The various extraordinary renditions during the "War on Terror" seem to be an existence proof that the USA is able to act as it pleases in other countries, especially when it is focused on a small number of persons.

I agree that the country is not 100% successful but that does not prevent the nation from trying to act.

Of course you should cut corners when you need to get somewhere fast. Ambulances go through red lights!

That is a deeply unfortunate line to see.

Humanity has known for decades that "[most medical calls] don’t dramatically worsen in the course of a very few minutes, and they don’t spread from person to person" (Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 2017).

In the case of red lights and sirens, maybe they made sense before bystander CPR and before we had empirical data. But not now.

The overuse of red lights and sirens doesn't save lives. It ends them.

I wouldn't call them "common-sense". When a modern-day tragedy (death of a child) is required before "hug a tree and survive" becomes a slogan, it seems safe to say that they are counter-intuitive.

If humans did the right thing by default (e.g. "If you are lost, 'Hug-A-Tree' and stay put."), there would be fewer sad stories.

Here's another tiny Windows Firefox bug report.

1. Expand any song.
2. Hit play.
3. Collapse the song.

The song keeps playing. Would've expected the music to stop when the video player wasn't visible.

As anecdotal support for "constantly tasting everything", I offer my high school scientific calculator. After one year of 2 hrs per day of chemistry class, its crevices around the display had a permanent collection of precipitate.

I suspect that even without intentionally tasting things, nearly everything in a lab is ingested as an aerosol. It would be unsurprising if months of such exposure led someone to develop a hunch about a molecule.

If you're looking for an experimental protocol, the ADHD MTA trial's protocol looks pretty good.

It is described at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10591283/ and explains in detail how the doctors decided when to try increasing the dosage. It supports evand's assertion that improvement should be noticeable quickly.

How much ambient light is there? Is it all from sunlight?

You may also be interested in the Transit Cost database, which compares the cost of constructing things by country.

If you're feeling down, here's a recent project that seems to have worked out.

San Diego Mid-Coast Trolley Extension:

• Committed to building it: 2010 ("The project was adopted into the ...plan in October 2010." Federal Transportation Authority.) -- Not sure how to account for the prior work.
• Normal riders riding it: November 2021 (Wikipedia cites a local media outlet.)
• Predicted Cost: $2.1 billion (per the aforementioned Federal Transportation Authority document from 2015).
• Actual Cost: "$2.2 billion" (another local media outlet)
• Half the average global cost per kilometer

I got a little weirded out at the OAuth prompt because it said "johnny" wanted to get my account. I know who Neuronpedia is. I didn't know who "johnny" was until I did some more reading and figured out that you're Johnny.

Please consider registering a dedicated account for the organization ("Neuropedia", perhaps) and doing the OAuth through the organization's account so that the prompt doesn't surprise users as much.