Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock.

Actually, in addition to a couple of real keys, a little flash drive and a Yubikey NEO (for my GPG keys), I have a tiny little knife on my keyring.

TSA has bugged me about extra camera batteries, a little bit of water left in a bottle, hotel shampoo that wasn't in its proper ziplock bag, even nail clippers... but not once about the knife on my keyring.

There's a wide plain between Einstein (who was a theoretical scientist anyway and didn't observe, record, and verify data) and a technician whose only role is to observe, record, and verify data. The GP was referring to PhDs in science, whose role involves making models to explain the data that they collect, not just collecting data and applying it to models that somebody else made.

While anybody can observe, record, and verify data (which isn't even remotely true and many people trained in science are terrible at this, let alone determining what data needs to be collected), very few people have the talent, training, and desire to make models that explain the collected data.

Considering that the vast majority of people have been vaccinated and vaccines aren't 100% effective, the answer to your question wouldn't be the huge blow to vaccination policy that you're thinking it would be.

Here are some more questions that may provide some context:

How many people who didn't get sick with measles were vaccinated?

How many people are there who got sick with measles and were vaccinated, compared to the total number of people who were vaccinated? Now, how many people are there who got sick with measles and weren't vaccinated, compared to the total number of people who weren't vaccinated?

What is the frequency of measles outbreaks since kids started getting MMR and the the frequency of measles outbreaks since the rise of the antivax movement.

Sure, just like all of those other taxes that you don't get to opt out of because you don't use the services they pay for.

I think that our government is planning to become increasingly unpopular with its citizens and overreactions like these will prove important to the continued well-being of the self proclaimed important people.

I think that this is an important distinction to draw attention to. The overwhelming majority of contact sports do not condone the intentional injury of other players. There's a general acceptance that incidental injuries are inevitable, but the same is true for non-contact sports and even solo athletic activities. Even when hitting other people is a part of the sport, doing so recklessly or maliciously is not cool and will end with you being excluded from the game or entire sport.

His own administration is the one that has so forcefully prosecuted all of these whistleblowers. What makes you think he has any desire at all to pardon them?

The weird Stockholm Syndrome (or battered spouse)-like feelings that people have towards politicians baffles me.

You don't go there because of the war on drugs, not the drugs themselves. The US became a much safer place when the war on alcohol was abandoned and the world will be a safer place when the war on drugs is abandoned.

Black markets create a criminal element, so it's important policy to only use prohibition when absolutely necessary (contract killing and the like). The war on drugs have killed more people and caused more economic damage than drugs ever have.

Those, and most purges, aren't about "rational inquiry and the scientific method", but about eliminating fervent devotion to anything but the state. They're really more akin to interdenominational wars. Political purges attack the entrenched and competing power structures, not the metaphysical beliefs themselves. The point is to make sure that there is no authority higher than the state.

The contacts will probably be the first to fail, followed by the storage capacitors. The panels are generally overspecced, and fail by degradation, so they'll likely outlive the LEDs. It's kind of depressing that such a simple and solid state device would fail so quickly.

The GPS satellites will continue to function for a while, but the positioning system itself depends on the satellites being tracked and managed by ground stations. It's not an autonomous system.

Also, they're not in geosynchronous orbits.

I agree about windows in bathrooms. It works out well in my house, but it doesn't work out very often. I've seen many houses without windows in the bathrooms, though, so it may just be shitty design and not a (universal) code issue. There's no shortage of shitty design around.

I think that ventilation may have been one of the predominant concerns earlier in human history. The desire for ventilation may have even trumped the desire for light, initially. That explains basement windows. Modern office building windows don't provide ventilation, but they're still seen as desirable for the light.

I think the lack of blinds issue really only applies to people who don't care about privacy. Even as a poor college student who couldn't afford blinds, I tacked sheets over the windows at night. Windows that can't accept blinds on bathrooms due to being in the shower are probably just an example of shitty architecture. My neighbor's house is like that and they installed frosted glass, but it still doesn't cut it. That's just bad design.

That may be a concern, but that's not the only, or even main, reason that houses actually have windows. Most humans like natural light and rooms without windows are depressing and shitty to be in.

All of the windows on skyscrapers speak pretty convincingly against that logic, too.