newsweek is a right-wing rag that promotes conspiracy theories
EDIT: here are some details:
In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast.
So the order of the months was more logical, and a Roman would naturally understand that September, October, November, and December read as literally the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth month respectively.
I basically constantly have to manually correct myself over and over that for example September is the 9th month, to look for the number 9 even though when I read "September" I am reading "seventh month" and my brain automatically wants to look for 7.
I think most people would not relate to my experience of the months let alone how upsetting this is to me, hence I consider it a "small hill" to die on, lol. But it's a very big hill in my world!
I switched to LibreOffice more than a decade ago and I never missed Microsoft Office 🤷♀️
(EDIT: I don't mean this dogmatically, there are plenty of times I have had to compromise and go back to proprietary software, but LibreOffice really has successfully replaced Microsoft Office for me - it's just as feature-rich and reliable with a similar UI. Google Sheets has a few features that I like and which aren't in LibreOffice or MS Office, but I only use that for work when I need a collaborative sheet.)
I mean, it might have just been an empty liner / cover for a comforter - those are essentially sheets that are sewn together so you can fit a comforter between them, so you can take the comforter out and wash the sheet cover occasionally and keep the comforter clean.
So maybe google "duvet cover" or "quilt cover" and see if that matches?
why are duplicates such a frequent problem, sounds like upstream solutions are needed there?
SSD would be faster read/write, yes (your data shouldn't be on a single hard-drive, it should be regularly backed up at least - make the HDD the backup and copy the main database to SSD?); you might even consider a cloud service like AWS RDS
for some use-cases, a noSQL database can be faster for reading - but it's contextual
All dates should be formatted according to ISO 8601 standard (YYYY-MM-DD).
Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively (so the literally meaning of the names accords with their actual meaning).
Not cleaning your kitchen knife after sharpening is trashy and contaminates your food with metal shavings.
or something like that. It jives with the general opinion. I do live in a very conservative place, so maybe like you're saying it's a matter of where in the South you are. I'm sure in a major city like Atlanta that's not a common attitude, for example.
huh, I would guess that the majority of people where I live in the South think this way. It's repeated dogma from teachers, parents, etc. - there are literally billboards along the roadways talking about how useless university degrees are and advertising for trade schools and certificate programs.
the fediverse isn't exactly a cure-all to the situation, it doesn't solve economic problems about costs of hosting, moderating, legal compliance, etc. nor does it address user behavioral problems and preferences ... it works well for some of us (notably the tech-privileged minority), and not at all for others
newsweek is a right-wing rag that promotes conspiracy theories
EDIT: here are some details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek#Controversies