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Also included in this are reviews on things that are not the product - I remember seeing one that was like "great product, but I'm giving it one star because it was delivered late and the delivery driver was rude" - and reviews based on the buyer's own failings, like "I didn't read the assembly instructions and put it together wrong, and then it didn't work properly, so I'm giving it a negative review".

If people who break laws can't vote, and the government decides what the law is and appoints the judges who enforce those laws, then the government currently in power can decide who gets to vote. Obviously there's an incentive there to make laws that disproportionately affect those who weren't going to vote for you, and thereby remove most of your opposition's votes. That way lies dictatorship.

It also makes it hard to change bad laws. For a random example, there used to be laws against homosexuality. How do you think LGBT acceptance in law would be doing if anyone who was openly gay or trans lost their right to vote? How do you improve access to abortion if anyone who has an abortion, provides an abortion, teaches young people about abortion, or seeks information about abortions becomes unable to vote? How do you change any unjust law if the only people who can vote are those who are unaffected - or indeed, those who benefit from the status quo?

Pretty sure that's not a movable planter. It's literally a circle of bricks around a hole in the paving so you can plant flowers in the soil underneath. It's not something you can push around. They built it like this, on purpose.

I've been a professional software engineer for over ten years now. I didn't study anything to do with computers until I was 20; I'd been aiming for a different career and was halfway through a degree before I discovered I didn't enjoy it and wasn't getting very good grades, so I swapped.

While at uni, I was part of the student mentor program where I did teaching assistant work for the lower years. One of the students in the lab group I assisted was a guy in his forties who'd seen his factory job automated away and decided if computers were going to take his job, he'd go learn how to work with computers and move into the sector that was creating jobs rather than removing them. He was a good student and picked things up quickly. I have every confidence he's still out there doing well as an engineer.

22 is a perfectly fine age to start. If you've got the right attitude - the desire and motivation to focus on your studies and put in the work - you'll do great.

One thing worth being aware of beforehand though is how a lot of your studying might go. The professor I assisted in those labs told me about an observation that's been made in the teaching profession, and I saw it in action myself. A lot of computer science and programming is about finding the mental model that helps you understand what's happening, how the computers work. Until you find it, you'll be stuck. Then, something will click, and it'll make sense. The professor told me they don't see the usual bell curve of grades - they see two. One cluster of students at the bottom who don't get it, and one higher up who understand. A lot of learning computing is less of a linear progression and more a process of running into the wall until you chance upon the particular explanation or analogy or perspective that works for the way you think, and then suddenly that particular concept is easy, and it's onto the next one. This series of little clicks is how you progress.

Once you've got a few core concepts down it's easier to work out how new things fit into the mental model you're constructing, but be prepared for the early bits to have some frustrating periods where it feels like you aren't getting anywhere. Stick at it, and look around for other resources, other books or tutorials, other people to explain it their way. I frequently saw a student look totally clueless at my explanation, but another student who'd understood what I said would paraphrase it slightly differently, and that was all it took for the clueless student to suddenly understand and pass the exercise. That lightbulb moment is as fun to experience yourself as it is to bring about in others. You just have to hang in there until it happens.

This is the same thing that happens with Windows and Mac. Your issue was hardware; you could have tried any of the other manufacturers who make Android phones. It's like saying you stick with Mac because you don't like Dell - there are other hardware brands who use the same operating system.

Perfect way to show yourself to be a hypocrite who is driven by the opinions of others. If you don't support LGBTQ+ rights, don't go to the event. If you do support them, don't apologise for going. You can't have it both ways. He's literally trying to demonstrate two mutually exclusive views at the same time to get both groups to like him.

It restarts at random.

I think what they're doing is the most impactful. If the mods just stop, then under ToS they can be legitimately removed as inactive. If they're active and following the clearly-expressed will of the community as determined by voting (you know, that core principle that all of Reddit is built on) then any action taken to remove them is an obvious and egregious violation of Reddit's stated policies. If the community will just happens to be something that makes the website less programme l monetisable... well, that's a shame, but nothing in Reddit's user ToS says "you must work towards helping us profit from your interactions with the site ".

Plus, many of these communities are voting to do things that accelerate the transformation of their subreddits into hard-to-clean-up cesspits.

Put them as a reference anyway. Your qualifications speak for themselves; the references aren't there to show you know the subject, they're there to talk about you as a person. If they can say you're hard-working, enthusiastic, have good attention to detail, or whatever, then it doesn't matter so much what task or subject they're talking about, it's those attributes and attitudes that make you attractive to an employer.

There's a little speech-bubble-with-dot icon under each item. Not a very intuitive icon but the function is there.

Absolutely! Another great thing about slow cookers is that they allow for time travel. When you get home from work, you're tired and can't be bothered to cook. Slow cookers let you borrow a few minutes of your morning, when you're awake and fresh, to do your evening cooking! Prepare it in the morning, set it off, and when you get back tired from a long day at work, all you have to do is dish up. Magic.

Story over numbercrunching makes Fate a great choice, particularly Accelerated, which is a streamlined minimalist version. Minimal character stats, simple rules, and it's very flexible, with a lot of the specifics being determined during play to fit the plot. For example, instead of specific skills you have Approaches, which describe how you do things. Your character might be good at being Clever, or Sneaky, or Forceful, etc. You get a bonus to the thing you're doing if you can describe how you're doing it to fit that adjective. It's a system designed to be more of a collaborative storytelling game than a wargaming system, which sounds like it'd suit you.