IIRC even LASER was seen as a novely demonstration of quite an obscure effect…

Gladstone once asked Faraday about the usefulness of electricity, just saying.

Faraday's response: "Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!"

Maybe someone with a really interesting voice?

Yes, you should have a medical tricorder. It’s a scandal these don't exist.

The EU can comply with its own regulations, it’s just that EU citizens (sometimes) can force it into compliance if it does not. That’s a nice feature.

So your point is that even with a IFR of less than 2.6% bodies had to be stored in freeze trucks? Ugh.

I really like this one because it’s a valid question about an odd thing that would take a while to answer properly:

> I have a huge text on my sat nav in my car where, among other things, your email address can be seen?

> Can you tell me what this is all about?

https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2018-02-16.html

So Google is rewriting what your online banking site is showing on the fly?

“I am sure” of many things I have no idea about, too. It’s called Dunning Kruger effect.

That’s an interesting point to add to the feature list of a future product: “Proof” of deletion that is plausible to laypeople. Of course one has to delete according to the law, too, but that plausible proof may get rid of a lot of support calls escalating to your level.

Interestingly the only people who are not supposed to “push a political agenda” are usually accused of being “woke” in one of the next sentences. “Keeping politics out” brought the US - and the world - Trump, two times. Most things in life are political.

>“Keeping politics out” brought the US - and the world - Trump, two times.

Given the degree to which Trump benefits from anti-establishment sentiment, I'd like you to ponder if putting politics absolutely everywhere might very well be what got Trump elected twice. I find the idea that there just isn't enough political message completely incompatible with current reality.

If you don‘t seriously talk about politics but consider it sports and entertainment and about “winning”, you get Dr. Oz and RFKjr to decide about your health and Matt Gaetz overseeing justice.

Politics is everywhere and it has to be everywhere but politics is not Joe Rogan or Fox news. That‘s propaganda.