She beats me up every M-F. I work later hours, and typically stay in bed another 10-20 minutes.

Such trespass is frequently just a tort and sometimes a misdemeanor. As far as I know, simple trespass is never a felony. You are allowed to prosecute (one of the differences between a tort and a crime: an individual prosecutes a tort, the government prosecutes a crime), but I'm not sure about apprehending.

So, if you're saying that since action A is a tort, therefore similar action B should be a felony, you're stupider than the "delinquents".

he is on sudo probation

If I had sudo privileges there I'd do "sudo drop-charges" instead.

Your description makes me dubious. I strongly distrust solutions purported to be that good, particularly when they haven't been implemented. I don't know that IFR isn't that good, but people with those kind of claims are usually con men.

We're still going to have problems with nuclear waste, although not necessarily the same ones we have today. There's still going to be a nonzero chance of releasing radioactivity into the environment. (It'll be more on the lines of Fukushima rather than Chernobyl, and Fukushima wasn't nearly as bad as some people think.)

I do have rational fears about nuclear power. I have more rational fears about fossil fuel power, though, and renewables are not going to be ready for baseload power in the near future.

There's no reason why carbon taxes can't be made revenue-neutral, and combined with other tax changes the result can be progressive rather than regressive.

I'm not convinced that we're not in an extinction event right now.

On the other hand, the average person is more likely to understand "more acidic" than "less alkaline", and it is technically correct. A pH of 8.25 doesn't mean that it's all hydroxide, but rather that the mix is towards the hydroxide side.

According to TFS, that's not what they're doing. They can't sort out paid reviews in general. What they can do is act against anybody who's advertising reviews for payment. If they can keep out the commercial astroturfers, we'll have the ordinary biased reviews that we normally have to deal with.

It might be interesting to figure out why people unwittingly open their data to the public, and what can be done about it, so the average person is highly unlikely to do it by accident.

The Brady bill was named for him because he was shot and severely injured in the course of an assassination attempt against Reagan. It wasn't because he or his wife pushed for it (although his wife certainly did).

In fairness, this was before the extermination program started. There was no Nazi holocaust until the Wannsee conference in 1942. Allied people in general had a very hard time realizing what the Nazi government was doing to the Jews until they started liberating camps in 1945 (there were good reports before then, but they just looked unbelievable, as no civilized country could be doing THAT). Note that the horrors reported on Western liberation weren't the worst, as the death camps tended to be in the East, and were liberated by the Soviets. (You know things are bad when your best hope is Stalin and the Red Army.)

However, yes, the US was not particularly active in rescuing Jews.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a good diplomatic maneuver, as it made it politically impossible for Britain to intervene on the Confederate side. It was also a way to free lots of slaves eventually.

The original Constitution counted slaves and other unfree persons at 0.6 of a person when it came to seats in the House and similar things. They weren't completely ignored.

Marx pushed for Communism, as in the Communist Manifesto (read it some time, we've actually fully or partly satisfied some of the demands). It wasn't just theory. It was indeed hijacked by Lenin and his followers and successors, but I haven't seen any evidence that it would work on a large scale. I regard it as another utopian fantasy, like hard-core libertarianism. I could be very happy in some of those utopias, but I don't know where to find the intelligent species they'd work for.

Last time I was laid off, we were paid for the last day, not closely watched, and assisted in packing, although my system access had been revoked while we were in the meeting. However, I agree: do NOT sign anything at that meeting. Take it with you and consult with a lawyer. There was one unpleasant provision that could well have cost me a significant sum of money.