Well I’ve never purposely logged into One Drive but my “Documents” and “Pictures” folders’ paths have been inside of an One Drive folder every time since at least win10.
The last time I installed win11 one of the very first things I did was move all the default libraries out of one drive.
And also if you don’t try to restore your backups from time to time, you may actually not have any backups.
The login is now unskippable and part of the OS setup.
Uhhh, but the three examples you gave are not inexplicable.
OK, our reality might have a purpose or meaning given by a god - but then what about that god’s purpose/meaning? Was it given by yet another one higher up? You can keep going up layers like this and finding meaning on each one, but eventually there has to be a final one, a reality that was not designed by anyone. But why does it exist?
Some people may say that there’s no proof that we actually exist. And maybe we don’t, but the fact that we can think and experience things means that even if our reality is somehow fake, there has to be one that isn’t. Because if nothing existed, there would be nothing at all. Not a void, just nothing, not even the possibility of existence. So something, at some level, must exist. But why?
“Because God created us” is not good enough for me, because it doesn’t answer anything. If we exist because a god created us, that still means that a god existed before us. Why does this god exists then?
We’ll never find out. Any answer we find will only open things up for new questions. And just like a child that is just starting to experience things, we’ll never run out of questions.
Not the kind of “aggressive pro-state” we needed, but the “pro-state” we deserved.
You can always try to memorize some key phrases, like:
“did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
If you buy from some small Latin American or Asian brand there’s a decent chance they might not be involved with child labor (but never any guarantee). For large brands, however, there’s just no way to get enough cocoa without them putting a lot of work and resources into ensuring it is “clean”. And they don’t.
From time to time I get a ride from someone at work I have zero interest of becoming friends with. In those rides I get glimpses of a complete different reality where he and his friend group lives. It is horrifying and it completely matches the description of the parent comment.
For some people it is pretty common. For others, it isn’t. The thing is: the people that treat it as a common everyday thing expect that to be the case for everyone - so if you interact with them routinely, you’d probably think that everybody is out to cheat at all times, but that’s definitely not the norm.
And treating grown ups like kids is useful sometimes too!
Based on the article there’s nothing random about it and it’s not just any citizen. They ask it of people who served on nations that have active conflicts. So basically, people who might have been in position to commit war crimes.
I don’t know how their music are rated to begin with.
I think my favorites were Carl Poppa and Gang Fight.
Wait, so Israel is not even trying to distance itself from war crimes… Their actual point is “not all war crimes are equal and it’s difamatory to label everyone who commits war crimes with the same ‘war criminal’ label”… Wtf is wrong with those people.
He can be fun, as long as you treat him as a caricature.
I was in my grandma’s house, but the place was kind of an office in that dream. Someone dropped a bag of flour into a trash bin. It gave life to a malign flour frog. I told the frog that it wouldn’t be able to blind me if I kept my eyes closed. It mocked me saying its powers were much stronger than that and proceeded to blind me. I woke up with sore eyes.
Spies are still a thing. Security by obfuscation only works when nobody is looking specifically at you.
For a while, burning CDs was my way of keeping backup of stuff. I might still have a bunch of them stored somewhere and if I still had any way to read them I would be picking them up right now to see which ones still worked and if there was anything interesting in there.
Did you catch up with One Piece yet? What did you think of it?
I’ve already given up on windows by now, but I’ve heard that trick no longer works.