That's true if you're only talking about what was once called 'natural philosophy', but there are still many areas where philosophy and physics don't really overlap - ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, language, existentialism, etc.
Each to their own.
Gnome with GTK4 + adw-gtk3 looks far cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing than Plasma + Breeze, IMO.
Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.
Gnome lets you do this on the primary display, but afaik it's not possible on the secondary/tertiary displays.
It's probably worth mentioning that an "arranged marriage" can mean anything from when two families agree to marry off their children without their children's consent, to when families play match-maker and set their children up on dates but their children get the final say.
In India, for example, you get both, with the former being more common in conservative, rural areas and the latter more common in urban and middle-class areas. So it's not a one-size-fits-all situation.
As to why it persists? Practicality, I suppose. If you want to get married, it helps if you filter out all the people who aren't serious about settling down. Plus it's not like love marriages have a superb success rate, given how common divorce is nowadays.
Yup. How long have we been waiting for graphene batteries to revolutionize technology? About a decade now?
That's true, however that was more or less a footnote and not something that featured in the published works. Hence why I said 'canonically', as in 'going by the books'.
I think it would have been fine for the RoP writers to have The Stranger be a blue wizard on this basis, though.
Yeah, the potential is there for another audience fakeout, but I think it's highly unlikely. Their target demographic is a mass audience who enjoyed the Jackson movies but aren't hardcore fans of the books. To these fans, as you said, a blue wizard would be too much of a head-scratcher.
Yeah, same. The blue wizards would have been doable from a lore perspective, and would have been ripe for exploration seeing as they have so little known about them. But no, the RoP writers had to have their Gandalf + Hobbit to fill their nostalgia quota, of course.
The "always follow your nose" 'reveal' was the final nail in the RoP coffin for me.
The project is named The Hunt for Gollum, which implies it will be in the Third Age, between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
In the books, Gandalf mentioned that he and Aragorn tracked Gollum for quite some time during this period, so presumably it will feature these characters as well.
Nope. Canonically, the blue wizards arrived around the same time as their more famous brothers, early in the Third Age.
Which would leave the tax payer footing the bill for the remaining $1.46B cost of reconstruction. Classic.