Then you were unknown; now you're universally known as The Bad Pianist.

I'm the opposite: *I* don't use DST, and I have to spend most of the year reminding myself that "those idiots" think it's an hour later than it is.

Right. Then they fake a video as "evidence" that it happened.

You mean you read that crap?

We're in an interglacial, still in same ice age.

Ignoring crackpots isn't always safe. Anti-vaccination crackpots have gotten a lot of people sick or dead.

(The question is, how do you know whether any particular flavor of crackpot is harmful or harmless.)

That seems to be a popular view among the well-to-do in the USA even today.

Sorry, it will be BYODrugs.

Of coruse, the could have easily rented another venue in Oklahoma, but they like to use university facilities to create the {il,de}lusion among the True Believers that their views have some legitimacy.

I like to sew confusion into a jacket, then walk through a crowd wearing it.

Better yet, you can look at the porn you steal, so long as you don't -

The recursive expansion will keep it tied up in court forever.

Windows, nein!

You beat me to it.

IMO our whole monetary system has evolved to promote convenience so much that we're losing basic security.

I just now cancelled a debit card because I'm tired of cleaning up after fraudulent transactions. The world is full of criminal organizations working full time to defraud anybody and everybody. I just can't see it as sustainable.

I'm guessing that this is the outbreak that will break out of sub-Saharan Africa. Rich countries probably have the infrastructure to control it when it reaches their shores, but the rest of the world may be stuck with a pandemic.