Since Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, I wouldn't make any assumptions about what percentage "got over their fear" vs other means of no longer being counted in that group.

Technically, there are laws that are passed which allow violation of privacy rights, under some "secret interpretation" of those rights in combination with the effective martial law we have here in a perpetual state of non-declared war.

So these actions are in some sense "legal", but the laws that allow them to be so are themselves illegal.

Harm? What harm? This is /exactly/ what needs to happen in order to start to correct the systemic violations and illegal (unconstitional) laws. I believe international pushback is going to be more effective than the actions of the US citizens in these cases.

Anything that's going to last into unknown civilizations is by necessity going to have a low storage capacity, because it needs to be readable unassisted, and survive handling and environmental changes.

Yet when people find things like that and don't know what they are, they want to find out why it was built and what it holds.

Sounds like a job for the Peel P-50!

...is in a handbasket.

The "biggest websites in the world" are already complicit in the activities that the US is in trouble for, so don't expect any impetus from them this time around.

At first I thought this read "So sick of popular _greek_ culture", to which I'd agree. If we're going to draw from mythological names for astronomy, there are plenty to choose from beyond the typical Roman & Greek ones, both modern and ancient.

Kerberos and Styx were the equivalent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters thousands of years ago.

The patent system allows scumbags to exploit it, with all the rubber-stamp granting of vague, non-novel, and non-unique crap.

Actually, countries likely have a mutual spying agreement. USA spies on $COUNTRY, $COUNTRY spies on USA, and they share information. Both never technically spy on their own citizens and therefore obey their own constraints, yet they effectively have full unchecked information invasion on their own people.

I'm not an anti-vaccine person, but I think it makes sense to space them out a bit more. When I was a kid, I think I had under 10 things I was vaccinated for, and that was over multiple shots.

Nowadays, they shove cocktails into kids that have upwards of 60 pathogens in them. Why not give them a shot a month over a course of time, to give the body a chance to deal with things?

Vaccination is fine. The delivery seems kind of iffy to me, but I'm not a medical professional.

Amazon has the worst search engine of any shopping site I've used. If I'm shopping for tech, I browse through categories on newegg or pricewatch first, even if I end up buying from amazon.