Trump is not known for measured responses. If he feels like he needs to retaliate for something, expect the simplest, clumsiest, most damaging response.
For example, why do you think he jumped straight to the idea of tariffs? If you imagine a tariff as a wall, then it's exactly the same as "build a wall and make [the other side] pay for it".
As such, you've got to have him believe you're being nice, even if you're not, because if he thinks for one moment you're not genuine, he'll lash out like the spoiled child he is.
This is fine. Then it would only become necessary to sever their lines of communication. This would take for form of an appeal to the closest human element to not listen to their masters and to not repair any damage that prevents them from doing so.
As to what form that appeal takes, well, people can make up their own minds as the situation demands.
You probably mean well, but this sort of "advice" annoys me. It says what to do but not how to do it. Almost like explaining it would be as hard for the advice giver as it would be for the recipient to implement it, revealing what a sham it really is. It's practically a heckle. "Boooo! Git gud!"
Valve is that perfect example of being just shitty enough to be annoying without stepping over the line into complete enshittification. But this too will happen. I reckon there'd be good odds of it happening not long after Gabe retires.
... and if you don't like that horrible subversion of what a vi-user might expect to be the search feature, there's also Meta-G, which is slightly more similar to vi's usage.
You can also nano +L[,C] filename on the command line replacing L and C with respective line and column number, which I believe is a feature borrowed from vi.
The search feature is Ctrl-W for "where is". Firefox users use this in the wrong window at their peril (it closes the current window). Find and replace is on Ctrl-\, which is even more of a subversion.
Oh yeah. Trying to get Black Mesa - which is a HL2 mod that became a game in its own right - to look right on a modern Linux PC has been less than fun. Textures, lighting and shadows are messed up in many places, basically breaking the flashlight most of the time. The game is 99% there, but that other 1% is impossible to ignore. The game plays fine... when you can see.
Kind of glad I got the game on sale.
But anyway, yes I'm kind of surprised that the textures seem to be different in the two screenshots. The lighting is necessarily different because HDR isn't well supported (if it is at all) on Linux, but I would have thought that keeping the textures in line would be something Valve would be able to do.
Combination of factors: The UK, so climate is colder. The UK again, so energy prices are ridiculous even when a homeowner can support themselves. I'm no longer able to support myself and am reliant on government assistance. Result: Cold.
The heating thermostat is now set at 16°C (61°F) year round. It doesn't come on if the ambient temperature is higher. No AC. I would set it lower due to the expense but my feet are like ice most days as it is. For nights it's set to 14°C (57°F).
16 is actually the minimum allowed in workplaces here. I'm fairly sure it used to be 17, but I guess financial pressures might have caused employers to demand it be lowered.
As to where I'd prefer it to be, around 19°C (~66°F) would be nice.
Many materials are biologically inert. Titanium, for example, is often used for replacement joints and doesn't need anti-rejection drugs. They autoclave or otherwise sterilise things during the operation, so the infection risk is pretty much the same as for any other kind of operation.
A small plain wooden box, with a gold-looking clasp.
Upon opening, the person would be granted anxiety, depression, empathy, and self-loathing, or an increase of the same, to the point they'd often wish they'd never existed.
If by "defeated" you mean "killed outright", there'd also be a small slip of paper saying "Thank you."
Large corporations tend to put profit over morality and the legal machinery to even try to bring them back into line moves slowly (and expensively) when they do so.
If your Mastodon posts are visible from Threads, Threads may "accidentally" determine that that content was posted by one of their own accounts covered by their own Terms of Service and so choose to do something with it that the Mastodon user did not agree to.
Now consider that Meta, Threads' parent company has put things in both its Facebook and Instagram Terms of Service that say they can do whatever they like with content posted on their platforms, including feed it to any "AI" as they see fit.
And what about responses to Threads posts from the Fediverse? What rights do Meta have to those? I'm sure you can imagine what Meta thinks, or might allow themselves to think, in that regard.
Presumably you can now understand why some Mastodon instances (and other Fediverse places) don't want anything to do with Meta or their products and wish to protect their users from that abuse.
You might argue that it will happen anyway, but in their view, any protection is better than none.
And the great thing about the Fediverse is that you're welcome to find, or even run, an instance that leaves itself open to such "interoperability".
At one workplace secret Santa (which I always declined to participate in), one recipient got an empty spherical clamshell with cardboard retainer on which was printed the word "Nothing", visible through the clamshell. The joke being that it was supposed to be "I didn't know what to get you, so I got you nothing."
This was not intended as an insult by the secret Santa, but was taken as one by the recipient who must have spent significantly more on whatever their recipient got.
Only you can judge how your recipient would take such a gift, but if this seems like a good idea to you you can probably find them on sale somewhere. (NB: I accept no responsibility if you choose this course of action.)
If I remember correctly, one of the recipients of a better gift thought it was funny so swapped their gift with it to cheer up the unhappy recipient. I am not sure if the swapper was their secret Santa or not.
There had been much offence, pouting and sulking... from a grown man.
Sounds familiar. Keeping things vague, but I know a US cop. Out and proud about voting for the convicted felon rather than the district attorney, not that he could possibly think of it that way.
His kids are grown and I've seen evidence they don't share his views. At least one of those kids is a woman. I take solace in the fact that their votes cancelled his out, even if things have gone his way.
I wouldn't say he's a friend, but he's definitely friend of a friend territory and I've "spoken" with him a few times. Carefully. It's been almost pleasant. Even the ones with their heads on wrong can be personable. Until you get on their bad side.
Because of mutual friends, I can't avoid him all the time, but if I can, I do.
My jokes tend to be terrible, so not really, but what will really get me laughing is the reaction of other people to how terrible they are.
Probably shouldn't laugh at that to be fair, what with causing suffering and all that, but as suffering goes it could be far worse.