Hund ist schuld.

What if they believe that being associated with adult games will hurt the bottom line?

That would mean that they actually are responsible. I don’t think that’s correct, at best they complained to payment processors to make them enforce their pre-existing bullshit rules. That’s where the problem lies IMO, those corporations should not be allowed to ban paying for legal goods and services, especially since they have formed a cartel.

Exactly, it’s perfectly kromulent.

So PHP may be trash, but don’t treat the people using it like trash? Makes sense to me.

Is disliking something that (allegedly) is more popular with women than the average thing of its category anti-woman, even if no part of the complaint involves the user or their gender? The majority of users is likely still male anyway.

90000% agreeing with you, video games are for little children and should never contain any adult material!

It’s a thing kids say to taunt each other, “girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider”.

Laut NDR:

Nach eigenen Angaben ist sie in Bremen als Transperson bekannt und geht davon aus, dass sie auch als solche wahrgenommen wurde.

“Oh wow, those scumbags really stole all that worthless, sentimental stuff before they ran into us? Serves 'em right then.”

Just remember that whomst = wemst and it’ll all make sense.

You could try Tuxedo OS. It’s stable Ubuntu minus Snap plus newer KDE packages by a small Linux system retailer. Been using it for about a year now on my work laptop and it’s perfectly adequate.

And yet it’s somehow less awful than the Windows 10 start menu. Is it still improvement if you put the bar under the floor yourself?

They do eat bones, but spotted hyenas scavenge/hunt about as much as lions do.

we can even acknowledge that a lot of men have raped people without knowing it

I wouldn’t go as far as to call them rapists because that was not their intention

I see what you’re getting at, but I really wouldn’t use that word in any context where there might have been, for example, any power dynamic or some form of coercion. I believe that keeping it reserved for situations where violence or significant coercion are involved is better for everyone, especially the victims.

Doesn’t mean using mild coercion/emotional blackmail/pestering/shaming/… is okay behaviour, not at all, it’s just that saying no/leaving won’t usually do much beyond change the relationship between the people involved. Talking about that is fine, good and needed, using “rape” to describe it will probably shut down any conversation before it can even begin, though.

I’d also argue that that sort of behaviour is something both men and women engage in, maybe in different ways but, well, the expectation on men is to always be sexually available, so it sometimes becomes an issue when they are not. Mutual respect and understanding really are the most important things in a relationship, both participants are fully realized human beings, not just “the girlfriend/wife” or “the boyfriend/husband”. But people seem to forget that sometimes and I don’t know what can be done about that.

I’m surprised that they are surprised by this as well. What did they expect, and why? How much of this is written to imply LLMs - their business - are more advanced/capable than they actually are?

People hate on fictional characters all the time though.