richie_adler

> It's perfectly reasonable for a person to decide where to spend their tax dollars

No, it's not. You don't get the right to audit where "your" dollars go. Where the government should better use EVERYBODY's money, sure. But when an USian says "I don't want MY tax dollars to be used in this", is usually because they'd rather apply a fast revenge against any criminal for any crime, not caring if the person is maybe innocent (and trusting their judgement magically will allow them to have perfect knowledge of culpability), or they just don't want those dollars they believe they have the right to audit go to something as, for instance, socialized health care, where "their" dollars accidentally could benefit someone with the wrong skin color.

The speed at which USians classify people they don't like in the "unworthy of human rights" category is truly frightening.

My love for Pascal makes me appreciate very much the scripting in InnoSetup. The software itself is amazing, but the scripting gives it great versatility.

> Are you unaware that they likely want to talk with you, and the technological issues are likely just the vehicle for this?

Not the person you're responding to, but: They may want to learn to communicate honestly. I would find the situation described deeply irritating. Enough to cut contact for a while, even.

Thinking is NOT overrated. Most people go through life never doing it at all.

As opposed to have kids because "is the thing to do", "it's time", or "I have to give grandkids to my parents"? Those are much worse reasons to breed.

What's the Android option?

This whole affair has the dirty shadow of a society like the one depicted in Jennifer Government.

Richard Hipp says he doesn't care how anybody pronunces it. That said, he pronounces it "S-Q-L-ite".

Very positive attitude. Beware the sealions, but keep up!

Your approach (which I share) requires thought and discernment, which is a scarce resource nowadays. People intend to turn their brains off when they doomscroll. (I'll never understand the desire.)

> Should we encourage abortions for single mothers because their child might not have a happy life?

Yes.

> Should we abort fetuses who have some disability?

If the parents are unwilling or unable to deal with it every day for the rest of their life, yes.

> I'm sure that any of those individuals, once born, would prefer to live regardless of circumstance.

That's too big an assumption. But, in any case, not being born, and not having a working brain capable of abstract thought and understanding of the situation, nor a way to express it, they don't get a vote.

People enjoy dealing with simpler software and hardware as a hobby. Why does it bother you so much?

Even after the first Trump presidency happened?

It's redshifted already.

For me is not needing to chain a lot of commands with && to ensure that it fails with the first command that fails. With just, if one of the commands of the recipe fails, it stops.