Bats’ immune systems are absurdly strong, due to the risk of contagion caused by the very crowded conditions under which bats roost. It’s also a reason they’re often vectors for interspecies viral transmission.

So bats can have rabies and be asymptomatic. But if one with the virus bites you, you’re hosed.

Teddy Roosevelt would have put him in a chokehold, and bully for him doing it!

Why do people assume he has the siff? It’s treatable by antibiotics, he has access to good health care, and his behavior is more consistent with dementia compounded with being a raging narcissistic sociopathic asshole with no redeeming value of any kind.

He just thinks we’re stupid and can be bought off cheaply. And that’s one of the few cases where he’s not entirely wrong.

My last kid was very much free-range, maybe even feral, like his older sibs, and stopped being a kid in 2017. It helps to be living close to nature. Not even necessarily wild places, just forests, wetlands, open meadows and some good hills. All of that is within an hour’s easy bike ride of our house. But then, we don’t think that half an acre is a minimum lot size. To me, that’s too much maintenance.

There are also activities like sports, camps, boy scouts/girl guides that kids can participate in to get outdoors time.

And for the self-motivated, there are less regimented options.

It’s a way of funneling money to the fundies and ultra-reactionary Catholics.

Working harder (if overtime is uncompensated) does increase productivity. But it’s an abusive and ineffective or even counterproductive practice. I used to lead a service line within a medium-sized consulting firm, and I made it clear to managers reporting to me that forcing their staff into extended overtime in order to meet milestones would get those managers sacked for bad planning. It only took a couple firings before the other managers started taking it seriously. The biggest problem was managers bidding jobs with the clients that assumed the whole squad would be working 60-70 hours weekly. That’s burning out our people to take on work which, if correctly estimated, wouldn’t be profitable for the firm. And that leaves zero contingency for when something goes wrong, which it often does.

But the moronic frat boys who run many IT firms and consultancies still try that One Simple Trick, on the assumption that if they burn out their staff, there are always more suckers who can be found to replace them.

They’ve been very consistent with the kakistocratic hires.

It’s a commonly-used tool for technology management.

Thank your lucky starts for that.

IMO stuff like that is why a good trainer is important.

IMO it’s stronger evidence that proper user-centered design should be done and a usable and intuitive UX and set of APIs developed. But because the buyer of this heap of shit is some C-level, there is no incentive to actually make it usable for the unfortunate peons who are forced to interact with it. See also SFDC and every ERP solution in existence.

It’s the worst of shite. It has inadequate models for depicting services, so you have do deform your own model of product and service delivery to fit their ill-conceived straitjacket, and its licensing model discourages open sharing of information within the organization. Also, it’s all clunky and half-assed, especially its integration points, and the whole monstrosity is based on the antiquated ITIL philosophy that support is a cost center and therefore all support services should be rationed, never mind response times, quality of service or value to the customer. That barely made sense in the time of on-premises data centers but makes little to no sense in a cloud-based environment.

And yes, it collects lots of metrics, but they’re all crap.

I don’t wonder at all.

Crackpots don’t pay any attention to proper experimental design or statistical analysis.

Autism existed long before there werre microplastics, and there’s no evidence that its prevalence is increasing (though the rate of diagnosis has increased due to greater awareness by health professionals and others).

He was holding his dad’s hand

No he wasn’t.

when his protection detail shot him.

No they didn’t.

And, if they think they can get away with it, they will start sterilizing members of vulnerable populations, if they don’t skip the intermediate steps and start murdering them.

He asked for more?

Slow-roll it. Trump doesn’t have many more years in him.

boomer brained judge

Boomer here. Don’t assume we all think the same. Determining behavior from age brackets is about as effective as doing it based on Chinese astrology (but I’m a Monkey so I would say that, wouldn’t I?)

The judge’s problem is being a nitwit, not what year they were born in.