A substantial number of people still are not wearing seatbelts? For those of us who are wearing seatbelts the risk of ending up in a pond or canal is immeasurably higher than the risk of ejection.
That's how GM wrecked Opel. Every few years, management changed, and the freshly parachuted new guy from the US mothership needed to make a mark for themselves to be promoted. Cost-cutting was the only way they knew, because first they were Americans, and second, they had no long-term attachment. Of course, the relentless cost-cutting without consideration for anything else soon ends you with quality issues and unhappy customers. Market forces at work. Forty years ago, they made very decent cars.
It very much sounds that parts are not manufactured to proper tolerances, and as a result Boeing uses undocumented lubricants to make things fit (badly). If this were anticipated there would be a documented process, but there isn't, and it means nothing good.
Yes - the effect is seen when they improve visibility at road junctions in a effort to increase safety. Before, everyone approached the uncertain situation slowly. Afterwards, they rush head-on into collisions.
Back then we had industry research labs. There was Bell Labs, the Frythe, DuPont Experimental Station, BASF's Zentralforschung, and nowadays we have the 737-MAX.
It's essentially the university saying "You're about to be kicked out/expelled, so we can't tell the immigration folks that you are progressing towards your degree"
Yes, exactly that, it was something along the lines of "you are not sleeping with me, consequently you are not progressing to your degree".
If you are a doctoral student you need a new advisor to remain in status. This is playing out at my institution right now, a female PhD student had had enough of the sexual advancements of her advisor, who is a favourite of the departmental chair, so she filed a Title IX complaint and needed a new advisor. There was exactly one faculty member who was in a position to take her on, an established figure close to retirement age. US immigration law is fucked up beyond reasonable.
I recall a cookbook from the 1970's that lists such exotic delicacies as avocadoes, mangoes and chile peppers. From the presentation it was clear that these were possibly expensive, but one could find them, especially in large cities.
Yes, and chlorine is the stuff that no one wants, so it's turned into polyvinylchloride, which isn't really useful unless with copious quantities of plasticizer.
A person's Stalin number is how many encounters is one away from Stalin. I worked with a person whose grandfather was a close associate of Tito, who had met Stalin in person.
Let's have a cartoon of Stavros killing {Jews,Palestinians} uploaded to the relevant websites, and then we can talk again. It doesn't have to be nudity to be damaging, some cultures are more permissive with nudity and less so with swastikas, but one shouldn't make pictures of anyone without their consent. Yes, it's bad business for Ring and Nextdoor, but better for society in general.
I'd rather say that such conduct is mostly confined to evangelicals. Mainstream Christianity teaches that prophecy ceased with Maleachi, and form then onwards we have only the traditions of the Church to go by. That would include a sober ("chaste") lifestyle.
Well, yes. But what's worrying is that so many people who have seen a university from inside and even have advanced degrees do not know this. Every time some one comes up with grants for reproducing published stuff the silly idea finds enthusiastic support. How come? People should know about the practice of science but don't.
Don't forget rent and energy. They like to gripe about the cost of labour and labour regulations, but the biggest share of operating expenses is rent, then energy.
The Pharmacopoia shows that it's easy to control quality of natural drugs - maximum acceptable level of contaminants or adulterants, minimum level of active principle (nowadays with HPLC). It's just that the feeble government can't rouse itself to enforce truth-in-advertising standards.
"Gig workers are not elegible" - that's the Biden loophole written in there straghtaway. Nowadays anyone able-bodied and on low income has at least one gig work app installed on their phone - Uber, Doordash, Amazon Flex, you name it!
If the political system is corrupt, it's unreasonable to assume that one party is better than the other.
The introduction of Tacitus' Agricola is about survivorship, and it is not positive. "Few of us are left, survivors even of ourselves, with so many years of our lives gone missing." (translation from memory)
The wheel has turned - now we are keeping 20-year olds in school who should instead be earning money and are saddling them with impossible student loans.
And half of the building contractors are Mexicans with even less rights than your worker with US passport.
The world has had millennia of not regulating very much
The one exception is weights and measures. There is a long tradition of regulating these strictly, because experience has shown that the market is incapable of driving the cheats out of business and that there must be trust in the markets because else trade will slow down.
In the real world you just find pretexts to fire people, and the laws are written to permit such outs. Your trust in the legal system is touching. (And then there's that Hewlett-Packard class ageism class action that was settled for 18 millions. Is that one or two days of profits?)
In other words it's a blueprint for discrimination: you can't fire someone because he is homosexual, instead you fire him for the colour of his hair. It's nuts.
Under Windows 3.1 it had this feature where it would show you WYSIWYG text, but you could ask it to show you the markup as well. It was wonderful, and MS Word can't do it to this present day!