This is definitely a harmful and cancerous view, but it reaches across the aisle. Limousine liberals at the most obvious, but also city people who hate country people, etc

Managers who can understand what their employees are doing are better to work with. The ones who can't, constantly live in fear and push that fear onto their underlings.

Your idea is to punish everyone instead of addressing the person who is the problem?

Then the problem is you. Collective punishment was abandoned in civilized countries millenia ago.

Why do you think the New York Post should be citable?

That's why we have president Trump. After smartphones were introduced, the masses who couldn't handle a keyboard made it on to Twitter.

The reason you don't enjoy work is because if your manager sees that you are happy, he thinks you are not working hard enough. They find a way to achieve their success metric of making you unhappy. This happens in a lot of offices. Success metric achieved.

If you were happy, you would do better work, and more efficient work. Unfortunately, "better" and "more efficient" are not success metrics (in many cases).

Why do you think that? I would expect vape to cause fewer lung cancers.

For example, cigarette smoke is rich in benzopyrene (which is mostly absent in vape, but still present in small quantities). In the lungs, benzopyrene reacts with cell DNA in a way that causes G bases to convert to thymine bases. Sometimes the conversion happens on the P53 (tumor suppressor) gene, leading to cancer.

It's thought that benzopyrene causes about a third of the lung cancer tumors. Of course, there are other carcinogens (60 or more) in cigarettes. Vape is still a health problem for the user, but it's better than cigarettes because there are fewer carcinogens.

Often an appropriate series of questions can help bring them back as a contributory conversation member.

That actually explains a lot about you.

I like games. I've played a lot of them.

But once you start getting the hang of reality, it's more addicting than any game. When you win in the real world, you win in the real world.

"Ah, the good old days. When I was your age, when we were bored, we consumed poison! The real stuff, not these modern microplastic thingies. You kids don't know how good it is. And sometimes we watched the wall. Because it was better than watching TV."

A computer is analog sent through a hi/low pass filter. It's either in your bag or its not.

I send them this video (alt="Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer").

People who read books are intellectually superior, they should feel that way. Even those people who only read them to impress people are more knowledgeable than people who haven't read...those people aren't the best, but they have more knowledge than people who only watch things like bachelor, and don't read. If you're entire worldview is created by daytime TV and Netflix, then you are only pitiable.

If people can discuss what they've read, they are more likely to be interesting than people who haven't read.

And this is fact: if more Americans read in order to impress people or for any reason, we wouldn't have president Trump.

Life was not placid under Bush, if it wasn't yellowcake, it was warcrimes. Domestically he wanted to get rid of social security. We're lucky he got shut down by congress his second term.

This lecture from Oxford on Lie Group Theory is probably acceptable.