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Comment Re:The 29% (Score 1) 100

Executive summary is probably 75% of white collar work and "advanced" track education. I don't even know how much schools realize they are having a problem with it. Pretty much all my friends who are pursing advance college degrees are using it to create the framework of their writing assignments and the professors are using it to ease the grunt work of grading those large assignments.

Comment Re:Is anyone suing? (Score 1) 105

"AT&T Free Msg: Starting with your October 2019 bill, we are doubling the monthly data on your plan and increasing your monthly plan charge by $5. Go to att.com/msupdate for more info. You may choose to keep this plan, move to another available plan, or cancel service. We appreciate your business."

Comment Re:Is anyone suing? (Score 1) 105

I don't know about everyone else, but AT&T made it pretty clear to me. They sent me a text saying that they were switching me to a more expensive plan with double the data, if I didn't like it then I could pick a different AT&T plan through their website or terminate my service. The biggest pain was they just wiped my rollover balance in preparation for the switch, so I lost 3/4 a gig of data I could have used in Oct.

Comment Health science (Score 1) 315

I had some bad heart health marker news at my last appointment, so I'm not going to risk deviating from a diet backed by weak studies to one that isn't backed by any research at all. But I'm entirely unsurprised with these suggestions considering the research I did on heart health to hear that any accepted remedies don't matter as much as doctors suggest. Our strongest remedies don't really seem to beat out genetics or pure luck.

Comment Re:Civil war? More like a minor insurrection (Score 1) 567

I live in a pro-Trump area. It seems far fetched many would try to prop him up after a proper trial. However, complications would be: if Trump is disqualified from office between primaries and the general election, if Pence also gets impeached and the executive branch switches parties mid-term, if Pelosi ended up in office and she pushed gun confiscation. I'll add the impression I get from military retirees that I know, the sorts of active-duty people you need to effect resisted gun confiscation are the sort of people who will also most likely see it as an illegal order that they are bound by oath and regulation not to follow.

Comment Congress (Score 3, Interesting) 58

For anybody who cares about this issue, it is congress' job to set the law. This issue has been bouncing around by executive order because all our legislators are so scared of being primaried that they won't actually write laws. Expecting our executive branch to do the job of the whole government is insanely problematic, including having our policy change at the drop of a hat. If you actually want real change, then you've got to let your legislators know what you want, you've got to hold them accountable, and you've got to not get all pissy when they actually have to compromise something else to get what is important to you. Then it isn't the end of the world when your opponent wins the White House and you don't have to rely on a partisan stacking of the supreme court to continue important policies.

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