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The fact that this revelation could only be communicated by women, and even then not without consternation, is evidence of the successful weaponization of victimhood by modern inte…

>our white collar workplaces have become highly mentally taxing and employees need judgement-free resources provided by employers to deal with them Seeing what people in other coun…

>It's interesting to see how some factions are now claiming that Greta is merely a puppet, following some hidden power's agenda Please. She's a 16 year old child with no evidence o…

Or perhaps men and women are innately different after hundreds of thousands of generations of sexually dimorphic evolution, and this affects the manner in which they socialize? It …

>which I never understood the backlash against toxic masculinity" that I see from (male) friends whenever the term comes up. Who said it's supposed to be toxic only for others? Bec…

The abstract of the paper you linked begins with this sentence: >There is no consensus on whether climate change has yet affected the statistics of tropical cyclones, owing to thei…

> The net result is you are seeing once in 1500 year floods happening every year. This is the same kind of cherry picking that denialists have been using for decades. Locally rare …

>Disclaimer I believe in climate change with all my heart Ridiculous that the subject has become so dogmatic that one must prostrate oneself before stating anything even potentiall…

Bayer knowingly sold antihemopheliac factor contaminated with HIV. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24785997/

You think the archtype of the edgy, rebelious youth is fictional? If you were too far removed from those groups of kids in high school, perhaps you should spend some time on 4chan.…

> agree that "crunchy Karen" is a dismissive sexist tropE So we're not allowed to use labels to draw attention to the fact that the majority of people who believe in [1] and spread…

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> Washing clothes without a washing machine, scrubbing dusty floors, cooking on charcoal stoves. Your anglocentric view severely overestimates the similarly between our standards o…

>Unless we as a society return to a simpler lifestyle of living, I see this as an unsolvable problem. There's no reason to presume that it isn't possible to retain our current stan…

>This isn't implicitly true. If it were, Iceland wouldn't have had to pass a law to make unfair salaries (based on gender) This of course presumes that any discrepancy in pay among…

This has been true of most American "journalism" for at least a decade now. Activist journalism has become so common that editorialization is just taken as normal - I doubt that th…

So call it virtual experience training for first responders. That way you implicitly emphasize that this is more than just classroom training, it's much closer to, well, real exper…

>Do current patent laws and regulations regarding inventorship need to be revised to take into account inventions where an entity or entities other than a natural person contribute…

I don't know that I can find any sources to cite but I once wrote some code for an anthropologist analyzing prehistoric tooth scans, and he mentioned that modern dental carries are…

Is it really hard to beat them when they only cover one's eyes?

I understand your point, but GP is talking about avoiding the need for batteries by pricing people out of the market instead. If you're not using batteries, supply during dark or w…

I don't think forcing people to use electricity only when it's available is a practical solution to the availability problem with wind and solar.

I'm afraid you misunderstand the way embeddings work - at least for BERT based models, which are currently state of the art. BERT embeddings, after training change with context. In…

> It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe. There is no data to support such an assertion. It's confirmation bias ste…

Land usage and pollution. No pesticide/fertilizer runoff and no need to clear forest, much less land used per pound of food. Plus you can theoretically grow in cities-add a couple …