Go check with actual public health departments around the world. While they encourage frequent hand washing, guess what, much of the time someone needs to sneeze, they don't have quick or easy access to a hand washing station - and often they would need to touch many common things like doorknobs to get to one. So what are they going to do? wipe their hand on their pants, and as they think "feels dry now", quickly forget that they even needed to wash their hands - and then probably go shake hands with someone or touch more doorknobs or steering wheels.

Keep your internal shit away from your hands, which immediately touch the things the rest of us public also needs to touch, thank you very much. Elbow or shoulder is correct.

Yes, my wife works in public health.

I was with you until you said machine gun. I read decades ago, and it has worked with high probability for me, to simply press the tongue firmly against the roof of the mouth. I can't imagine that pulsing it like a machine gun would help at all - try just keeping it there firmly, applying pressure to the nasal cavities so they don't keep preparing you with an inhale, and the tingle often goes away.

How many times have you been to a website, and after selecting something from the last drop-down box, you go to scroll further down the page, but your scroll wheel is still focused on the drop down box?

You end up changing its selection (barely noticeable since your eyes have moved away) before you finally move the mouse far enough, or click off the boxes, or just scroll to the end of the drop down list, and then it finally does what you expect, scrolls the page, with the change to what you had intended already scrolled up out of sight.

I could see that happening here.

Gerrymandering would become irrelevant if you used some form of Proportional Representation system, instead of a First-Past-The-Post One-Winner-Per-Riding system which inherently buries and "rounds" the true aggregate intent of the voters, multiple times, as results are tallied.

Indeed, I would have used his example as supporting evidence of the earlier comments which argue that people have become spectacularly bad at managing their own money.

For me, I'm very conservative as a spender, picking up my old-world European grandparents' habits and lessons. I rarely throw something out - try to fix it or at least free-cycle it. I hate waste of money and waste of things be me or others.

I do find things harder today - My wife and I combined make around the same as the guy who was complaining earlier, and we don't waste money buying new cars or going on many trips like many others we see. We save a lot for our retirement, and our 2 kids' future education, and any extra we have when we are both working at the same time (it has been on and off over the years due to the new reality of not expecting your job to last more than 5 years, let alone a lifetime), we put towards our mortgage, which we are still paying even at the age of 40-something. When only one of us is working, we barely stay afloat (the retirement savings go mostly on hold, but the education savings continue, after we cut the little optional spending we do. For better or worse we define things like kids sports as non-optional)

Society and corporations, IMHO, have somehow restructured themselves in a way that the middle class (or maybe even upper), still do have it harder, like people have said - even conservative savers need 2 salaries to pay down a modest home much slower than my uneducated blue-collar grandfather did 50 years ago. I can't help but feel that it comes down to that issue with CEOs making relatively much more than the average employee - if they went back down to making just 5x instead of 55x the average employee wage, the extra going to each employee could be huge. It seems to me the would make things more like the way they used to be, with the bonus that if both parents wanted to work, they could enjoy a lot of things money could buy, rather than it just being needed to pay off the house.

And when real-estate makes life and finances very difficult, you usually need to move farther from where you work to make it more affordable, which makes it much more difficult to save with lifestyle choices like owning one less car, for example.

You really shouldn't call it "typical" police behaviour.

Yes, it happens way more than a one-off, and yes, it's serious and should be addressed in a systemic way, especially to prevent vulnerable or profiled populations, however it's far from representative of the frequent, usual, or normal behaviour of the vast majority of police officers.

Most sane people want fewer citizens walking around with guns, and the only way you can have that is with the existence of a trusted police force. I sure don't want a "police state", but we do need to entrust a small % of the population with the power and arms to be able to stop someone from wreaking havoc on the rest of us.

I'm not sure what I think of this Blue Alert announcement, I just don't think it helps the police-to-citizenry relationship by using the word "typical" in such an offhand way, without careful thought.

Great, now not only is your iPhone hacked, you also have to go through the rest of your life looking like Nicolas Cage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I see the reasonable points many others have made here about why he should not be fired, even if (hypothetically) everyone agreed his post (while carefully worded), may have propagated discriminatory views.

However, I would think many companies have in their contracts a clause that says if you do anything that causes embarrasment to the company, that's a fireable offense. I can understand this, I think, even though I would indeed worry that it could have happened to me when I was working at a big company, and would love (in theory) to have had some kind of protection to not lose my livelihood from it (aside from complete silence).

I think my last company had a social media policy, that somehow extended to even personal twitter accounts - forcing us to say that we worked for that company in our bio, but that our views were our own, but still making us responsible for any fallout. Not sure if enforceable.

Most of the time I have simply tried hitting delete or backspace on suggested email addresses in many browsers or email clients, and it does what you would expect, stop offering it as a suggestion in the future. You would hope most people would try this, or else google "chrome stop suggesting wrong email" or something like that.

I've always liked the impact of the works of Chris Jordan, @cj_artist on this conversation:

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I remember reading about this a few months ago, and I'm pretty sure it was linked from Slashdot. I'm too lazy to go look for it, but I was excited then, so I clearly remember it.

I'm non-partisan here, but didn't Qualcomm come up with a revolutionary invention that made far more efficient use of the available radio bandwidth, to allow cell phone use, and eventually data, to really explode? Aside from BlackBerry, I'd think Qualcomm was the most influential in terms of technical innovation that allowed the cell phone and ensuing smartphone boom to even happen.

Apple wasn't very innovative at all except in the UI space - realizing what the majority of people (i.e. non-technical people) needed out of an interface,and of course good at marketing.

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Seems like a reasonable thought experiment. In order to paralyze and maybe control human society, would a sentient computer intelligence really need access to guns and bullets, if they could create, steer and accelerate many wheeled steel objects along our road network? If fully coordinated, many could never leave your building, or at least street block, without probably getting killed... at least until gasoline supplies run out.