I've lived all but two years of my life in the EU, and worked in the EU for half of my life. In all that time I've never spent time talking to Commission staff. I'm frankly bemused that you think that is an intrinsic element of living and working here.

It's /., so I don't expect you to read TFA, as indeed I haven't. However, the summary makes it quite clear that the US is suing Mexico over the ban, so you're shouting at the wrong country.

But your username is all other people see. Their is some other exceptions like if the other person in your conversation has your number in their contact list.

How does that exception work? There are sufficiently few distinct phone numbers that it's possible to brute force hash them all, so to avoid leaking the phone number to the end user it would seem that the client has to upload its entire contact list to the server.

I don't know whether anyone has published MRI results from a bowl of rice, but the famous one which won an IgNobel prize involved fMRI of a dead salmon. Note that the conclusion wasn't that the field is "heavily interpretive": it was that statistical analyses which perform many tests need to account for the fact that they're performing many tests. See also: oblig. XKCD.

I would definitely buy a vehicle with a B-29 dashboard.

There are two still flying, but I'm not sure that they're for sale.

That says a lot about the kind of things people throw away where you live. Where I live, there are people who scrape a living by going through the bins (which, yes, says a lot about where I live), but they're looking for metal to sell to scrap merchants rather than items which look new.

No, it was because the Latin students knew things like the difference between a phrase and a clause.

I obviously haven't explained what I meant well enough. The issue isn't that the age difference makes it impossible to form friendships: it's that each time you advance at a different rate to the rest of your class, your classmates change which makes it harder to maintain your previous friendships. Instead you're having to break into existing friendship groups in your new class. Do that twice and your socialisation becomes very fragmentary.

Only 80 years ago my grandfather found Latin incredibly useful. As he moved across northern France in 1944, whenever he reached a village he would seek out the priest, who would also speak Latin, and ask him to assist with translation to French. Of course, since Latin's no longer compulsory for Catholic clergy that wouldn't work so well today, but even in the '90s I found that in English lessons the hands that went up when the teacher asked a question about grammar belonged precisely to the people who were also studying Latin.

My mother trained to be a teacher, but took a career break when she had children. She taught me to read and write before I started school, so I was skipped forward two classes after only one term. But my parents wanted me to move on from primary to secondary at the same age as my peers, so I was held back a couple of times to synch up. Educationally it was probably a good choice, but socially it was messy. Children socialise with children in their class, so advancing them at different rates interferes with learning to form friendships.

I know you're being sarcastic, but actually, yes, there's a reason for the saying that freedom of the press is only applicable to those who own a press.

I suspect this might be an IPO engineered for the investors to cash out as much as possible

There are other kinds?

If I ask for Viking kings or the founding fathers the output damned well better be all white.

Alexander Hamilton?

If I asked for Central African kings and it gave me any white people that would be equally stupid.

King Leopold II of the Belgians?

It was deliberately targetted at a subculture of people who shared tips on the games with the easiest achievements to obtain.

Depends on the kind of exercise. You were responding to a comment about fitness, so this is more supplementary to your answer than arguing with it, but there are some rehabilitation scenarios where the removal of external visual distractions provides sufficient compensation for the downsides. That includes both physical and cognitive exercises, and you're probably right that it's not advisable for unsupervised at-home use with physical exercises.