Last week I found out that there are off-brand batteries for my DSLR cameras that can be charged directly through USB-C so I don't have to pack a different charger for every camera. Let that sink in!

Overall pretty great, in a pinch I can charge my laptop on a Nintendo Switch power supply. Now if I could just upgrade the last few remaining Micro-USB and Lightning devices without spending a fortune...

Polarion. Wouldn't recommend it but it's what my employer wants me to use.

For personal stuff, I use a private MediaWiki instance (same software that runs Wikipedia) as my external brain.

While I might even agree with you on the lack of discipline, I think you may be overcompensating, especially considering your son being 15 already.

Now, I may be biased as someone who has spent most of his waking time since teenage years figuring out how to convince computers to do my bidding but a daily screen time of just two hours doesn't seem enough to build proper media literacy and an understanding of how modern technology actually works which to me is a serious concern in a world where almost every job requires us to interact with that technology. And a curfew that's significantly more strict than what his friends have to obay will eventually make him an outsider.

We don't know the full story and maybe he is happy with your methods but please please please talk to him about his feelings. I've seen hundreds if not thousands of young people who loathe their parents for their strict parenting methods but are too afraid to say something for fear of being punished with even stricter rules. Then, the second they turn 18, they break all ties and never look back.

How was your own upbringing? In hindsight, what do you wish your parents would have done differently?

See my first bullet point:

“I don’t like either option”: pick the lesser evil or vote third party

There are 36 million Ukrainians. I doubt you'll find any property that they all have in common, except for being humans.

Honestly, that was the option I had hoped for when I made that joke. I‘m happy for you.

So? What are those reasons?

• "I don't like either option": pick the lesser evil or vote third party
• "But Harris won't stop the genocide in Palestine": neither will Trump.
• "My vote wouldn't change anything": it would. See OP.
• "I can't vote because I have to work": vote by mail. Demand that elections are held on a Sunday or national holiday like in most other western democracies. (As an aside, I wonder why conservatives haven't pushed for this yet. Voting on a Sunday and setting up polling stations next to churches would probably help them a lot)
• "I can't vote because I can't physically get to a polling station (disabled, sick, too far)": vote by mail
• "I can't vote because my state's ruling party won't let me": you should be furious about this and do anything in your power to change this.

Did I forget any? Probably. Enough to change the election outcome in the majority of states? Most certainly not.

Yes, the US have some fucked up rules that make voting hard for some people and for that exact reason urgently need a voting system reform. Make voting easier and make changes that break the two party system.

Honestly, here in Germany we're infamous for still using fax machines for half our bureaucracy and even we manage to do it better than you. Here, elections are always on a Sunday when the vast majority of voters has the day off. Every elegible citizen gets a letter a couple of weeks before the election, informing them of their assigned polling station, based on their primary home address. If for any reason you can't be at your assigned polling station on election day (you work on Sundays, are on vacation, whatever), requesting a mail-in ballot is as easy as going to a website and entering your address and a PIN from the letter. Alternatively you can request one by mail. If for any reason you don't get that initial letter, figure out which polling station is the correct one for you (usually the closest one; ask your neighbors), show up on election day and show some government-issued ID. Done.

Sooo... have you decided yet, which one you want to be?

Even worse: with an odd number of sides, there are cases where none is up.

The expectation that people in office jobs can be productive for 8 hours per day.

I feel like a lot of answers here are dancing around why people find it offensive without really addressing it.

As an adjective "female" is completely fine to distinguish between genders when applied to humans. As in "a female athlete" or when a form asks you to select "male" or "female" (ideally with additional options "diverse" and "prefer not to answer").

Where it's problematic is when it's used as a noun. In English "a male" and "a female" is almost exclusively reserved for animals. For humans we have "a man" and "a woman". Calling a person "a female" is often considered offensive because it carries the implication of women being either animals, property or at least so extremely different from the speaker that they don't consider them equal. This impression is reinforced by the fact that the trend of calling women "females" is popular with self-proclaimed "nice guys" who blame women for not wanting to date them when in reality it's their own behavior (for example calling women "females") that drives potential partners away.

So in itself, the word "female" is just as valid as "male" and in some contexts definitely the right word to use but the way it has been used gives it a certain negative connotation.