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I'm sorry. It came out years ago that Win 10 keylogged and told home all about it (justified as to improve our predictive typing software ) even though there were no promises in the ToS to limit its spyware use, I screamed about how the fucking sky is fucking falling, and now Windows 10 is in bunches of US businesses, and more than a few outside the US. It even says in the EULA MS will snitch on you to law enforcement about anything it feels like.

So yeah, all the people who have legitimate businesses that have real secrets (and break laws as a matter of course) have all wittingly chosen to give Microsoft all the biographical leverage MS needs to take over the world. (Some companies actually got their tech teams to defang the Win10 spyware. But more didn't than did.)

Now I'm one of those 1960s hippies who screamed about the rising police state in the US to whom no one listened. Another Cassandra crying like a bainsidhe into the wind.

Sounds like French law enforcement wants a police state that supercedes the civil rights of the public.

You know, the French public have a reputation for getting ugly when the state gets uppity.

That sword over Damocles is swaying in the breeze.

A fact is an observation made in nature. At 8:40 PM PDT I read from my kitchen thermometer 73°F. One datum.

So often people use the term fact to suggest something is true, e.g. Gravity is a scientific fact. It's an easily demonstqble phenomenon. There's a mathematical law that predicts the interval of falling bodies. You can make and present facts that demonstrate the consistency of gravity, but it isn't a single fact in itself.

Recommended highly by Marie Antoinette. Allegedly.

Similarly, the Shamrock, (☘️) an important symbol for Saint Patrick's Day has three leaves where most SPD kitch sold in the US features four-leaf clovers (🍀) an unrelated good luck symbol. I dont object because I feel Ireland needs a better iconic saint (and a better holiday) than the guy who brought the imperialist religion under which the native Irish would be subjugated.

They need someone like Joan of Arc who ran the English out (of settlements in France).

A proper Reuben features pickles, sauerkraut, corned beef, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing. Most restaurants will replace the pickles and Russian dressing with Thousand Island dressing. Blasphemers.

Don we now our gay apparel

And we'll all feel gay when Johhny comes marching home

Deutchland is happy and gaaaaaaay!

we'll have a gay old time

Gay refers to party happiness. Places where Celebrate by Kool and the Gang would be played as a reference. Places where people dance to disco. Places where the Grinch would look on and feel embittered.

Literally can mean literally ( My girlfriend literally stabbed me in the back. I'm bleeding out and need an ambulance. )

It can also mean emphatically ( My girlfriend stabbed me in the back. She emptied my bank account, shot my dog and left town with my best friend. )

I won't use it in the latter way, and will sometimes use the adjective proverbial ( proverbially ) if my metaphor could be plausibly read as literal. ( I could drive to Maryland and assassinate Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh for a fresh cruller right now. )

I have a different issue.

A hot dog is a Frankfurt sausage or frankfurter in the United States. Frankfurters were notorious in the sausage scene for having the Frankfurt bend. You've probably seen this bend on fancier sausages like Louisiana Hot Links, or Chicken Pineapple. But US hot dogs, whether Ball Park or Oscar Meyer or whatever are these straight things.

Hot dogs are no longer hot dogs.

For the first six months, I'd be very very sad, and that is not accounting for the additional shopping time. Maybe if I had a vegen chef to help me transition.

That said, my meat intake is probably below average, but I am a cheese junkie.

So in six months, someone will have written a third-party Windows Control Panel.

Begging the Question is a logical fallacy, a circular argument. So when a position brings a question to mind that is other than a challenge to its validity, it raises the question.