Unless you're a medical or emergency worker or you working in a factory then the chances are these days that yes, you can shift your schedule an hour.

Or work in a mine, or a refinery, or a shipyard, or an airport, or basically anything other than a Dilbert-style white-collar office worker. Which I know is over-represented here on Slashdot, but is still not the norm for most of us. But even as a non-Dilbert-style worker I hate DST because it makes it so businesses can make you be at work before dawn almost the whole year instead of only in winter.

Pretty sure he and Jerry are eating churros in that video, not that it really helps de-traumatize the scene any.

How can they not have an "All Clear" message? Even if there was a real attack, at some point you have to be able to say "OK, anyone still alive can come out now".

Ok "technically" true, the first example was a comment. But in the context of the discussion we were talking about asking a women out and getting a " no, not interested", with you commenting back that even one comment (presumed to be a comment about asking a woman out) qualifies as harassment. The example given in the article was an obviously unacceptable comment directed at a group of women, well outside the norms of social behavior.

Um, care to quote what you are talking about? I read the article and didn't see any such thing. There were two examples given, one where a guy suggested to a group of women they should take their tops off and one women who got her ass pinched while giving a sales pitch to a government guy. Both of those are clearly way over the line behavior and not simply innocent attempts to ask a woman out.

But sexual compatibility is a key aspect of determining whether someone would be a suitable spouse.
Two virgins couldn't possibly asses how sexually compatible they are. They couldn't know what they themselves need, nor what they would be willing and able to do for their partner.

Japan is not allowed to protect its own sovereignty militarily. The United States assumed full responsibility for Japan's military defense. It's not like the NATO treaty, we required Japan to be militarily helpless and completely dependant on the United States militarily. Japan is allowed defensive forces only and those forces are not allowed to leave Japan.

You seem to be repeatedly (intentionally?) ignoring the fact that the United States is responsible for the defense of Japan per the treaty we imposed on them after WWII.

There was no "before net neutrality". Originally net neutrality existed as a gentlemen's agreement. Techies still had a lot of influence and everyone understood the greater good that net neutrality created and was afraid of the backlash that might happen if their company tried to break it.
As the MBAs gained more influence, they started talking about breaking net neutrality, and that's when it started to become a political issue. During this phase, net neutrality existed because companies were afraid that the government would soon regulate them (especially if they started doing un-neutral things) and they didn't want to go to the trouble of changing business plans only to be forced to change back. They at least wanted to know what the regulations would be first, and of course they lobbied heavily to try to get little or no net neutrality.
Eventually, the government did make regulations codifying net neutrality, which we are about to lose. And the companies are all ready to go with their plans to squeeze as much money as possible from all of us.

Most "dreamers" wouldn't qualify to immigrate. I guess they could apply for an educational visa, get BS degree in tech, then apply for a job at a tech company willing to sponsor them as H1b. That's the easiest route to legal immigration that I can see.

There isn't really a "pipeline" now. Most would-be immigrants flat out don't qualify to legally immigrate. They don't illegally immigrate to skip the line, they illegally immigrate because there is no line for them to get into. If you create more legal ways to enter the US, then these potential immigrants would be paying the processing fees (same as legally-applying immigrants today) so the government could hire more employees to process the increased workload, so the "line" should stay about the same length.

All of my great-grandparents entered the US legally too. The immigration rules at the time were:
1) Show up at the US border
2) You're white? Welcome to America.

The rules for a Mexican today?
Go the the US embassy with a lawyer and prove you fall into one of these categories:
1) You have a couple million dollars to invest in the US (buying yourself a mansion counts as "investing in real estate")
2) You are a model/actor/singer/pro-athlete/celebrity of some sort.
3) You have at least a bachelor's degree in technology/hard science and an employer sponsoring you for H1b
3) You have parents/children/siblings/a spouse (or fiancee) already legally in the US (this is a much harder and takes much longer than the visas that are about money)

Don't fall into those categories?* Then you can't come to the US, at all, period, no mater how long you wait or how much paperwork you fill out.

*OK there are a couple other ways to legally immigrate, but they are pretty unlikely for your average Jose from Mexico.

I just don't know, and your post makes me depressed. The problem is there isn't anything I like doing all the time. And even choosing from among the various things I like doing, they generally don't line up between what I want to do now, and what my employer needs done now.
It's not really the activities of work that I don't like, it's the fact that I don't get to decide when to start or stop them.

Um, a naturalized citizen is someone who traveled to the USA (usually legally getting a green card and all) and later took the civics test and did the little ceremony to become a US citizen.
Anyone born on US soil (regardless of their parents status) is native born citizen, not a naturalized citizen.

Hmm, to me "cord cutter" always brings to mind umbilical cords. Thus a cord cutter is someone who finally gained independence from a parent. The idea seems pretty positive to me, the cable subscriber was clinging to and dependant on mommy cable company, but now they finally are ready to provide for themselves (entertainment wise).