I reckon that’s right (though maybe its mostly instinct rather than explicit worry), and I imagine there’s also the risk of being kicked out by a larger species looking for a nesting site.

The controller was not guilty of malfeasance, but clearing the trucks onto the runway with an airliner on short final was a mistake, no matter whatever else one could say about it.

"...routinely considered feasible..."

What we are seeing here is the normalization of deviance.

People who use tools badly inflict bad results on other people, quite often far more so than they do so on themselves.

Yeah. It's funny how companies don't like to hire people that use tools correctly, but insist on creating tools that allow them to hire cheaper, less-qualified people.

PHP works fine, if you're a halfway decent programmer. Same with C++.

I find that physical activity promotes sound sleep.

With the consequence that disambiguation may be needed.

It might have been contingency planning: you don't need a weatherman...

When applied to insightful writing, that is much more likely to dull the point rather than preserve or sharpen it.

Imagination will give you something to think about, but it alone will not tell you which thoughts are correct.

I guess you probably don’t live in Texas, then!