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Yes, but it's not as easy to USE as a piano is! My 4 year old niece can play a piano, but her comprehension of Git is extremely poor.

No they're easy to use. They're hard to master. Git is hard to figure out how to even upload to.

The percentages come from their ancestry (their GRANDPARENTS), not culture.

modern instruments are actually improved designs of older instruments which were just that: badly-designed & hard to use

Only people who can't let go of religious arguments about the special nature of humanity think we can't build conscious machines.

Dude. The vast majority of Irish people can't speak a word of Gaelic. 10 years ago when I went to Ireland, the bilingual population was 0.1%!!!!! How many people use Gaelic in thei…

Wow. So I guess that the 60% of Ireland's population that don't speak any Gaelic are't Irish ether. And neither were the 94% that couldn't speak any (beyond "craic" & "uisce") 10 y…

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Not to mention that it shows an extreme ignorance of the fact that USA & Canada are not 1000's of years old. Of course people have a tie to ancestors who came here a few generation…

???? I live in Canada and people say this all the time. Always have. Had a friend growing up from an Italian-German family. Ate schnitzel, watched soccer, corrected us on our pronu…

Really so its okay if a Canadian, Australian or New Zealander does it?

I dont know why it irks you guys. Canada does this too. It's because, unlike Europe, we haven't been here for thousands of years. My grandfather was from Dublin. He came to Canada …

FB Marketplace makes you click on ads in order to tell the platform that you dont want to see that kind of listing anymore. Unfortunately, clicking on the ad alerts the algorithm, …

It's all about the pathetic rationalization we have placed on greed and profit. We can make millions redundant with AI and still have a social safety net that keeps society stable …

No, its cause a lot of American tap water isn't drinkable lol

"he's inauthentic/poser/wanna-be" There is an issue with these folks though. They quite often are hyper-gatekeepers because of their own insecurity about not being "legit." They te…

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It ruined it for me. I just can't care about two creatures who wouldn't care about each other in a biological sense irl kiss on tv.

ok?

Huntington's work sucks, not totally sure of your point.

my mistake. it still made me stop watching.

USA society has devolved into a game. The only object is to win. Nothing else matters.

I really enjoyed it until they shoehorned in an attractive human + wierd alien romance to compete with Odo & Kira (barf) on DS9

for better and for worse, the answer is yes

The Maya were more advanced in some ways, the Romans others. What nobody wants to admit is what used to be common knowledge in the 90's: cultures are relative, not the same.