Maybe that's part of the problem. If he was already a member of the elite instead of a flunky hoping for acceptance, maybe he wouldn't be working so hard to screw us over.
The article says "thoroughly under tap water". I take that to mean no soap, but running water and scrubbing, either just with your hands or with a suitable brush.
Inertia and things that are really, really inconvenient otherwise. Here in Saskatchewan, the "grid" roads serving rural Saskatchewan are actually laid out in a 1 mile by 1 mile grid, enclosing 1 section of land (640 acres). Even equipment without odometers can follow directions like "4 miles north and 3 miles west" by simply counting intersections.
By distance, Saskatchewan has approximately 1/3 of all the roads in Canada despite having only about 1/35 the population. Miles are not going anywhere, even if everyone gives total distance travelled and highway distances in kilometres (or approximate travel times).
Around here (rural southern Saskatchewan), imperial still has a stronghold because of our roads, farming, and other factors. Our roads are laid out on a 1 mile grid (some places it's 2 miles north-south) and a square mile is 1 section of land (640 acres).
Even the kids who've never learned any imperial measures still use at least miles for distance when driving the grids. (And that's what we call them: grid roads, not gravel roads or any other designation.) Even equipment without odometers can follow a set of directions like "4 miles north and 3 miles west" because you just count intersections.
Even our legal land locations are given using these ancient units. So I live at NW 19-20-10 W3 and every emergency service and business who needs to knows how to find me.
Fun fact: there are very few flat-earthers around here because of something called a "correction line." The square grid doesn't fit the curved surface, so the roads that (approximately) follow the meridians (lines of longitude) need to be offset every so often to keep them parallel. The roads that intersect those offsets are called "correction line roads" and are used as landmarks when giving directions.
I don't know about pool temperature, but water temperature in the lake and indoor temperature are imperial with outdoor temperature in Celsius. Usually. :)
To be fair to your employer, he may have conflated two different kinds of 4-day work weeks.
The current discussions are mostly about 32-hour weeks, but there is a very long history of what labour law calls the "modified work week" in which the number of hours per day or days without breaks are changed to allow for alternate scheduling without triggering overtime. I've worked 4-10s, 8 on 6 off, and other oddities since I entered the work force in the early 1970s.
The most common of those is 4-10s, and it's always been known by that name (4-10s) or 4-day week, or "4 and 3", with "4-day week" being the most common in my experience.
I know that my own following of this issue makes it clear that there are a lot of people confusing the two different kinds of 4-day weeks.
Whether Nike is doing the right thing because it's the right thing or to take the heat off their own behaviours, I'm still glad to hear it.
The way hockey is organized and "played" has long disgusted me. I think its systems and culture are toxic to individuals, communities, and society. And that's before I listened to Canadaland's "Commons" series:
The only way it makes sense to chase 4.6 million from individuals and ignore 15 million from businesses is that the business have the financial resources to make it unprofitable to pursue.
The cost of enforcement should not be a consideration when it produces different outcomes. Either chase it all or ignore it all.
My vote would be to ignore it all. Less than 20 million is on the table, a pittance compared to the total outlay. In fact, I imagine that proper screening up front would have been considered a resounding success if only 20 million was lost.
I decided long ago that I'd rather do without than deal with anyone other than the post office.
It's getting tougher, though, with an increasing number of vendors who refuse to drop something in the mail. I don't know, maybe in the US, the postal service won't do daily scheduled pickups for companies with enough business.
Why would you expect that? If I've learned anything, it's that nobody has ever paid more than lip service to the effects on future generations. Pollution, overfishing, everything we do is for ourselves.
How about this? I give you my credit card details. You put the charge through when I get to my destination with my luggage. Have completely separate charges for passenger vs freight if it makes you feel good. Hell, put a 10% non-refundable deposit on up front for all I care.
Basically everything works on payment after service, so why not airlines?
I think that the active participation of members is how we get strong communities. One way to be an active participant is to take responsibility for what you want to see. If you don't like the bot, block it.
This is analogous to walking out of a movie you dislike rather than calling for it to be banned.
As far as I can tell, it's not breaking any terms of service or policy. That doesn't mean that terms of service and policy can't be modified, but that should be done only to address general principles, not specific cases. (Although it may be that a specific case makes obvious the need for change.)
I think there must be a happy medium somewhere. I hate surveillance ads as much as the next person and blatant, "pure" self-promotion is a pretty close second, but there are forms of advertising and self-promotion that are useful.
There was a magazine I subscribed to called "Small Craft Advisor" that covered the small boat market, frequently homebuilt, mostly sailing, mostly cruising (like camping, but from or on a boat). The main reason I maintained the subscription was for the ads and the articles written by various suppliers describing how to use their products and showcasing their offerings in detail. Now that they've gone Substack, those ads and most of the "vendor articles" are gone and I'm dropping the subscription. It just doesn't provide my window into the hobby, its supplies and techniques, and suppliers that it used to.
I also remember when there was such a thing as computer magazines that were similar in format and similarly valuable.
I never have a problem bagging my own groceries at the cashier. It's the best of both worlds: highly skilled checkout operator and a fairly skilled bagger.
I think the dedicated baggers they used to have were better at it than I am, though. They somehow managed to Tetris everything into appropriate bags that were of similar weight and were almost as stable as using a box.
I think the throughput of a cashier and a skilled bagger is much better than a bagging cashier and definitely better than self-checkouts.
Maybe that's part of the problem. If he was already a member of the elite instead of a flunky hoping for acceptance, maybe he wouldn't be working so hard to screw us over.