Did they dogfood it?

You know what companies never eat their own dog food? Dog food companies. Go figure.

"Algorithm" is the distinction. Otherwise you're basically saying "What's my algorithm for doing X? I just demand X be done." Perhaps you could call it The King's Algorithm.

You realize this is very different from "people bought X," right?

Good one! Apart from 'solder' English pronunciation is so consistent that this is absolutely shocking.

It would have been more impressive if you'd posted your analysis *before* the suit was withdrawn.

Then they claimed they were from M$

Did he actually pronounce it that way?

I've commonly heard a rumor that artificial sweeteners impact insulin somehow

A rumor without any reasonable evidence to support it.

Pretty much the only way to avoid that in most cases is to eat so little that you aren't meeting your daily caloric needs, which means you'd need to starve yourself to death in order to avoid taking insulin.

Well that's certainly not true. You can eat plenty of meat, eggs, spinach, broccoli, olive oil and much much more.

What do you eat? Serious question, not an argument.

The argument made in that article that chess is somehow good for the goals of "STEM" makes me laugh out loud

I have to agree with this. I was a successful player as a student; my high school team won the national championship, I won an individual state championship, and before this article I had no idea there was even anything called a "chess facilitator."
Chess was not in any way a "gateway to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." Other than the satisfaction and enjoyment of the chess itself, the one other thing it did for me later was give me a couple of big breaks in my career, as I unknowingly (at the time) impressed somebody during some casual games.
Anything I learned about "science, technology, engineering and mathematics" I learned in spite of playing chess, not because of it.

Never go full potatoe [sic]

The "potatoe" incident was not Gerald Ford, it was the legendary Dan Quayle.

Cars on the ground can, with little exception, stop any time they feel like giving up the chase and turning themselves in to the officers.

"And once they've turned themselves into the police, they'd be the police and they can drop the charges!"

What if you loaded the thumb drive with pictures of squirrels? Would the dog recognize that?

You mean like Squirrels Gone Wild?

Well obviously there is a certain amount of energy building up that is going to be released somewhere, at some time. Breaking that up into small, tolerable releases seems like not such a bad thing. I have no idea if fracking is good or bad overall, but this might be a small positive.

People chose bacon over low cholesterol... get over it.

A big part of the problem why Americans (and others) are fatter and fatter are because of misbeliefs foisted upon them.
Fatty foods don't cause heart disease. Sugar, stress, and smoking do. A high cholesterol count does not cause heart disease. It is a *symptom*, not a cause. It is your body attempting to repair the damage.
Avoiding fats is a very good way to fatten yourself up. You'll instead be ingesting sugar and other carbohydrates, and you'll quickly feel hungry again. The sugar in your bloodstream requires the release of insulin to process it. The insulin tells the fat cells to open up and start sucking up all that sugar. When there an over-abundance the walls of your arteries get inflamed in the process, causing your body to *produce* cholesterol to attempt to heal the damage. Then you've got leftover insulin in the blood, and so you feel hungry again so you can put it to use.
Stop accepting what you've been told all your life. Stop eating sugar and stop avoiding fats. It's good for your brain and your heart, and you won't eat as much because you'll feel full for much longer.