I may end up doing some of these things, if I have time, in the interest of “hey, lets put a little more goodwill into the world,” but this is not “the proper etiquette for leaving a hotel room.”

It is clear that in the US NO ONE leaves $10 per person per day. As you’ll see in the links below, only around a third of people tip at all, and even a union for hospitality workers only suggests $3-5 per room per day, similar to the Tripadvisor guidance above. It’s patently ridiculous for Land to try to establish $10…

Oh, they’re teaching it...

Schools, typically, have scheduled Easter off, on account of Easter’s uncanny ability to land on a Sunday.

These are standardized tests. Standardized tests are taken at the same time across all schools, specifically to reduce the likelihood that students who have taken the exams don’t give answers to those who have not.

And you can’t shift testing periods around year by year, because the tests are meant to measure how much…

“This is 100 percent the same thing as making children take their test on Christmas or Easter,”

Other than this is kids, you are right. Kids are more reliant on regular meals to function at normal levels.  The schools need to make allowances for the small holidays; but a 30 day event that doesn't happen the same time every year?  Not really possible.

I don’t think the letter is insulting, especially since there is no hard and fast rule on when a child begins the practice.

When I first got my own place, I bought the cheapest ice cube trays I could find that had a lid.  I had a really small freezer and needed ice cube trays with lids.   So that is why for the past 12 years, I have been serving drinks with 3D Hello Kitty ice cubes.  

Getting into to college is harder than staying in college.  Especially places like USC.

Probably Nick wasn’t being intentionally racist there, which is a much more meta statement on a story about people not using language competently in an environment fraught with land mines.

I missed the days when words meant things. There’s a difference between insulting people and being critical of them. Civility was never meant to encompass not calling out inequity or calling out people on their shirt. It was meant to include not personally attacking people; particularly for things they couldn’t…

Um, no. No one here is defending Stephens’ views, we are simply pointing out the obvious: that the one who comes across as an idiot and rank amateur in this email exchange isn’t Stephens, it’s Kalaf. I mean, it takes a lot of dumb to make Stephens look like the reasonable adult in a situation and that’s exactly what…

The issue here is that Samer isn’t touting his ideas or why they’re better than Stephenson’s. He’s touting the fact that he trolled Stephenson and got a rise out of him.

I’m all for being aggressive, but calling someone a moron isn’t saying anything worthwhile, and isn’t doing anything to counter their shitty ideas. It’s just trolling, and it’s a childish waste of time. The idea that a so-called “professional journalist” would not only engage in pure childish trolling, but then…

But of what value is being reasonable if you defend the indefensible? He is a moron who promotes climate change skepticism.

You’d think disposal would be more complicated when dealing with anything involving the CFL.

Did productivity grow 70.3%over that time period because workers now work 70.3% harder or because new systems and technology were adopted?

But that’s JUST THE BEGINNING. The part I really hate is when you have to pick up the hot spaghetti with your fingers, and try to wrap them into enough of a ball to shove into your mouth.

Most of the time this dish is served, it comes with that stabby pronged device and the accompanying slicey one too. I don’t know their formal names (food rake and portion sizer?), but I’ve seen them put to use to manipulate food so you don’t have to touch it with your bare hands.