“Disembowling” was correct. You had it right before. (:

When it comes to “simplest and most likely explanation,” the bad faith assumption is now the leading choice with the current regime.

I didn’t say that, nor do I think these nonsense laws help. But “not my problem” is also nonsense.

Other people’s kids aren’t your problem until they grow up and form a deeply unfit electorate and their country, representing less than 5% of the world population, makes an absolute mess of everything. Then they become everyone’s problem.

I was so confused by the CD drives of that era. They all had a volume wheel and a headphone jack, but never once did I experience those working. The audio CDs were always “owned” by the OS, which piped the audio through the normal channels out my speakers or the PC headphone jack.

I imagine the existence of those means that CD drives had their own DAC and other logic. I guess there was an idea of wanting to play CD audio without it being a PC concern? Or on PCs without audio capability?