Why are you sure? Most things I've read about contemporary Japanese women would indicate that they don't agree with you.

I'm just one anecdotal data point, keep that in mind, just like you with your Bell's Palsy. When I was a kid, I got sick with the flu about once a year, way worse than the average cold. I remember one year when my parents both got it. I was about 12. It scared me because I'd never seen them so sick before. I was bringing them food. My dad took time off work. He's a doctor, and never canceled a day full of patients, some of whom were travelling pretty far to seem him. He was laid up but good. I was the next week. The flu was serious, and seemed to hit once a winter.

Since I started getting flu vaccines every year, that hasn't happened to me once. Maybe you'll say as I kid I grew out of the heavy-sick thing, so I point to my parents, in their late 30s, prime health.

So, again, anecdote. Not data. But my life is different because of flu shots. I only reflected on this a couple years ago when my brother-in-law got real sick. Thought it was covid. Was "only" the flu.

I started getting flu shots because my physician father recommended that I do. I keep doing it because it seems to be helping.

Don't forget mRNA vaccines have been around for many years - decades? I have a friend who studies inoculation of cattle. They've been using mRNA vaccines for a long time. It's new to hoomans, but we seem to be tolerating it pretty well.

So here's a simple one: ask your doctor what s/he did, presuming you trust them enough to tell you the truth. If your doctor, who's going to be much better informed on risk/news/studies than you, is willing to inject themselves, I suggest you can do the same.

The anti-vax crowd always seems to gloss over or forget that healthcare workers (appropriately, imho) reserved the early supply of vaccine for themselves. They wouldn't let you have it until they did. Seems like the doctors and nurses cutting to the front of the line for the shot would be a good sign. Just my $0.02.

Be well!

There's no way I'd let Notion - or any company - track that kind of data of my life. I actively avoid it, knowing that plenty is done, but some is resisted.

Privacy isn't dead. People don't want privacy anymore, I guess.

My point wasn't that the senate represents only academics. My point was that I want my Congresscritters to listen to experts in fields before legislating. No one knows everything, unintended consequences abound, and I certainly wouldn't trust me to legislate most things.

I want my legislature to listen to people who study things before they form policy and use that as one input. Not simply do what academics say, but certainly hear them, ask questions, and then reflect with other considerations. I don't want my senators to vote to change our national time system because they're cranky they woke up an hour early one weekend or got an earful from constituents who did.. I want a deliberative process, not demagoguery. Maybe that wasn't clear.

Seriously.

Yeah, thankfully the House listened to the sociologists and anthropologists who study DST/ST and why it's better not to have dark hours until 11am in the winter. Or maybe the historians who reminded the House that they did away with switches and locked us in DST for a year back in the early 70s. And then promptly reverted back to twice-yearly changes when people hated it.

The should-be-more-staid-and-contemplative Senate jumped on a bill without giving it any study. Just governing from the gut. What a farce.

I've never understood the furor. Just flip your clock and go on with life. Heck, most of mine are automated now anyway. Surely there's better uses of our energy and advocacy.

Just to be clear, you're talking about at-will employment. If you work on a contract with your employer, you may have a different situation. I don't mean being a contractor/non-employee. I mean, employed by contract. Like the CEO and every major executive is. You don't need a union, you're just unlikely to have a contract unless you're particularly vital to the enterprise.

So if you are, maybe try to go that way instead of at-will.

My $0.02.

I mean, don't let any details get in the way of your worldview. The Trump administration repealed that Obama rule you mention. Of course, Trump replaced it with his own, because he also hates Separation of Powers. And the Biden admin is modifying the Trump one because a federal judge ruled the Trump one was unconstitutional.

Someone's always going to be unhappy. I guess I'd rather be unhappy with clean water than unhappy with toxic rivers.

Also, a great place to keep up on your Signs of Evil Countdown.

Maybe - surely certainly - some pilots, but not all. My sister's father-in-law is was a military, then commercial pilot for decades. It was a calling for him, and many of his colleagues. He had a healthy disdain and skepticism for auto-anything. Auto-pilot, auto-drive, auto-brew coffee...

He often tells us about things non-pilots don't think about, like: if one member of the flight crew leaves his/her seat (e.g. to use the head), the other has to don and activate an oxygen mask. Just in case. He'd point out how few of his co-pilots would actually do it or would evince surprise when he pulled it out and they got up. The old guard (70s-10s) were excellent about this stuff. The newer ones... Boomers - who knew?

I was surprised that this was a pilot with so many hours. Most that long in (I hear) are unwilling to trust the autopilot and would be reading instruments immediately. Well, he'll never make that mistake again.

I know I'm going to regret dipping my toe in this water, but let's examine your statement:

Take a look at the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. Executive branch scandals, eight years under Bush, eight under Obama, and four under Trump. When you examine, if you do, look at what they are scandals for. Sometimes the official is corrupt/incompetent/criminal, such as the appointee under Obama who was using his gov't issued phone to take pictures under skirts on the DC metro. But sometimes it's departmental, like the first two under Obama who resigned to take the blame for misbehavior/fault in their organization, rather than personal malfeasance.

They don't look the same to me. Both Republican presidents had far more corruption than the Democrat. The most recent Republican even spawned a series of articles looking at the depth of the problem, not to mention the impeachments.

Sure, this is just one measure. Sure, there are probably very corrupt Democrats. But pick another apples-to-apples measure and let's see. They so far don't look "much [a]like" to me.

Just to be clear:

1) This article is about his response to people asking Apple to adopt RCS.
2) I wish they would. The Apple walled garden is largely why I don't and have never used a mac or mac book for my personal machine. I'm not making excuses form Tim Cook and Apple not taking the tech path I - and apparently others - want.
3) That said, to repeat, this article isn't about Apple's choice not to adopt RCS. It's about what he said when asked about it.
4) Did people expect him to suddenly backtrack a considered technology choice the company made, on stage, because a Vox Media journalist asked him to?
5) No, I don't think so. And I don't think they should be surprised or in an outrage ("Tim Cook's let them eat cake moment!") about it either. What he said was what people should have expected.
6) Move past the noise about what he said and get to the heart of the problem - Apple's behavior.
7) I'm not cheering for him. I'm withholding my money for him. But I understand their business model. I choose not to support it, but I don't have any angst to spend on how his company does business.

o/

I get the indignation from the technical community, but if you expected the CEO of Apple to say anything other than "Buy more Apple products," well..

Because it was considered essentially ceremonial language that doesn't establish a national religion.

Here: Aronow_v._United_States.

The court held there's sufficient difference between a slogan and a religion. They didn't think anyone would confuse four words on a coin with endorsement of a religion. So don't use it as evidence of one.

I say why not give it a chance? Add two buttons to "Play Competitive" - this being the standard now. Add "Beat up on a bunch of noobs" and "Be a noob for someone to beat up". Make matches. See how long it takes to fill a match. Maybe they'll go back to Option 1. Maybe there's an untapped reservoir of noobs who want to get slaughtered just to get slaughtered on stream. Why fight about it when you can let reality sort it out.

William Randolph Hearst was born in 1863. Maybe look into that again.