I get that there's skepticism related to self-driving vehicles, but let's be genuine here and recognize that this technology is young and is still in a state of development, and not misrepresent what it can and cannot do.

Our attachments are defined within us, and not by what we are attached to.

We've come a long way from the RTFM days but learning something as complicated as programming tends to make people sensitive about what they do and don't know.

It's a delicate balance. On one hand the project and the community benefits from a lot of ideas. On the other hand, a strong ego with poor understanding can not only destroy a project, they can cost a lot of people a lot of time, money, and heartache so some sort of barrier to entry that turns some people away isn't a bad thing.

At the end of the day, it'll all work itself out as long as we keep the projects open and free. Popular projects attract talent which in turn improve those projects.

At the end of the day, it's fine though. It'll either satisfy the needs of people and become a new standard or it will be satisfy edge cases and become the new thing that needs to be deprecated because no-one contributes to the project and the original maintainer has lost interest.

> It is unlikely that Congress wished to confer a right to class or collective actions in §7, since those procedures were hardly known when the NLRA was adopted in 1935.

Kind of funny they use this as justification considering everything else they've upheld that was adopted decades prior to this without knowledge of modern custom or technology. Convenient argument when it's serving their purpose.

Really cool research!

Perhaps I'm just getting old and cynical but it seems like a lot of people consider it a badge of honor to be diagnosed with some sort of neuro/psycho disability. Granted, that's not a terrible thing per se, because if nothing else, it means there's a significant shift away from the stigmatizing perception of the past. I just have a hard time accepting the celebratory nature of things like this. Similar to the body positivity movement, which itself is a healthy shift towards acceptance and responsibility, there's always a fringe element who seem to romanticize and glorify something. I personally believe it's because many people want to feel included in "something", and that's fine, I don't have a problem with that. I just get grumpy when the initial context goes from understanding the way a disorder can impact your life and raising awareness to "let's make an exclusive group to carve out a little island only me and other special people like me can hang out on". It feels a lot like the reason and purpose are hijacked and unfortunately the message gets lost and tainted, creating more of a backlash than anything else. I don't have a problem with exclusionary groups at all either; my issue is when they use the growing awareness of something else to piggyback off of. I dunno, that's my $0.02 that no one asked for lol.

You'll never keep drugs out of the hands of people who want them, all you're doing is creating artificial scarcity driving up prices and giving people like Mexican drug cartels huge financial incentives to run drugs into the country. Even if only 1/10th of their drugs make it into the US, as long as there's an demand, that supply will be exponentially worth more, and cause more harm than pharmaceutical grade heroine sold just like alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, etc...

Spend some money on home surveillance, inside and outside. Cameras that are connected via some sort of home automation that can provide not just an early warning, but evidence for yourself and your family in the event something goes wrong. Offsite storage would be ideal, something that cannot be held, removed, or destroyed at the scene that only you or a limited number of trusted people have access to.

Alerting when there are people outside of your home. This way you'd be able to contact 911 if there was suddenly a large police presence around your home and let them know there is nothing happening there, you are extremely willing to cooperate, unarmed, and awaiting further instructions. It might give you some time to deescalate the situation before it starts.

Maybe contact the police and let them know that because of the work you do, you feel you may be targeted for these kinds of things. Ask a lot of question and see if they can put some sort of process in place like attempting to contact you or a neighbor if something comes in, or at least having the dispatcher let the responding officers know that the call might be fraudulent and to proceed with that in mind?

Do everything you can to minimize your online presence. I know that's saying a lot these days, but every little bit helps. If it takes someone an extra few minutes to find information about you, that might be just long enough for them to lose interest or find an easier target.

I'd love to hear other ideas because I'm kind of at a loss myself for how you can protect yourself from this.

It could make my eyes cross and I'd still pay that premium to keep people quiet more often than not.