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I'm a gentleman and so I lowered the seat as my hosts requested. But I also took a picture because it's funny and weirdly presumptuous.

This is in Canada, so close enough.

ok boss

Not according to everybody aggressively commenting here!

This is too absurd to even critique

Why though.

Yeah it's a silly sign and they should relax.

I listened to it, even though I found it funny.

Reading. Writing. Coding. Studying. Exercise.

I think the conflict only comes if you are a person who feels empathy. His positions are irrelevant in the face of a human body suffering a miserable catastrophe.

The fact that he was a douchebag doesn't change the fact that a body had its neck exploded, and that probably hurt and was frightening. These are experiences. If you have empathy then you have a sort-of mirror- experience. It doesn't become joy just because he sucked as a person. That's sadism, to enjoy another body's misery.

Edit: you can appreciate the irony one moment, while at another moment empathize viscerally with the miserable experience. Then later even sadistically enjoy the suffering of "an enemy" (but be honest that it's sadism).

If you feel nothing it's partly because he's "an enemy" and he's dehumanized to some of us apes, but also the big media spectacle and all the hot takes overwhelm and override what you might otherwise feel.

Is the HDD removable? I've swapped hard drives between thinkpads before and linux didn't seem to care that it's suddenly on a different machine. So maybe you can install something on the HDD on a different machine (that has a usb) and then swap the HDD back into the Surface. Maybe there will still be things to smooth out later, but it's something to try.