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> And who gets to decide who gets none? For example you look at the history and look whether something was more helpful than harmful (eg: fascist propaganda) or you look at the sci…

Very few issues have both sides. Booleans yes, they have exactly two equally valid values. Coins also have both sides. But most issues are neither coins nor booleans.

Yep, assuming there are two equally valid positions for everything, because they have a two-party system, so there must be for every topic a GOP side and a Democrat side. Never min…

> Objectivity means 5 minutes for the Jews and 5 minutes for Hitler Jean Luc Godard thought he was making fun of idiots when he wrote that in an unrelated context, but he was actua…

$24 is the cost of knowledge, but what is the cost of ignorance?

Apparently you are really curious about getting to the bottom of this so I did my research. For me it's a vague intuition. But women are much better are recognizing "men talk" than…

The spirit of capitalism comes from the US and has a religious background. Nowadays, many countries have a strong US cultural influence, no shit. I wish I was smart enough to make …

I like coffee a lot, so when Colombia comes up, coffee is the first thing that crosses my mind. I understand that everyone consume different things :P

For women online in particular I'm pretty sure lots of them would rather enjoy less attention on them personally. Too much it not pleasant for _them_. I'm thinking in particular ab…

I can't do that in general. Certain attitudes OTOH are heavily gendered, like the psychology behind internet trolls who at the simplest level is that they want everyone's attention…

On websites where it's anonymous I infer that from what I have seen since 25 years on websites where it's not, and from attitudes people have IRL.

I have seen 25 years of internet trolling and this kind of attitude is gendered yes. Not in a binary way but in a bimodal one. I could have avoided the point because it's obvious t…

Hilarious view of what is going on behind the scenes, thanks!

Gender Content bias is a systemic thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia

Jean-Paul Sartre is shown as the most famous people born in Colombia I think Simon Bolivar or Shakira or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or many others have a better claim to the title Espe…

Those are polar opposites. A button for 'disagree strongly' should upvote a comment. When Einstein and Niels Bohr 'strongly disagree' on quantum physics in 1927, they start a debat…

The article could also have been called > UK financial industry is huge Which I guess would not have surprised or interested as much people. Now before the financial crisis, we wer…

"My source is that I made it up"

I have lived in France and Germany and 95+% of the articles I have seen that follow this exact pattern to use as selling argument for $SomeTechnique$ the exact number of millions o…

Sounds like a U.S. thing too. Worshipping of rich people, who must be rich because they are virtuous (Weber) therefore if you copy their habits you can be virtuous too, become rich…

It will happen the day after Kamala Harris (or another democrat) wins the presidential election despite loosing the popular vote. Most GOP states will then instantly forget their p…

It's not even hypocrisy, they believe there are not bad things but only bad people doing it. Like in the Harry Potter book where slavery is not bad per se, only when done by bad pe…

The US government is a foreign government for 96% of the people, not to mention that its own citizens don't control it much.

Understandable but funny that US Americans start to care about data regulation only once the Chinese government is involved. Asking the stores to remove one app won't do it though,…

The Bible uses PI = 3 and that's good enough for me > And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: a…