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This is mitigating garbage trying to avoid blame, and more both-sides junk that will excuse anything so long as quiet (not "peace", that would be something else) is restored. This is an unusual protest of the usual systemic violence and prejudice of police and government.

There are people to blame and it is not everyone's responsibility to make it easy and comfortable for the channel surfers at home.

And the smell of tumble drying. I live in an apartment complex and the smell coming out of the dryer vents is overwhelming. It's not intrinsic; there would barely be any odor at all if people gave up dryer sheets and fabric softener, but it seems like many have never heard anything so outlandish as that.

Thank you for being tolerant.

I extend the same tolerance to you even though one time I saw a homeless man having sex with a homeless woman on a public riverbank. I try very hard every day to not assume everyone is homeless. Kind of my way of keeping a chipper attitude for the sake of the kids.

Windows uses Edge IIRC, and it does pretty well.

While not public domain and not relevant to the specific issue at hand, IBM Plex is a font released by IBM as open source and under a very permissive license.

It's also quite nice.

What I found interesting was as the run on toilet paper began, people in my office started to spread the good word about bidets, and then a couple of days later, sure enough, those were selling out on Amazon.

Which is amazing because bidets are very far from being a thing in the US.

Absurd compared to what?

The entire premise is communal living. Shared toilets, showers, kitchen. Quarantining a dormitory would just be leaving everyone inside to get sick and recover, which does not sound humane.

Being able to power any external device (like a hard drive) or to be able to cleanly exit from whatever you're working on if you happen to be present (with a monitor) are both pursuant to these goals.

The average PC or workstation isn't configured for a clean exit just because the UPS said it's time.

Bridging momentary outages is also useful where that's common, disregarding data loss.

Evaporation is definitely not constant, at all, not remotely. More heat means more evaporation, and less snow means more heat and therefore a shorter journey (on average) back to the gas phase. Aside from climate, it's the principle that underlies mundane things like hair dryers, clothes dryers, and sauce reductions.

The entire mainstream music industry moved on from vinyl records decades ago and a vinyl-only release today is going to exclude most people in any generation. At least the people that grew up pirating will likely be aware that a vinyl rip is a thing!

And millennials seem to have been largely responsible for vinyl's limited resurgence anyway.

Ah, a grammatical structure of a language being used to communicate an idea; my favorite reduction.

That's a bit of a cherry pick. I don't disagree with upholding the principle of the social good.

But two things.

Tragedy of the commons. You're arguing that some drivers should elect to have poor travel times to, frankly, accommodate those who are breaking the law. Maybe the law should be changed (different speed limits are bad) and more zealously enforced.

Second, your greatest responsibility on the road is safety and accident avoidance, not expediency. It is not defensible to change lanes or refuse to accommodate another driver when it may cause an accident that could have been avoided. Changing lanes or refusing to accommodate is least safe when there is a lot of congestion.

I don't know the best way to drive. I don't always obey the law and neither do I only do those things that give me individually an immediate. Mostly, I try to be safe and not instigate road rage.

But I don't think it's as simple as you're suggesting, either. You absolutely have to drive in a way that anticipates that others are acting selfishly. It's part of avoiding accidents.

This seems a little bit idealistic.

People merging onto the highway are supposed to reach highway speed before attempting to merge, but they very often do not do that.

And they're supposed to to find a gap, but there may not be one or other drivers may deliberately try to deny them one.

The merging lane may be very short.

The merging car may start to change lanes even if it's not safe to do so.

Congestion may require more deliberately courteous behavior.

The right lane often has many trucks clustered together and rote exercise of the keep-right rule will require an excessive amount of lane changing.

And on a limited access highway, lane changing is the most dangerous routine maneuver so one should be thoughtful of balancing lane changing with expediency.

And the idea that a driver has no responsibility to accommodate another merging driver, if applied strictly, also means that one cannot always leave the right lane at will, because driver in the left lane are not permitting. So you change speed a lot, which is rough on fuel efficiency and precludes cruise control if it's adaptive.

Being religious about keep-right is kind of miserable on a congested highway, especially one with a differential of speed speed limits depending on vehicle type. The people most steadfast about traffic laws get punished at the pleasure of people who flout them, which doesn't seem correct.

In my private vernacular, it was specifically visiting the Arc de Triomph that prompted me to coin the term "traffic tornado" and note other, invariably less turbulent ones that I find in life.

It is spectacular for being such a point of interest for visitors and to then be so unfriendly to our squishy bodies and a rather unpleasant assault on the senses.

I can't find where the parent mentioned drinking.

But to stab at that anyway, it wouldn't be silly if he did. People driving impaired for lack of other good and affordable options is an emergent reality, no matter how morally hazardous it is.