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You're not directly wrong, but the theoretical, philosophical, answer is that the social will that allows ICE to operate, or cops to thug about, is that people feel that there is dangerous lawlessness out there, and the only way to solve it is strong force. And sometimes a few eggs need to get cracked, but it's okay because they deserved it.

So none of the things listed here prevent ICE, but ICE is powered by fear of "the criminals", and if we solve the "criminal problem" with real solutions, suddenly it gets a lot harder to motive a brute squad when everyone is fine actually. And I don't mean "the officers are fine" or "the would-be victims are fine", I mean the random citizens sitting at home, already feeling secured without the police force in military gear.

And I mean maybe at least some of the shitty dudes are there due to broken homes fractured by substance abuse or financial stresses, or are themselves victims of fetal alcohol syndrome or something, which could possibly be lessened with tighter social circles and safety nets.

As you your other point, unions specifically address wage theft and would impact Bezos for sure. At least assuming "theoretically ideal" unions.

Maybe you're actually into clavicles

The funny thing is that they obviously didn't have blue tint on the day, so this picture is probably exactly what it looked like while they were doing it.

No music, no sound effects, no graphics. Behind the scenes footage is so awkward it's amazing any movie gets made, and I love it.

I have friends that daily drive BSD, but I never have. For me it's because Open Source is already a small field, and Linux solves all the problems I have, while also having the most mind-share, focus, and community. I want it to be FOSS for ethics, which Linux is, but otherwise don't need anything that BSD offers, so there's no reason for me to attempt anything more. If there's even one compatibility problem, it'd be one too many for no benefit.

That having been said, I do donate money every month to one of them, because I like that they exist. So that's probably weird...

Yeah, the eye flow is all messed up. The third panel, as it is, convinced my brain to switch to anime order to make sense, and then I read the fourth panel backwards and it made no sense.

I get the problem you had, but maybe the layout of something else could have been fixed? Because as-is I think the third panel sabotaged the whole comic...

I basically agree with you, but I'm also a little pedantic, so I'll also say that if the standard format isn't the format MSOffice outputs, then the standard format isn't the format everyone is using, they're using a similar but incompatibly different format. And so if there's an opportunity to pick what the standard must be going forwards, and the actual true OOXML spec has effectively zero users, and what MSOffice outputs isn't an open standard, then you might as well pick ODF which has more than zero users and is standardized.

But again, this is moot if the thing MSOffice outputs is actually actually OOXML now.

Their point about OOXML has traditionally been that the format that Microsoft Office itself produces has never once matched the standardized standard they ratified. So Microsoft used it to check a box on some requirements sheet and muddy the waters (like this), but anyone actually following the standard would not have achieved actual cross compatibility with the massive gorilla in the space. But because it's "Microsoft's format" any issues would have felt like bugs in LibreOffice rather than bugs in Microsoft Office. In contrast the standardized ODF actually matches the ODF you find in practice.

That all having been said, I stopped paying attention to that whole scene a while ago, so I don't know what the current situation is, or if that still applies. It's possible later version of MSOffice actually moved to the standard version at some point, or that the standard was updated to match what MSOffice actually reads and writes. Possible, but I just don't know.

Massive mistake. I have a wife, and she's pretty great. But my wife got a husband instead and he's.... okay. Definitely a step down.

Y'all are killing it! Good work.

Well, I'm obviously pinching to show that it hurts when I do this... so... is that normal? It is? Okay great thanks!

Hypothetically speaking, how much time spent at a training camp is necessary for one to be categorized as a military target / enemy combatant? I don't know how the conventions work.