Did nobody ever change the theme back to Windows Classic? It was really simple to switch over (like, ten clicks at most) and then you could get comfortable with the 2000 interface again.

[1]: https://medium.com/s/story/paw-patrol-is-a-republican-dystop...

[2]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-drone-strikes/

I should quickly edit this to make my stance more clear. Slavery is bad and America should be ashamed for its past. But slavery as an institution is older than the racist Western implementation of "Africans are property". I feel like the implication behind changing the master/slave terminology is that the people who decided to use these terms were racist (which may be true) when they were probably just using the terms that made the most sense to them. At the end of the day, I'll use the new naming conventions whenever I write relevant code and I'll use them gladly. But we're bickering about names right now when Black people are getting shot by cops in broad daylight.

> There's something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ just to feed their families while we comfortably and safely sit at home getting paid multiples of that and ride that great stock market.

This isn't a jab at workers needing to go back to work, this is a jab at the fact that we treat retail workers like garbage when in reality our society would crumble without them. The whole "just get a better job if you want to be paid more" argument levied at those who push for a higher minimum wage not only ignores the fact that, when in poverty, it's very hard to get a "better job", but also ignores the fact that these jobs are necessary. Somebody has to do them. Why are sanitation workers getting paid less than stock brokers when sanitation workers are doing objectively harder work and are at far more risk (especially now)?

> perhaps you can invent a society where the work needed to live can get done without any humans doing work.

No, I'll invent a society where people whose job it is to move money around are paid substantially less than retail workers or janitors, and where those that do labor like this are respected more highly than someone like Warren Buffet or Crissy Teigen.

A look at the homepage for William M. Briggs tells you the kind of person he is - it seems every article he's shared repeats obviously incorrect nonsense from biased sources. A quick lookup shows that he's also attempted to use statistics to deny the existence of climate change.[1]

But these are just ad hominems, nothing I say actually shows that this article is completely incorrect. To look at the article we can see that the first graph shown[2], by a self-claimed statistician, doesn't make any sense. I would tear it apart but I can't even tell what it's supposed to be saying. Are the X and Y axes the same? Why is there a curve if the data is sorted by deaths per million?

In the next graph[3] data is arranged better. We can see that there seems to be a correlation between there not being a coronavirus lockdown and lower deaths. It doesn't mention that the United States (one of the more lethal dots, in lockdown) has conducted 1.11 tests per million people versus Ethiopia's 0.03 tests, Myanmar's 0.01 tests, and Coromos and Burundi (all four of these being exemplary countries with no lockdowns) not having any data on testing whatsoever.[4]

What Briggs fails to keep in mind - which I don't see as anything but willful ignorance being that he's a statistician, is that correlation is not causation. There's no logical reason lockdown would cost more lives than lax restrictions.

He should be ashamed of even thinking suck bollocks given his education but I think he lost his sense of shame long ago. I just hope nobody's foolish enough to believe a word he says.

[1] - https://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/01/william-m-brig...

[2] - https://i2.wp.com/wmbriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lo...

[3] - https://i1.wp.com/wmbriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lo...

[4] - https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-country-by-country?co... (scroll to the middle of the page)

[1] - Source: I currently go to high school.

I think Microsoft knows this and I think they don't want to make Windows open-source for fear that they could create their own competitor.

Elon Musk isn't the new Nikola Tesla. He isn't a real-life Iron Man. Elon Musk is the new Jack Parsons[1] and I'm certain time will prove me right.

(( to be totally clear, i appreciate OP for sharing this. i just think it's very weird that the Verge of all agencies is even covering this when an article like this would be much better suited for a financial publication ))

[1] - Jack Parsons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)

Also - why would a blog be threatened by XSS? A blog is a collection of static HTML files and I assume the creator would be using a composer or just a text editor + browser to add and edit pages. Why would anyone log into a blog? Nowadays anything like a comment section is generally handled by iframes to some other service (like Disqus) anyway.

(to be truthful this comment didn't really add anything, which makes it fair game to downvote, but I still got a bit of surprise seeing a decent joke grayed out)

It's pretty much just a howto and link repository for myself and my friends right now. Still mostly a work in progress. Consider it as an example for look rather than for function.