You're missing two key things though...

1) Back then we were not subject to corporate-controlled science. The biggest example was when "Big Sugar" backed up Ansel Keys, the guy who blamed dietary fat for obesity, and buried John Yudkin, the guy whose research showed increase in sugar was a problem.

2) The food we have now, and I am talking in your normal mainstream grocery store like Kroger, is nutritionally different than those exact same foods in the era you cite. Factory farming has switched the focus to quantity at the expense of quality. Farming practices shifted to this as well which is one reason why antibiotics are failing (because we loaded animals with them to produce more meat and such), crop rotation is not used as much as it should be which depletes the nutrients in the soil, etc.

Because the US has cross-bred Capitalism with Corporate Facism and created a system so poisonous that it is ultimately self-destructive.

They track everything. A friend of mine who is a therapist has been doing appointments on her phone for clients. She has started getting ads for things she has been discussing in session. No searches, etc. that would do it. Just her sessions.

Yeah.. move to the state that bans the sale of his primary product. Not to mention the legislature goes out of its way to make owning a Tesla car painful in Texas. This is probably another one of his big-mouthed lies that will get him in trouble with the SEC again.

In the fall it will be better. Because they are already prepping now. The problem with the Winter/Spring semesters were the fact that faculty had to do it on very short notice.

On-Demands Today, On The Pirate Bay Tomorrow.

Interviews are broken because they are too focused on saving money while trying to hunt for a unicorn. Mostly because the job listings themselves are broken to an insane degree. The most telling thing was a tweet from a guy in marketing. He went over a real listing for an ENTRY LEVEL marketing position. He listed the requirements that this company demanded in the applicants. This guy has been a Chief Marketing Officer for years and even he would not qualify for this entry-level position.

Having actually sat in on academic interviews, which are a whole different animal in and of themselves, you pick up on how broken the interviewing process was. One hiring committee I sat in on happened just after the now-former Provost arrived. He paused all hiring committees that had not started interviews yet and pulled us into meetings. In those meetings he went over questions that we were now banned from asking. The interesting thing is after my position was eliminated, I interviewed a lot and got the same questions that had been banned. Things like "Why should we hire you over every other candidate?" and other stupid questions. It really showed that they had no clue.

How about we go back to a time where parent was both a noun and a verb? Parents need to parent their kids. Period.

Chances are that prohibition on 3PO is a standard Republic thing because it prevents the spread of Sith knowledge which corrupts people to the Dark Side. The author just seized upon something he barely knows to make a really stupid point. Ranks up there with the moron who claimed Prometheus was misogynistic because the medical pod on the shop would not perform an abortion on Noomi Rapace (because it was foreshadowing that Weyland was on board)

Sweetie, if I was retired I'd be mega rich then. Much younger than that.

But tell me, what is Noon? What is a minute? An hour? All of these are human constructions as are all measurements.

Essentially this is a proposal to eliminate a timezone almost completely. Eastern will become Atlantic Time, Central becomes Eastern, Mountain becomes Central, and Pacific becomes Mountain. This means that Indianapolis and Halifax will be in the same Timezone. The only parts of Pacific that would remain would be British Columbia and the Yukon Territories in Canada and Alaska.

People do not like it because they cannot plan ahead. We know it is going to happen so go to bed early or something. Sleep in. Do something other than whine about it. Time as we know it is a human construction. There are still a set number of minutes of daylight regardless if the sun rises at 8am one morning and 7am the next because of a time change.

These chips were already in the making when Meltdown/Spectre were first identified. Intel locks the design of chips a year ahead of release. So of course they are not going to yank them especially when Microsoft and other vendors were taking care of it at the OS level.

Ice Lake Chips are the ones redesigned to not be susceptible to these exploits and will be released in 2019.

99% of the time, my packages are delivered via USPS... which makes a trip to my house 6 days a week already. The only time an extra vehicle is involved is when it is Sunday.

And as someone else pointed out, the volume effect works in the environment's favor like mass transit. They're not going to send out 1 vehicle for each package. There will be much, much more. So which is more environmentally friendly? The USPS dispatching 4 vans to deliver 25 packages each (total 100) or have 100 people drive individually to get to the store(s) they could buy the items locally.

No, it's not about "the left" whining. You're talking about an extreme group of individuals referred to commonly as "Social Justice Warriors" who just happen to have a really big mouth. They're the ones suppressing free speech. They're the ones making a scene when a speaker they disagree with comes to a public campus (or demands they be "disinvited").

Making a blanket statement like you did is no different than saying Richard Spencer is prototypical of "the right"

Because since corporations write our trade agreements and GDPR is not in their best interest in terms of profit, they'll just simply write an exemption into the next one. Or they'll go to the WTO and have it struck down that way.