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sunbeam60, to asklemmy in What is the worst way to start an apology?

I’m with you. But may I suggest you shouldn’t really be making excuses for something you don’t understand.

sunbeam60, to asklemmy in What makes your life well-lived?

From one father of four to the next: Damn good job!!

sunbeam60, to asklemmy in What is the worst way to start an apology?

“IF I’ve offended you, I’m sorry.”

It’s not an apology if you don’t start by agreeing with the other person’s viewpoint.

Instead say: “I can understand why you’re offended. What I didn’t wasn’t acceptable and here’s why: …”

sunbeam60, to worldnews in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran say Israel has only itself to blame for Hamas attacks

They are as bad as each other. Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians is deplorable. Hamas’ approach towards the citizens of Israel is abhorrent.

There are no winners. Only dead children.

sunbeam60, to worldnews in Biden considering huge ‘one and done’ Ukraine aid package

Yes the Telegraph is Tory-leaning. But this piece is fairly factual.

sunbeam60, to linux in Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

On the first we can agree. But that certainly isn’t how they behave now.

On the second, I dare say that’s “what if” conjecture. You could easily argue that the de facto monopoly of Windows allowed computers to be on every desk which lead to the world today. I’m not sure that’s the case, but the argument stands on no less flimsy ground than yours IMHO.

sunbeam60, to asklemmy in It's October - What's your paranormal experience?

I’m the last person to believe in anything paranormal, but I’ve still got a story that one could have interpreted in that way if one was so inclined.

Age 12, lying in bed thinking about how great everything was, starting to get to a point of realising not everything was going to last forever and things sometimes change. Said to myself “I hope nothing will ever change”, had an overwhelming sense to look through my window. Saw a massive shooting star. Next day my parents announced we were moving to a different country.

sunbeam60, (edited ) to linux in Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

Run three flavours of Linux at home and love Microsoft. Why does everything have to be in opposition?

sunbeam60, to europe in Swedish government approves a new aid package, analyzing the Gripen transfer

Gripen, even the A and C models, would be bloody awesome for Ukraine.

sunbeam60, to europe in Swedish foreign minister misses Kyiv summit after forgetting passport

Dunno. I suspect it’s probably true.

If he’s travelling on commercial aviation they’d be breaking a whole bunch of regulation by letting someone on without a passport. Sweden isn’t a banana republic, and I doubt there would be any expectation from the minister and his posse that they’d be breaking the rules.

If he’s travelling privately or by military plane, there’s probably more liberty to just ring and ask what the reception arrangements will be.

Edit: Ah, actually RTFA now. Still sounds true to me.

sunbeam60, to worldnews in Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says

… and just be historically accurate: The winning move in the Cold War was very much to play. The Soviet Union collapsed.

sunbeam60, to worldnews in Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak

“We operate a Check-74 policy. If you are lucky enough to look younger than 70, we will ask for ID when buying cigarettes”

sunbeam60, to linux in if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

I’ll take “what’s that file format for $300 please”

sunbeam60, to asklemmy in Americans who believe in Socialism, if you were given the opportunity to immigrate to a country with socialist policies, would you?

The notion that free* healthcare, free* education, subsidised transport, government provided unemployment supports etc is even labelled “socialist” strikes me as particularly American.

sunbeam60, to asklemmy in [Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?

I get the subtext of that question and I can understand this concern.

But what I’m proposing is that in a new constitution to properties of the test is guaranteed and then you’d put a cross-population group of experts together to formulate a test that lives up to those constraints. No doubt you’d end up in a courtroom every now and again to settle whether a specific question was constitutionally sound or not.

I think we could work it out. We can for driving tests.

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