Reverses the order of play when 3 or more people play or behaves like a skip when only 2 are left.

My kids brought home from kindergarten the house rule that you can discard all cards you hold with the same number at the same time when it is your turn so long as the bottom card matches the suit being played. Very chaotic but they love it.

Probably not. And they find jobs in calmer setups or they get out of the kitchen. But for the rest, that isn’t a deal breaker. If that’s what you want to do then that’s a likely way to have to do it.

The somewhat military order in a professional kitchen is by design. Order is important. I’ve gone through weeks of training in a fine dining kitchen and having worked in hotels I could look into busy kitchens from the sideline. Culture plays a big part. You can have a busy orderly kitchen without too much shouting and people not hating each other at the end of service.

A lot of the drama that happens between people, if it isn’t stress, is the fact that advancement options are limited. The higher up you get in the hierarchy, the fewer jobs will be available to you.

In a way this might be explained away with changing expectations by the audience or it’s a way to grab audience attention. I think it also depends which media you consume and how that’s funded. I think public broadcasters like the BBC are less likely to add music to their proper news segments than CBS because they don’t need to sell commercials for pharmaceuticals with an unending list of side effects. In my European view, American news at least since CNN became a thing has always had an emphasis on form over function with more pretty people reading the news, sound effects, animated graphics, breaking news alerts, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of that has filtered through elsewhere as well.

Music on news is nothing new though. I remember Enya infused VTs of collapsing World Trade Centers and videos of the tsunami and exploding nuclear reactors in line with some trip hop beat. And I remember people getting mad about that back then as well.

I know it’s ridiculous to say it but I’m getting strong sock puppet account vibes.

In recent memory, there was a brief gap of calm in most of the world between the fall of the USSR and 9/11 where it looked like we could go a different, more positive direction. For the rest, every generation thought they lived in the most volatile times. I’m not trying to say it’s delusional necessarily but we have a strong recency bias.

Star Trek Picard S2. S1 was rough but they managed to dig deeper. Casting and acting were alright; the story less so. Suffered from production during the plague, to be fair.

If they’re going to Singapore, do tell them because bringing durian on public transport can get you in trouble. I think it’s just a fine and not a caning but still.

Male homosexual sex bad, according to OT god. Most Christians don’t think it warrants the death penalty today any more. Although some surely still do. And homosexuality is seen differently in different denominations of Christianity, ranging from just fine to tolerated to fire and brimstone.

Pick your favorite hero movie franchise. It’s a series of that taking place in antiquity.

Have you ever met anyone who got annoyed at you for asking slightly different versions of the same question?

Would people like a “X posts per Y” rate limit per user for this community?

No, people would not. It could be a tool for moderators to curb spamming but I don’t see that being more effective than existing moderation tools.

We like to think in easily separate-able categories, black and white stuff (absolutely no pun on race in this case). We are also able to hold opposing viewpoints in our heads at the same time. And we are all susceptible to political messaging. It’s like advertising; it wears people down.

So you can be a true believer of whatever Christian church and support a man in the White House who couldn’t be much more from your professed ideals if he tried. You can also think abortion is murder and support killing children in Iran. You can believe in civil rights and still want no Arab looking neighbors. We are full of contradictions.

The US suffers also from only having one more mainline party than North Korea or the PRC. If you look at other countries that are democracies, you’ll find half a dozen parties vying for power. It offers more tents to assemble under, whereas in the US most people end up under one of two and arrange themselves with the inconsistencies between their own values and those of the party consensus more easily than in France, just as one example, where Macron launched his own new party before he became president. (Just for balance: 2+ party democracies can also still be shit at the end of the day but they offer more choices.)

Yes.

Straight pride.

As sad as it is having to bring this up in regards to US immigration: how Caucasian looking are you? I unfortunately feel this will have bearing here.

You can create another profile on your phone, make it look lived in but sanatize it. Your laptop will be tougher but encrypted cloud services exist. Any country you enter will get the biometrics of your passport picture on the chip. Additionally, they take fingerprints, I think, and there is nothing you can do about that.

Most people don’t have problems getting in. If you haven’t been to Iran lately…

Your first question is answered by the article you linked. And therefore the answers to the two-part second question are no and no.

“Rogue” is a questionable choice of vocabulary. It went rogue when compared to the intentions and expectations of the testers. It didn’t do Mr. Burns hands and released the hounds on a whim. It was told to do a thing and did the thing in a way the researchers thought it wasn’t possible. It boils down to human error in how this test was set up. It’s worrying that the researchers underestimated the agent’s abilities or overestimated their ability to properly contain the agent. But the sky isn’t falling just yet.

A positive side aspect is that they didn’t try brush this under the carpet.

Fast food is slop anywhere.

I have a feeling it will necessitate a change in all the wall and counter outlets of every coffee shop on the planet though, right? I don’t think you can run 230V through those old connectors, can you?

But that is precisely why I picked it here.

All these plugs were standardized 70 years+ ago when no one imagined one day you’ll be able to buy a Switch from Kazakhstan on something called the internet. In a probably accidental version of regulatory capture, the bean counters at the manufacturers kind of like it that way because they have control over what merchandise goes on sale in what market.

It’s also now cheaper to build 50 different plugs in some factory before we ask the whole world to switch to one type of plug. Picking a standard will also be impossible if everybody gets a vote in the process.

USB is the only hope for truly universal stuff but that won’t do for a kettle.