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"Public universities" means state-run schools. State funding is responsible for their very existence. The state is involved by default.

Now if I could only remember what road it was that my mama said was paved with good intentions...

Last time I checked, "innocent until proven guilty" was still a foundational principle of Western law. Certain factions may be working hard to chip away that foundation with the intent of enforcing an ideological homogeny, but it's not gone yet.

The goal was not that "everybody knows your name"; only that one's identity be well-known enough that it will not be forgotten, or at least (in this particular case) be rediscoverable. So the point is not undermined at all.

For a while there I was two-solving Letterboxed on an almost daily basis, but it regularly took 20-30 minutes to do. I couldn't bear to three-solve it knowing a two-word solution existed, so I hut a stretch where I started not finishing and just looking up the solution the next day. For many of these, the two-word solutions required words that were so far on the fringes of my vocabulary that I knew I would have never gotten them. Now I only spend about 5-10 minutes on it and if I don't think I'm onto anything by then, I move on with my day.

I made the mistake of opening this on my phone. It is technically playable in that tapping the screen causes the sprite to fire and teleport around the screen. It is not feasibly playable this way, though, because movement range seems limited to the bottom half of the left third of the screen only. Still enjoyed the music & graphics, though!

Note that in your example, it's not the athletes that are being toxic (usually), it's the spectators.

It's common for sports fans to say things like, "we're playing Los Angeles next week" or "we picked up so-and-so in the draft" when there's really no "we" about it. The speaker is not involved in the action in any way other than as one observing it. But using that language makes them feel included in something bigger. And sometimes the brain starts to believe you really ARE part of that bigger thing, and you start taking actions to reinforce that belief.

(And I want it noted that I'm very much including myself in this assessment. This is not some "nerds > jocks" kind of thing. As an American football fan myself, I've made a conscious effort to stop saying "we" specifically because this has started to bother me.)

So no, participating in sports isn't unhealthy. Succumbing to the delusion of participation as a spectator, that's what becomes unhealthy.

I think a better (but less concise) way to phrase it is: "I shouldn't have to think to use your interface, because that's bandwidth I won't have available to think about your content." Thinking of this way creates a value proposition for the creator that aligns with the user's goals.

In this case, it's because the teacher is now left not knowing whether they have an opening in their schedule for the student or not.

This is a freelance teacher who is responsible for finding her own clients and managing her own schedule. If you let them know that you won't be taking any more lessons, they can find another student. If you lie to them and they think you'll be back for your lesson next week, they aren't going to look for another student to fill your time slot. So when you don't show up, you've just cost them to opportunity to earn money from someone else.

If I were in the same situation, I would absolutely institute a policy of continuing to bill for the student's time slot until they formally cancel services. Given the level of conflict avoidance being practiced here, I foresee such a policy being quite profitable.

And then there's Tumblr users, who affectionately refer to their own digital home as the "hellsite".

Do you think it is in any world fair to steal a car from someone who has done nothing to you?

Is this not exactly what was meant by "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants"? We treat government like a monument to be preserved for posterity, but it is not. Government is a living thing and it follows a cycle of growth and decay that eventually requires culling, just like any other form of life.

Yes, there's no direct land route for Taiwan's allies to use, but the same is true of Chinese forces trying to get onto the island. Their supply routes may be shorter than Taiwan's, but they are just as vulnerable. Both sides are likely to suffer a majority of their losses just trying to supply their troops, and the effectiveness of submarine warfare against enemy shipping and air superiority against enemy airlifts will determine victory in the long run. So long as the West maintains superior submarine and carrier fleets, they offset the longer supply lines. If China catches up in either or both of those areas, the advantage of shorter supply routes starts to tilt in their favor.

Next thing you know, they'll start putting barcodes on their military vessels...

There's quite a lengthy article there. It sounds like you might have a connection problem.

One could also argue that the courts and/or government are tilted in favor of one false narrative over the other, and thus refuse to investigate or hear arguments against their chosen channels.

I'm not arguing that this is or is not true, but the argument you're making here is not philosophically different from "if they were bad people then bad things would happen to them; since bad things aren't happening to them they must not be bad people". The reality is that bad people escape punishment all the time, especially when their bad actions benefit the people who should be responsible for punishing them.

Yes, but where does the US launch them? China can launch a swarm of these from the Pacific and guarantee they'll overfly the US and Canada due to the jetstream. Where can the US military launch a counterswarm that won't have to overfly a bunch of other countries with unaligned military strategies? All that does is create a negative diplomatic situation with those countries, and they'll likely shoot them down before they reach China.

Thank you for providing some local perspective. These things don't just happen in a vacuum but it can be hard to discern the threads that got us here without eyewitness accounts.

If I had to be somewhere at 5:30 am on a Friday morning, it had sure better be a church, because God help you when I find the person who came up with that schedule!

If you live in an area with a craft brewery scene, ask them about which night of the week is slowest. Offer to host an event... trivia, board games, a hobby meet up, whatever you are interested in... you can even make it a destination for a running or biking club... on that night. They'll usually be happy to advertise it in order to get a few more people in on the "dead" night and you'll have a regular place to go to indulge something you enjoy while meeting new people.

I've done this twice at two different breweries and at this point the groups are self-sustaining with Facebook & Discord groups managed by other group members.

My interpretation of that comment was, "I'm not in favor of increasing the size of government, but I'd rather see a government labor board exist than another union."

You're absolutely correct regarding tips being a "subsidy for the business". The reason "tipped minimum wage" (where it exists) is lower than actual minimum wage is because the business claims a "tip credit" towards meeting their minimum wage obligation. They're essentially telling the government "this person will make up the difference (or more) in tips, and that will meet our legal obligation to pay the minimum wage."

In most jurisdictions, this is figured by taking the employee's wages plus reported tips for each pay period and dividing them by the employee's clocked hours for that pay period. If that result is not at least actual minimum wage, the employer normally owes the employee the difference.

I don't know if it's a lack of knowledge or actual malicious pay practices (probably some of both), but number of people I meet in the service industry who don't know that last bit and tell me they've never been paid the difference for "dead" shifts (those that generate little to no tips) is staggering.

This is already how the price of labor in a global market works. In many companies, virtual workers are already paid on a scale based on their home market price, not the market price where their company is located. If that's how virtual economies are going to work, then it should at least go both ways.

Point well made.

This is not a military autocracy. Neither the military nor law enforcement should have any special privileges with regards to violating the law or the established rights of the citizens. Too many supposedly intelligent people have given up on the fight to keep "the law" within the bounds of the law, and it's escaped those bounds like kudzu.

I mean ... they literally talk about the potential ability to force the aging process backward or forward in the abstract, so... haha.

I see nobody here saying that robot vacuum cleaners should not exist. The argument is that they don't need cameras and always-open Internet connections.

Do you think that those invasions went well for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq? Do you think there were no armed gangs in those countries? Do you think the U.S. has any prurient interest in repeating or revisiting those operations?

Since we're discussing pedantic grammar rules here anyway (sorry): the problem here is not that the rule is inconsistent, but rather that you are applying the wrong rule.

"Its" is not merely a modification of the possessive noun like "Dave's". "Its" is a possessive pronoun like "his" or "her", a separate (but related) class of word. We don't write "he's car" or "she's car", so we also don't write "it's car".

But that said, this is one is tricky specifically because the accepted possessive pronoun so closely resembles a modified possessive noun. I agree that your logic at least makes sense and I think that makes "its/it's" the least offensive of the common grammar mistakes. I don't see it as nearly the same degree of mistake as "your/you're" "two/to/too" or "there/their/they're".

For example, if you were discussing the soundtrack of a movie about a killer clown demon, it would be entirely appropriate to say "It's soundtrack is well-produced." :-)

I've always seen it as part of someone's profile or status message. But more often, it's just sort of a silently agreed-upon philosophy among our team. "Hello" without context isn't ignored, exactly, but it's automatically the lowest priority. That approach is pretty common across our whole team.

Nobody is claiming he does. The article is merely pointing out the irony of the situation.