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Russia in the 12th year of their unprovoked conflict with Ukraine and the 4th year of their full-scale invasion. Putin has stated multiple times his desire and intention to "restor…

AIUI if you have an (polynomial-time) algorithm to reduce some NP-complete task to P then you have indeed shown that P=NP.

The original quote is a bit unclear, but it does refer to being on a playground: "Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: an easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming fr…

The "realities" being that increasing profits for a few people is more important than the lives of the people doing the actual work?

The "realities" being that increasing profits for a few people is more important than the lives of the people doing the actual work?

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/average-least-16-child... https://zmina.info/en/news-en/russia-has-killed-661-ukrainia...

That seems to be true only in British English. In other dialects (USA, Canada, Australia), corn refers only to maize. (I'd never heard corn used as a general term, though Miriam-We…

Background discussion: https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies...

Stating objective facts is not "copium". It is simply false that "half the country [voted] for Trump".

That's absolutely what it stands for. To see this you need only listen to what they say and observe what they do.

On what basis do you make the claim that "It is vanishingly rare for users to scroll up when reading content unless they want to reach the top"? If I were to judge from the comment…

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35863186 12,500 years ago seems to be a more sensible and evidence-based estimate.

I'm not sure someone who writes things like "Text generated by LLMs also remind me of autistic people. Like, actually autistic people. [...] How annoying." is the best judge of cul…

Concentrating people in one spot with minimal hygiene available so that infectious diseases spread as much as possible does not seem to me to be ICE "doing their job".

One of the meanings of the word "democratization" is "the action of making something accessible to everyone", which is clearly the sense meant here.

77,302,580 people voted for Trump in 2024. That is not "half the country". Nor does he or ever did have the support of "(over) half the country". His maximum approval level in 2025…

"It's that the people running them are committing ethical crimes that have not been formally illegalized." I think it's even worse than that - they are committing actual crimes tha…

They've kind of patched this for direct questions, but distractions can still confuse it into nonsense. ("drive it over when it's ready to be picked up"??!) e.g. Welcome to Opus 4.…

There is no general rule that something created by an X is therefore an X. (I have difficulty in even understanding the state of mind that would assert such a claim.) My printer pr…

I think it's unfortunate that this anonymous and careless person refuses to acknowledge the harm done, their culpability in this, or real lesson. For example, "Sure, many will argu…

No. That is not the case. The majority of deportations are of non-criminals.

It is absolutely not the case that 60% of the population wants all non-citizens deported. On what do you base your claim?

You are explicitly saying that you feel more in common with Taliban or Tren De Aragua than with someone who wishes to exercise their Constitutionally protected right to peacefully …

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health... The data does not support the claim that the US has "better quality of care"

As recently as 15 years ago, Google _explicitly_ stated in their employee handbook that they would NOT, as a matter of principle, include ads in the search results. (Source: worked…