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I’m also from the US and I’ll second that this is basically correct and should be taken as an implicit assumption about most Americans if you’re looking in from the outside. Most A…

That’s cool, all manner of illegal shock content has always shown up on the chans as well, since day one. “Channer” as a term applies equally to all people in that ecosystem, even …

Yeah those videos are certainly despised by channers, what websites did they run into those videos on in the first place?

Too little too late. I left Twitter a few days ago after I saw some users complaining about animal torture videos showing up in their feeds and search suggestions, and this was on …

> say there's a site that allows anyone to pirate with minimal friction with one click. Still think piracy isn't lost sales? Say that this site is user-funded and actually buys a c…

It is not the author’s job to proactively search out and adjust for crazy interpretations of mundane sentences. That rule would be funny. “NOAA reports record hurricane activity — …

The author of this article literally spent ~$500 on a phone.

Sometimes scientists cover the same stuff as other scientists in the interest of checking reproducibility or finding new data. Sometimes new stuff is discovered, sometimes not.

I’m still not buying that “most readers” are so familiar with that conspiracy theory that they would jump to “FBI agents have taken it upon themselves to publicly accuse the CIA in…

I did not interpret the headline that way. I’m not sure why someone would jump straight to that aside from the “Bush did 9/11” memes that get circulated every now and then.

> It says nothing about the CIA covering up an involvement in 9/11 The title doesn’t say that the CIA was involved in 9/11.

I’m a big fan of AT-ATs but I like AT-STs as well.

> "Best for readers" is not particularly subjective here. This is correct. It is exactly the same amount of subjective as the word “best” normally holds. Since there has never been…

An ATM machine that dispenses clout.

> It's about writing encyclopedia articles in a way that's best for their readers. This sentence contains a load-bearing “best”. The Wikipedia editor’s contention is that they have…

I am happy that you brought up accuracy _and_ precision! Somewhat humorously I think a good chunk of the disagreements here come from people treating those concepts interchangeably…

I can only speak for myself, but the actual phrase “comprised of” is the least interesting thing to discuss when it comes to this topic. I am fascinated by a single person taking u…

That’s great example! That post is an unserious riff as a response to another post that meant to assert the correctness an individual’s personal definition of a term on what I foun…

Lol out loud!

Surely their oversight will lead to a decision about which usage to sanction. You can submit your thoughts here! https://www.apstylebook.com/ask_the_editors#submit_tab

I love these one-person crusades against present reality. Words mean whatever a critical mass of people want them to mean. For example, the usage of the present tense here: "Compos…

> in LoZ, the requirements are the same for everyone, even if you are capable enough as a player to kill him before you collect all the gear, you can't. you have to do it all. thos…

> The original Legend of Zelda plopped you on the map and gave you nothing. zero guidance. I consider this very good. You literally can’t get far off the beach until you hit a spec…

> I don't believe that you are talking about the same game that everyone else is. I’m talking about the one where you wander pretty aimlessly through a big field picking up sticks …

If you think about it, every company is a competitor because they’re all competing for money