I swear in London (when I visited), that rule either doesn’t exist or it gets mixed up with the whole driving on the left. I feel like in some areas of London, the way to use escalators is to stand on the left and walk on the right and other areas vice versa. It was mildly infuriating.

No. My heart is with Adam, therefore, he’s right.

Unless it’s a narrow escalator. Then everyone capable should walk.

No. Escalators are for making it easier to go up, and in airports you often have luggage, so standing is normal.

Atlanta’s airport walkways are always clogged some person with all of their worldly possessions, its like an obstacle course to get past them and move on. One time, I jumped over an old guy’s luggage and the old guy yelled at me for cutting the line as I continued walking.

When I visited London 25 years ago everybody standing stayed on the right. It was amazing compared to anywhere in the U.S. Sorry to hear that’s changed.

Fully agree. I am glad that others see the issue as having many factors that need to be addressed. To be honest, I do not have any good answers. I know many people who are technical rockstars but awful human beings. Sometimes it is due to past experience, sometimes they are just jerks. Personally, I do not believe…

“...a live-action Dumbo movie.”

It makes me insane the people that see everyone walking on the left side but decide they want to stand on the left.

Then be lazy to the right, don’t impose your laziness on others.

I don’t understand how people stand on the moving sidewalks at airports. I don’t care how much time I have to kill, they’re so slow it’s painful. Plus it’s fun to walk on them and see how fast you can walk with ease.

This is only a valid critique if the article actually does a good job refuting the Thewalkingdude’s* point. It does not.

Stand on the right/walk on the left.

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“Soft Power” has been offered time and time again since 1985. Bush removing nukes from the peninsula, SK and NK signing bilateral agreements, Jimmy Carter’s foray, Clinton’s 4 billion dollar energy aid offer, the 6-party talks. The DPRKs step away from the table every time it comes down to validating the freezing or…

We akready do this, the problem is there have been no gains. North Korea is like a terrorist organization. If you meet their demands they just make bigger demands next time. Sooner or later the demands are not met and they throw a fit, in this case a very dangerous WMD fit.

We already provide several forms of humanitarian aid to north korea either directly from the fed or through NGOs in hopes of curtailing North Korea’s more dangerous behaviors.

But on the other hand, we would be propping up Kim and he would certainly make it look like he got the aid by himself, somehow making us look evil in the process.

It’s quite a common thing. India and Pakistan still take in vast sums of foreign aid despite both having fully functional nuclear weapons programmes and the former having a space program too.