Doesn’t have to be.

No. Mostly they’re put in place to protect the domestic industry from being run out of business from cheap exports.

Not at all. It’s necessary to protect your own industry.

If Canada didn’t impose tariffs on US dairy, Canadian dairy farmers couldn’t afford to compete against US subsidized Dairy. And it’s quite important for a nation to maintain its own food production.

alleging it “not only offers the hardware and firmware to create and play pirated games” but also provides “customers with copies of pirated Nintendo games.”

I can see a world where he can offer hardware and firmware, with claims of other intended purposes.

But the second part wherehe provides customers with pirated software is a slam dunk for nintendo.

I know why engiseers do what they do. I had to perform my own rituals to appease the machine spirit to run my favorite game on ps2.

We cook our food to kill bacteria.

Ever wondered why domesticated animals tend to become much older than wild animals?

You could try a printed T shirt. “I’m gay”. Should get the message across

I never said it’s a rule. I said it’s a stereotype. I dunno. Someone might assume you’re gay.

Depends entierly on the region. Different places have different customs regarding the stereotype for which ear is the “good ear”.

There are over 200 years of records and observation.

We can make models of how the average man or woman tends to behave in a given region.

For example. We know that men are a lot more likely to study to become mechanics than women. That’s not a rule that women can’t. But it’s a statistic that they often don’t

All you have is trying to insult me because you think I’m white. Pathetic. I’m not American. I’m not part of your little race war. Don’t include me in it.

If you never comment, and only vote, it’s not going to doxx you. Your account can be assumed to live in a certain city. That’s it. Please tell me how that is used to dox someone. “Shit they know I live in Frome, I’m done for!”

But now you bringing up posting local pictures. Which is so far from “just voting”. That’s not your voting doxxing you. That’s you posting local pictures doxxing you.

You really didn’t think your argument through did you?

How very American of you. Me disclosing my ethnicity to you would do a lot more on the way of doxxing than any voting pattern ever could. Don’t you think?

How exactly do you imagine “never commenting, but showing votes” might dox someone?

My home adress is not on display here. Imagine if pigs had wings. Imagine living on Mars upside down. And how long is a rope?

I don’t mind because I don’t care who knows what posts and comments I vote for. I’m more than happy to stand up for what I think and why I think so.

Worst case. I get banned from .ml communities for seeing through the blatant ccp propaganda. No loss there.

As you wish, and probably a good idea;

Voting on lemmy is not private because anyone who wants to find out. Can. Be it moderators, adminis, or users on federated sites that simply show it for everyone.

You don’t. You never have. Voting already is not private

Its already not private

Gonna have to bust out the good old carbon dating kit for this meme

Ouch…

Which distros? Just saying Linux is kind of pointless. Linux is the kernel.

Some distros come with more pre-installed features and functions, some come with less.

Some are more average user-friendly than others.

I put Debian on my laptop and have not had any problems accessing external drives or plugging in multiple monitors.

Very long story short. The catalyst was ofc a windows update that went through over night.

Reinstalled entire windows. Twice. First time I made the mistake of reinstalling lenovo software that came with laptop (battery controll etc) that caused together with windows complete freeze when plugging AC adapter in. (Because it put laptop in high performance mode which froze everything)

Second time I said fuck that and made sure I download the required drivers manually from AMD and Nvidia. And avoid Lenovo software all together. So far so good.

But fuck that windows update that broke everything to begin with. Lost my entire harddrive on a laptop not even 6 months old.