Yeah, before this rule clarification, there was a magic force field protecting all women's bathrooms from rapists. It was literally impossible for women to get raped before we decided to protect the basic human rights and dignity of trans people. I've certainly never been sexually assaulted or harassed by cis men, but now I'll have to live in fear, because of woke.
It's not actually a new law, it's a clarification of a law that already exists. The supreme court ruled in 2020 that it's illegal to harass employees on the basis of sexuality or gender identity. The EEOC just issued a clarification that misgendering and bathroom bans count as harassment.
This is a plot point in The Accidental Time Machine: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21608.The_Accidental_Time_Machine; the main character
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jumps forward into the future a bunch of times, longer jumps each time, and hits a time where the human population is almost gone, and they're like "yeah, the fucking time travelers keep showing up and bringing old diseases":::
Nah, this was definitely outsourced to a company in India; you can abuse contract/vendor employees with way less effort than it takes to abuse full-time employees.
Yeah, in an article talking about how news stories about crime often show pictures of tents, they pointed out that the photo is of a crime scene, but the crime was not committed by those living in the tents.
This tech is extremely experimental and nowhere near ready to market as a consumer device that a regular person can purchase, so a lot of those questions don't really have answers.
I don't think that his plans for Mars are good for anyone but himself. Creating a small privately owned Mars colony is more likely to increase problems like climate change and inequality than reduce them. If it were Nasa or another government agency, we could argue that technological advances from the attempt would benefit everyone, like they did in the space race, but this won't even do that. Best case, it makes him even richer. Worst case, it pumps a lot of carbon into the atmosphere and wastes a bunch of resources for no benefit.
If you're that much astronomically richer than everyone else, how could you possibly be comfortable with it? How do you convince yourself that you deserve it? You either genuinely try to do something good, or you convince yourself that you're just Better Than The Poors because of some innate attribute. I don't think there's another option.
Beyond the time/energy cost, you're comparing two different things: cooking healthy food from scratch vs. buying boxed 'unhealthy' food. Buying boxed 'healthy' food is more expensive than buying boxed 'unhealthy' food, and cooking 'unhealthy' food is cheaper than cooking 'healthy' food.
For example: I could make a huge mess of white rice and oil very cheaply and quickly. Every other ingredient I add will raise the cost and time investment. People say, "oh, just throw in some eggs/grilled chicken breast/fresh veggies and you have a cheap healthy meal!" but it's still a lot more expensive to do that (in both money and time) than to just make rice.
Yep. My boomer dad: "When I was a kid, we walked everywhere! Nobody walks anymore!" Also my dad: "I'm afraid to drive into Portland because my truck might get stolen."
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Pretty much Jack Shaftoe's storyline in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle