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Expert Says You're Deluding Yourself If You Think You're Productive On Six Hours of Sleep (chicagotribune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Chicago Tribune: Getting through the workday on little sleep is a point of pride for some. But skimping on shuteye could be shortening your life and making you a less than stellar employee, according to Matthew Walker, founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley. "Underslept employees tend to create fewer novel solutions to problems, they're less productive in their work and they take on easier challenges at work," said Walker, author of "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams," out Tuesday. Operating on short sleep -- anything less than seven hours -- impairs a host of brain and bodily functions, said Walker, who is also a professor of neuroscience and psychology. It increases your risk for heart attack, cancer and stroke, compromises your immune system and makes you emotionally irrational, less charismatic and more prone to lying. When asked, "What do you say to people who sacrifice sleep to work?" Walker said: "I often ask the question in return, 'Is the reason you've still got so much to do because you haven't gotten enough sleep and so you're inefficient while you're working?' We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an under-slept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle."
it shall be unlawful for any person to
6 import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or af-
7 fecting interstate or foreign commerce, a trigger crank,
8 a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of parts,
9 component, device, attachment, or accessory that is de-
10 signed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semi-
11 automatic rifle but not convert the semiautomatic rifle
12 into a machinegun.
2. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Your poignant trotting out of a sentence from the second amendment illuminates this week's success story:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/04/us/vegas-shooting-hotel-room.html
I don't really care about owning guns one way or another, but I do care when the government just ignores the constitution, and when it makes up sophist nonsense in order to jump some particular constitutional shark.
The problem with all this gun law nonsense, is that congress and the legislators of the states create laws that are grievously in violation of the 2nd amendment, and in doing so, they establish the foundation for similarly sophist malfuckery which they then apply to many other aspects of the constitution with a perfectly straight face.
Here's what I say to the "no guns" minded:
Push for a modification to the constitution that does what you want, and see if you can get that done. This will both somewhat re-establish the people's understanding that there is an obligation of the government to actually obey the thing, and so, potentially at least, protect what little of the bill of rights that hasn't yet been eroded by lawyers and legislators and judges and similar rodentia.
Yelling make a law is exactly the wrong thing to do. Darned near every gun law that doesn't deal directly with someone whose rights have been officially abbreviated due to a conviction for a crime is 100% straight-up illegal. "Shall not be infringed" means that when the government infringes - they're in violation of the very document that authorizes their existence.
Please stop encouraging the government to do that. If you think the constitution needs updating, then by all means, get after that. But stop calling for laws that ignore it. Please.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.