Don't be a retard. In Canada you don't have weeks of 35+ degrees Celsius. We're in the midst of a years long draught, and have been having weeks of dry hot weather. Yesterday we had 46C in the outskirts of Sydney. The actual experts on the matter did conduct as many backburns as it was reasonably safe, and even then some got out of control. But right now an area larger than Denmark has already burnt away. Puny human controlled back burning would never be enough to prevent all the possible areas where a fire could spring in these conditions.

This is true but incomplete. It ignores the very large extremely dangerous and toxic waste produced by many nuclear plant designs. I know there are "cleaner" designs, but they are so in the same way that there is clean coal. I do think that there ought to be nuclear plants as part of the renewables generation, to pick up slack due to variability and peaks in demand. But I don't think it's viable as the one true solution.

Glad they're catching up to Slashdot high standards ðY

I wonder if they'll make exceptions for games, or classes of games (is Skyrim/Witcher the same kind of design that encourages continued usage as Fortnite or Candy crush?) What about Slack or just plain old Outlook. Is this rule codifying bad design and anti-usability? ;)

I personally don't agree that freedom to sound off on _any_ topic is a good thing, but I'm happy to note the disagreement and not try to change your mind. However, a lot of people these days imagine that freedom to say whatever they want includes from dealing with the fallout if what they said. This is not true, has never been true, and likely never will be. But when they are confronted with said consequences, they cry foul and censorship. I don't have a magic formula or solution, I'm only pointing out that when people get mad at something we say and we lose our job that isn't censoring per se. On the other hand, there's the so called "chilling effect" that makes people afraid to say some things. So the whole thing will always be a tug of war...

I'm well old enough, but never heard of it. On its face isn't a bad idea, and I even agree with the stated reasons. But most of the current audience of the originating site have zero interest in open discussion. They want to censor opposing opinions as much as the "tech giants" by shouting down and booing (and doxing) their pet dislikes. I guess if it keeps them off the main comment sections they may become a bit more readable...

(Part of) The complex truth is that, even though you personally may be marginalised, and personally be "unfairly disadvantaged", you belong to a Group that as a whole gets a disproportionately large chunk of every pie. You may not have money, but whites have most of the money. You may not have education opportunities, but whites have the most education, the most facilities for finance, the most positive bias from mostly white faculty, the most job prospects, and the highest salary. If you are missing out on any of the white advantages it sucks for you, but it doesn't make them false. Now, if you truly feel left out and disadvantaged, one of the positive things that could come out of it is to realise that THAT is exactly how minorities feel all the time: treated unfairly, left out. The other possible positive thing that could come out of this moment of empathy is to realise that the public discourse about race in USA is broken, and encouraged by some sectors to continue to be broken. The colour of your skin does not matter in the slightest regarding capacity or intelligence. But it matters vitally when it comes to tribalism and "us vs them" politics that keep little people fighting each, other whilst true robber barons run the show and watch the spectacle from above. And those guys come in all colours of skin.

The problem with your reasoning is that it effectively removes any possibility of the wrongdoer learning from the experience and moving on with their life. What good is the sanction if it never ends? For all we know, she did fuck up but also she did learn her lesson and is now a wonderful surgeon. Yes, it _may_ not be the case, but a search engine isn't the proper place to keep track of these things.

I wonder if it affects loot boxes. Some EU countries think they are basically gambling

No, don''t get up, I'll show myself out

Wrong Forum to ask that question. Obviously none of us would know what's like to be ugly 0:-)