Renaming the DoD does directly contradict the National Security Act of 1947, which renamed the Department of War to the Department of the Army, and put it under the newly named Department of Defense.

Even (especially?) as someone who absolutely loves SF, this was hilarious.

"Mostly benefits your employer" my ass. ADHD isn't just "ugh, I don't like doing my job". Things you want to do, or need to do, even enjoy doing, and fully intend to do end up constantly pushed to the side when you're unmedicated. You end getting into difficult situations because you've managed to procrastinate taking the 10 minutes it takes to renew your car's registration for 6 months. You struggle to maintain relationships, both friendly and romantic, because people interpret your inability to focus on them as disinterest. You lose sleep, and not just a little, because you lay in bed and simply cannot focus on going to sleep long to actually do so. So you stay up until completely exhausted, but guess what? That doesn't align with anybody else's schedule.

Then you take a pill, and all of these problems just disappear. If you want to work out, you can just go to the gym and work out. No weird little ritualistic hacks, just "I want to do X, I shall do X". You receive a wedding invitation, and you can just spend the 10 minutes making travel arrangements, rather than procrastinating it for months. You can see that a load of laundry needs to be done, and just spend the 5 minutes loading the washing machine, rather than having to push past your brain screaming like you're trying to stick pins in your eye.

You're overthinking this. Just give the beneficiaries of the corporation (which in the context of a "public" benefit corporation is the public) the grounds to sue if the company reneges on their mission, the same way shareholders can sue if a company fails to act in their interest.

There really isn't hours worth of material to put together a browser extension. You can read all the relevant docs in tops an hour, but you can follow the MDN tutorial on it to get the "inject some Javascript into pages with a url matching this pattern" level in less than 10 minutes.

Yeah, logging "Hello World" from a content script takes 10 minutes. But then you run into Manifest V3 service worker lifecycles, bypassing CSP on the host page, and syncing state across tabs, and suddenly your "quick one-hour project" turns into a completely burned weekend

Also most extensions are open sources. You can hack something from just glancing at the code of some samples.

They were already very much going out of business in 2020. They were dying throughout the 2010's.

I suspect Fry's was too large-scale to be supported by the PC gaming market. They would have had to downscale, drastically. The small, gaming-with-a-bit-of-workstation focused computer part stores near me seem to be doing great. But they would fit into the checkout area of the former Fry's.

The claim that aluminum anodizing is "banned in California" because of the sulfuric acid waste it produces is patently absurd. There are no shortage of labs, factories, and more in California that use sulfuric acid, and they all figure out how to dispose of their waste without going "fuck it, YOLO it into the river".

English has words with spaces. Boiling water isn't one of them, but in general, if you can't insert another adjective between an adjective-noun pair, it's linguistically a compound word that we happen to write with a space. "Fast food" is a good example. It's not simply an adjective-noun pair, as demonstrated by the fact that you sound like a crazy person if you try to insert literally anything between "fast" and "food" in "I eat too much fast food". The "fast food" can be modified all you like, as in "I eat too much lukewarm fast food", "I eat too much depressing fast food", but you can't treat "fast" as merely an adjective of "food", else "I eat too much fast, filling food" wouldn't strip the sentence of the implication I eat at McDonalds or whatever.

Except fast is an adjective when describing food...

Just because the phrase is used colloquially to describe a specific group of restaurants doesn't change the fact the phrase "fast food" is comprised of two words, one being a noun; the other an adjective.

Fast greasy food. Fast disgusting food.

Fast food is not a word. It is a phrase.

Words don't have spaces.

It is objectively a phrase, and not a word, because you can substitute the water for literally any other liquid and form a perfectly coherent phrase. boiling oil, boiling syrup, boiling coca cola. "Boiling" in this context is just a participial adjective, modifying the noun "water". If "boiling water" is a word, so are "six men", "good idea", "large rock", "7 year old boy", "Californian trees", "metallic flooring", etc.

Better yet, you can take advantage of English's adjective ordering to demonstrate this point. Would I describe the water I'm currently boiling for the purpose of cooking "cooking boiling water", or "boiling cooking water". Since purpose tends to be the last adjective we use, any native speaker would choose the later.

I know "objectively" is completely made up just as much as the rest of English, so perhaps you are not using it as I recognize the word, but as I recognize it there is nothing objective about English. It is all just made up and used as one feels like. Obviously "boiling water" can be a word, just like "six men", "good idea", "large rock", etc. can be.

Simply put, "boiling water" is a word whenever someone uses it as a word. It is reasonable to say that it isn't commonly used as a word, but that's kind of the point of the article: Asking when a word becomes worthy of inclusion in the dictionary. The very similar "hot water" is a word that is found in the dictionary. Of course, it is a word used frequently, so the inclusion isn't suspiring.

But it remains unclear where the line is between worthy of inclusion and not worthy of inclusion. The article is asking where that line is.