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openSUSE with snapper does this automatically. It's far more mainstream than FreeBSD.

The UX and feature set of WhatsApp is much better than SMS. India has practically free SMS but WhatsApp remains pervasive.

WhatsApp is the “best” Meta app by far. It does just offer an easy, secure way of contacting people using their phone number, through text, voice, images, video.

None of their other apps come close. It doesn’t even look like a Meta product to me.


Meta acquired WhatsApp, thats why its the best

As the other user pointed out, it definitely stands out among other product acquisitions.

They acquired instagram too, and somehow they transformed that into the same sort of shithole as modern Facebook...

You say "people tend to get cause and effect confused" and then unironically follow that up with:

> What makes the dollar strong? The US military

The US military and the dollar are strong because the US economy is strong.


I’ve developed a simple heuristic: If someone unironically invokes petrodollar as an explanation for anything in 2026, they’re probably not worth taking seriously.

Financial Times: "There’s no such thing as the petrodollar"

https://www.ft.com/content/be345914-7b4b-4264-bcbd-6e5e33b79...

https://archive.is/4rn8t

I am personally convinced that there are many more people pretending to understand geopolitics than people who actually understand. It could be that no one truly understands due to the amount of fractal complexity and emergence.


seriously. instant indicator that their world view is irreversibly warped by tiktok politics.

I don't think NIMBY capture and restrictive zoning regulations are popular distopian SciFi tropes.

> lots of paperbacks with glossy covers etc.

Glossy cover lamination is actually cheaper than matte lamination.

If you meant more fancier finishing like spot UV or foil-stamping, ignore what I said.


yeah I was thinking of the foil stamping etc... maybe it just looks fancier to me (and hence why they do it I guess??)

Japanese paperbacks tend to use dust covers instead. Dunno if that's cheaper or not, but it seems like it.


I don't see how people using a work computer exclusively for work would lead to a shitty work culture, let alone lowered productivity.

> Most job offers now come with statements about how you don't have right to your likeness

[citation needed]


It's pretty common, Google it. Here is a website that will help your ai draft job offers with example clauses for it

https://www.lawinsider.com/clause/right-to-use-employees-nam...


I recall that being in my employment contract.

> I presume other Commonwealth countries) default to paracetamol (acetaminophen) before ibuprofen

Can confirm this is true in India.

Paracetamol is widely used. Paracetamol + Ibuprofen is more common than Ibuprofen by itself.


> the stuff we do in this country is so much extra work/effort/cost and all of it comes at the worker's cost.

The GP described tax optimizations for the highest earners. The idea that they would be better off in Europe is plainly ridiculous.


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