It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

Democrats aren't authoritarians. It's a bad comparison. Democrats are always fragmented, it's virtually a defining characteristic. Post-Biden unity has been quite unusual.

There's a little historical baggage, but look at Windows: multiple letters for drives, and all of the paths can be modified, so you have to ask Windows where any important directory is physically mapped (like SystemRoot or Documents or Temp or Roaming AppData or many others), because it doesn't have this nice consistent structure like Linux. Linux presents a logical layer and manages the physical location automatically. Windows makes you do the logical lookup yourself, but doesn't enforce it, so inexperienced programmers make assumptions and put stuff where the path usually is.

That's part of why logging in to Windows over a slow connection can take forever if you have a bunch of Electron apps installed: they've mismapped their temp/cache directory under the Roaming AppData, so it gets synched at every login, often GiB of data, and they refuse to fix it.

On top of the likelihood that a ban would be very politically expensive, distracting, and watered down to pointlessness.

I don't understand the downvotes, it's a reasonable observation.

At first I was annoyed, until I realized "drop" is an antagonym.

The risks of sodium aren't universal (some people appear to have immunity), and were exaggerated by the sugar industry.

Americans explicitly didn't want a national ID.

Don't forget the burned monkey testacles

I'm pretty sure they only care about their performative solipsism.

No

It's actually meditation, isn't it?