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When humans evolved you'd have to be an incredibly lucky outlier to have lived long enough for stress to kill you.

Yes, that's what I meant. Employers are the deep pocket defendants that might get roped into a lawsuit resulting from bad behavior on the part of their employees.

I said nothing about "women in power".

Drinking at lunch is a great example. The company can get sued for that.

Awkwardness doesn't come across as creepy to you, but it may to other people. The vast majority of men aren't harassers or abusers, but a lot of women revel in the power to label them "creepy".

If I were young I would stick to dating apps exclusively, since everyone on the app has already signaled a receptiveness to advances.

HR is a powerful organization for a reason. Companies everywhere operate in a legal environment, and 90% of what HR does is keep the company from getting sued.

Having a drink or two is not the same thing as getting drunk.

Everybody I know south of the border also calls it Canadarm as well. I'm not sure why they titled the article like that.

A better comparison would be Starlink, which had a bunch of unresolved problems and had to be more economical than existing satellite internet providers.

I'm kind of disappointed nobody writes this kind of stuff in Whitespace.

It's not meant to be idealistic at all. There very much should be a whole lot more that goes into the decision to raise prices or introduce ads or whatever that might upset your customers.

Oh, I do. But I see myself as part of a voluntary system.

What does that have to do with me?

Gambling is legal where I live and society functions just fine.

They've done the calculation. They'll lose X income because of subscribers who leave, and they'll get Y extra income from the ones who remain. If X < Y then implement policy.

I disagree with the framing of your comment. For one thing, you get an old age pension for the extra taxes you pay when you work.

What do I get for restrictions on my liberties in this case?

Certainly there are people who shouldn't gamble, but that doesn't mean gambling should be illegal. For a lot of people it's harmless fun.

This is all just smoke. Hegseth is not going to be impeached.

Massie is upset because the Jews have been using their orbital mind lasers on the illuminati again.

Flares. They fired flares at a Danish helicopter.

It's possible the conflict will get bigger, but I doubt it. I think what's happening right now is all about internal Russian politics. The Russians will lose in Ukraine without a big influx of new troops, something that's very unpopular. By provoking his neighbors in a few highly publicized incidents, Putin can play into existing Russian paranoia about invasion from the west, which will allow him to conscript another half million men.

But new troops don't help him if the need for troops gets correspondingly larger. My suspicion is after Putin gets his troops most of the talk about a wider war will die down, and all those new resources will be dedicated to Ukraine.

And yet the Europeans have built one defense system after another in that time. I get why countries want to have their own defense industries. If I were running a country I would too. But the extent to which more of those systems haven't been deployed has more to do with mis-aligned budget priorities between countries and old fashioned jobs politics. Only the largest European countries can go it alone in major weapon systems development, and the joint projects tend to founder on discussions over what gets built where. FCAS/SCAF is a perfect illustration of this.

From the US perspective, what's frustrating is extent to which European powers, particularly the largest and potentially most powerful, have allowed their readiness to decline. I remember a particular surprise readiness exercise a few years back in which the Germans were able to get no more than a dozen tanks moving within the first 48 hours. The rest were broken, undergoing maintenance, or had been cannibalized for spare parts. At the time Germany had, on paper anyway, about 300 active tanks.

It's not the sexy stuff like new missile systems and strike fighters that have been neglected. It's the boring parts that really matter like an efficient reserve system, logistics, spare parts, boots, training facilities, ammunition, fuel depots, etc.

Nobody wants to spend a lot of money maintaining a military in peacetime, but an effective peacetime military is insurance: When you don't need it you don't need it, but when you need it you really, really need it. Your country's strategic situation can change really quickly.

There's no active war in the Far East, at least for the US. Of course you bring mobile assets to where the fighting is right now.

That's the theory. I never ran across a project that used stored procedures which didn't have a code base split between stored procedures and whatever server language, with no rhyme or reason for what goes where. It's just a maintenance headache.

Piercing the corporate veil is difficult to do in practice unless they've gotten very sloppy.

No, it wasn't to keep slave owning states in the union. You're confusing the 3/5th compromise with the electoral college. The reason we have 50 little elections instead of one big one is to keep the largest states from dictating policy to everyone else.

Whenever you have voting you have swing votes. That's just Democracy. If it wasn't swing states it would be swing voters nationwide.

That's just the way the US system is set up. You can't win the presidency by doing really well in the five largest states.

I don't know why Trump's existence is evidence the US does not have a "real" democracy. As a group, we voted for him, and he went to the Oval Office. That's democracy.

There are certainly governments outlawing political opponents in the first world, but that's not the US.

Eh... I was thinking of harvesters, not tractors.

To put this in perspective, a large John Deere tractor with a corn header costs in the neighborhood of $1.25 million.

That's normal stuff for anyone producing a vehicle, isn't it?

This is actually pretty widespread on newer models. There are cars for which you need a subscription costing thousands of dollars every year to put your parking brake into "maintenance mode", without which you can't fix your own brakes.