Caffeine pills are $0.05 each on Amazon. I'm surprised you're trying to save that cost.

The air pollution is due to the current forest fires, friend. The air quality was excellent a month ago.

Kids have likely been taking to dolls for hundred or thousands of millennia. Is this really that different?

What is it you get out of having a land line and cable TV that makes you put up with this? What do you use them for?

A cashless society brings dangers. People without bank accounts will find themselves further marginalised

I'm often fascinated by the hoops Americans are willing to jump through to avoid having to give people basic rights, but this is the first time I've heard it argued that we should keep cash around to avoid having to offer poor people basic banking services.

Europe does this right, food has 'calories per 100g' on every package.

I've been counting calories on both continents and I've found that it has its pros and cons.

For a bulk product like flour, I don't care how many calories are in a 27 gram serving. I want to know how many are in 100 grams so I can more easily do the math in my head.

For an appropriately portioned food like an individual piece of chocolate, I don't care how many calories are in 100 grams. I want to know how many there are in this 15 gram piece.

Setting aside the random chip on your shoulder and just addressing your claim, how many non-Asians do you think a Taiwanese firm has? RoC tech visas are not so easy to get.

British Rail and National Rail are not even attempting the same role. BR was a vertically integrated organisation that got to maintain tracks and run trains. NR maintains the infrastructure for rail firms of various levels of competence who then proceed to cause reliability issues through feats like not managing to have enough drivers (hello Southern) and costing more in subsidies than BR did. So, well, you're slightly unfair to BR here.

Sure, and if you weren't claiming these donated costs as justifying your own costs, then that would be fair. As it is, it is extremely disingenuous to claim those costs in a comparison to open access, zero-cost to reader journals, which also have those costs donated.

Sure. I agree that racists are a subset of the set 'people I don't agree with'.

I'm OK with that.

"And this is precisely why Slashdot needs to do away with moderation."

A quick visit to Voat will tell you the utter cess pit of racists that that results in.

Classy with the affiliate link there, that wasn't at all transparently motivated.

If the New York Stock Exchange shut down trading of currencies that wouldn't indicate you could not use those currencies to buy goods and services - including other currencies! on other exchanges! - outside of the NYSE. This is why you are able to spend dollars outside of the NYSE trading hours (Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m).

This community - and you - are really quite disgustingly prejudiced.