Are any routers made in the United States and theoretically compliant with this rule?

She must be lying. After all, she’s talking.

In all honesty I wouldn’t call this a “defeat” by any metric. While Pakistan’s air force is generally regarded as having performed better than expected during the recent clashes, neither side could effectively control the air space or even really contest the other’s air space for any significant time. The main advantage Pakistan has seems to be a doctrinal one. They appear to put greater emphasis on aerial radar and long range reconnaissance. With the age of flight by sight and dogfighting long over, the Indian approach will need amendment. India seems to currently be converting several former civilian A321s for military use in order to equip them either with the Israeli made Radar system they already employ on their dated IL-76s or with a domestic radar system, that we can’t yet evaluate. When that capability is online the IAF should be able to bring its numbers advantage to bear more easily.

I’m afraid there’s no single German word to describe this feeling. The best I could come up with is “Scham über mögliche Fremdscham”. It could obviously be compounded into “Fremdschamesscham”, but the average German likely doesn’t understand that without additional context.

“Fremdscham” is what your old friend may be feeling. It’s a feeling of embarrassment on behalf of someone else. “Scham über mögliche Fremdscham” then translates to embarrassment at the potential feeling of your friend feeling embarrassed on your behalf.

Buy a used one, ideally refurbished. Those can be incredibly cheap. Feel free to slap any basic out of the box os on there, free os’s like Mint or Zorin are very beginner friendly, and you should be good to go.

I run Mint myself and it’s fairly idiot proof. While I don’t have as much free time as I used to, running most of the games I enjoy on steam is possible there. I’ve heard good things about Bazzite, as it seems to specifically cater to the gaming crowd. I haven’t tried it out myself though, since gaming isn’t my biggest priority.

I misread Program as Pogrom for second and wasn’t even all that baffled.

The United States have nothing more than a controlled opposition. This is part of the problem with the political system there and will not change unless there is root and branch reform, so basically never.

Yes, I can attest to this from my own experience. I speak so much German all day every day that, when speaking to my Dutch friends and family, I sometimes start using false friends or even awkward sentence structure.

Yeah, the regular election cycle is apparently coming up in a few months.

I believe there won’t be elections any more. And if there are, they won’t be free. And if they’re free, the count will be falsified. And if it’s not, it won’t be certified. And if it is, it will be dismissed by a regime-aligned court…

Much like fascism elsewhere, it’s not going away with elections. There was still (just) enough institutional cohesion last time. Even then, it took Mike Pence to, probably for the first time in his life, do the right thing. No matter the “election” result, the current set of muppets is never going to give this power away peacefully. Just imagine VP Couchlover in the place of Mike Pence on that fateful day. We’d probably have gotten a coup right then and there.

I recommend carpet bombing the entire country for a few years, either dropping two nukes on it or granting about a quarter of its territory to neighbouring countries (including ethnically cleansing those areas) as well as splitting the rest in half for a few decades, and finally keeping foreign troops around for the next 70 years and counting. It worked wonders for Japan and Germany, both of which have since become positive additions to the world community. Perhaps we should give that a try for the US? (this is obviously satire; I’m obviously not in favour of mass killings and ethnic cleansing…)

The United States don’t have an opposition any more. The current situation more closely resembles the bloc party system (“Blockparteien”) of East Germany and several other socialist countries.

I didn’t believe that specific rule to be relevant to the argument. The Democratic Party includes a wide range of opinions that, in most European countries, would be represented by several different parties. While there are some fringes on the right (Clinton’s racists for example) and some fringes on the left (some Democrats even refer to themselves as democratic socialists despite being closer to social democrats in my opinion). The mainstream that has dominated all three presidencies you mentioned would likely find themselves among small c conservative or (economically) liberal parties in most European political systems that I know.

From what I understand the Democratic Party in the United States is a wide tent that includes people who consider themselves to be democratic socialists all the way to middle of the road, don’t rock the boat kind of folks. While the former might feel at home in a European social democratic party or perhaps even a socialist party, the latter would likely find more common ground among the liberal (in the economic meaning of that term) or conservative/christian democratic parties.

The main difference I feel is that most European countries have representative democracies with proportional representation in their parliament. This usually avoids the lost vote effect if you vote for smaller parties. Therefore, what are usually the wings of larger parties in the United States, would be separate parties altogether in most European countries.

Having said that the core of the Democratic Party and the majority of people in power and office from that party over the last decade or two have been centrists at heart. Even when given the opportunity they didn’t introduce any true universal healthcare. They didn’t address the fact that the minimum wage doesn’t reflect the rising costs most people face. They didn’t address the rapidly growing inequality. They didn’t move the needle on any public transport infrastructure projects. They successfully kept the country running and the economy growing while not seriously changing anything about the underlying structure of the nation. This is evidence enough for me to assert that the Democratic Party would probably be somewhere around Merkel’s CDU, Rutte’s VVD or perhaps Macron’s party (whatever name it’s currently going by) in terms of ideology.

I’m old enough to remember buying physical media. I still do that from time to time. For daily use I have a large library of digital copies of music I bought at various stages of my life. Listening to them costs me nothing and I can listen to them as often as I like for the rest of my life. Technology permitting, even my children may continue listening to what I bought last century. Ownership is a great thing.

Exactly. Above all real world combat experience cannot be trained. Nobody can predict how you react when under fire, at least that was my impression in Charikar province, Afghanistan in ca. 2004. Knowing the basics will definitely be helpful though.

He’s right, you know. If you own an AR you shouldn’t slack on practice. Go to the gun range regularly. Train how to clean and maintain it. You may one day be facing people who are well trained.