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Somehow I doubt that a 30yo model will have its manual hanging around, or to be in one piece after 30 years, especially knowing the paper quality of that era...

Probably the only member of the orange cabinet that prefers their vice to be over 18.

Chances are you'd find someone who's into that...

Corporations should be able to voice their opinions, support (in the sense of "I think this new regulation is a good/bad idea because [...]", not in the sense of $$$$), and such about legislation.

Corporations should not be allowed to influence those legislations beyond the aforementioned, by providing $$$/favours/kickbacks to politicians.

Just like people, companies can have opinions, but that's it. No further influence.

What do you think makes it possible for the anti-trans, anti-"woke" politicians to stay relevant, stay in power?

It's all the dark money funding them and their culture war. Eliminate that and you'll see a massive shift to the left, consequently, less propaganda against trans folk, leading to more societal acceptance from the easily influenced types (the very people who've been manipulated into hating on trans/"woke"/etc., essentially deporgramming them through the lack of propaganda), thus better treatment for trans folk.

But sure, let's focus on treating the symptoms only instead of getting rid of the sickness. That worked so well before.

Oof, I really wouldn't.

The main issue is weight distribution. You're looking at a very imbalanced fulcrum here, with the foot (which is usually mounted to the desk, therefore providing more stability) needing to be super heavy to counter the weight of the monitors.

Even a lightweight monitor - say, a ~2kg one (my 34" Samsung ultrawide OLED, which has its PSU completely separate), would put enough weight on it that any kind of movement would risk tipping this entire structure over.

The reason why it's so expensive is because 1, it's a very niche product and 2, because it's so risky to use on anything larger than a dual 17" setup.

If you want to DIY, of course you can go with a pole on a rolling stand and then buy individual pole mount arms for the monitors... but you'll need to make the base super heavy. we're talking at least 15-20kg, a big concrete block with some lead blocks embedded, or using the base as a weight rack for workouts, to prevent tipping.

Alternatively, have you considered replacing your monitors with AR glasses? Something like the Rokid/Xreal/Viture brands' offerings. They can do both fixed monitor (the entire glass display is a single monitor so it's always in front of you), as well as virtual monitor (one to five monitors arranged in a virtual space anchored to the glasses' position but not orientation so you can look away from them). We're talking a $300-400 expense for a much more portable experience with no DIY.

Now that's a big load of bullshit given Hitler was supportive of deporting the German Jewry to British mandate Palestine (look up the Haavara Agreement of 1933).

And while that was a modest transfer of people (less than 10% of the Jewish population by 1947), the post-Holocaust influx of survivors DID affect international politics to push for the establishment of Israel, hundreds of thousands of people flooding Palestine, creating a quasi humanitarian migration crisis, with post-WW2 sanctions/agreements forcing Germany to pay reparations directly to Israel.

Now, mind you, Hitler didn't like the idea of Israel et al, but he found getting rid of German Jews more important than standing against the creation of a Jewish state. Altogether, his actions helped accelerate the spread of Zionism, even though he was anti-Zionist himself.

Saying that Holocaust survivors had little effect on the events that led to the establishment of Israel is a straight up lie.

OP, there's a major fault with your meme - Hammond would NEVER curse so casually. I mean, people's flabbers were gasted when he yelled at O'Neill to get the hell out of his office! Do you see such a measured, calm headed man saying "what the fuck"?

Which is fucking pointless to point out because 80% falls into that 15 point deviation.

If you want true average, a 5-6 point deviation is more useful. Especially given the vast difference between someone with an IQ of 86 and the IQ of 114 - former will be failing most of their classes whereas latter will be excelling in most (not accounting for other personality traits that affect scholarly results, of course).

And that's why IQ tests are fucking useless. They test a few key areas of what we consider intelligence - pattern recognition and continuation, logic - but entirely fail at the actual intelligence. You can be amazing at recognising patterns in a standardized test and utterly fail at recognising patterns in real life.

Not to mention emotional/social intelligence, which is a much larger aspect of our entire life, is not part of the test, nor is general knowledge. You could be super up to date on historical events, recite entire presentations about specific topics, write amazing poems, and still score an IQ that puts you firmly between a rock and a slightly rotten orange.

which is fucking useless for actual progress sync of books because it doesn't handle concurrency (multiple readers reading the same content, potentially offline), and more importantly, modern ebook formats have no concept of "page" in transit. Oh, you read page 10? Awesome! Now do tell, is it page 10 on a 5" 800x480 eink display with 48px font size and giant margins/lineheights/word paddings, or is it page 10 on a 13" display of 2480x1860 resolution with 11px font size and barely any margins? Since you'll get wildly different results in both cases, and OPDS doesn't really allow for adapting this simple integer to a precise position.

No, for that you require a proper locator scheme, something OPDS doesn't provide and cannot enforce.

Page based progress is fine for fixed format publications - comics, PDF/DOCX files, etc., but that approach breaks irreparably the moment you switch to dynamically formatted content. In case of EPUV/MOBI/the various Kindle formats, you want to determine the reader's position based on the first and last paragraph/sentence visible on the reader and correlate that to a position within the actual files of the book, which is actually dynamic, as it can be resolved regardless if it's XML formatted EPUB or if you dumbed the book down to a simple TXT file.

So no, OPDS's PSE is at best a stopgap solution for syncing progress.

Given I'm not even American, nor do I live in that shithole, she hardly chose silence over me. But please go on.