It's so much that there's nothing of value but it's one of those features that's very valuable for large industrial-strength libraries and projects, and especially the Java runtime libraries, and of small value to everyone else. The real downside is that, like every new feature of Java, they've made migration and backwards compatibility too easy, and people end up with the unnecessary complication of a mix of the old and new.

I recommend Yet One More Markup Language instead.

I understand that Trump is bad. But Biden has actual dementia.

No, it not just diversity of opinions about liberty. There are people who genuinely want authoritarianism and want their preferred group think to be compulsory. We need to keep a watch for them.

This isn't a trial of UBI for many reasons already cited. But the main problem is it's unnecessary. There are people who effectively already have a UBI - people with trust funds or lotteries that gave the winners annuities. Just track those people down and interview them.

How? The alternative is Pelosi and Biden.

Cuomo and Whitmer and Brown are trying their hardest...

Not all things. Like stopped clocks twice a day, Trump is sometimes right. Sadly not much different from other politicians.

Trump doesn't care about support, he just wants to provoke the Democrats into doing something stupid, which they likely will.

Trump treats Twitter like an on-line role playing game, not reality.

I wouldn't be so sure that he's wrong.

Perhaps the interpretation was wilfully ignorant. This is a "journalist" we're talking about.

String theory actually is an embarassment to science.

I think it's great when there's new evidence, new calculations, new discussion etc. even on what seems like largely settled science, but it is not all that clear what's new this time. For a while it's been the censensus (as I understood it) that ecosystems were already in distress from volcanic activity but the meteor impact was major factor, with some minor disagreement as to the relative contributions of those two causes.

Racism is a smaller problem, but it's not a non-problem.

The messaging has been truly appalling. The good news is that a wearing mask is very small sacrifice and probably co-operation will be high if it is recommended/mandated. But politicians and the media both squandered what little credibility they had for short-term impacts. Gaining the public's trust is part of their job and they have failed, whether out of selfishness, cowardice, or incompetence. Now we have no leaders we can trust, no media we can trust, no experts we can trust, and we never trusted economists in the first place.