Women flashing their breasts in public to breastfeed is apparently not harassment because its 'natural'. There are women who will publicly post pictures of their breasts hanging out while a child sucks on them just to force the point that it should be acceptable. Guess what is also natural? Sex. The thing that makes the baby that is being breastfed.

(for the record I dont think a minor should be exposed to any nude non-family adults after a certain age, so this dude is still a perv for sending pics to a 15 year old. It begs the question did he know how old she was? This IS the internet, after all).

I interviewed for pagerduty some years back, for a senior SE position. They told me that they would need me to come in and pair with people for 6 hours a day, for 4 days, to see how I worked with the team. I told them thanks but no thanks. People looking for jobs usually have ... jobs that they are looking to move from, and having a long interview process where you need to be there in person for the better half of a week, or take home a project that takes you a week to complete, only serves to benefit recent college grads without jobs or people without families or other obligations. These days if an interview process from start to finish will take more than 4 hours of my time (across multiple days), I won't even bother. If you need more time than that to assess candidates then I'd suggest getting better questions to ask and assess them.

I had a Telsa Model 3 performance for nearly 5 years. I loved it when doing city driving, but once I had 2 kids and wanted to start driving them around to cities an hour or two away, it became a hassle. My 300 mile range battery only got about 200 miles in reality - due to weather, driving speed not being 60mph on the roads, wind resistance, etc. It's about 100 miles from my house in Round Rock TX to Six Flags San Antonio. I'd start at 100%, would get there at 47%-51% remaining, and fearing running out of juice on the return drive, would have to turn my 3 hour round trip commute to a 3 hour 25 minute one for charging. I never took it on any extended road trips because I don't think I can stop that many times or for that long. Theres only so much gas station / strip mall stuff one can take on a trip.

It also was not large enough to haul a family plus gear in -- which of course is due to it being a compact car, but even the Model X didn't have a lot of room for a family of 4 plus bikes or whatever else you're hauling around. We wound up renting gas cars for any trip over 2 hours, which itself was a hassle.

My car was taken out by a pothole and I debated getting another one, but at least for my family and my situation, it was hard to justify another EV for now - and I went with a Hyundai Palisade like a good suburban Dad. I've heard rumors of a megawatt charger that can charge a Tesla from 10% to 70% in 5-7 minutes. I think that or the kids moving out will be the tipping point for me to reconsider another EV -- but I am 1000% on board when it happens. I do miss my Tesla every day though.

Things spoken in 1 language often do not have equivalents in other languages. Things are often ... lost in translation. Other times there is contextual knowledge needed to understand what someone is saying. Case in point Sai weng'ss lost horse. You can say to a Chinese speaker and they will understand all of the nuances about a longer story of good/bad fortune -- similar to in english saying 'it can't rain all the time' or 'its a blessing in disguise'. But without that knowledge, it sounds weird when it would be translated literally on screen as "Sai weng's lost horse". It's like Darmok in TNG, or the way kids speak in memes these days. In other cases like Japanese's (yoroshiku onegaishimasu), there is no literal translation. It has a meaning, but nothing exists in English to represent it properly.

Trains are only good for people who really like to travel by train / are scared of flying. They are slower and almost always more expensive because it costs more to keep a train staffed , fueled, and running for 3 days and nights straight than it does for an airplane for 5.5 hours. Expanding the train network without improving the speed of the trains to match Japan or China is like expanding the telephone system so you can support more landlines instead of building more cell phone towers. This smells like rail lobbyists -- or Biden is really stuck in a 1950's mindset.

I had an iPhone 4 that worked perfectly. Battery lasted 36 - 48 hours before needing a charge (unless I got a lot of calls). iPhone 5 came out and I decided to skip on it. I upgraded iOS to the latest one that was made for the iPhone 5 and suddenly my battery lasted 6 to 8 hours and everything was noticeably slower. Decided at that point to never upgrade iOS if a phone newer than mine was out unless I was forced to because of an app I'm using (and Apple ensures your apps made for slightly older versions of iOS will not be compatible with their shiny new toys, for sure). I'd switch to Android but it's terrible in other ways. At this point I just want to be able to see how far out the bars of the Apple prison extend.

In Japan many governments provide after school programs for younger kids so they don't go home to an empty house if the parent(s) is/are working. Junior and High schoolers are often in after school programs (bukatsu) for the same reason (and also to keep them out of trouble). Lengthening the day to accommodate working parents doesn't necessarily mean lengthening only the school portion.

20k USD less per year*

What about the men who get paid less than other men for the same job? What about the Women who get paid more than other Women for the same job? or hell, Women who get paid more than men? You as an at-will employee are free to accept or reject the salary when you join. You're also welcome to leave at any time for any reason. If you accept a salary that you think adequately compensates you for your education and work skills then that's the end of it. Don't look to your peers and go 'but he/she asked for more' - it's selfish. Any employer will allow an employee to take as low of a salary as possible. If Oracle can get away with paying everyone 20k USD per year then they will make nearly 3 billion dollars in savings.

Not necessarily a few blocks from us -- but I live in Texas, which is really, really big. Bigger than many western European countries or many Northeastern US states put together. Knowing if there are 20 cases in any of the surrounding 8 cities from me is more useful to help predict further closings / disruption of life than if there were 20 cases in El Paso, which is 600 mi / 950 km away from us. Otherwise a similar argument to yours can be made for not having state level data - and just only count total USA cases.

For a while Johns Hopkins had city level data displayed for at least the US. It helped to identify cases closer to your community. The data they use still contains county and lat/long but they stopped displaying it, and it looks like MS'es is doing the same. I am not sure why they did it, but are there any trackers out there that have better resolution than state level for COVID cases?

Stocks are quite literally where most people put savings via 401k programs designed to save money for retirement. You don't invest in a single stock that can wildly fluctuate, you invest in mutual funds that track on indexes such as blue chips which while they can fluctuate, short of a new depression, will continue to gain in the long term.

I get that it's science and all but can't they find a better way of measuring the reduction of birds other than seeing how many they can splat with a car?

But this is classic correlation = causation. Are the swallows reduced because of a reduction of bugs, or are they reduced because:

• their primary groups migrated to a different area for a reason unrelated to availability of food
• the birds of prey numbers have increased and have reduced the number of prey birds
• the birds are killing themselves flying in to increasing human habitats being erected
• their habitats are being destroyed to make room for humans
• they went back to their home planet and said 'so long and thanks for all the seed'?

At some point there is an evolutionary fear response that gets instilled in living things which says X == bad so don't do X, and if I recall correctly, many bugs are born with genetic memory -- perhaps the bugs are evolving (find the Brain bug). Is there a parallel test to check for the number of insects away from the roads to see if they're prospering?