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Yeah, as a very general tool I think they work somewhat interchangeably among similar countries, though this one has a few specifically US-centric questions that were more difficult to answer. (I just pretended I was American for all of them.)

It absolutely has its faults, but I've always found the two-axis political compass to be the best at more generally arriving at a person's ideology outside of country-specific questions. I take that every few years and keep screenshots of my results to track my trajectory.

As a related point of conversation, something I've always had trouble with a lot of these tests is whether I should answer based on my philosophical or practical beliefs, as there's a bit of a divide there at least for me. Furthermore, the simplified nature of these tests can't really paint a full picture of an individual's beliefs. While any tests will place me on the left libertarian end of the spectrum, my beliefs aren't quite so binary. I consider myself a leftist, but the political philosophy that shaped my beliefs runs the gamut from anarchism & Marxism to classical liberalism and even select conservative philosophers (albeit from previous eras, and I do mean select).

Your best fit is… Progressive Left … along with 6% the public

Woohoo. Let's go my fellow 6%ers.

Disclaimer: I'm not American.

Which makes sense, since otherwise you could claim someone is dead and just social engineer yourself a free account.

Hey its me ur [dead] brother.

This is the future (classical) liberals want.

Yeah, I grew up collecting vinyl so that's probably what got me into the habit all those years ago.

According to the screenshot this actually confirms Half Life 12.32(2).

Yes! When I discover a new band I always like to listen to their stuff chronologically, as you said. At times this can be rough. Some bands start off very strong, but often bands take a few albums before they get good and I have to slog through a few before I find one I like.

I'm having the opposite problem right now. Radiohead's first two albums are some of my favorite ever, but I've never been able to get into their stuff after those two. Currently I'm making an effort to go through the rest of their discography in order to see if there's anything else I like. I'm 5 albums in and there's been a few specific tracks I like, but none of the albums thus far compare to those first two for me. As an album-based listener this is weirdly stressful to me.

It looks like eligibility is limited to permanent residents. I can't imagine this would help that much in this case? Someone already living there already has a leg up on finding a job (especially, as the article states, the issue with enlistment is already-high employment).

I'd think they'd have better luck opening this up to non-residents in a French Foreign Legion sort of approach. It seems like a much better value-proposition to someone from an economically-disadvantaged country, especially if it opens the door to AUS citizenship. This veers pretty close to the Starship Troopers "service guarantees citizenship" and as such I'm not saying they should do this - just that I wonder if they considered it if they're having that much trouble reaching enlistment targets.

Right? Though just imagine if routers ran Windows 11. They'd need 8 GB of RAM, phone home constantly, and have ads on the admin dashboard. Also, shoehorned in AI.

I probably shouldn't post this. Don't want to give them ideas.

I'm old and vastly prefer to listen to albums in their entirety rather than just specific songs. I'll still sometimes listen to an album on repeat a bunch, but I think this effect is slightly dulled on me because I'm listening to 10ish tracks on repeat rather than just the one.

My wife though - she'll play the same 3 albums on repeat for a goddamn year at a time. I still can't stand The Hives because they're all I heard in our car for far too long.

Presumably because we let them by continuing to use their products. It's definitely bullshit though - every time I log into a site I managed my dashboard is littered with notification banners. Most are legit notifications (albeit there should be a proper log for that), but the actual ads for plugins are maddening.

Right? I'm tired of my admin dashboard being a wall of plugin advertisements (especially from plugins I already pay for).

This is an awful story. The woman was in hospice care when she was pronounced dead, so she wakes up in a funeral home only to know she'll be back there soon. That's a real psychological nightmare scenario.

I think we all see what we want to see in it. I also think you may be hungry?

I think this was the invitation flyer:

It's nice to see a fella who cares about the fuel economy of his penis.

He's on a break from paleontology.

It seems like the consensus of this thread is that the name isn't holding it back. That was my thinking going into it, but the article makes some very valid points such as the name (being related to a sexual and sometimes derogatory word) making it a non-starter in some organizations.

I have it installed on all our computers at work for basic image editing, but we're a small business and never gave it much thought. I can absolutely see it being problematic in a school setting, however. More to the point, Adobe has ably demonstrated: get them hooked on your software in school and you'll dominate the market. Imagine if kids had been learning GIMP instead of Photoshop all these years.

Anyway, I've got no dog in this fight. Just pointing out what I see as a valid point in the article.

Also, I like their original name possibility of IMP much better. The mascot could have been a cute little imp instead of ... whatever it is now.

Those crabs will probably just be microplastic by then, at least if our trajectory as a species has anything to say about it.

Yeah, I hated KDE for like a decade but tried it again last year and was blown away. I can't imagine I'll switch off of it for a very long time.

And yeah, I always forget about competitive games as they're so not my thing.