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True, but most of the US already did buy into LEDs.

Even in the US it's not "cornered," it's 53% iOS, 45% Android and 1% other.

"(eSports) is still a real competition unlike WWE"

Events in the UK, specifically tightening protest restrictions after Lizzy died and JK Rowling silencing critics through legal threats (just so you know, Trump wanted the US's libel laws to be more like the UK's but it never happened,) solidified my opinion that the first amendment is a net good.

I would maybe put Israel below the US based on what I know (since these kind of rankings are shaky) but that's about the only thing I genuinely think the US does best on a governmental level.

No. eSports is currently a shrinking industry. It's here to stay but it doesn't show signs of overtaking.

Even if it starts to get big again, it's better compared to competitive Chess or Pool or even Motorsports than conventional sports.

I'd say more competitive Chess or Pool since it's still a real competition, just a non-athletic one, unlike WWE.

The state may be gone, but the people and culture(s) will not. Changed forever, but not gone. We will not just spawn back in Europe/Africa/Asia when the state goes away.

Knowing that The Netherlands has a worse housing crisis than the USA and Canada (Anglo-North America's housing crisis is "it's too expensive." The Netherlands' is "there are no houses even if you're a billionaire") really drives this point home.

If we all adopted NJB's mindset we'd just have our grandkids asking why WE didn't do something.

For the most part, we win cities and towns, not countries (and especially not big countries like USA, Canada, and Mexico) and certainly not continents. It's way easier to hear about national news than local news, and even moreso local news that isn't from your city. Urbanist communities often portray stagnancy, but that's often not the case, for better and worse. Houston still sucks but it's better than it used to be. Philadelphia is still one of the better US cities for being carless but for a variety of reasons (shitty Democratic mayoral nomination that proves we need to end first past the post, crime related decline in public transit ridership) it is likely to get worse (and to be clear, Houston and Philadelphia are both relatively low-income cities. They do not have the money to make the big transformation Paris did, and that's in spite of Philly literally being designed to be like Paris) Neither of these facts should have the response of "give up."

Apatheism.

"Because God said so" sounds like a terrible rationale for morality to me. For that reason I do not think the existence of God is relevant to my life.

I get what you're talking about, but maybe it's being a decently-educated American with a black mom talking, but "enslaved" is not the right word for this.

Not that I agree with an age cap, but respect for elders isn't really a value among young Americans. Like, we know that the idea that old people are inherently wise is a farce.

Many midrange phones still have headphone jacks, and removable battery has to come back if they want to continue selling in the EU.

It has cocoa butter but no cocoa solids

I'm honestly under the impression Google Search is one of their less valuable products, even if it's the one everyone associates the company's name with.

This is what I wanted to say but didn't have the words for. Thanks.

"Do or do not, there is no try"

The rallying cry of the kind of person who thinks every hobby has to become a side hustle.

Isn't WinFS unfinished?

Not manually. Windows does it automatically if you have an HDD and defragging an SSD is bad

Not entirely, but we can control it. I would absolutely argue that we live in some of the least tribalistic times in history (though I will say that I worry that it's now on the rise.)