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I responded to a comment asking why a national politician would choose a side in a conflict. My response was that her political party has picked a side to support by a wide majority.

Republicans support Israel in this conflict almost universally. Haley's support of Israel isn't controversial in her own party.

This wasn't a statement on the morality of the conflict, but of the political support of the belligerents. Republicans support Israel.

The conflict is only controversial to one party.

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You've tried to use Excel as a database too, huh?

Yeah, but it seems like it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

And I find it hilarious that this was the thing that closed the portal down.

I get the feeling that Jerry really shouldn't be making movies.

It is strange that this job went from glamorous to real shit.

You had a government mandated floor on prices until the 70's in the USA and the 90's in the EU, which meant that airlines had to compete on amenities and other ways to pull traffic to their airline. Once that price floor was removed, it became apparent that ticket prices were what drove most traffic, so airlines started doing whatever they could to drop ticket prices.

I didn't say tool makers would stop it.

But there is a difference in design philosophy between pro tools and amateur tools. I would expect that, if the market shifts to more kinds of tools, the design of those tools will shift as well.

Not exactly. The type of rental discussed in the article is short term, not long term like an apartment.

Also, there will probably be a response in the industry, but it could end up being better overall. For instance, an appliance may end up being designed more for repair and have a longer design lifespan as there are fewer, but more educated, consumers of the appliances. I would expect a steam cleaner that has to run two times a week to be more expensive than one that has to run two times a year.

Whatever the Steam Deck would be if Valve went full Linux desktop?

It depends on the place. If there are places that are filled with independently wealthy people, they will try to make their home town as unfriendly as possible to tourists to reduce traffic.

Kind of, but you also have the issue that a lot of streetcar networks were built at a loss to support land development. When these networks went bankrupt, local governments didn't really want to fund the subsidy to keep them running, so these systems either collapsed quickly or slowly.

It is obvious that car companies pushed for cities to change in a war to accommodate cars and sell buses, but you also have the issue that a car dependent lifestyle was considered a symbol of wealth for over a generation, people wanted to move out to the suburbs, and politicians were elected to do so.