> Are you disagreeing just to disagree?

Ubuntu is bloated now but still just about OK despite:

* Snooping on users. * Forcing people to install Snaps. * Relentlessly promoting systemd, which turned out to be a giant mistake. * Pointless fiddling about with the desktop in every release. * Canonical having a universe-class egomaniac for a CEO, even by South African tech-billionaire standards.

But if Ubuntu has been treading water for 25 years, that represents an improvement over the titanic disaster that is Windows 11, and the walled-garden den of developer hostility that is Apple.

Still, plenty of people were skeptical that powered heavier-than-air flight could be achieved. The Wright brothers deserve the credit for putting all the pieces together, getting the controls to work, and managing not to kill themselves like countless other early aviators. It probably helped that they were from Ohio which is flat.

Their bicycle shop was successful, and the brothers used both profits and spare parts in service of their prototype: the controls involved bicycle spokes, and steering used a handlebar. They were decent engineers. I believe they created their combustion engine using not much more than hand tools and a lathe.

I've been to Phu Quoc. One or two of the villages had that amine smell. It was like chemical munitions.

Reading between the lines, perhaps the factory owner blamed the shutdown on locals complaining to regulators and decided to stiff them on the way out.

I am more sympathetic to the term "turkey bacon" than "uncured bacon".

Instead we brought home thebacon.

Preferably somewhere with a suitably powerless population like Greenland or Gaza.

Randomly shooting up small boats also demonstrates our lawless intentions at limited risk.

It's colonialism for cowards. Looks great on social media.

The proposed carbon storage is permanent in the form of carbonates. This is a variant of the Solvay process used to make washing powder.

Chalk cliffs were once the shells of sea creatures. That's a whole load of sequestered carbon right there.

Something similar happened with FIDE (chess) in the Kasparov years. I believe FIDE is still headquartered in a dodgy dictatorship in Central-asia-stan.

And I've lost count how many global boxing organizations there are, seemingly in competition with each other to minimize sporting legitimacy and financial transparency.

UEFA seems to think people have forgotten that they tried to buy off top teams from the national organizations into a European super league.

In effect they did it anyway with CL.