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I threw that poem into google translate. I think it was actually just French? It didn't actually fulfill your prompt. Is your claim that it's ability to write a poem is a sign of c…

Not the person you're replying to, but if I ran a chip business (or a country with a lot of military/economic tech dependent on chips-- IE most countries), it would certainly be so…

You're confusing two different pantheons from two different parts of Europe. Zeus != Odin

To the US, "winning" is basically defined as having access to local resources (including workers) at market rates without the responsibility of governing. AKA -- free trade. Global…

You seem to explicitly agree with the person you're replying to, but are claiming they're forgetting something. That's the disconnect here.

If you look at what was actually agreed to, it seems like the US and EU are already doing more than obligated. I don't see any nuclear weapons being used, the west has respected th…

To say this more explicitly, even the idea of waiting for the second marshmallow being the "preferred" behavior is somewhat classist. Sounds more like the test is just testing for …

Focus is almost surely an essential skill for key performers. Even among the most famous Gen Z -- you don't think they focus on their social media presence and what they do? What i…

Don't something like 65% of Americans own their homes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S... Realistically, we're in a place where significant prices incr…

"all of the other people come together to ask you to stop, thus infringing on your liberties." You've very insight-fully described the policy debate/disagreement between people in …

It would depend a lot on what time period you're talking about. I'm not an expert, but I do a bit of amateur forging and have learned a couple of things just reading about this cra…

^ This is the reason why more folks in crypto should be worried about and enraged by tether. Inevitably, there will be a market condition that leads to tether being insolvent. And …

I'm not going to say that the larger number of women entering the work force has had no effect on home prices, however even if it did it's not necessarily a net negative. A larger …

They're lending 95% of their deposits or whatever the reserve requirement is. It's just that every other bank is too, and when they loan money it almost always ends up back in the …

Money creation happens when the money is deposited and loaned again me -> deposit $100 in bank a -> bank a loans $95 to business -> business deposits $95 in bank b -> bank b loans …

Even if all the changes that were happening were entirely natural, there's an argument to be made that we know we do well in the conditions that existed during industrialization, a…

if you buy (from a bakery, probably not from the grocery store) or make bread made from minimally processed to processed flour, water, salt and yeast it would probably be considere…

The bread (made from processed wheat, probably bleached flour, and containing bread conditioners, preservatives) would almost surely fall into the ultra processed category, unless …

Fair enough. The point about the unbanked is pretty convincing.

Why would that matter to this discussion? I want x from retailer y. Retailer y doesn't accept cash. I use a card. If you have an objection to using cards, you're certainly free to …

I don't know that the climate impact is necessarily settled: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200218-why-working-fr... (note that I'm generally pro wfh, but on the climate si…