...and you might say anything to anyone to tell yourself you're not. True, most of us are unimportant enough not to worry about being the target of Dear Leader's constant need to get even for terribly unfair affronts, like not everyone agreeing with him that he's the best little boy on Earth and does everything he tells them or suffers, badly, but I'd say that when a man has been elevated by a society to Mr Bezos' position—most of his property and status could not exist or exist securely in the State of Nature—he owes it a certain measure of emulable bravery in defence of the principles that allowed him and it to exist as they do.

Note that this also seems to show that quantum coherence can be maintained across two frames different enough to each other to have measurably different times.

This is another illustration of why this has become so politically fraught: a problem which will persist for everyone as long as it persists for any noticeably large group of people is as disturbing to those insisting on a purely individualistic society as are fossils to a 'Young-Earth' Creationist. \ Historically, when a problem people have is insoluble within the confines of an ideology, those who subscribe to the ideology will tend to insist that there is no problem, or that the people suffering from it are Bad People who deserve their problems, well before they'll change their ideology. (I'll note that even Lenin, though, was willing to turn to individual effort and markets when he gritted his teeth and promulgated the N.E.P., very uncharacteristic of the cruel old ideologuehe was afraid of being overthrown by hungry people.)

There's something between 'useless/harmful' and 'saviour', and I'm pretty sure most people favouring wearing masks aren't the straw-men you make us out to be. Of course there are always exaggerators and the ham-fisted; on the other hand, the very fact that masks are _not_ 100% effective means that their use needs to be as wide-spread as possible in order to do much good.

So the French are now forgiven for being obnoxious about trying to take our car-keys away when we were obviously drunk?

Actually, it was very good that this person was unwise enough to speak freely in that wise. I wouldn't be surprised if he now sues Parler for entrapment.

Anonymous Coward is anonymous and cowardly. and mistakes invective and passion for reasonable evidence and valid argument—far from a unique failing, ...and one that knows no single party or sect.

Supposedly, when Confucius was asked what one thing he would do, if he could do but one, to promote good government and society generally. He answered that he would 'rectify names'. This cuts both ways in context: some drivers for Uber really do seem like temporary workers doing it in odd hours, but a very many of them seem to me much more like employees in the number of hours they work, the way they are set to that work, and the limited freedom they have to look for other work while still at work for Uber.

The MX Player for Android, and probably others of which I know nowt, allows for speeds from 25% to 400% with good pitch-shifting of audio from around 80% to 150% and half-decent lower and higher. I would not advise that you break terms-of-service or violate copyright that you might use these better players, but I will say that it does create a perhaps-unfortunate incentive thereto do. I repeat, I strongly suggest that you not violate the law to use them, but where you may use something decent as opposed to their stock players.

(Not nice to see your ellipses symbols elided without warning by the comments-system. Using full-stops instead, it was supposed to be: Nice to see a president... ...who's capable of making a mistake.

who's capable of making a mistake.

I heard two young coders at the just-past-start-up boast about how little sleep they got. I asked if they had honestly delivered their best work that way, and they admitted not. I said spontaneously 'Heroism may be laudable, but it shouldn't be necessary—if it is, that shows that something's wrong, poor planning or logistics or not enough people assigned.' I still believe this. I also used to do much better napping for an hour when I reached a block, rather than staring at my screen.

There are people with a lot of money in China, and a big push for cellular tech, so of it may end up 'lost'---say, towers spoofing a random tower, and users identified as random other users. I don't know this domain well, so maybe those are impossible or just worn't work, and perhaps there are other, better ways.

they could loan money to a Mr Trump and that he would pay it back.

My high school expected forty correct w.p.m. on a manual typewriter. I still do that without trying on an IBM keyboard with good feedback, and I'm not that good.