Never go full retard.

The attackers of the attackers of the attackers of bugs have now been attacked. Thatâ(TM)s good.. right?

Looks like Slashdot’s story submission form could use a caption explicitly banning certain characters.

(Yes I know Iâ(TM)m missing the point. But God, how I detest infinite scroll.)

OI link fail...

Facebook version of the boiling frog? Or perhaps extremism via creeping normality

Yes, far better to enjoy tyranny of the minority, where the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.

(Ok to be less hyperbolic, it's the many getting their way over the even-more many.)

To be fair, in only five POTUS elections ever has the winner not also won the popular vote. So it seems we've had "mob rule" 91% of the time anyway, despite the Electoral College.

And yet, somehow we've achieved a whole host of protections against oppression of minorities - almost all passed during popular-vote-winning presidencies.

So from an efficiency standpoint, it could be argued that the Electoral College, only very rarely resulting in a different end result, is largely unnecessary. From a moral standpoint, the geographical circumstances of the governed should not determine the weight of their say in the matter. Dirt doesn't vote.

Perhaps someday, we will be ready. Until then, mogw- Bernie waits.

Link Between Early Death and Heavily Processed Food Like Ready Meals and Ice Cream Weaker Than Expected

You just saved yourself 25 keystrokes...in a mere 38 keystrokes.

Even ignoring the whole privacy/corporate big brother aspect, it's just annoying.

There is no way to post quietly. As if to encourage and nurture narcissism, everything one posts is broadcast like a megaphone to the newsfeed of everyone in the audience list. If you want to share thoughts but not necessarily draw attention to yourself, if you seek to encourage closer more meaningful relationships through posts that your family and friends can only see if they "come visit"...you must look elsewhere.

Infinite scroll is an abomination which prevents the ability to gauge quantity of posts or one's position therein. It steals the light at the end of the tunnel, and consumes ever more memory the deeper the user browses on a given page, effectively hiding old posts. This malpractice is not limited to Facebook; this curse has grown far too popular on social media sites.

Search is likewise the ol' needle in the haystack, about as effective and versatile as the iOS app store (i.e. not) especially after crippling graph search.

I agree on principle, and I'd further add that if it's consistency we're after, oughtn't we tariff just about anything made anywhere under less than acceptable conditions? Which, I imagine, is a great many of the things we buy (all the things?).

Practically speaking however...solar panels still have a relatively limited customer demographic so this will cause relatively few waves. However I expect consumers would feel a bit less altruistic should they be told they can now afford 30% less [anything] - and that's not even considering today's climate of leadership-fomented jingoism.

Well that's it then. To ensure continuation of our species, I say we immediately hole out at the bottom of a some of our deeper mine shafts. Of course we'd have to decide who gets to go, and it only makes sense to select for youth, health, intelligence, cross-section of necessary skills, sexual characteristics of a highly stimulating nature...

With the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, 10 females to each male, we could work our way back to our current population within say, 20 years. I for one am fully prepared to provide prodigious service along these lines, in sacrifice for my country.

ftfy

Aw that's too bad. I was looking forward to reading your retort to gp's final point - the one invoking Ben Franklin.