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I put it in quotes to try and avoid this type of retort. Whether or not they're still used or are now considered inappropriate, the meaning behind the terms hasn't changed. FWIW I still see the terms used occasionally in the UK with 'Master' being used for an unmarried male.

I believe Ms. is also used in cases where you are unsure of marital status and don't want to 'offend' by assuming either Miss or Mrs.

>> Following this serious incident, the operator introduced a daily check to ensure adult females were referred to as Ms on the relevant documentation, with a secondary check by Operations staff against passenger loads. A more formal system of checks was introduced on 24 July 2020.

Surely the solution is to fix the software? Miss is the 'appropriate' title for an unmarried woman or girl. Why not have a person select 'adult' or 'child' when booking (I'm pretty sure most airlines I fly with do this already).

J&J hasn't been approved yet in the UK. The alternatives would be Moderna + Pfizer. Also, I doubt you'll get a choice of alternative, just whatever one is available in your local area at the time.

I think the interesting thing here is that the EMA were publicising their updated advice at the same time as the MHRA and while it seems the MHRA + EMA agree it is a very rare side effect the UK is changing course and the EU will continue to recommend it to everyone. I'm not saying one decision is right and the other wrong but it goes to show how difficult it must be to make these calls (I'm assuming no political influence given the regulators are supposed to be independent).

>> Loneliness is a real huge problem among the youth -- without the internet it'd be unbearable.

How much of that loneliness problem is caused by the internet we think is helping it? Take it away and people have to start interacting again. Without the endless streams of entertainment we have to sit in rooms together chatting or we'd go mad.

>> I'd suggest people check their values every other month or so to make sure their values aren't too high.

I recently spoke to my GP about this and was told they don't usually bother testing people for Vitamin D levels in the UK because most of us would be deficient. She recommended supplementing (I believe 4000 IU) all Winter and suggested possibly continuing throughout the entire year.

"In total, 30 people out of 18 million vaccinated by 24 March had these clots. [in the UK]"

"There have been two cases of CVSTs after Pfizer in the UK, out of more than 10 million vaccinated, but these did not have the low platelet levels."[0]

So currently a one in half a million chance of being effected. For comparison 1 in 1000 women per year taking the contraceptive pill have a chance of a blood clot. Obviously this is a new drug and should be scrutinised, better understood, and if possible fixed - but at what point do we consider the daily articles scaremongering by people with an agenda?

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56620646

It’s misrepresented. The regulation unified laws across countries to enable trade. It actually cut down on laws by creating one to cover all countries. Countries already had their own differing laws on food standards before making trade difficult.

It's also a lot easier to make music in your bedroom and release it online pseudonymously.

Learning an instrument, getting in a room with (most likely) strangers, and creating something opens you up to a lot of vulnerability. It's not easy so it makes sense people would choose the easier, safer options.

I think there's so much to gain (both musically and otherwise) from the more difficult option though, it's sad fewer people are choosing it.

They also make £0.5-1bn in annual revenue from North Sea oil.

It's an achievement for sure but it's like the Marlboro Man boasting he's quit smoking while still selling cigarettes to everyone else.

I think your English was fine, I just couldn’t think of reasons a day care might require Facebook. Groups makes sense.

>> I created a fresh one to be able to follow my kids in daycare...

What does this mean?

In the UK you can (sort of) text a landline. It's been a while since I've done it but I think the person receives it as a call and then an automated voice reads the message.

> I'd argue that in a time of crisis, the EU government is being negligent if it's not forcing domestic production capacity to prioritize output for domestic use.

I understand that viewpoint but feel like the long term consequences politically would be too high. We live in a globalised world where most of the richest countries do little of their own manufacturing. If we start blocking exports in times of crisis the foundations of that system would be damaged.

The parent comment is a reply to me so I’ll assume you’re also referring to me:

1. I voted remain and would again.

2. Everybody I’ve spoken to that actually lives in the EU agrees the EU has screwed up - it seems to mostly be remain voters who can’t move on who disagree with this.

3. If you have evidence contrary to my comment share it, keep the personal attacks to yourself.

I’m aware of the US blocking exports of certain things but as far as I know the UK isn’t. If you have evidence proving otherwise I’d love to see.

Nonsense. This isn’t really about countries exporting/not exporting. These vaccine deals are with private companies who produce their product around the world. Just because vaccines are manufactured in a specific country doesn’t make them property of that country.

Whichever country is contractually at the front of the line will have their order fulfilled first/according to the terms of the contracts.

The EU wasted months negotiating lower prices and then took longer with approvals.

There is no good guy or bad guy (at least until the UK or EU blocks exports preventing execution of the private contracts - at that point the country blocking the exports becomes the bad guy).

You mean names and addresses of people charged in court published? This is standard practice (in many countries including Ireland).

If you feel the need to create a throwaway account AND create a false and editorialised title you probably shouldn’t bother posting.

What's your alternative? Have you come across any scenarios where not having the smartphone has been particularly problematic?

Are those socialisations meaningful though? If so, you could meet those people elsewhere. If not, why waste time on them instead of actual meaningful friendships?

You can click 'manage settings' and disable the analytics cookie (which seems to be the only one enabled be default unless you click 'accept all'.

Sounds like they actually mean competing for people's attention rather than competing on an economic level. When people are essentially addicted to TikTok + Instagram they don't have time to interact with the fun projects the studio creates. Interesting idea. For aybody producing anything, it's almost essential these days to have a presence on social media and trying to get viewers off the social media to your website is exceedinlgly diffificult.

It's surrounded by quotation marks...because it's a quotation. Pretty standard. I'd estimate about half the headlines I see on the BBC News website these days have one of two words in quotes. It seems to allow them to create a clickbaity headline while not being inaccurate.

I would be interested to see what would happen if Spotify changed the free account to something really small (and maybe annual). For example $10 a year. I'd guess that's still small enough that most people will pay it.

There are a lot of comments saying Spotify can't raise prices - but Netflix has repeatedly raised prices successfully. I'm now paying them double what I originally did when I signed up.

It's also still remarkably cheap for unlimited access to all the music ever recorded.

Something I didn't realise until a while after reading this was that the author of the tweets was previously a large Gumroad customer + now runs a competing business (ConvertKit Commerce). I believe the events he's talking about are also very public (I think the Gumroad founder wrote a blog post about it that was on HN not that long ago).

Side point: why are regulators letting Tesla owners install beta self-driving software? And why are Tesla allowed to ship it to them? Seems stupidly risky.

Yes, but it didn't happen 30 years ago. We have the ability to let kids learn from home and save more lives by doing so.

I'm willing to bet if you did, you wouldn't know. It's not something anyone is going to brag about. Similar to kids getting free school meals or any other 'benefit' for being poor. When you have these problems you tend to keep them to yourself due to shame.

Also, from the article:

"But, he says, one-third of young people do not have any internet access and many more lack the quality of connection needed to work or learn from home."