Are you sure? Re-check that Falsehoods programmers believe about names and then tell me, what is an input validator that will allow all names that occur "out in the wild" as per link, while preventing things that will outright break any system and simultaneously fulfill the management's requirement "the name field is mandatory".

Every single solution to this problem that exists currently is at least partially broken - either too restrictive, not allowing someone to enter their actual name, or too permissive, allowing something no system is able to handle correctly - or at least no system on sane budget would be.

No, not touching the goalposts an inch: Thank you, yours is a VERY valuable post that finally sheds a bit of good light on what I wanted to know for a good bit of time.

I'm sick and tired of propaganda that screams "Trust the science!" and then instead of presenting science throws at me celebrities and politicians with slogans, platitudes and often nonsensical recommendations (wear a mask while driving a car alone?). And when I demand actual science, I'm too often brigaded by fanatics who equate pundits=science and call me names for daring not to trust unsourced claims.

Getting some actual science data (the kind you provided) is near-impossible in the current political climate and what you provided is really refreshing and unique. This is where my goalposts are and you scored fair and square.

Also the most important piece: proportions between death ratios among: unvaccinated testing positive, vaccinated testing positive, vaccinated testing negative.

Only governments can censor,

What kind of alternate reality do you exist in? Are you a Roblox character maybe?

It's gonna be another Second Life clone, except with strict censorship, so all the cringe, none of the appeal. I'l be surprised if they break 5 million users.

Well then, what about this? Fake news?

Never mind you're completely missing the point, imagining this would need to be facilitated by the lab management, not an underpaid technician dodging the security to make some cash on the side.

"it's unlikely that a person who works at such a facility would not be engaging in proper sensitization" - I think you're taking their work ethics with western measure.

Check out how it looks like in architecture / civil engineering. Tofu-dreg buildings. Check how oil from sewage is used in fast-food. And this approach to work ethics is seen everywhere.

Extremely implausible. The targeted protein is so unique the vaccines against one virus variant are unable to produce immunity against another, with minimally different spike protein. It's about impossible anything we produce naturally would match.

Semantics on both sides. AFAIK the current scientific/intelligence consensus is the laboratory origin story is deemed as approximately equally as plausible as natural origin. So, ~50%, and "not impossible" is just as, if not more disingenuous and faith-based as "fairly good evidence".

OTOH laboratory origin still doesn't automatically imply fully artificial virus. It could be a rare strain of a natural virus studied at the laboratory, it could be a unique new strain mutated randomly/unintentionally from a natural virus in the course of its study, or it could be a strain purposefully developed to have this sort of nasty properties; unlikely to be an actual, "final product" bio-weapon (because it's not nearly as nasty as these would be) but an intermediate stage.

What can be dismissed pretty readily is purposeful, government-mandated release. Releasing it in home city of the microbiology lab would be outright stupid. The much more likely scenario is plain sloppiness in handling of the material, possibly in connection with shady practices regarding handling of test animals (allegations of lab employees selling post-test bats to the local market instead of proper disposal as biohazard material). One also can't completely exclude a rogue employee releasing the infection on their own, although this is unlikely.

Can you give an overview of how that happens *actually*? Not on paper, by the book, theoretical process, but how so many people with direct connections and vested interest in big business end up there - as some of the most anti-consumer, pro-censorship, anti-freedom regulations ( like ACTA ) are conceived there, how do these people get in there and pass the EU parliament scrutiny?

And we get the Volkswagen Test Mode. Manufacturers instead of competing to remove flaws and have a well-rounded product with great reviews from satisfied customers, race to excel at the strict tests and half-ass everything not covered by tests.

A laundry machine that takes 4 hours to finish one batch of laundry, and uses 2 kilowatt-hours over that time (mainly just to keep the water warm as it grows cold over time), will average 500 watt and score better at "energy rating" than one that manages to do the same in 30 minutes using up 1 kWh total but operating at 2kW, wasting less energy.

European Parliament - yes. European Commission - these are nominated. Theoretically they don't have legislative power, practically they create "directions" how to enforce the legislation/laws, and have some crazy amount of leeway in doing so, to the degree that they are often the actual legislature and the EU parliament often must fight back against them.

You are right - this is a clearly established law.

OTOH the police taking your device away, and deleting your recording, without any warrant, is insufficiently illegal to surpass the threshold of "qualified immunity" they enjoy and stop them from doing that. And you trying to stop them from doing that will be counted as "interference in their official duties."

Firefox honestly baffled me, offering "Yes" and "Not Now" as two default options, with "Never" only selectable from a drop-down. The first browser that offered popup blocking, doing this shit nowadays.

Eh. I wouldn't mind if I was only getting meaningful notifications. But when Youtube decides to notify me at midnight that they changed their terms of service? When I get a notification from my bank app that they've prepared my monthly summary? That (for the third time this week) I'm getting updates of the system apps, in particular Wallpaper Carousel and Package Installer? Fuck that shit.