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This thing is recurring every couple of years.

So in the past their predictions were incorrect, but we were supposed to 100% believe them. Now they are corrected, so they are even more believable.

I don't know what a N2 is either, but it seems obvious that it is some kind of course for learning Japanese or Kanji, and that he did poorly in it. That's good enough for me.

Many people experienced a personal economic crash. Otherwise there wouldn't be so much talk about gentrification. It's easy to say "the crash never comes or never came". Everything…

I think I'll wait for successful replication before believing that one.

I'm surprised there are still any corals left. They were deemed to be on the brink of extinction 30 years ago, possibly even earlier.

Or you could open the windows.

What different methodology did you use?

"the way you used it is exactly how a racist would use it to mock a black person." I still don't see what exactly is so mocking about it. Yes, I was perhaps "conjuring up" a stereo…

I've never heard of AAVE before. Wikipedia claims it is "natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Cana…

The example on Wiktionary given for momma is "My momma's so great: she bakes me cookies every week." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/momma As I said, I am not a native speaker, so I…

Just for fun, going with the scenario. Why not? Edit: rate limited by HN, so here is my reply to the question below: Racist - seriously? So "momma" is not a word that is ever used?…

"hair straightening products" - there are also products or procedures to give white people more curly hair, or tan their skin. That really doesn't prove anything. "Take this as an …

Why are many characters white? Because many writers are white. Should white authors write books with non-white heroes? Wouldn't that result in an outcry about cultural appropriatio…

Black dolls exist, though. What black momma bought their kids only white dolls???

One of those silly toxic grievance ideas, that you should only enjoy fiction when the protagonist looks like you, has the same gender and so on. Do real world PoC even ever obsess …

The legal framework could be wrong, though. I thought this is about emotional upheaval and hating big corporations, not the law. If it is about the law, why even discuss it, instea…

Maybe the person in question shouldn't automatically be the one who stays in a working relationship? Just because somebody is pregnant, they are not a saint. It is amazing how many…

That's what the pregnant woman claims. The manager could have disliked her for other reasons or considered her unfit for leading people for other reasons.

Maybe the (female) manager(s) simply didn't like the woman in question. What is a manager to do, in this day and age, if they are not happy about an employee?

Oh dear - no, strictly speaking, they are not. Nobody is.

So the area where you live was never hot and humid before?

Sure, people are free to want anything. Acting on their wants may be another thing.

Sure, they are free to operate as they please. And people are free to dislike the way they operate.

Things that are projected to happen 10 to 12 years in the future seem to have a pesky tendency to happen 10 to 12 years in the future indefinitely.