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There's definitely some issues that jump out to me on first read.

1 I'm not sure about "indivisible". An area should be able to self-govern if desired. More detail needed.
2 Awful. Removing people's voting rights in general is bad, and something as nebulous as "a criminal offence" is incredibly easy to abuse. Are people no longer citizens if they steal a loaf of bread? Also, voting age here is 16/18.
4 No. Guns are incredibly rare where I am. I'd rather not have one, and I'd prefer not to risk getting shot every time some asshole on the street gets mad.
7 Limiting land to a single use is generally not a great idea. What if for instance you have too much agricultural land and not enough housing?
10 A central state-owned bank isn't a bad idea, but abolishing all non-state banks is iffy. Should the government really have so much direct control over everyone's finances?
12 Your salary should not be based on the amount of unprotected sex you have. That's just silly. Other support should be available for those who need it.

Unlikely. The simplest explanation is generally most plausible, either:

1. OP got an already opened box from someone, failed to notice the box was already open, failed to read the text in the box, failed to notice the prominent chocolate bunny on the box, failed to understand the purpose of the cardboard in the box, accidentally obscured text on the box with poor lighting, unintentionally took a misleading picture, and posted it into the internet as a genuine complaint.
2. Or, OP saw protective cardboard around a fragile hollow chocolate egg and decided to lie on the internet.

Not only that, but the egg on the box is actual size too. It just looks smaller in that picture because most of it is covered in cardboard. Here's the same box in good lighting.

Seems the asshole here is OP.

There's no discount there, you're just accepting their marketing bullshit. That sounds to me like the company is double-dipping by shoving ads in your face and making the product objectively worse, then charging even more for a "premium" model where the only difference is they haven't intentionally downgraded it.

with extras like [..] no lockscreen ads

What the fuck? Why is that an extra not just the default? It's great that this product isn't riddled with ads, but that's like saying it's great a burger is not made of human shit; it's crazy that anyone would tolerate a shit-burger in the first place.

Maybe ads are normal in the e-reader space for some reason, but that's just insane to me.

I'm not sure that's a completely accurate analogy either. When you're using a VPN people can still see that you are sending traffic through your tunnel, they just can't tell what it is that you're sending. It's like looking through frosted glass; there's definitely something moving in there but you can't tell what.

I suppose the best way to describe it is you send a locked box to a trusted friend; everyone handling it can see the box but can't tell what's inside. Inside the box is a letter, your friend posts it so it looks like it came from them. Your friend then gets a reply, puts it in a locked box, and send it back to you. Nobody between you and your friend can snoop on your mail but anyone between your friend and the final destination can.

Probably not, I don't even drink cows milk any more. Not because I'm vegan or anything like that, just purely for practical reasons. Cow milk goes off at the drop of a hat but I always manage to get through all my oat milk or almond milk without it turning.

This may have been true historically but I'm not sure it still holds up. I switched to Linux Mint as my regular OS a while back and the only driver issue I've had was that the installer didnt properly install my wifi card's proprietary driver (which was working during live boot from usb), so I had to tether to my phone to download the driver through the driver manager. It even installed Nvidia drivers just fine.

It might still be an issue for more barebones or heavily customisable systems but I'm fairly certain nobody's recommending people switch to Arch for their first Linux experience.

Could it be Eight Legged Freaks? It's not black and white but most of the action does take place at night. Giant spiders taking over a small American town, stuff covered in webs, and people in cocoons being eaten/drained.

Being limited to only three options doesn't sound very democratic but I suppose it's better than a two party system. Instead of adding a self-destruct button, have you considered switching to a system which better represents the people?

I like the idea of splitting timelines if reverse time travel is possible, but it does have some consequences. The biggest one being that it means you can't actually travel back in time. Time travel may even be relatively simple but as it has no effect on the primary timeline you will never be able to change the past as it appears there; travelling back in time simply creates an alternate reality. As far as the primary timeline inhabitants are concerned, you have either died or vanished (or maybe nothing appeared to happen at all) but you have not travelled in time. It also means it's impossible to return to your original timeline as further reverse time travel will only create new alternate timelines, the closest you can get is a timeline that closely resembles your home one.

Another fun approach is that infinitely many alternate timelines already exist (think Many Worlds), travelling back in time simply means you spontaneously form in another world through quantum fluctuations or something equally hand-wavey. The thing I find interesting about this one is that it doesn't necessarily involve time travel at all. You form with the memories of having travelled in time, sure, but you have just spontaneously formed through quantum fluctuations so it's reasonable to assume your memories have too; it may have just been a randomly formed memory that didn't actually happen. Since it's just random fluctuations there'd also be infinitely many universes where you spontaneously pop into existence with no time travel memory, so I suppose in a way this never was time travel. The original timeline would be unaffected by this kind of travel as you can only move to universes where you have already spawned in.

The way I see it the only way to actually change the past in your current timeline arguably involves destroying the universe. You'd have a single timeline and each instance of reverse time travel cuts off your timeline's future and links back to a previous point from which time can continue. You can visualise this timeline as a piece of string, time travel is a loop in that string. If you travel back in time by a year, everything you did in that past year is within that loop off to the side of the primary timeline; the loop starts and ends at the same point. Time travel would essentially delete your future and plonk you back onto the primary timeline. No need to worry about the grandfather paradox; you were born in a loop off to the side of real time so killing your grandfather doesn't change that loop. It works around the bootstrap paradox for similar reasons; the information was created in some loop somewhere, even if it appears to have created itself on the prime line. It's a nice thought experiment but the problem here is that if you travel back in time but fail to change the conditions which caused the time travel you may have just ended the universe in an infinite time loop.

Where I am most people are happy to drink the tap water, and we're all oddly proud of it. Which is fair, it's great water. Very soft too, I remember seeing ads on TV for products to remove limescale but that doesn't really happen here much. I find it a little odd that some places' tap water is so full of impurities that it leaves mineral deposits on their appliances.

Come to Scotland, try our tap water!

I'd argue the exact opposite. It's a fun game to play with new players or in a private lobby with a bunch of friends, but at the highest levels it's absolutely horrible. You don't really get more options to make the game more fun as you progress, instead the most effective options are to actively ruin the experience for the other side.

There was an item in the game that survivors could use to instantly complete an objective. If all four brought one it instantly completed 4 of 5 objectives. It was eventually nerfed shortly before I stopped playing, but it's a perfect example of the kind of game-ruining mechanics the game is for some reason built around. You don't level up to have more fun, you level up to screw over the other person.

A keyboard without tactile feedback is objectively worse than a keyboard with tactile feedback, excluding other factors.

I've never had a physical keyboard lag out then send an entirely different keystroke because it thought I held a button, or send a single keystroke because I was typing too quickly.

I've never had to wait a moment for a physical keyboard to show up after selecting a text box.

I've never had the entire layout of a page shift to make room for a physical keyboard whenever I select or deselect a text box.

I've never had a physical keyboard prevent me from using the number pad and force me to use the full keyboard (or worse, vice versa) because of an improperly configured input box.

The way I see it there are exactly two real benefits to integrating a software keyboard into a touchscreen: reduced physical complexity (the entire device is essentially just one screen), and easier access to emoji. A touchscreen keyboard performs far worse as a keyboard. It's a valid trade-off for a small mobile device, but it's not objectively better.

That's kind of a strange argument. Cellulose isn't necessarily wood but wood is cellulose. Your sandwich is made with bread.

In theory, yes. In practice, probably not? I don't run an instance so I don't know what resources you need but I suspect a pi isn't going to be powerful enough. You'd definitely have to hook up some extra storage space at least.

You'd also still be at risk of losing your account if your hardware fails, you'd need a backup solution there too.

No, one of the two options there is "default browser" meaning the user likely already has a non-edge default browser set up. This is clearly Microsoft trying to trick users into using Edge even when they've chosen not to.

Anything we've had before now wasn't AI.

This claim doesn't work simply due to the fact AI is a very vague term which nobody agrees on. The broadest and most literal (and possibly oldest) definition is simply any inorganic emulation of intelligence. This includes if statements and even purely mechanical devices. The narrowest definition is a computer with human-like intelligence, which is why some people claim LLMs are not AI.

Saying LLMs work differently from older AI approaches is fair, saying older approaches are not AI but the latest one is is questionable.

Doing something isn't the same as studying it, though. If I were to eat a few litres of ice-cream that's not a study on the effects of excessive ice-cream consumption, that's just someone eating an unhealthy amount of ice-cream. People do stupid things all the time with the excuse that that's how it's always been done.

It means the title was written by a bot or someone pretending to be one. Its a bot term used by bots to describe images.