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The person he was responding to was claiming that "literally everyone creating media" is permitted to be used as a source on Wikipedia, which isn't true. There are some issues that…

Alternatively you could use 'most people', or any one of several equivalent expressions, and preserve the meaning of everyone as every one. There is an aroma of manipulation around…

I think it could be better in that you get a more rounded perspective of what people think, and develop greater empathy for the hang-ups that people have and understand the pattern…

I bet you're fun at parties.

Pretty sure you can commit crimes in your bedroom, and pretty sure a crime is easier to get away with when you have a private space to do it/hide stuff in.

Care to expand on this?

Fair enough, perhaps I'm bringing some biases into this since I think online discussion has a tendency to be very dismissive of less sensational or impactful topics. I really don't…

Regarding point 2, it seems strange to ask 'what changes?' when the point of the article you're commenting on is showing how and why you spend more when presented with 9-ending ite…

That's easy to say, but when it comes to shopping at the store, picking up several items and not actively thinking about it, are you really sure you aren't unconsciously interpreti…

>In a functioning regulatory environment [...] you wouldn't have industries where any one company has more than 15% of the market. Is that realistic? Intuition is telling me that's…

> In other words do we have a framework for deciding on additional punishment for repeat offense? Yes, and you should be able to find how it's handled in your state fairly easily. …

I'm curious about that last part, harmful extremes of consumption informing every other aspect of our lives, if you'd like to expand on that.

I'm assuming the person I replied to was insinuating that the people with an influential amount of voting stock are adequate representatives of the interests of small fry investors…

THEIR numbers going up, is the part you may be overlooking in that.

To earn a return on your investment. Maximizing that return in the next quarter by threatening to take a controlling stake in the company falls into this category of course, but it…

I think what they're referring to is the global increase in light pollution they cause. This article goes over the consequences for both astronomy and the broader human experience …

'Art made out of money' is conceptually played out; this is much more interesting. In this case, the art isn't sensible matter on the canvas, but the intelligible matter of its cre…