Christopher Nolan’s ideas are all: imagine this story, BUT get this: the timeline is fucked.

That’s every single Nolan movie.

Yes, but that’s supposed to be your inner monologue.

Why would I throw it away, when I can give it to someone who needs it more, or sell it?

Because selling is always a hassle, dealing with choosing beggars and scammers, and it may not be worth much anymore for general use.

For example, my old PC is a i7 4770k… it can’t run Windows 11 or play remotely recent games. I don’t know anyone who could use this thing, so to save a few watts I took out the GPU, put it in eco mode and have been using it as my Linux server.

My NUC uses 6-7W idle.

I have played around with some mini PC’s (minisforum and beelink brand), they’re neat but they turned out to be not very reliable, two have already died prematurely, and unfortunately they are not end-user serviceable. Lack of storage expansion options is an issue as well, if you don’t just want to stack a bunch of external USB drives on top of each other.

The logic behind the keep-right law is this:

1. It is illegal and dangerous to overtake on the right.
2. It optimizes the capacity of the road. If you are in the middle lane with nobody to the right of you, the space to the right of you can’t be used by anyone, because of point 1.

To address some of your points:

be in the way of people trying to get on

The onus is on the people who are trying to get on to merge properly. Moving over for people who are merging is generally discouraged. Personally, I only do it for slower traffic (large trucks) or with short, difficult on-ramps.

in, what, 4 seconds

The way keep-right is policed is that you are only expected to move back to the right lane if that lane is free for a reasonable distance. Police typically use a margin of 20-30 seconds or so of middle lane camping without passing anyone before ticketing you.

I’m going to merge when it’s -safe- to do so

As you always should. Keep right doesn’t change that.

I could technically squeeze in between two of the cars in the column I’m passing

See above. You are never expected to squeeze in between two cars. As long as you are passing you are allowed to be in a lane to the left of the traffic you are passing. The faster driver coming up behind you just needs to wait until you have finished your pass and have the space to move over.

Anyway, my point still stands. You may prefer your keep-your-lane logic over keep-right logic, but in large parts of the world it is against the law, and you should try to follow the laws of where you are. I’m not saying keep-your-lane logic is indefensible when considered in a vacuum, I’m saying you’re not in a vacuum so you should be predictable and follow the same rules as everyone else.

something has to be the rule for processing it

Well the rule is: any order goes. Summation is commutative.

If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right is correct

If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right doesn’t matter.

1 + 2 + 3 = 3 + 2 + 1

The logic still applies though

No it doesn’t outside of [parts of] the US.

For traffic to flow safely and predictably, we should strive to do what the law prescribes, so that everyone is on the same page instead of everyone operating according to their own made up rules. The law in most places is keep right if possible, regardless of how many lanes there are.

US defaultism much?

It’s possible those are still using Xwayland

You can use xlsclients to check.

wmctrl and xdotool don’t do anything for me with native Wayland windows. It only seems to work for applications that use Xwayland.

So while I can use it to resize and position xterm or urxvt windows, it does not work with foot or kitty or firefox windows.

No. Those are X11 only.

I had a bunch of wmctrl window placement scripts that I had to rewrite in kwin’s (awful) scripting language when I switched to wayland.

It’s also why Belgium is relatively low compared to the Netherlands.

I’m sure that in Flanders the English proficiency is on par with the Netherlands, and certainly better than in Germany, but the French speaking parts pull the average down.

I think part of the reason is that francophone regions overdub all media in French, so when growing up, children never consume media in any other language than French, except maybe some music. You could literally watch French TV for an entire day and not hear a single word in another language than French.

Preventing conception would be a genetic trait that evolution selects against.

A woman with your theoretical anti-conception genetic mutation would not reproduce, so this mutation dies out immediately.

Doing your part in a relationship’s reproductive planning is good partner behavior. This shouldn’t be a game where just one person is on the hook and the other is just along for the ride. Male and Female birth control do not exist as a one or the other dichotomy.

Except what the meme is saying is not that both partners should work together on birth control. It suggests that it should be on the man instead.

Meme also suggests that no work is being done on a male contraception pill, when in reality this is being worked on and has been worked on for decades, but there are good biological reasons why this is anything but trivial and certainly much harder than a female contraception pill.

Counterpoint: a woman taking birthcontrol is empowered because she is taking charge of her own reproduction. She doesn’t have to rely on or trust the man to take his pill. After all, she would be the one bearing most of the burden in case of an unwanted pregnancy.

Additionally, purely biologically it is much easier to reliably stop conception on the female side than on the male side. A woman only produces one egg cell per month, whereas a man produces millions of sperm cells per day.

You’re really going all in on the porn angle huh?

Smartphones happened in Europe too, but deaths kept going down here.

I liked working from home at first, but after so long it becomes harder and harder to leave your work at “work” when your workplace is also your home

That sounds like a “you” problem. I just hit the shutdown button on my laptop at 17:00 and close the lid, and boom I’ve left work and magically instantaneously transported to my home.

the flexibility to work from home on weekends

Work … on … weekends?

I think your problem is that you’re a workaholic.

Our brains are not wired to do such a dramatic difference in mental activity in the same location.

Sounds made up bro.

It’s bad enough having to hear my colleagues in teams meetings, I don’t see why I have to smell them too.