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The event had to be postponed due to "unresolved legal issues" already.

Here's the original source: https://aeon.co/ideas/why-are-pop-songs-getting-sadder-than-...

Consider some of these:

customer service, project management, marketing, social media, product testing, content creation

I transitioned from Web developer tasks gradually to more content and people tasks over the years.

This article has been submitted four times in total. This is the fourth attempt in four days.

Intriguing! Can you please provide a bit more of context?

Yeah, tools built for experts usually won't be adopted by the mainstream unless they are simplified.

I don't mean dumbed down but reduced in complexity to allow beginners to use it without having to acquire expertise.

No, I read about it.

Please update your science here:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070308220454.h... (2007)

and here:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180709101216.h... (2018)

"Far from just being the product of our parents, scientists have now shown that widespread transfer of genes between species has radically changed the genomes of today's mammals, and been an important driver of evolution."

I don't think they will tell you the whole truth.

It's just like with Google history you can "delete".

They have the data stored for the authorities anyway.

They are required to do it by law (Patriot Act etc.)

Yeah. You need actual survival training to be able to make fire. Good reminder.

I wanted to learn it myself. Without matches I'm lost in the woods.

Intriguing. I just recently realized that Neanderthals actually were wiped off due to climate change.

Now I know exactly why. Without the ability to make fire they were pretty helpless during cold periods.

Also some genes are known to actually "jump" between species.

We may end up "limiting" other animals too.

As if Frankenfood and pesticides weren't hazardous enough.

Hilarious! Trusting Artificial Idiocy algorithms with such tasks is a recipe for disaster.

You can automate but always make sure actual humans check before publication.

When you're too smart, unique, megalomaniac to get a job you probably need to work for yourself.

Entrepreneurship is also the better option compared to wage-slavery. Self-employment is somewhere in the middle.

Try working for yourself and when you succeed headhunters will flock to you anyway.

IMHO the beginning and end of the universe are typical anthropocentric ideas. Our life begins and ends so does a universe? Hardly.

The other theories mentioned in the article are more likely.

As far as I know Mark Zuckerberg already admitted that Facebook is spying on the Messenger messages:

https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/04/05/facebook-confirms...

Now Zuckerberg is merging Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram:

https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-on-whats...

Thus we can be pretty sure that WhatsApp messages are also being monitored.

The way you define focus sounds a bit strange to me. Focus is indeed needed for programming - that's why you need to be in the zone when coding - but it's the focus we refer to usually.

As we live in a frantic attention economy now focus is indeed very valuable as dealing with the ongoing bombardment with distractions is truly expensive.

Just think about all those remote workers getting reminded all the time that some new Slack, Flock, Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, e-mail messages arrived.

All the companies above make money by hijacking our attention and forcing us to focus on the work we do for them for free instead. Imagine us focusing at the code instead.

Yeah, also people who are blind and use screen readers will have it spelled out char by char each time as its assumed to be an acronym.

Use bold, italics, text-marker effects instead.

Expressing gratitude is always a good idea. The way you do reminds me of what we call "outreach" nowadays.

Reaching out to people by mail usually works the way you describe it.

The only way most people do it wrong is that they don't say "thank you" first but they want something from you.

That's nanoplastic.

Many types of cancer, infertility, birth defects, damaged DNA as far as I remember.

I guess by fake foods you refer to processed foods etc. but I'm not sure you are right.

As far as I understand organic fruits and vegetables growing exposed to air and rain would end up polluted a lot more than indoor farming products for example.

Eating local also depends on where you live. Apparently most of the microplastic that is around stems from car tires so that produce farmed near highways or cities will be more polluted with microplastic than the one they transport by plane from New Zealand.

Sounds good. Let's just hope he doesn't mean to become the Sheikh of Iowa. In a democracy being like SA is not desirable.

Remember that SA is killing dissidents and subjugating women and minorities. It's basically an absolute monarchy.

They have also invaded neighboring Bahrain to subdue the democratic revolution there.

I'd choose my comparisons and metaphors more wisely.

Wind energy is fantastic as long as it doesn't kill birds (that depends on the way the wind turbines are built and where they stand).

It's strange how one of the richest men on the planet demands government subsidies though. Or is it just me?

Tasty! That's a lot indeed.

Which types of diet contain more plastic than others?

I'm a vegan for example. Does this mean more or less plastic than average?

Which materials do not end up as microplastic? I assume natural fibres don't but besides them?

Yeah, create the problem and then provide the solution is one of the best business models.

Climate change is also making people rich now due to this logic.

Intriguing. On the other hand Facebook cracks down on new users and requires them to jump through many hoops to access the service.

My wife finally gave in and signed up to Facebook in order to be able to take part in a webinar she already payed for that was staged on the platform just to get her new account blocked for using a different device from the one she signed up.

They wanted her mobile phone number, photo and her ID (think passport).

She didn't want Facebook SPAM on her phone, she already gets bombarded by WhatsApp notifications and sending her photo again didn't help. She got banned for good. Also her IP was blocked so she couldn't sign up again.

Thank you for adding some common sense to that debate. Safe nuclear is like "clean coal".

Yeah, I noticed that most Twitter trolls are still bots. Their quest to ban automated accounts didn't really work out until now.

For example when you watch tweets by Greta Thunberg most climate denial responses and hateful comments are automated.

Even when I told legit users not to feed those trolls they would respond by context-free climate change denial claims.

So what, just because CO2 is unhealthy now you prefer radiation that will poison the planet for millennia?

Try clean energy instead and don't use worse as an alternative for bad.

Are you kidding me?