molotovh

"Public universities" means state-run schools. State funding is responsible for their very existence. The state is involved by default.

Now if I could only remember what road it was that my mama said was paved with good intentions...

Last time I checked, "innocent until proven guilty" was still a foundational principle of Western law. Certain factions may be working hard to chip away that foundation with the intent of enforcing an ideological homogeny, but it's not gone yet.

The goal was not that "everybody knows your name"; only that one's identity be well-known enough that it will not be forgotten, or at least (in this particular case) be rediscoverable. So the point is not undermined at all.

For a while there I was two-solving Letterboxed on an almost daily basis, but it regularly took 20-30 minutes to do. I couldn't bear to three-solve it knowing a two-word solution existed, so I hut a stretch where I started not finishing and just looking up the solution the next day. For many of these, the two-word solutions required words that were so far on the fringes of my vocabulary that I knew I would have never gotten them. Now I only spend about 5-10 minutes on it and if I don't think I'm onto anything by then, I move on with my day.

I made the mistake of opening this on my phone. It is technically playable in that tapping the screen causes the sprite to fire and teleport around the screen. It is not feasibly playable this way, though, because movement range seems limited to the bottom half of the left third of the screen only. Still enjoyed the music & graphics, though!

Note that in your example, it's not the athletes that are being toxic (usually), it's the spectators.

It's common for sports fans to say things like, "we're playing Los Angeles next week" or "we picked up so-and-so in the draft" when there's really no "we" about it. The speaker is not involved in the action in any way other than as one observing it. But using that language makes them feel included in something bigger. And sometimes the brain starts to believe you really ARE part of that bigger thing, and you start taking actions to reinforce that belief.

(And I want it noted that I'm very much including myself in this assessment. This is not some "nerds > jocks" kind of thing. As an American football fan myself, I've made a conscious effort to stop saying "we" specifically because this has started to bother me.)

So no, participating in sports isn't unhealthy. Succumbing to the delusion of participation as a spectator, that's what becomes unhealthy.

I think a better (but less concise) way to phrase it is: "I shouldn't have to think to use your interface, because that's bandwidth I won't have available to think about your content." Thinking of this way creates a value proposition for the creator that aligns with the user's goals.

In this case, it's because the teacher is now left not knowing whether they have an opening in their schedule for the student or not.

This is a freelance teacher who is responsible for finding her own clients and managing her own schedule. If you let them know that you won't be taking any more lessons, they can find another student. If you lie to them and they think you'll be back for your lesson next week, they aren't going to look for another student to fill your time slot. So when you don't show up, you've just cost them to opportunity to earn money from someone else.

If I were in the same situation, I would absolutely institute a policy of continuing to bill for the student's time slot until they formally cancel services. Given the level of conflict avoidance being practiced here, I foresee such a policy being quite profitable.

And then there's Tumblr users, who affectionately refer to their own digital home as the "hellsite".

Do you think it is in any world fair to steal a car from someone who has done nothing to you?

Is this not exactly what was meant by "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants"? We treat government like a monument to be preserved for posterity, but it is not. Government is a living thing and it follows a cycle of growth and decay that eventually requires culling, just like any other form of life.

Yes, there's no direct land route for Taiwan's allies to use, but the same is true of Chinese forces trying to get onto the island. Their supply routes may be shorter than Taiwan's, but they are just as vulnerable. Both sides are likely to suffer a majority of their losses just trying to supply their troops, and the effectiveness of submarine warfare against enemy shipping and air superiority against enemy airlifts will determine victory in the long run. So long as the West maintains superior submarine and carrier fleets, they offset the longer supply lines. If China catches up in either or both of those areas, the advantage of shorter supply routes starts to tilt in their favor.

Next thing you know, they'll start putting barcodes on their military vessels...

There's quite a lengthy article there. It sounds like you might have a connection problem.