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@julesh I'll add Reykjavik, Iceland an Anchorage Alaska to your list.

I don't want the whole world to give up what we call Daylight Savings Time, I just want California to stop switching and always be UTC+7:00 which in my part of the state is only 35 minutes off of local mean solar noon. If our neighbor Arizona can do it we can too.

@floatybirb depends on where in the south one if from. Either way it comes from the phrase "I'd rather vote for an old Yeller / Blue dog than support a carpetbagger Republican."

@FantasticalEconomics did you miss the part about the patient being a quadriplegic?

"Arbaugh explained that he had largely given up on playing Civilization 6 prior to having the surgery, as he needed ”complete help” from a friend in order to play, and the time intensive nature of the game had made prolonged play sessions untenable."

@floatybirb I think it would be The Blessed Virgin Mary or St. Patrick who were the choice of Italian and Irish Catholics for a Roman Catholic holiday to put on the calendar - a campaign promise from FDR to Catholic workers in 1936. He chose Columbus instead because that choice faced less push back from Southern Yellow Dog Democrats who were also an important part of the '36 Dem coalition.

@AccordionBruce @luckytran @MatWright except of course that every study that has studied mandatory mask wearing has concluded that there was no significant difference in infection rates or deaths at a population level. What I'm saying is that the research backed statement would be "We have adjusted our recommendations because our previous ones where quite burdensome with no discernible effect on contagion or deaths."

@anubis2814 @raganwald Ricci v. DeStefano has set a clear process that you screen for acceptable candidates first then hold blind evaluations like test or auditions. You do not want a candidate who scored best on your blind test coming back and using that fact in a discrimination suit.

@raganwald Are you willing to accept *all* candidates who come out the best on a blind audition? There is a now famous story of a CS conference who thought they were doing the right thing by selecting their speakers based on blind submissions. They then got a lot of hurt feelings on all sides when one of the invited presenters was notorious for his misogynistic social media posts.

I think there is a place for blind auditions, but there needs to be some fully transparent screenings before candidates are invited to audition.

@canticanovae Your feeling is that they will eliminate positions rather than increase enrollment? The fear with improving productivity through technology is always that people will lose jobs, but historically, the result is that lower cost increases demand to the point where more people are needed than before the disruption.

@PJ_Evans @rbreich This is all true. It is also true that by any reasonable metric The Oakland Coliseum is now the worst of the 32 major league baseball venues. Both Oakland and the owners agree that it needs to be replaced. The A's wanted Oakland to chip in a large portion of the cost which, as Prof. Reich looks down from the Ivory Campanile of Cal, was a bad deal. Oakland, per his essay, is better off letting some other city bear the burden of stadium construction rather than capitulate to the A's PITA owner.

@rbreich So you think #Oakland made a good decision to let the A's leave town rather than offer more for a replacement for the Coliseum?

@professorhank But in practice capitalism has created historically stable and prosperous economies. Maybe academic intellectuals need to reexamine their priors.

@julesh waiting for this to go like warranty details. "For full warranty and bibliography visit our website at ..."