Israel does not have to be Zionist Israel.
Now, I'm sure the Palestinians would rather have it that, after WWII, people hadn't come "home" to settle in the area in the first place, but if it had been handled better, and without, you know, all the genocide, they might have been more accepting of the idea.
Maybe not much, but definitely way more accepting than they are now.
This may be a proximity thing. A word can have a different meaning in context, and when the context spans a continent-length border, it can be easy to see it as a global default.
Take the example of the word "Asian": An Australian using the term (advisedly, because it's often (mis)used or interpreted as a pejorative) is probably talking about someone from South East Asia. A Brit using the same word usually means someone from the Indian subcontinent.
I realise there's no border proximity with that example, but if you consider immigration and the percentage of population each Asian group makes up in each place, that physical proximity is why the word means what it does where it does.
AFAIK, "gyatt" is from the way people say "g-d damn". As in, it's what certain people said when they saw the thing the word has now been associated with.
It may be worth noting that this is in The Telegraph, occasionally referred to as "The Torygraph", a nickname earned for being the slightly less rabid, but still very much right-leaning newspaper. "Tory" being used in the pejorative sense.
In that newspaper, the thought of the UK being untrustworthy or that Brexit was a bad idea must be carefully skirted at all costs. Then again, that seems to be government policy no matter who the government is these days.
This is a bit niche but is the first thing that sprung to mind: I strongly dislike the Ubuntu font family. It's one of the first things I remove from Mint when I reinstall.
I don't use the default Cinnamon look either, and picked one that looks even more like Windows 7, which is what I was using before I switched. Now it 's just a case of old habits dying hard, I guess. The icon set I use is blue though. Way better than Windows' yellow or Mint's default of green, IMO.
Dark mode? Check? Custom shell prompt? Check. Old school Minecraft grass block icon because the creeper one is awful? Check. Shell aliases, ~/bin dir and custom keybinds? Check.
More generally, there are a few websites that store what ought to be user-attached session-spanning settings in short-lived cookies. That means that certain things go back to defaults when I restart the browser, even though my login persists. Grumble, grumble, etc.
Package version 0.01: Built with libraries abc version 2, def version 0.1 and ghi version 7.2.2
Your system has requirements: abc version 2, def version 0.2 and ghi version 8.0.0
Package version 0.02: Requires abc version 3, def version 0.2 and ghi version 8.0.1
You realise that those differences in version would mean that you would have to basically recompile (then debug and recompile) your entire operating system with the three upgraded packages, and deal with a full cascade of dependencies, not just the package you really want to compile, OR basically sit down and rewrite Package 0.02 from the ground up using older libraries than it was originally written for.
You decide to make do with the old version of the package.
If endl is a function call and/or macro that magically knows the right line ending for whatever ultimately stores or reads the output stream, then, ugly though it is, endl is the right thing to use.
If a language or compiler automatically "do(es) the right thing" with \n as well, then check your local style guide. Is this your code? Do what you will. Is this for your company? Better to check what's acceptable.
If you want to guarantee a Unix line ending use \012 instead. Or \cJ if your language is sufficiently warped.
Do you remember the push to get everyone to sign up to YouTube with their real names and abandon pseudonyms when Google Plus was a thing?
They pulled the same trick there too. They'd pop up a box that said something like "Do you want to migrate your account to your real name now?" and if you said no, they said "OK, we'll ask again later.", which was inevitably in a couple of days.
No option to say "never ask me again" because that would be against what they wanted. I changed my then-main account to a name-like pseudonym just to get them to stop asking. Thankfully their algorithms that checked whether a name might be legit or not didn't catch on that it wasn't real.
As for why they do this, innovation for innovation's sake is to prove they're doing something and so the stakeholders think that value is being created and don't pull their investments. Also, the more you watch, the better the profile about you is that they can then sell to advertisers, especially if your account's under a real name.
If it was legal to install tracking devices in people's behinds, Google would be a top manufacturer of them.
Sounds like you have some aspect of synaesthesia, but there's no way to be completely sure about that. Numbers usually come with attached context, which may even be specific to the individual, and can affect how people feel about them whether they have crossed senses or not.
As for me, uh. I like numbers, but I think if I had any feelings about specific ones, practical concerns have long since overridden any of that, so my feelings can't have been that strong in the first place.
Practical concerns like a preferred number being too quiet or too loud on a volume setting, for example, which people often cite as having to be on certain values with certain properties. Likewise, temperature settings, where that's even possible to control in the first place.
I see I've forgotten to put on my head net today. You know the one. Looks like a volleyball net. C shape. Attaches at the back. Catches things that go woosh.
Those "almost completely forgotten" characters were important when ASCII was invented, and a lot of that data is still around in some form or another. There's also that, since they're there, they're still available for the use for which they were designed. You can be sure that someone would want to re-invent them if they weren't already there.
Some operating systems did assign symbols to those characters anyway. MS-DOS being notable for this. Other standards also had code pages where different languages had different meanings for the byte ranges beyond ASCII. One language might have "é" in one place and another language in another. This caused problems.
Unicode is an extension of ASCII that covers all bases and has all the necessary symbols in fixed places.
That languages X, Y and Z don't happen to have their alphabets in contiguous runs because they're extended Latin is a problem, but not something that much can be done about.
It's understandable that anyone would want their alphabet to be the base language, but one has to be or you end up in code page hell again. English happened to get there first.
If you want a fun exercise (for various interpretations of "fun"), design your own standard. Do you put the digits 0-9 as code points 0-9 or do you start with your preferred alphabet there? What about upper and lower case? Which goes first? Where do you put Chinese?
The quotes were because "home" both is and isn't the right word. There are a lot of people in this world who might still think of the house they grew up in as "home" on some level, but in many cases, that property is in the hands of strangers now.
For example, I have a relative who not only lived in but was born in a house that remained in the family until a couple of decades ago, and I think they'd dearly love to be able to go back there. Even so, I don't think the current occupants would be best pleased if my relative decided to go "home" without some kind of arrangement, especially if they decided they were going to move in.
Feel free to generalise or pick apart this metaphor.