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Whoever wrote this article seems to think a strong dollar is fundamental to a strong economy. But, notice where it is on this timeline the only prolonged strengthening of the dolla…

Hmm. According to Indiana University, 5.4 million cats are killed by cars every year. https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2022/11/12/the-perils-of-outdoor-c... Normally none of these make na…

Except, all its rulings are reviewable by the courts. In judicial type cases, results can be reviewed by US Court of Appeals, and appeals courts do overrule the NLRB not infrequent…

Yeah, and there seem to be at least two ways to measure heat death. One is to measure "excess deaths" meaning, increase in death rate as temperature increases or exceeds some stati…

I think of far-centerist as extremely unideological. To me, ideologies are systematically organized collections of ideas, often hierarchically, with core ideas (or assumptions) giv…

> It's a completely generic algorithm. If the school had a uniquely high percentage of any "group" of people, whether based on race, region, hobbies, interests, literally anything,…

Understandable in this context that comments would be very negative about looking at statistics relating to race, gender, national origin, etc. of how investors place money. After …

Well, the article says, Amazon already charges this wherever Amazon Publishing Services is available. The change is to extend this charge to places where Amazon Publishing Services…

Big news, automobile manufacturer inflates gas mileage! Really! If anyone here has had a car that actually got the stated mileage in real world conditions, please let me know. I li…

So, if this project were to be successful, it would replace news media as the outlet where people would look for news, thereby, reducing audience for the news media it's using as t…

Yeah, bankruptcy basically does not let anyone off the hook who owes the bankrupt company or person a debt. But collection is overseen by a court which definitely can mean that eff…

So, for all the many things in the world that cannot be defined in "a reasonably concrete and provable way" or where a statement cannot be "falsified", no study is worthwhile. More…

Wait! Contingent was just defined as everything that's not necessary. Not contingent with its normal meaning of dependent on something else. Like, a square has 4 sides, that's nece…

On the other hand, much of what passes for "reputable" brands is just reselling the crap from the same sellers, but with a "trusted" name on it.

Still the supreme source of free public domain ebooks https://www.gutenberg.org/

libravox.org A great source of free (public domain) audiobooks, mostly read very well.

The responsibility is to figure out which is which, if you're the one choosing what to amplify.

Not FB responsibility if they set up and tuned an information spreading system that promotes stuff that's inflammatory over stuff that's informative? Users of FB only see what FB f…

One alternative to fluorine that has been shown clinically to be equally or more effective is nanohydroxyapatite, which was developed by NASA some time ago to treat astronauts for …

I hope the article isn't accurate, because if it's only "tech giants" to be prohibited from store brands, that would mean, Congress has decided, it's only brick-and-mortar giants w…

Whatabout those other flawed journalist? Well, they're flawed. But Wikileaks, high standards? You must have missed the exposes in The Intercept of how they were actually working in…

Nice hypothetical for some political ethics class, but nothing to do with what actually happened. Assange wanted to influence the US election, specifically, to defeat Clinton and e…

You won't because Wikileaks refused to release them. Their stated justification for this was, so much bad stuff had already been revealed about Trump that there was no need. Realll…

Small point, but the average household size in the US is 2.5, on half of the 5 people in this household, so you really can't compare their family income to family income statistics…