Their real estate is.

You just described pretty much every large corporation. Microsoft certainly isn't unique in this.

Nope. Trump won because of people like you. People like you insisting that others had to be "brainwashed" by Fox or some other source for voting and choosing the way they do. As long as you guys act like assholes and scream that those other people are "brainwashed", you're only going to drive more people to them. Nobody under 30 watches Fox, and yet Gen Z is shifting to the Right. Now, you can find another shadowy conspiracy to account for this, or you can accept that maybe, just maybe, people vote the way they do because they want to, because they have their own sense of right and wrong and they follow it.

This is why I hate the whole "best interests" argument. "I just don't understand why these people vote against their interests". Well, that's because people that say this don't really give a shit about their interests. People decide what their own "best interests" are, thank you, and then vote for them. No one else gets a say on that process. What they really mean is "Fuck those people for not voting in MY preferences".

I donâ(TM)t remember the last time I had a power outage. It definitely hasnâ(TM)t been as many as few times in the last fifteen years. I donâ(TM)t remember any power outages in our current flat, which we bought 13 years ago.

"From the people that brought you DrKoop.com, comes a new service for your dog..."

Do you mean macOS? OSX (OS 10) was discontinued and went out of support years ago.

How much do we subsidise the oil industry? Just look at the military deployments in the Persian Gulf guaranteeing supply.

One puts her fitbit on the dog

When we had Vitality healthcare at work, they explicitly said that they had ways to detect this very trick. Not so good when at detecting that it's your child with your running around with your phone though ;). Never mind that some of these health companies are also involved in pensions and, as a healthy and active person, I don't think I want them making decisions about what annuity I might possibly get later in life. The less data you share with these companies, the better. Also, never mind that Vitality was about three times the cost of Bupa, which I guess is how they fund all of their incentives.

Working from home is slowly killing you! As is owning a car. According to my phone, I've averaged about 10,000 steps per day over the last six months. Last time I worked from home, I barely made 600. I sold my car in 2008 and go to the office every day (lucky to have a short commute at the moment), which I'm sure are both beneficial to my health.

I suspect that depends on your height. 7,000 steps is more like 3.5 miles for me, based on the averages for steps and distance from my phone.

Technically, it's both. It straddles the mid-Atlantic ridge and sits on both the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. There is no continental slope or abyssal plain between Scotland and Iceland, which is maybe what you were saying about the continental shelf (it sits on the same continental shelf).

Yup. Fire up the bulldozers and just push it into Turtle Bay. Build apartments or a parking deck in its place.

The argument seems to be that if you can get your work done in four days instead of five then it should be a no-brainer. But that just sounds like an admission that you're not spending as much time working each day as claimed.

This stuff has the potential to backfire on the people pushing it, with owners and managers thinking "If we went to four day weeks with no loss of production, then maybe we're employing too many people".

No. I was replying to somebody who wrote about H1b and I had an H1b in the late 90s. Not sure if anything's changed in the requirements since then, but it wasn't just an any old route in to the US. It was a bit of pain all around. Probably not worth the hassle of the expense and time to apply for one, unless there's no enforcement of the prevailing wage requirements for example and it really is used for undercutting local talent. I was certainly on a fair wage at the time.