America is still the world's most benevolent superpower.

How do you know that?

Does this mean that web developers should stop using React?

The way the tech companies will get around it is to have an Opt-In checkbox that will be checked by default and buried somewhere in the EULA/TOS, so when users say that they agree to the EULA/TOS without actually having read the legalese, the companies can say that the customers agreed to have their data mined.

I believe there was documentary about this kind of thing a while ago. /snark

The tweets about transgendered people serving in the military were too well-written and coherent to be Trump. Probably it was Pence or Bannon who used the account to issue the policy.

Training? What's that? In my current bitter experience on the job market you get eliminated if you don't already have ALL the skills in the job description.

If you're talking about immersion in the company culture, that's a different thing, in which case I agree with you. Employers aren't doing themselves any favors by not making people want to stay.

Tell that to my father who has been practicing osteopathy for close to 50 years and whose practice is all but indistinguishable from that of an M.D. The only thing he does that they don't is spinal manipulation for a very limited group of complaints.

The DMV I get; in many places they can't work more than 4 days a week because they don't have the money. They're stuck in the Catch-22 of modern American conservative thinking: they're lazy because they work for the government, but they can't do their jobs better/more efficiently because they aren't allowed to have the resources to do so (taxes are a large part of the funding; the money is often shunted away for tax breaks and other spending priorities, such as education).

While it's true that Congress puts on the appearance of working a lot when it is in session, the frequent breaks they take kind of lower the average number of hours they work during the year.

English is a Germanic language, not a Romance one.

/pedant

Actually, yes. Not everyone has the ability or desire to pick up and leave whenever they get tired of a job. The 80s mindset you refer to is alive and well, particularly when you have millennials all over the place who do just that--pick up and leave after a year or two because they don't have any commitments (e.g., a life outside of work or roots in their community)--and employers think the people who work for them are fungible. I will be 50 in May. I have more than 18 years of professional experience in IT (I started late-ish--this was a career change early on in my adult life) and have shown by my background and work history that I can learn anything well enough to be able to contribute early on. But if your resume doesn't have the right keywords (and unlike even a few years ago, you seem to have to have ALL of the skills/tools/etc. listed in the job description), the algorithm that they use to filter resumes will kick you out even if you are qualified to do the job. Tutorials and courses are one thing. You can do those until the cows come home, but unless you are a recent college graduate don't even bother to mention you have been working on getting the skills on your own time. The only thing that seems to count is actual work experience with them. Freelancing while trying to retool your skillset doesn't pay the bills.

It is a legal requirement to in order to get any federal contracts.

Of course, compliance with contracts stifles innovation and costs jobs, you know.

/snark

Not to mention the fact that if one of your boxes (e.g., Spam or Trash) is empty, they now serve you video content which you can't block unless you completely block all scripts on the page, which makes it unusable. --At least, that last part is my experience.

Who knew?

It's not just scientific papers. The same is true for the humanities as well. Their journal subscriptions are as expensive as (or even more so than) scientific ones.