Jajcus

Most of the time, yes, but not always. Sometimes you actually need local time stored rather than UTC. Simple example: alarm clock. User wants to be waken up at 7:00. No matter if it is summer time or winter time. Even if they travels to a different time zone - still will want to be waken up in the morning. If we store this time as UTC much more unnecessary and error-prone conversions will be needed. Similar issues may arise with other calendar events. Of course, at some point this will be converted to UTC for comparison with actual point in time.

There are lots of systems (embedded, mostly offline, abandoned by its vendor) which are not easily upgradeable and their timezone database cannot be easily replaced. Not everything is a PC getting its regular software update.

In case of Stellaris it is more like you would buy Stellaris, Steallaris 2, Stellaris 3, etc. Each big DLC is like another game in the series. And the smaller ones (like species pack) are completely optional. For me this is an example of DLC done right.

It is not like e.g. City Skylines, that most DLCs just give some minor additions and for a meaningful change in the game you would have to buy lots of them.

Isn't he supposed to be 'the left'?

Not the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCqu-LjCOy8&t=6629s ;-)

We need to see Doom running On these planes first. That is always the first step.

Single use plastic items laying on the beach is what bothers people the most, but this doesn't mean it is the biggest problems. There is much more plastic in the oceans that we do not see.

Grass (the trimmed always green lawn type) is more demanding than many other crops. If the grass is growing there, then the topsoil is good enough for some other things too. Also the topsoil is something you can develop, especially on such small scale as personal garden. Make compost, grow less demanding plants first nad your soil will get better. You can grow things on sand mixed with a bit of compost.

But the same shit is often sold on European (like Polish Allegro) and American (Amazon) platforms. Why is this a problem only when then Chinese do it? The problem is broader, but is often shown us 'do not buy from Temu or Aliexpress – they are dangerous' while ignoring the same practices on the Western platforms.

The Western resellers most probably buy in bulk, so 'de minimis' rule does not fully explain why the dangerous product are on the market here.

I am all for making the platforms responsible, but why not start here, where enforcing this should be much easier? Or maybe it is not about safety and other regulations, but more about taking down competition?

the more educated people tend to vote either liberal or left

And this might be the reason. More educated, middle-class, from large cities are 'the elites', but not a significant majority. Poor, less educated people, from rural areas feel excluded in the world made by and for 'the elites'. So they are going to vote against what the elites want. And, on top of that, the opportunistic rich '1%', with means to influence politics, abuse those feelings for their own gain.

When the corporation controls the hardware and the OS it can easily break any encryption running there. Just include key loggers, break RNG entropy, extract keys from memory, or just capture any data before they are encrypted. Or just let the governments into the OS so they can do all that.

I can confirm that 'error' and 'mistake' is the same word in Polish. I don't think it matters here, though. And I am sure that Mr Sikorski knows the difference. His speech, although often harsh, is very diplomatic. When he says 'Trump made a mistake' it can safely be read as 'Trump is a complete idiot'.