I think this overstates the "you must futz with it" of both Android and the common Linux desktop. Broadly speaking, both are pretty much fine out of the box for most people and the stuff they are likely to want to do to Windows is similarly easy to do with a likely default desktop environment (I'd say KDE more likely than Gnome, since Gnome opts to try not let you do a lot of stuff and demands you have to do "weird stuff" for some customizations). You don't have to play with "expert tiling-only window manager N" or go off the deep end tweaking to the Nth degree.

Same with Android, though with even less likelihood of anyone bothering to go "off script". 99% of Android users never touch adb, never do an oem unlock, never boot an aftermarket OS load.

The fact that you can, does not imply you must.

I'd amend that to say I wouldn't count "regedit" or group policy muck to be "easy" by virtue of having "a gui". Those are areas where technically there's GUI that might be CLI-only under Linux, but hardly friendly enough to make a difference.

The bmw solution is pretty good, at least relatively recently it was a touch screen, but also navigable by knob for all the screen features including Android auto, and hard buttons for most everything I want to actually do.

In my experience, the vacant housing is not built without demand, it's that the demand vanishes.

There were two trailers where they would have been scrapped, but some relatives took then over and kind of refurbished them, and one of those is now home to another relative that would have been homeless otherwise, and the other is a "hobby" trailer until someone else needs it.

Another is a house where the man died and the wife moved to a small apartment because she felt like she needed to be in the city near a hospital, but no one wants the house because the area is the middle of nowhere.

Rural areas tend to have a fair amount of "nobody wants them anymore" housing laying vacant, but they all, at one point, were being used as housing.

I'll second the other one asking and go further and say we need a pretty good, to the point write up of these dog whistles. Anyone that is vaguely "on the fence" will need to see it direct for themselves and I think most of us are ill-equipped to walk the language back to plainly stating it for what it is.

He has a pulse now: "On March 24, 2012, Cheney underwent a seven-hour heart transplant procedure at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Woodburn, Virginia." He was pulseless for 15 months though.

We laughed at the protagonist.

Sticking his hand into a fire thinking it was the way and having it burned off... ok, he was tricked by a greatly trusted person in his life.

Then later accepting that the problem was not that it burned off his hand, but he should have put his entire body in...

Our conclusion was that the ending where you jump in are his friends making a cover story of how stupid he was to just jump in the fire and claiming he in fact did become some invisible divine being, and that's why you can't see him, not because he was a gullible idiot.

I think the point is that while this photograph kind of works (from above, at a distance), generally from ground level it doesn't. So if it only works from above, then is it really useful as a camouflage?

In fact, a 2016 study concludes that the camouflage hypothesis doesn't seem to carry weight: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/zebra-stripes-not-camouflage-new-study-finds

I'll amend to note one thing, which being color blind made me particularly aware of "what color does this look like to you?" doesn't really mean anything. You could ask some other person "what color does blue look like?" and you two have no idea how each others minds conceptualize "blue". The concept is called Qualia and refers to facets of our subjective experience that we cannot share, like the "color" of something (two people may reach consensus that 420 nm is "blue", but can never know what that "looks like" to the other party).

My best hope is sharing what I think represents how my color vision falters. In my case I can't tell the difference between the picture presented and

For those like myself who cannot see I cranked up the saturation and shifted the hue so we don't miss out on the fun.

The market does determine, unfortunately the market is relatively unfazed by subpar customer service. It has to be really bad or a huge legal catastrophe before it moves the needle. Which is why phone trees and long wait times are ubiquitous despite being universally hated. Marketing and sales and having a 90+ % rate of people that don't ever feel the need to call customer service basically eliminates that bad service as a concern.

Even when asus had a famously bad customer service scandal this year, their sales continued to rise unabated.

The answer would be of course they have income, and we have to adequately recognize it as such.

Borrowing money against stocks? Income. Capital gains on high value or nonessential assets (e.g. non-primary residences and stock)? Income.

Actual money has to come in at some point to manifest that lifesytyle and that is obviously income.