A three-dimensional Beowulf cluster of these things!

So, alas, does the mold in my refrigerator.

Or vice versa.

I did a write-in for Him Who is Not to be Named.

It wasn't original then either. The Coliseum was in service for a LONG time and various changes and repairs of greater and lesser degree were done to it for its entire career as a combat venue, to say nothing of the things that people did with it afterwards. The idea that you'd build something and leave it fundamentally unchanged until the day you knocked it down again isn't something that really had that much going for it until recently when the expected lifespans of structures grew less and the engineered durability of structures became greater (or, if the bean-counters took charge, less).

They rebuilt one small section of the Coliseum using native materials and Roman building techniques. As far as possible, the only difference was that the people who were involved were born about 2000 years later than the original artisans.

if 100% material authenticity were the only thing, then the best we could do is try and remove later changes and watch the original structure slowly crumble into the landscape. But the importance of the Coliseum isn't just the stone, mortar, wood fragments and residual metal, it's the conception of one of the most important aspects of Rome, and to properly grasp that, you need an opportunity to see it as the Romans themselves saw it.

Aparently the use of the word "they" as gender/number fuzz dates back a long way. Long enough that it's considered no less correct that a lot of other rule-breaking exceptions to the supposedly logical structure of the English language.

Maybe I'm showing my age and upbringing, but use of "she" in a document mentally throws my gender-neutral/faceless person reading out of whack in a way that "he" does not. I can live with "they" if other people have the same reaction to "he". It's less grating then (sic) when people with a gender agenda think that they have free reign (sic) to make me tow (sic) the line. If I'm trying to interpret a technical document, I really don't need to be simultaneously wasting energy thinking about it as a gender manifesto.

When was the last time that you saw a recruitment ad for a polyglot?

They all demand specific (and often unrealistic) experience in a specific language or small set of languages. Usually paired with specific platform.

Companies don't want flexible people, they demand cheap easily-replaceable cogs. And what they often get are people willing to lie about their experience, since the "must-have" list is so long an inflexible that maybe 3 people on the planet will fit and all of them are undoubtedly already making more than was offered.

You forgot about the part where you pull in HR and make them advertise for an unrealistic amount of experience in this overpriced "solution", mixed, of course with a long and unlikely laundry list of "must-have" skills. To which a number of offshore outfits will immediately respond claiming that they have all this and certs to boot all for an Everyday Low Price, followed by hiring of a bunch of clueless entry-level people who can barely speak English.

Funny, they have no problem with remote workers when the remote workers are located in Mumbai.

If they were really that concerned with getting things done, they'd pare down these "laundry" lists to the skills that are both essential and cannot be acquired in a short period of time. And would take time to recognize equivalences (for example, someone who's done MySQL for 5 years might not have such a learning curve for Oracle and vice versa).

Too many businesses are so obsessed with getting someone who can "hit the ground running" that the only "qualified" candidates are either lying about it or statistical outliers.

The worst of it is that many times the business actually has a certain amount of "blue sky" in the project where some of these "must have" skills end up never being used, and instead staff ends up having to learn some other skill instead.

People used to starve in England as well during the Little Ice Age, because there wasn't enough summer to grow crops in.

The Little Ice age was just a volcanic eruption's short-term impact. What we're talking now isn't a flash event, it's the accumulated result of slow buildup, and it's going to be equally slow to mitigate.

And unlike volcanoes, we do have a choice as to whether to keep making it worse.

There. Fixed.

You wouldn't want to use our surface water. It's full of oil and fertilizer runoff.

Although they've been doing a good job of sneaking it into the aquifer lately as well.

That's exactly what the High Council on Krypton did!

The president whose government brought in guilty-until-proven-innocent drug testing and citizenship checks to the workplace.