You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.

Huh. Well, that’ll make things easier.

That is not actually true.

The right to a jury trial is guaranteed to the accused by the constitution. You are empowered by that constitution. You owe a constitutional duty to the accused; not to the court, judge, or government.

The law is not limited to the acts of Congress and the States that the defendant is accused of violating. When the judge asks if you can follow the law, you are free to remember that the "Constitution is part of that law.* Where legislated law is in conflict with your constitutional responsibulity, your responsibility supersedes that legislation entirely.

The GPS almanac is a table of the exact orbital information of every satellite. Every receiver needs a copy of the almanac to understand where the satellites are supposed to be, so that it can determine where it is in relation to those satellites.

When their clocks all shift one minute simultaneously, the almanac isn’t updated. Every satellite is 60 seconds away from where the almanac says it should be.

If the satellites were geostationary, receivers would still work, they’d just be off by 0.25 degrees of longitude as the entire constellation would be shifted the same amount. But the GPS constellation consists of satellites in a variety of inclined orbits. Nothing is where the almanac thinks it is, and nothing is where it is supposed to be in relation to anything else.

Parent comment is correct: GPS will immediately fail, and remain down until an updated almanac is published and distributed.

I don’t think you agree with Jon Stewart.

Police Procedural shows.

Law and Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, Lie to Me, Dexter…

Basically, anything that makes people think that police are more effective at solving crime than they actually are.

The people who say they don’t experience intrusive thoughts are liars. They are too anxious about how the world would react if they told anyone they sometimes think about jumping off a roof, or driving into oncoming traffic.

The people who don’t actually have intrusive thoughts are psychopaths. Lacking empathy, they don’t even consider how such actions would affect anyone around them. They do, or do not, as they choose.

The healthiest are the people who recognize in themselves behaviors they don’t observe in their peers, and they are concerned enough for everyone’s safety to risk being seen as abnormal.

There is a difference between “intrusive thought” and “suicidal/homicidal ideation”. Experiencing these ideas as irresistible urges to partake in the behaviors might warrant a trip to a pshrink.

Experiencing them as vivid scenes of violence and destruction, without a compulsion to actually act on them, is not unusual or concerning. They’re your own private action movies; Enjoy them.

I stopped using cursive my sophomore year of high school. Started using smallcaps, and everyone was happier.

And yet, we’re both wearing plastic bags…

My point is that synthetic fiber is the area we have to focus on to address your primary concern.

Tires are, indeed, a major source of microplastics, but tires are used outdoors, and you probably spend most of your time indoors.

Check your lint trap: those are the kind of microplastics you have in your brain.

Please post a picture of the tag on the shirt you are wearing right now.

The overwhelming majority of microplastics in your body are polyester fibers, and most of those originally came from textiles.

Pong.

Emails are permanent records. Your focus seems to be on how they sound to the initial recipient.

My concern is how they sound to the person reading them six months or two years later. What I have found is that the longer the delay between having written the email and it being read, the more pissed off the reader is when they are reading it. If the problem is big enough that they need to come back to me two years later, the reader is probably not going to appreciate the lighthearted jests I originally included.

My work emails with colleagues are brusque and formulaic. I don’t include enough content to even begin to guess at mood or emotional state.

I’m not saying you should use email this way. I’m saying that I have little use for adjectives, articles, and my recipients rarely have need for a scroll wheel. I can’t imagine ever using either an emoticon or an emoji in a work email.

I used the same approach at the family business for years without any major problems. Go for it.

Alright! 2020 2.0!

You can set up a simple, dumb thermostat in parallel, to act as a failsafe. Set it 5 degrees below your lowest heat setpoint, and even if your server crashes, it doesn’t let your house freeze.

Ok.

I’m going to be hiking through the jungle. The lions have been counseled on my rights as a person; they know they aren’t supposed to eat me. They know that if they are caught eating me, they are going to spend 3 to 5 years in lion-jail.

Before I walk through the jungle, I’m deciding on what to wear. The choices presented to me are:

1. pants, long sleeve shirt, sturdy boots, wide brimmed hat, and a small backpack with water, first aid kit, radio, and extra batteries

2. 23 pounds of thinly-sliced beef steaks, sewn into a knee-length sundress, and a pair of stiletto-heeled thigh-high boots.

The argument here isn’t which wardrobe option I choose. The argument here is whether you should say anything to me when I come out of my room in my meat-dress.

You cannot positively control the actions of others, and others cannot positively control your actions. You can influence the actions of others, but you can only control your own.

We can influence members of society to “stop taking advantage of people” all day long. But if you want to control whether people are taken advantage of, you have to address the victims rather than the perpetrators.

Society can try to placate perpetrators. There’s little sense stealing something that everyone already has. We can appeal to the perpetrator’s empathy, but that assumes they have some. We can threaten repercussions and hope that has a deterrent effect. But, the final decision as to whether to perpetrate is always in the head of the perpetrator, and outside the reach of anyone else.

If you want greater control over that decision, the only option you have is to take your own action.

Wasn’t this the plot of a book?

If it’s not tied to any post or comment, is it still the user’s data and subject to the GDPR? What if I were to create a post that linked to that image? Would it become my image?

Reddit ended like two years ago.