For anyone not already aware, there was a push in the early 2000s to require government documents to be in a standard format rather than giving a specific vendor (Microsoft) unfair advantage (official government endorsement). LibreOffice (OpenOffice at the time) used the standardized ODF format, which should've pushed many European governments to switch to an open source office suite. Instead, Microsoft bribed a bunch of people to push through their "OOXML" format as a standard, even though it was just a snapshot of Office's behavior, bugs and all.

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Fraudulently categorizing huge, lethal consumer vehicles as "light trucks" also doesn't help.

I thought I was alone!

https://github.com/brianary/

You don't really understand American life. We work ourselves nearly to death because our unions have been broken and gutted and demonized, we have no decent healthcare and we still have to spend an unacceptable amount of time and money for it, most of us are enslaved by the cost of our enormous cars and by housing that is increasingly exploited by private equity, and we are constantly barraged by divisive propaganda and suspicion campaigns. This all results in a populace that is spent. You may experience some of that, but you cannot imagine the totally of it, which is why it seems so easy for you. Maybe your age is also a factor?

Either way, I'm not changing any minds here. There's not enough upvotes to worry about, so your complaint seems like looking for a moral panic to pin on me, which is pretty funny.

Look, I'm old and have serious health issues. Your comments are ableist and simplistic. I'm not going to unilaterally sacrifice myself.

Have you seen American police? They have machine guns, tanks, and air support. They've been trained to see citizens as the enemy for years (see Warrior Cop Training).

Me too! It's interesting how different they all are.