It’s hammered into a lot of people’s heads that the word is very mean, and not just “insult” but “remember, people like you used to be considered animals and treated like property, subject to difficult to fathom attrocities”.
It doesn’t need to be directed to be a reminder. While reference is likewise a reminder, it’s at least couched in terms that convey the speaker understands it has weight beyond “insult”.
Couple that with saying it as a white person can carry significant reputation damage.

Since these lessons are usually imparted in childhood implicitly, and it doesn’t come up often enough to drive introspection for most people, it just lingers as “don’t say words that hurt people and make everyone dislike you”.

Eh, “did you ask to download something” is about the line where I would draw acceptability. You cannot use a website without them knowing if you made a download request for the content so I’m not bothered by them paying attention to the data to see what I downloaded.
It’s when you start sharing the data with others, or using that data from others, or adding things to collect information and send it back that I mind.

If someone did everything on the up and up, they would see my browser request, information that says what it can do that the browser opts to send, and a cookie that identifies the browsing session.
I’m fine with that because I can clear it or change it at will, and without sharing anything the capability information is less useful than the session cookie.

Entirely depends on the group. I’ve been in meetings with developers where we agreed it was creepy and pushed back. I’ve also been in meetings with marketing where they said it was normal, and meetings with others who said it was the cost the user paid to use our website. Ignoring of course that we sold stuff on the website, and that part of it was a management system that the users actually paid us money to use.

They stopped giving me those projects, which was a win for me but arguably a loss for the users.

I did though for a bit convince people that it was worthwhile to fix the accept/reject not working right, but that it wasn’t a top priority to fix the reject button disabling tracking for all users of the site for the duration of the cookie. (Cookie stored “be creepy” flag. When the user clicked the button it stored a flag in the session so we could statistics, and then read the flag to set the cookie. Someone used the wrong session value and stuck it in the global store used to cache sitewide data, so when it went to see if they opted out it would see if anyone had in the last month. They fixed it after the data was all fucky for a few months and they realized my argument of “who would opt out? It’s just the way the Internet works” was extremely wrong and no one will ever complain about being opted out of tracking)

The people I’ve talked to with that belief system typically hold that it’s not specifically the police who should exist, but include the justice system to an extent.
So they would have the courts force them to make it right to you, and end there.
If you didn’t have the ability to weather the calamity that’s your fault for not having insurance or a fire department subscription.

It’s a stupid position, but I can at least get behind getting rid of a punitive justice system and focusing more on restoration. I just also like things like roads more than I’m offended by the abstract concept of theft via fiscal policy.

Also: people trying to make a point out of whatever motivation.
Need a POC for a research paper? Do it in Linux.
Need an implementation to get investor funding? Do it in Linux.
Need to pressure a large commercial operating system to implement a security model as a state security agency? Do it in Linux! It’ll only take a decade for them to start to trust it, but the company will be pressured by a free alternative have an implicitly endorsed security system!

1800s are pretty different from today.
Cuba never had a self sufficient military. Most of their heavy equipment came from the soviets and hasn’t been refreshed.

The island is within helicopter range of multiple US airbases. There’s a well positioned military base already in place on the island.

Holding a jungle with unwilling people fighting you is never going to be easy, but there’s a lot of differences between what Spain was against and what the US would be against.

The biggest issue would be that Cuba could plausibly actually land an attack on the US. It would be basically a coin toss on if that made people furious at Cuba or the administration.

I’m “looking” for 6-12 inches. Something I can hang off to the side without being in the way.
I see something pop up occasionally but they usually have more than I want, like batteries, and get more expensive than the project is worth.

Hey, I’ve been on the lookout for a cheap, tiny TV to use as a weather/status board for a long time now.
If you put a six to seven inch tv in front of me that has 1) display 2) HDMI 3) $50, then there’s a really good chance I’ll buy it right then. After considering if I’m still interested in the project.

So the dead people who ran the government 100 years ago used nukes, so you want to burn their great great grandchildren alive.

How do you feel about Belgium? I assume you want them all flayed alive?

Historical inequity is distinct from retribution. We have a responsibility to help people overcome hurdles born from historical circumstances, and in general.
That doesn’t mean we’re culpable for the acts of those who came before.
Guilt is not heritable.

If it is, then America is pretty low on the list of countries deserving punishment. Hell, the classic European powers had occupations of countries that lasted longer than the US has existed.

america gets to

Is that your metric for atrocities?

Politicians in a country did something bad, therefore we should burn a bunch of innocent children alive to teach them a lesson?

Is that what you think makes the world a better place? More dead children?

No one in America has used nukes. They’re all dead now. Many of them of painful bone cancer.

So who are you punishing? And how far back does that punishment go?
I assume you think everyone should burn for the sins of people born on the same patch of land as them?

How many hundreds of thousands of children do you want to burn alive to punish those you think have done wrong?

You’re hoping children die because you’re angry about politics.

You’re a bad person for hoping that millions of people die.

Yes, yes, and that last one’s on them. Getting better with time though.

It’s not all for them though. The thought of the sadness they would feel without me makes me sad, but the thought of not being there is a feeling of missing out that hurts.

Also chasing them while making seagull noises is good excercise for everyone.

I don’t know that I’ll ever wish for millions of civilians to die in a nuclear Holocaust.

Nah, in the future they just use the teleporter and a deft hand.

Looks like my bowl of sugar cubes for breakfast is back on the table.

Some people don’t mind or like how it tastes.
No reason to get upset about what other people enjoy.

Pop and juice are easy ways to consume huge quantities of calories faster than you expect, but saying you need to eschew flavor if you want to not get fat is silly.

What the absolute fuck. I’m in the same age bracket and I’ve never heard that before.

Hey, you do you. I’m not one to say your tastes are wrong.
Is the tumeric for your golden milk, or your general spice preparation? I wouldn’t normally think to put turmeric in my default list with salt and pepper, but I also wouldn’t normally associate onion and garlic with tea or milk.

Me and lactose aren’t friends, so my milk tends to be “oat flavored” and rarely as a straight beverage.