That's correct in theory. But if Antibiotics are prescribed left and right, it's not much of an restriction.Also, that only restricts use in humans. Most of the antibiotics used are probably fed to animals for our eggs and chicken nuggets.
And the biggest risk of getting infected with resistant germs is at a hospital.
So yes, that' better than nothing and a baseline protection. But we don't need to import germs here.
I'd disagree with your take on the need for generic pictures. They may not be needed for information, but for structure and context. Unless you're writing for machines only, You should care about how your information is processed.
So ESPESCIALLY in an info-overload-world, presentation matters, as it helps with processing.
Take a fast food menu. 3 or 4 basic dishes with 60+ variations. Either spread out on a huge wall behind or above the counter, or crammed on a single two-sided laminated sheet. Generic pictures can help to guide you to the beverage or pizza section fast. So that's structure and visual cues, and not useless eye candy.
The other end is the menu in a $$$ restaurant. The menu is structured by seperate pages for each group, and probably no more than 7 dishes per page or block. And again lots of work went into the presentation, too, though the "eye candy" here isn't generic images, but layout, fonts and spacing. You COULD press the same menu on a single laminated sheet without technically loosing information, but you make the information harder to access.
The problem was that some hosts required guests to do it AND charge a fee for getting it done.
The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.
It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.
Labor in Europe isn't cheap.
That's not wrong for being plain wrong, but for being a wrong blanket statement.
"Labor in Europe" is a range from Germany to eastern Bulgaria or southern Italy. You may not get Africa-cheap or India cheap, but not everywhere is expensive.
I will say that at the company where I was in charge of immigration, I not only filed as soon as eligible but I actually paid for family green cards where applicable (which were much faster and more likely of success) and people actually stuck around after getting their green cards because they felt gratitude instead of exhaustion and anger at the end of the process.
I don't think there is any kind of loyalty or gratitude to be expected on any side. If they stayed after their greencard process was done, it was probably because you were an ok-ish or better place to work.
Well... more than a quarter of Americans voted for a government that is against their own interests. Or just Google "funny things Americans say". How many Flat Earthers?
But even most of those 40 million are not stupid, they may indeed not be skilled in the very narrow band of skills most H1B are looking for. I don't think many H1B are looking for skilled graphic artists, teachers or musicians. so these people aren't a 1:1 match for the work visas.
But that ALSO means that what MS et al pulled here IS some kind of fraud. They did NOT fire 6000 janitors and now suddenly require 6000 rocket scientists. Give or take 20%, they fired 6000 tech people and are looking for 6000 tech people. They got hired for being smart, not for carrying heavy things. There is no reason why most of them should not be able to be retrained except for department A not knowing about upcoming demand in department B. That's management failure.
But Flock (or other technology) is fuel or at least a catalyst to such "bad police".
Second in place only to the habit to cover up police misbehaviour.
Everyone who talks about "just a few bad apples" needs to remember that the saying is that "Just a few bad apples will spoil the batch"
...Modern ejector seats cause spinal injuries from which full recovery is "unusual". Smashing the spines of pilots might not be the most effective way to boost morale.
$22,000 per hour. The F35 will be nearer $42,000 per hour. These are under-estimates, as they do not include price hikes, crashes that close businesses, crashing into businesses, crashing into heavily-populated sports centres, etc.
Well, Dr. Strangelove explained the logic behind such Doomsday Devices. Like it's not a deterrent if you keep it secret and so on.
Yes. As i wrote in another rant\b\b\b\b post in this thread, they used to be story first. (mostly) good stories that just happen to be about "woke" subjects. Now it feels like the other way
Was it?
To me it sounds like another idea how to come up with an interesting alien race without a high makeup/FX budget. Trek often did that. Introduce a flat character defined by one single trait and alien race background, and develop it from there.
I wouldn't be surprised if that metaphor was developed after the concept resonated with transgender fans. And then develop it naturally. And entertaining.
Yes, at one point Trek forgot to make it entertaining. And we need a word for that. And if we go with the "Trek was always woke", we need a new word for that. I wouldn't mind reserving "woke" for that and say that old Trek was good at how it did it and not uninspiredly woke.
Preference doesn't necessarily imply a decision. I never decided to be a straight guy, but sexually, I still prefer women.
That probably depends on your definition of "woke"
Yes, it was always addressing controversial subjects, was progressive and diverse and inclusive. From a black woman on bridge to low-gravity wheelchair-Arielle in DS9. If that was "woke", it was an inspired wokeness that the viewer had to grapple with, challenge his own prejudices.(*)
What happend to that? Today's "wokeness" feels like a producer mandated LHGBT-Quota, a checkbox to fill during casting, or a right-in-your-face lecture. Again, not because anyone is invested in showing mankind a way to progress, but to please and appease some lobby or viewer target group.
Old Trek never FORCED those "woke" subjects on you. It used to tell great stories, that sometimes were about those subjects. And sometimes it was "monster of the week". But that variety worked. Today, it feels the other way round. "We need to fill those checkboxes. Let's engineer a story around them. By commitee." (**)
Whatever Star Trek always was - woke or not - it's something different today.
Orville has that spirit now, progressing from dick jokes to "Twice in a lifetime"
(*) granted. there were better and worse takes at that. TNG:Justice anyone?
(**) or vice versa. "People notice our checkbox-driven writing. We need to insert some tactical goofiness. Let's do Muppets!"
On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
