In India, you might throw gazillion-dollar weddings for your children.

If throwing lavish parties was all our oligarchs did, I’d be happy. I know Indira Gandhi did a lot of horrible things, but sometimes I wish we elect someone like her again, to once again put the fear of nationalisation into these leeches.

The Indian (Sanskrit) name is pronounced ka-ma-laa (meaning lotus), with no stress, and no gap in between the syllables. The first two 'a’s are pronounced like the ‘u’ in rum, while the last is the same sound but longer (so like the ‘a’ in calm).

The US Presidential candidate’s name is pronounced the way she likes, which in this case is closer to ko-ma-laa.

Mint has three prebuilt options, Cinnamon is just the default. Beyond that you can also install other desktops.

Genociders shouldn’t be welcome at the Olympics. Why is that controversial?

This is good. The border issues need to be resolved, of course, but the economy is much more important.

There is a saying, something along the lines of ‘politics is the shadow that economics casts over society’. Now obviously there is no one to one correlation between a country’s economic and political systems, but rich people often respond to calls for economic reform by trying to make the public fight among themselves. Fascism is one possibility, ‘culture war’ is another, bread and circuses a third, and so on.

The only consistent components of fascism are an autocratic government and a dictatorial ruler, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible nationalism through suppression of opposition.

This is authoritarian nationalism, not fascism. All fascism is nationalist and authoritarian, not all nationalism or authoritarianism is fascist. Bismarck, Churchill and Erdogan are/were authoritarian nationalists, but I wouldn’t call any of them fascist.

Nepal politics is so chaotic. There are three more or less equally big parties - two communist (Marxist Leninists and Maoists) and one centrist (Nepali Congress). Any two of the three can form a majority in Parliament, so they keep making and breaking coalitions in all possible combinations and permutations.

Chinese companies have several advantages going for them:-

• Large domestic market
• Skilled and educated workforce
• Natural resources and good transport infrastructure
• Loans / subsidies for investment

All of these lead to:-

• Economies of scale - building your thousandth car is much cheaper than building your first; and
• Short supply chains - building a smartphone becomes a lot cheaper when chips, cameras, screens and cases are all manufactured in the same country, perhaps even the same city.

And yes, China is a lot richer than Thailand, so they can take over the local market if they want to.

They compete for oil buyers. And Russia is close to Iran. Pretty sure Saudi is acting out of self-interest here.

Any distro that can run Chromium / Chrome. And everything other than Teams will work even on Firefox.

any religious person could simply explain evolution away as the mechanism by which a god or gods created humanity

Many did, and this position is called Deism. In most versions, god(s) started the universe with initial conditions that would lead to the formation of intelligent life, and then withdrew.

1796. Anyway, the cowpox vaccine was an improvement on smallpox variolation, which was known to the Chinese at least by 1549.

What is the reason we don’t run as root?

We are human and make mistakes. Not running as root means the computer will ask us to confirm when we are about to do something major (like a software update, or formatting a partition). This reduces the chance of making big mistakes. (But I don’t see why VLC shouldn’t be able to run as root, if the user so desires.)

More like an apples to windows comparison.

Well they refused to help when Azerbaijan invaded.

Khorne does not care whose blood flows, as long as it flows, etc.

Hope Israelis can elect a rational government next time and hold these war criminals to account.

I guess they’re trying to erase Palestinian culture? But why should scientists behave like IDF goons?

Yep. But even a closed-source CPU is good if it makes the architecture more mainstream.

I have a low opinion of militaries in general, but killing thousands of people to make your opponent look bad is a new low.