to say that he was executed for breaching UN resolutions is simply factually false

Yeah, this part is nonsense.

I do think it's fair to say "the US executed him" as a shorthand for "the US hunted him, caught him, turned him over to people who said they would execute him, and then those people executed him".

It's a disservice to pitch this as "easy-peasy, win-win, 10 seconds of work and you save in the end!"

More realistic to say:

• It will take up to 1h to find a way to buy it (and the answer may be "only on Amazon (tm)"
• It will cost more
• Also shipping $$$
• It will take longer (because you're not getting Prime shipping)

For that cost, you get some benefits:

• You get the actual product, not something that Amazon decides is "the same"
• Fuck you Amazon

And most of all

• The extra effort and money will maybe lead you to realize that you don't need to buy yet another thing.
• Or if you do still buy it, maybe you'll decide you might as well get the good version that lasts, instead of the cheap version that breaks in a month.

If only he could be as sympathetic and intelligent as The Gang.

"We live in a capitalist hellscape so why bother to struggle against it" isn't a completely unreasonable take. Too bad, though.

That looks pretty decent. Could mostly support the OP's use-case, but also could allow sites to trade a cookie for payment, for semi-anonymous pay-for-access.

This, but in a hopeful voice instead of sarcastic 🙂

(Being surrounded by people who think more progressively will tend to shift people’s views)

DeepL is fantastic. Not only are the translations better, I find the UI better also.

Lots of things seem reasonable if you skip the context and critical reasoning. It's good to keep some past examples of this that personally bother you in your back pocket. Then you have it as an antidote for examples that don't bother you.

The national parks are amazing. But who knows if they'll still be around since we're firing everyone who maintains them. Not sure if the plan is to destroy them or to give them to some oligarch as a little play-area.

Changing jobs carries a lot of risks:

• Many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and cannot afford to quit their bad job before looking for another
• American healthcare system means that if you are between jobs and anyone in your family gets seriously sick/injured then you will be in medical debt for the rest of your life
• For many people, there are few jobs available. Maybe the other jobs pay too poorly for them to live on
• As discussed, employees aren't given slack-time, so they can't search for a new job while at work
• Because they're exhausted, they can't search for a new job while not at work
• Amazon isn't the worst place to work. Your next job might be worse! (Small businesses in the USA are exempt from many rules and effectively-exempt from many more.)

The row limitation seems, to me, like an actually-good thing. Excel is for data where you might conceivably scroll up and down looking at it and 1M is definitely beyond the ability of a human even to just skim looking for something different.

An older version of Excel could only handle 64k rows and I had a client who wanted large amounts of data in Excel format. "Oh sorry, it's a Microsoft limitation," I was thrilled to say. "I have no choice but to give you a useful summarization of the data instead of 800k rows (each 1000 columns wide) of raw data."

Just Egg works very well as a sub for liquid eggs, but it's expensive AF and goes bad fast. I prefer the powdered egg-replacers for baking, because they keep, and outside of baking I like my eggs runny or hard-boiled which Just can't replicate so I prefer to go without.