Ooh, do Trump next!

I mean the drones are apparently designated as “parody” so either should work

lol “protocol”. They haven’t respected protocol for 20+ years

It’s a very strange assumption to me that going to work and doing one’s job is “serving Allah”, let alone “fighting for Allah”

I associate that term more with archaic Christianity (Joan of Arc and other old saints spring to mind) much more than Islam.

I think the phrase hits the exact intersection of nationalism, militarism, false hero worship for people who are just doing a job, and theocracy that in combination I find deeply repulsive, no matter which specific religion it is.

It depends.

Were they killed in the line of duty? Did they make a choice that is at bare minimum well-intentioned? Or did they just happen to be there and died by bad luck?

Firefighter dies trying to save someone from a burning building? Sure, okay. Dies in a vehicle crash while responding? Maybe.

Dies by someone else’s actions and is never aware of any possibility of a choice? That’s not any sacrifice, let alone the “ultimate” sacrifice.

That’s not victim blaming, bud. To the contrary.

Webster’s, definition 2:

martyr: a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle

That leaves aside the religious overtones of the first definition.

If you are treating deaths due to terror attack as anything other than tragedy, there is something deeply wrong with your society.

To suggest that it is in any way voluntary, or intentional for the sake of religion, is disgusting.

Unfortunately we have martyrs

If you have “martyrs” from a terrorist attack that are not the terrorists, you’re doing something wrong.

Predecessor to Excel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan

The Thing is the same for me.

I could also start to throw in most of the ridiculous 8-foot-tall American brodozer pickups, but while they’re ugly they’re mostly just bland rather than atrocious-looking. And my aversion to them is not necessarily based entirely on their appearance.

Yeah, YMMV.

You could also throw in the VW Thing and the Yugo or AMC Pacer. I looked at a couple of lists of ugly cars just to see if I was missing some, but most were just boring and not particularly ugly.

I stand by the Aztek being worse than the PT cruiser though. The PT cruiser is one of those that falls on the side of “boring” for me, not egregiously ugly. I understand it’s also a pile of garbage from a quality perspective, so definitely a bad car.

Pontiac Aztek, Tesla Cybertruck, Nissan Cube.

Oh, totally. Afghanistan had multiple generations tied up in it, which is horrendous.

However, the US also didn’t take nearly the losses that Russia is throwing “into the grinder” as the parent post puts it.

I think if they drag the war out so long that kids not even conceived today are potential soldiers, then soldiers will be the least of their problems.

You did fine, but man is the headline underselling the problem. They got Al Capone for tax evasion, too, so here’s hoping history repeats.

I mean shit, if corruption were the worst of him we’d be in a lot better shape than we are now.

Sounds like you need a better family.

I get why they did it ( because it’s “printers and other devices”) but seriously would it be that hard to link it in both places? Or actually make a printer settings that works worth a shit so you don’t need the control panel app?

Sound is in there too. The one that annoys me is the printer settings being under “Bluetooth” instead of “printers”.

A BIOS does not inherently have to have a configuration utility.

This right here.

My first PC (a 386 circa 1989) did not have a built-in config utility. It had a bootable floppy disk that could configure the BIOS settings. I think all it could change was the system time and the CHS values of the hard drive(s).