I do what I want.

Tipping in restaurants is normal in Germany; here’s the German Wikipedia article on the subject. Staff asking for a tip doesn’t seem normal though, and I’d find that rude.

Tipping at restaurants is already normal in Germany, France, and Italy if there is not a service charge on the check.

In the USA: 20%. In Europe: 10%. If service is exceptional or bad, I adjust up or down.

His board repair videos were outstanding. I don’t especially enjoy his rants. He’s usually right, but I don’t really care to listen to how mad he is about it. I can get mad on my own.

I’m not going to tell you what to do. I am going to point out the red flags you cited and ask what you would say to a friend who was considering dating someone who behaves like this.

he kept talking about… that i should’ve ditched my bf for him

In other words, he did not respect your relationship when you were in one.

badmouthed not only his gf of a few years

He handles struggles in a relationship by badmouthing his partner to others,

he left her bc she showed signs of schizophrenia

and uses an armchair diagnosis as an excuse to get out of a relationship instead of just saying it’s not working for him anymore like an adult.

he kept guilttripping me when i said i didn’t want to be his gf

He doesn’t care about your preferences, and tries to manipulate you when they don’t match his.

The basic way an airplane works actually is simple and intuitive: it meets the air at an angle and deflects it downward. The equal and opposite reaction to accelerating that mass of air is an upward force on the wing.

There is, of course a whole lot of finesse on top of that with differences in wing design having huge impacts on the performance and handling of aircraft due to various aerodynamic phenomena which are anything but simple or intuitive. A thin, flat wing will fly though, and balsa wood toy airplanes usually use exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Simplified_physical_explanations_of_lift_on_an_airfoil

If I remember right, he would have been eligible for a life sentence for the original charges.

I knew someone who raped both his daughters.

He was prosecuted and took a plea deal, probably offered to spare them a trial. I think he did about ten years in prison, which I would argue is less punishment than he deserved.

Message history is a valid point. Signal just announced they’re fixing it.

Safety number change notifications are probably necessary to maintain Signal’s high level of security. The above device linking improvements should make them less frequent, though I’ll concede some might consider that a worse UX than an insecure chat with no such notifications.

I keep seeing this claim, but I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both. What does Telegram do better and how?

This is exactly the sort of deal making through bullying Trump is known for. He’s crazy, not stupid.

It’s the wording of the 22nd amendment that makes this a possible outcome (emphasis added):

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

It could have said “no person shall serve as president for more than two terms” or similar wording, but it does not. I agree with you that conservative justices are likely to use this interpretation.

10%.

• Chance he runs for vice president and wins, with the presidential candidate resigning promptly: 5%
• Chance he cancels or significantly delays election: 3%
• Chance he successfully refuses to leave office after election using force: 2%

Here are all the ways that doesn’t happen:

• Chance he dies of natural causes: 70% - it’s about one in three per year for a man in his early 80s, which would give us 1-0.66^4 = 81% for four years, but he has access to the best possible medical care
• Chance he runs for vice president and wins, with the presidential candidate promising to resign promptly, and is betrayed: 10%
• Chance he attempts to cancel or delay the election and fails: 10%
• Chance he refuses to leave office after election and is removed: 10%

These things have a less than 1% chance:

• Constitutional amendment
• Supreme court allows him to run for a third term in violation of the unambiguous text of the constitution

It’s a little high for my tastes, notably in blocking piracy communities from other servers. I don’t even care to participate in them; it’s a matter of principle.

I don’t know where you live, but it is not normal for prospective employers to ask for your medical history most places, and is legally questionable if not outright banned under the anti-discrimination laws of many countries.

Linux is a kernel which is often bundled with proprietary components. Android, for example uses the Linux kernel. The whole desktop operating system you seem to be thinking of is a Linux distribution.

There have been many Linux distributions with proprietary components over the years. SUSE’s YaST configuration tool used to be proprietary, for example. There’s probably something current along the same lines, but there’s not much demand for semi-proprietary desktop Linux.

Yes. I’d rather not be, but most people I know in person use it, and do not regularly view or share content using anything else in a one-to-many format.

What I won’t do is install any of their mobile apps or regularly use their chat. When people try that, I reply hours later using something else.

Does it count if I already know whiskey is bad for me?

Can you think of anything that happened in the past month or so, perhaps involving US politics, that might have a tendency to radicalize people?

Not any more than any other subsidy is.

Actually nullifying a debt a borrower owes to a lender, which the government guaranteed would be paid at the time the loan was issued would be akin to theft. As far as I know, all programs that “cancel” student loan debt are actually the government paying the balance to the issuer.