Maybe, but it’s hardly news. I graduated highschool well over a decade ago, and the case study I mentioned was not exactly new when I was studying economics in school.

No, the EU has a habit of protectionism disguised as legitimate interest. I recall a case study from when I was in high school, where the EU set the safety limits on a certain contaminant in a product—peanuts, I think it was—way, way stricter than any evidentiary basis, because EU farms could meet the restriction, but African or South American farms could not.

It’s hardly comparable to anything Trump is doing, but it’s worth mentioning, since you did claim EU laws are all about affecting everyone equally.

IMO a “simple browser” of this sort should display literally only the content in the HTML file itself. It shouldn’t even view CSS stored in a separate local CSS file, let alone reach out to the web to download more content.

doesn’t mean that it should be used without consideration for its generally accepted meaning

This is my point. You are deciding that your “accepted meaning” must be the “generally” accepted meaning. That’s prescriptivist. I understood what was meant, because my understanding of the word comfortably allows for this. And since dictionaries generally aim to describe real-world usage (usually listing “archaic” or “rare” where appropriate, which most dictionaries will do with alternative definitions of rape—see attached image), I feel pretty comfortable in asserting that your attempts to prescribe a more limited definition are wrong. Especially given this was seemingly an attempted execution—in a country with rule of law, it would very likely be tried as attempted murder.

To be clear: at no point did I make any reference to rape or the definition thereof. I was only referring to how you and others were using lynch.

We all know the connotations of these terms

Do we? Because I didn’t have any issue with the word as used. To me, a lynching is a violent, usually race/ethnicity-based mob attack on a person. And this pretty well fits the bill.

You’re the one doing linguistic prescriptivism here. The only difference is that what you’re prescribing isn’t what’s in the dictionary, it’s what’s in your own head.

Except that in the context “lynched” is being used in this case, even with a strict “death only” definition, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that “attempted lynching” would have been appropriate. Given that context, and the fact that actually “death only” is not the definition of lynched, can you not see how crying about definitions looks an awful lot like downplaying the severity of this crime? Like when zionists cry about being accused of genocide?

Apple’s USB C is a bad example. They were probably a year or two away from doing that anyway. iPads already used it. Even Macs already used it.

A better example would be the more recent thing with Apple allowing apps from outside their App Store. Although they’re really dragging their feet with that one—allowing them, but only with prior approval, and oh we swear this app didn’t get approval for security reasons, not because we don’t want competition. Pinky promise!

the feminine species

I was ready to point out that this was not possible because canonisation requires the person have performed two miracles, but then I found out that there is actually a pathway without that:

Very rarely, a Pope may waive the requirement… if he, the Sacred College of Cardinals, and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints all agree that the Blessed lived a life of great merit proven by certain actions.

Dashcam vision sought of anyone in the area.

“There’s no blame. We really need to throw our arms around each other. We need to show what a strong community we are,” [the Mayor] said.

The blame is the fact that cars are allowed on roads being used for a race at all. I’ve had the privilege of participating a few times in Brisbane’s Tour de Brisbane, and also in some other events around SEQ. The closes roads of TdB are an absolute dream. The events on open roads are absolutely miserable if you’re not good enough to keep up with a big pack.

We need to make it easier for these kinds of events to fully close the roads for them to be able to happen safely. The blame is firmly on our politicians and their constant obsession with never inconveniencing cars in any way, even to the expense of people’s lives.