I know this site like kes to single Gates/MS out, but the joke selection of Thiel raises an uncomfortable point. Pretty much ALL billionaire donors with the wherewithal to fund large university buildings projects are truly awful people.
How do you think they got to be billionaires in the first place?

This "journalist" is a joke and a disgrace to his profession. The fact that he has the chutzpah to claim that it his "work," or even to call it work at all without being run out of the industry is enough to declare the fourth estate dead, dead, dead.

Who knew that the defining characteristics of the "brave" new world would be abject laziness and cowardice?

Would to just shut the fuck up already? No one wants to hear your whining anymore.

The Constitutional argument holds no water. Even leaving aside such a ban would only apply to folks/insurers under the jurisdiction of the United States, and we are talking about a scam taking place in Nepal with climbers from all over the world, interstate/international commerce is perhaps the most regulable thing there is under the Constitution. It's right there in Article I, Section 8.

A minibus tour might not really tell you all that much, considering intense physical exertion is often one of the key factors in triggering altitude sickness.
Exertion at altitude is even more risky for those carrying the sickle cell trait, particularly common among people of black African descent. It has bitten multiple NFL players who have played in Denver (5,280'/1610m) and had sickling crises/splenic infarction triggered, notably Ryan Clark, who almost died as a result of it in 2007.

KBJ has undergrad and JD degrees from Harvard, where she edited the Law Review, clerked for Breyer, and was a distinguished federal district and circuit court judge on the D.C. Circuit, the country's "second highest court."
THAT'S who you're using as your example of an underqualified diversity hire?

The article's lead authors are reputable scholars with numerous peer-reviewed articles under their belts.

Yes, it's a pre-print, but calling it "slop" is hardly warranted.

The headline (AND the summary, AND the article) literally says "surrounding areas," i.e., ocal warming, NOT global warming.

The only person claiming this is about AGW is you. Poor reading comprehension, or intentional disingenuousness? Folks can come to their own conclusions.

You're wrong.
A meteor is a piece of naturally occurring space debris that has entered and is traveling through earth's atmosphere. A meteorite is a portion of a meteor that has survived the trip through the atmosphere and landed on the ground.
The thing that "rumbled over Houston" was most definitely a meteor. The fragment that landed on the bed was a meteorite. The article and summary use the terms correctly throughout.
All meteorites start out as meteors, but not all meteors lead to meteorites.
It might be space-related, but it ain't rocket science.

The rare exception to the general rule that you can't win the lottery if you don't play.

Fun fact, but not entirely true. While Canada and the upper Midwest were devoid of earthworms at the time of European colonization, the Mid-Atlantic, including some of the earliest places the British settled like Virginia and Southeast Pennsylvania, the Southeast, the Southern Midwest, and all of the U.S. Pacific coast all had native worms present.
So the breadbaskets of the original 13 colonies, not to mention all of Spanish North America, were in areas that did have worms.
Now, the invasive European worms did end up outcompeting the native worms, so even in many of the areas that had them, you are more likely to find the European variety today, but there are still areas even in the U.S. where native species predominate
https://www.biorxiv.org/conten...

Uh, if you've been around here as long as you have and have trouble recalling the many, many idiots espousing the idea that the moon landing was a hoax over the years, it might be time to sign yourself up for biweekly Leqembi shots.

Your numbers are the exact opposite of reality. RacetotheWH, which aggregates several polls, including some ludicrously partisan right wing ones (cough, Napolitano, cough) has Trump sitting at 40.1 %. And most of these polls were taken before the scope of the disaster that is now quickly unfolding in Iran was apparent.Yougov/Economist, which is considered reputable with a mild right bias in the U.S., and whose survey period ended on the 16th has Trump at 36%. Granted, the pollsters aren't exactly the same now, with some having gone under and others popping up over the last 12 years, but Obama's aggregate approval at this point in his term was around 44-45%.

It's Slashdot. We're all old here.

BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.

The venues existed LONG before Ticketmaster/LN did, and they did just fine booking acts and selling tickets. And they did it without apps of any kind. Just because you are too lazy to pick up the phone and call the box office to purchase a ticket doesn't mean that everyone else is, too.

But wait, you can't do that anymore because LN, in the same contracts they use now in most cases contractually REQUIRES venues to sell exclusively through LN with their fees even at the box office. And that's only in the venues that aren't owned outright by LN, usually as the result of predatory and coercive tactics used to acquire them. And these days, that's most music venues that are larger than a bar and smaller than an arena.

LN is also so vertically integrated that even in venues they don't own, they prohibit independent concessioneers and even parking. And LN sets the prices for ALL of that.

And oh yeah, did I forget to mention that they also typically require the acts that sell tickets through them to sign exclusivity contracts as well? It's a devil's bargain - either sign with us or forget about 90+% of the venues out there. This means that acts that fall anywhere between local bar/college hoppers and Taylor Swift/Pearl Jam, essentially have to sell through Live Nation, or they simply can't put on a tour.

This is the definition of monopolistic, predatory behavior.