There is an assumption that the English version was correct. A likely scenario is that the English description was mistyped with the word "dick" and then was machine translated to Swedish. The US English version of Amazon is also full of mistakes.

Sure algae eat the shit, starve waters of oxygen and may produce hazardous toxins. Toxic algae blooms that came with the warm weather are currently a problem in many US states. One of the biggest contributors to that problem is all of the literal shit that ends up in rivers and stream from cattle ranches or farm run-off when cattle manure is used as fertilizer. Shit is terrible for the environment.

In most if not all States the fact that you voted is already available. In vote by mail states like Oregon and Washington that information is available almost immediately. The campaigns then remove those voters from the canvassing universe so they are not wasting effort contacting those who have already turned in ballots.

What is far more frightening is the big data correlation being done and the sharing of that data. Even in states like Washington that don't have party registration, your employer could easily determine not only if you voted but how you were likely to vote. Even on small campaigns canvassers often can see any fishing or hunting licenses you have, any magazines you subscribe to, and any other cheap or easily obtainable information that the party or campaign has purchased to categorize you as for or against.

I would suggest that everyone volunteer for a large campaign and canvass their own neighborhood in order to get access to the national party's software and see what information has been collected about you and your family.

Fred Meyer, part of Kroger, has that ability to scan as you shop. They call it "Scan, Bag, Go". You grab a scanner on the way in or use your phone.

IANAL. I suspect you are not either.

According to the NLRB, you are not correct.

https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we...

Even if you're not represented by a union - even if you have zero interest in having a union - the National Labor Relations Act protects your right to band together with coworkers to improve your lives at work.

A single employee may also engage in protected concerted activity if he or she is acting on the authority of other employees, bringing group complaints to the employer's attention, trying to induce group action, or seeking to prepare for group action.

Emphasis mine.

How is this waste of money more senseless than the currency that paid for it? The value of the money is also based on faith that it is worth something. It is unlikely that it was paid for in paper, and the payment was made by pushing some data from one system to another. Even if the currency is backed by gold, there is still faith required that the shiny rocks are worth more than what I have in my yard.

By that definition everything is a publicity stunt. It's a sloppy definition. I've only found one instance from 1802 that uses that definition of publicity stunt.

He wasn't bothered until they "doubled the prior emissions" to 5Ghz!

From TFA:

Humor takes intelligence. I think he's done a far better job representing the people and their interests than Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Ronald Reagan.

This was modded flamebait but the parent was not? WTF! Parent complains about "whites" racism against Chinese with gross abuse of Caps Lock and then goes on a tirade against Muslims. It's okay to hate liberals and Muslims and use gross generalizations along with the epithet "stans" but simply stating that a person stopped reading when the parent started their irrelevant blaming is now flaimbait? As a decade plus lurker I'm well aware Slashdot hasn't been a serious news site in a long time but when did Slashdot get hijacked by idealogues? I thought we were all a little more open minded than that.

Alvarez says she experienced debilitating headaches for 20 years before her diagnosis, but she probably consumed tapeworm eggs much earlier than that. When Alvarez immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s she complained to American doctors of a pain so absolute it blinded her and made her vomit.

The parasites apparently were contracted outside of the United States according to the article contrary to all of the other comments and contrary to what the Slashdot summary seems to imply.

I don't know what juris-dick-ion is on penis at Portland International or airports in general but Oregon has no obscenity laws due to the way the Oregon constitution is written. Since the arrest was made by Portland police it seems to indicate that this falls under local laws. The Oregon constitution's free speech language is why Portland has naked runs and naked bike rides every year without arrests. See State of Oregon v. Henry Unless they have evidence of "attempting to arouse sexual desire" this appears to be clearly protected under free speech under the Oregon constitution.

"Being naked in public in Portland is legal if it falls within the guidelines of ORS 163.465, which are included below. ORS 163.465. Public indecency
(1) A person commits the crime of public indecency if while in, or in view of, a public place the person performs:
(a) An act of sexual intercourse;
(b) An act of deviate sexual intercourse; or
(c) An act of exposing the genitals of the person with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of the person or another person."

Chase took away credit score monitoring and then raised rates and fees on everything and then raised them some more. Free credit score report every month was the only reason to have a relatively high rate WaMu card in the first place. You're correct that there wasn't a bank run and no one lost all of their money. It is ignorant to say that people didn't get screwed when WaMu became Chase and that everyone didn't get screwed by less competition in the banking industry after every bank created new fees and ridiculously high interest rates on credit when the prime rate is the lowest is has been since the the mid 50's.