Limerance

Public key cryptography and signatures are common technologies nowadays.

It is possible to build an age verification system, where you use your actual ID with a cryptographic process without any personal data. The technology has existed for decades now.

Try downloading the file.

Easier to dominate.

This is very bad advice for cold weather.

Washing hands is overrated. It only leads to a weaker immune system.

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Sure. Lots of fiction, especially TV stick to well established tropes, regardless of a human writing it or not.

You can improve the novel writing by using agents. First you generate just an outline with the plot points to every chapter. Then you chop that up and feed it to several agents to flesh out individual chapters. Finally the generated chapters are verified against the outline and overall plot. If that doesn’t fit, the agents are tasked with a rewrite. Repeat that until you have something serviceable.

As you point out, there exists plenty of bad writing in TV series. These often have a number of different authors, who don’t necessarily know the other episodes very well.

One of Netanyahu’s sons was a press officer behind the lines, but the other was with combat intelligence at the front.

Israel is different in this regard. Everybody serves in the army. It’s also a small country. The military Is closely woven into society. The IDF is not a professional army, but mostly made up of reservists who are called up as needed. That means the political leaders will know people personally who have to fight.

What unit you serve in can make a big difference for your later success in life. Combat units, special forces, Air Force, and intelligence have the highest prestige.

Politicians benefit immensely in their credibility, if they have a distinct military career.

Valid. Employers want people they hire to do as they are told.

Full on gamer brain take.

The qualification is social proof, that you’re from at least middle class background. Meaning you have a little manners and know social codes.

There are many nice and FOSS GUIs for the tasks ffmpeg is usually used for.

Handbrake is a great example for macOS, windows, Linux.

For more advanced video compression Shutter Encoder is fantastic.

Good old AVIDemux has a few other cool features as well, like cutting without reencoding.

There are also a bunch of straight up ffmpeg front ends as well.

Why do people use those shitty websites?

They show up as a fast and easy option without having to research, download, install, and learn to use a more complicated application.