It used to ask. I haven’t tried in years. Maybe it only asks if you also create a gmail email address with your account.

First, I don’t like Google’s terms.

Second, if I try to create an account using a different email address, it usually complains that I don’t have a real phone number, or every phone number I have or can borrow has been used too many times to create a Google account (I’ve never made one, but I’ve lent my number to a graphic designer who needed multiple accounts), or it blocks me at the Recaptcha (“Your computer is sending automated queries”).

For my current main email address, there is already an account created for it, which I did not make. This account was “suspended” as of the moment I first knew about it, with no reason given. Google said it would be automatically deleted if not signed into for several months. For a while, it seemed deleted. A year later, another implicit Google account was created in my name, and suspended immediately.

Each time, I learn about the mystery account because when I try to send email to any Gmail user I get a bounce message from mailer-daemon@googlemail.com stating “The account limonene@example.example is disabled”. Using Google’s forgot-password system, I get confirmation that the account exists, and is suspended.

It’s kind of a big problem, because tons of people use googlemail.com servers to handle their email, even if the nominal domain isn’t gmail.com. When I opted out of Discord’s change in terms, that bounced with the same error message from mailer-daemon@googlemail.com. Contacting Sparkfun’s tech support to tell them I can’t order from them because of Recaptcha, I also got the same bounce message.

I have to disagree about the idiot proof. KDE Plasma and Mate Desktop are more idiot proof and easy for newbies than Windows 10-11, yet have more features in their simple control panels.

I’ve had no bootloader problems in the last 10 years of Debian, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu (15-20 installs, plus another 20-30 if you count VMs.) However, my work computer’s bootloader was semi-bricked twice in 2019 (Windows 7).

What they want is: to reduce the trade deficit. But they don’t know how to do that. The most straightforward way is to produce more American products that people in other countries want. But how can Japan do that for them?

Is there any way to view this link without having a Youtube account? I can’t make one.

Hegseth himself is a bigger threat to the US than China will ever be.

Yes, I think he will (except the ones that fall over to threats, and give in to 47’s demands).

But that’s not the point. It’s possible to have a safe factory staffed by happy, well-paid workers. If it were actually true that manufacturing would return to the US as a result of the tariffs, that manufacturing shouldn’t be considered an inherently bad thing.

Are they trying to say it’s inherently miserable to work in a factory? So let Chinese workers do it instead of Americans?

It shouldn’t be miserable to work in a factory. The overhead pneumatic drill shown towards the end is just like a drill I used when I worked in a factory one summer in Chicago. It was perfectly safe, and the people I worked with were well compensated. (I was not, because I was only 16.)

I think people in China might have this attitude because to them, it usually is unsafe, miserable, and underpaid. There is no proper unionization in China, and no OSHA, so it’s always bad.

In 2019, when I visited a Chinese factory for work, the assembly line was tight enough that all the workers bumped elbows constantly. One person had a very loud compressed air tube to clean off components, and wore hearing protection and safety glasses. The person next to them had no hearing protection. Another person was testing blindingly bright LED shop lights, and wore sunglasses, but the people next to them had no protection. This would have been considered totally unsafe in the US.

I doubt much manufacturing will return to the US, but if it does, then even by 2025 standards it wouldn’t be as bad as in China. With OSHA gutted by the current Republican administration, it’s getting worse, but we still have more worker’s rights than workers in China.

This looks AI generated. If so, I wish you would label it.

How can you tell if this one is? The text differences within and between panels 1 and 2 are indistinguishable (to my eyes) from JPEG artifacts.

Tell the truth, and quote the customer without that feature. Make it clear that that feature doesn’t exist, and your company can’t make it, and your supplier isn’t interested in working on it.

Your boss had time to sort this out, and failed. He asked you to move forward as if it was solved, which means lying. Instead, tell the truth.

You could run it by your boss before sending it to the customer, but don’t let him insert any bad-faith statements if you’re the one signing the quote.

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here”

–Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Feudposting? What does that word mean?

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Themselves. It’s a civil war. The military in Burma/Myanmar has been out of control for many decades. Currently, the military controls the country, after overthrowing the 2020 democratically elected government.

People there are probably avoiding conscription not because they fear the danger of war, but because they disagree with the military’s position, and don’t want to have to kill peaceful protesters.