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I thought it was considered "well known" that the Rotten Tomatoes audience rating is not trustworthy because of ballot stuffing by the film studios.

Datum: I am always happy to see them. They work great for me on desktop Chrome with uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus enabled, and they work great for me on ipad and iphone Safari wit…

Yes, Jimmy Hoffa is a "famous" disappeared person case here in America. There are only a few "famous mysteries" that became such widespread memes in American culture. The ones I ca…

It is a shitty thing to do, but there is nothing particularly special about the fact that it is a grave, or that there is a particular person involved. Society suffers, because peo…

> If is a shitty thing to publish it against the author's will when they are alive, it is equally shitty to do it when they have died. It's definitely not _equally_ shitty. It's ar…

I would still argue that this is not music. It's definitely Art, in that it is making a statement, provoking a response, etc. But, it's just a nearly continuous sound, except for t…

What did she say on social media that makes a six year prison sentence justified?

It's not a question about difficulty, it's that nobody really gives a shit. I'm sure everyone on this site knows that it would not be difficult at all to implement this. Perhaps th…

Is it possible to point out that you disagree with something without being rude or aggressive in speech?

Add the toggle. When a Rio de Janeiro customer clicks the toggle to request doorstep delivery, pop up an error dialog saying that doorstep delivery is not available in this area fo…

“Triggered” implies an emotional or irrational overreaction to some stimulus. Describing your opponents as a “cult” also implies that they are non rational. The GP described opposi…

> What about 20 years? What about 1 year? Those are all irreversible. You are using linguistic tricks to make a bad argument. The fact that the past is immutable doesn’t mean that …

When someone is arguing from a position of strength, they don't need to resort to petty jibes. You are already arguing from a position of strength. When you add petty jibes, it wea…

It is technically true that ilk is not always used derogatorily. But it is almost always derogatory in modern connotation. https://grammarist.com/words/ilk/#:~:text=It's%20neutral.…

That was the same impression I got when I saw the light patterns pictured in the article. I had to slow down a second to "figure out" what I was looking at. The study claims that "…

"Eating" chickens aren't nearly that heavy. I don't know about egg-laying chickens. We usually eat animals that are "children" or "adolescents", because they are more tender or tas…

There are a few different kinds of 'secure enclaves' implemented on chips, where you can have some degree of trust that it "cannot" be faked. E.g. crypto wallets, hardware signing …

> Without a doubt it's straight up gambling Not “without a doubt”. Gambling means a game of chance/luck. Court cases over poker, regardless of which way the decision goes, hinge on…

> And yes, it's incredibly partisan for you to claim that republicans are trying to "reduce democracy." Is it, though? My belief is that voter fraud is basically a non-issue, that …

Yeah, if there's one thing the worldwide politics of the last several years has shown us, it is that punishment is swift and severe when governments knowingly lie to their citizens…

In other words, "Automation hasn't increased unemployment in the past, even though some pesky scientists and economists said that it would eventually be a problem. Some of those pe…

There is a problem with our intuition about gradient descent that blinds us, a little bit. For a local minimum to exist, that means that the function we're looking at has to have a…

Wow, that is amazing. I don't see how anyone could look at the poem referenced in the post [0] and conclude that the editor did not intentionally change a work of art into somethin…

That's a big assumption. What purpose does Goat Simulator http://www.goat-simulator.com/ serve to solve/understand issues in our universe? How do you know our universe is not a chi…

> "Buy" doesn't mean "host it for me online forever". Yes, it does! That is precisely the problem. My grandmother was born in 1939. Apple tells her that she can "buy" her copy of t…