But non-Amazon Workers in Alabama didn't get to vote. You don't seem to understand what's going on here at all. The Amazon Workers at this warehouse voted against organizing into a union. Amazon didn't prevent them. Amazon *can't* prevent them.

Yes, exactly. This is how the argument always goes.

Anti-DST Person: Here's a science and fact-based argument.
Pro-DST Person: Here's belligerence and ad hominem attack.

> This means that it just makes sense to have a schedule that happens earlier in the day during the summer than it does in the winter.

Why? Why does that make sense? You make this claim with no support.

Do you know who it used to make sense for? Farmers. So they got up earlier. But now it doesn't even make sense for them, with things like self-driving GPS guided tractors.

There is literally no need to start anything earlier because of some quirk of geometry affecting ambient light levels.

We also have to do temperature check every morning before drop-off.

We asked about this specifically. We were told that it's against the law for them to check the temperature of every student.

Important to note is that the parents, at least in my kids classes, take all of this seriously and don't put others at risk.

Yeah, also not true here. I know several parents who are actively spreading "COVID is a hoax!" "Bill Gates Microchips!" wargharbl on a daily basis, who's kids are going to be in my daughter's class. There was one parent on the call with us who's only question was "NO ONE HAS TO GET A VACCINE RIGHT".

And related to that we asked what would be done if a student refuses to abide by mask rules or distancing rules, and we were told flatly "We cannot deny any child an education."

So, yeah. In a public school system where teachers can't discipline students for literal violence against other students, no I don't believe for a moment they can do this the "right" way that organizations like the WHO believe allow for safe schools.

We're regularly having over 4000 people a day die of COVID-19 in the US. This is "not worrying" to you? Really?

That sounds like a fantasy.

No, it's how things already work. Gawker didn't go out of business because Hogan's lawsuit was correct, essentially everyone outside of one plaintiff-friendly judge agreed the First Amendment protected them. But they couldn't afford to take their case all the way through Federal Court. And Hogan's lawsuit wasn't the only one.
Like this is so freakishly common I can't understand how you're not aware of it: Most lawsuits aren't designed to succeed in court, they're designed to cost their target money, either for purely vindictive reasons (like Harder's lawfare against Gawker), or to be just expensive enough that settlement is cheaper than fighting.

It doesn't matter if there's precedent, it doesn't even require the cases to reach a verdict, the death of a million cuts from defending so many lawsuits will be too much for anyone to bear. Except, maybe, huge well-established multinationals... Repealing Section 230 would just permanently enshrine the existing "big tech" companies as no one else could afford the risk of trying to start their own service.

Yeah I'm aware, but 99% of people are going to expect you to quote a percentage, so writing it as 0.016 is just a dishonest way to be "technically correct" while still making it *look* like it's not as bad.

But the same argument can be applied to the flu. In fact it should apply even *more* to the flu as we're actively testing for SARS COV-2 at a rate orders of magnitude higher than we do for influenza infection. So it's still likely that COVID-19's mortality rate is 10x higher.

And it's a stupid argument anyway: When was the last time we had a pandemic flu that overwhelmed hospital capacity in Southern California? 1918? Arguing whether it's "Only 10x deadlier than polio instead of 100x" is idiotic pedantry. This is a health crisis, regardless.

No, it's a 1.6% fatality rate. Which is over 10 times the fatality rate of influenza, and 100 times the fatality rate of polio. And that's with the hospitals not being full. Now that there's nowhere to put patients in some states, fatality rates are going to climb rapidly.

Nevermind, as someone else pointed out, death isn't the only negative outcome of COVID. The much more common one is chronic, debilitating health problems for some indeterminate amount of time (as in, people who got the virus in March still haven't gotten over it).

You're not interested in the actual numbers or outcomes at all, though.

First, read this:
https://www.popehat.com/2012/0...

Second, now that you have educated yourself, never EVER use that stupid phrase again.

It's not a 1st Amendment issue because this is entirely about actions of a private company and not the government. Don't bring in century old quotes from since overturned Supreme Court cases to just make people dumber, please.

Nah, others have handled the detailed rebuttal just fine. This was still valuable to be said. The OP is so clueless he doesn't even realize he's clueless.

I was talking about the Gmail UI and how I preferred it. How is IMAP even remotely relevant to this discussion? If I wanted to use IMAP, why would it even matter if I used Gmail at all? Any service would do.

Seriously, keep this guy away from my Gmail. All these "improvements" and new "design language" have only made the experience consistently worse. Gmail used to be clean, compact, and easy to use. Now it's "simplified" into unusability. I don't want my Gmail UI redesigned the same way I didn't want Firefox to badly ape Chrome: If the UI of these new competitors is to your liking, GO USE THEM! Recognize there may be a reason the rest of us don't!

> Seems like your company needs to change so that those interactions happen on purpose.
That sounds like making a note on your calendar to be "spontaneous" with your wife.
Humans don't work like that.