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Many time zones: You get to a new place and look up what time zone you're in.

Well, sorta --- but it's no effort at all because my timekeeping device (phone) does this automatically.

For me, the time of day is internalized in a way that I think is hard to switch. Same as how I was raised with imperial units --- even though I prefer (and use professionally) metric, the intuition can be a little harder to get. But to each their own of course :)

I prefer the current way --- I can be in another state or another country and I know that 7am is a good time for breakfast, around noon is a good time for lunch, and so forth. (If you don't change latitude sure, just go outside to figure this out, but it's complicated if it's overcast, or the latitude isn't what you're used to, or...)

Time has a number of meanings --- UTC is great for machines, local time is (IMHO) a good concept for humans.

Aviation is also mentioned, which (to me) is a bigger deal here. The only viable alternative to burning jet fuel is to get from A to B much, much more slowly. Which is great and something we should be doing! But realistically...not gonna happen anytime soon.

I like the "this can't really be compared to Windows or macOS" aspects of tiling window managers. I like it when the window manager sort of "gets out of the way," but that's just me.

It could grip it by the husk.

Yeah people don't seem to understand taxes wrt stock at all. RSUs are definitely taxed!

Only thing I can think of is they're thinking of options? Afaik those can be advantageous, tax-wise, because you are taxed when you exercise, not when they're granted or when they vest (this is my understanding --- I could be wrong).

Search the Internet for RSU tax liability in the US. It's taxed as supplemental income and is subject to withholding.

Are you thinking of options? That's different --- "stock grant" afaik almost always refers to an RSU grant/vest.

Because a foreign power influencing an election is fundamentally different than a domestic campaign. The foreign power has their own interests, which are potentially at odds with the interests of the electorate.

Ostensibly, if you campaign in country A and are a citizen of country A, then you're "in the same boat" as the electorate. Of course, with economic stratification this becomes increasingly less true (fast food worker may live in same country as $$$ donor, but they are effectively living under different policies).

As darkly humorous as this is, I believe "out of network" doesn't apply to ACA compliant health insurance for an ER visit --- so even if this happened to a normie, it would ostensibly be covered.

Edit: added "ER".

What people choose to do with their own lives is kinda up to them --- the proverbial self-inflicted gunshot wound is, well, self-inflicted.

It's the children, elderly, immunocompromised, etc. getting caught in the crossfire that's scary. (Not to mention the new breeding grounds for nasty variants.)

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"South Korea as a nation dodged a bullet, but President Yoon may have shot himself in the foot," said Danny Russel, vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute think tank in the United States.

I bet my man Danny came up with that line in the shower. I dig it.

It's completely context dependent; you're right that using male/female is appropriate for humans in certain contexts, e.g., medical usage ("Patient, a 47yo female, presented with..."). But it is --- for cultural and historical reasons --- generally considered inappropriate to refer to our fellow humans that way in conversation.

Re: mutt, fair enough. Bitch/stud are examples of how animal terms, when applied to humans, take on very different meanings. Purebred is afaik not specific to species, but it is wildly inappropriate to refer to people as such.

At the end of the day, the logic behind what is and is not appropriate has history behind it; animal terms have been used extensively to refer to subjugated peoples; it may be scientifically accurate but that doesn't mean that it's inoffensive.

Of course we're animals, but let's use some common sense wrt cultural norms here. A dog of mixed lineage is mutt, but it's completely inappropriate to refer to a multiracial person as such. A female dog is a bitch, a male is a stud; the sexism is pretty obvious when applied to humans. It's fine to talk about owning a dog; it's not ok to talk about owning another human (except perhaps children, in certain contexts).

Yes, we are animals too, but that doesn't mean we should talk about each other in the same way. (And I say this as a vegetarian who thinks we should treat all animals with significantly more respect than we currently do.)

Unless we want to use group pronouns like we do with animals.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly why referring to women as "females" is problematic --- using male/female as nouns is fine for animals. Humans, not so much...

UPS and American companies in general

But this is USPS, which isn't an American company, it's a US independent agency.

Their mandate isn't (AFAIK...) to make a profit, but rather to serve the mail requirements of a very large country.

Personally, my experiences with USPS have been generally positive, from passports for infants to free change-of-address forwarding service to tracking down quasi-scam products from Amazon. YMMV though.

Anyway, how's your sex life?

"It's not that I'm against vaccines, it's just that I want my body's own antibodies to fight off the virus."

I think there's a bias in the US against this sort of thing that doesn't exist (or not to the same extent) in Europe due to the age of the cities/buildings.

In the US, a building from the 1700s is a historic artifact to be cherished, while in parts of Europe a building from the 1500s is just the local pub.

So, the US is often hesitant to modify these old buildings, but Europe seems to have more of a perspective of "it's a building, not a museum, let's give it new life by modifying it."

This is just from the perspective of me, from the US --- and I think these old/new buildings are really neat!

Anybody want a peanut?