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These unstated beliefs make up a lot of "Common Sense", which is reliably invoked as a means of outing someone for not being in the same "Tribe". There's no such thing as "Common S…

Remind yourself that every single comment, post, video, update, whatever on the internet is already a selection bias for people who either aren't deterred by the fact that shouting…

People always say this like having an actual board of notes on the fridge hasn't been trivially possible for a century. It's like people obsessing over window managers. 99% of the …

Nah, gobs of people will insist to your face, despite direct evidence, that "I can look past it" when interviewing, or "I don't see color" The world is made of HR departments and e…

>If our boomer parents had warned us about crapitalism as kids All of American society tried to warn boomers about this their whole lives, and they consciously rejected it in favor…

ICE killed a completely random person, who had every legal right to be here, in Biddeford Maine. There is again video evidence that ICE's claim of self defense is complete horseshi…

"If it bleeds, it leads" is older than society. A news org can put out a perfect spread of articles that cover a whole spectrum of positive to negative, and social media and normal…

>It was hard on the industry but I don't think we have lost generations of journalists. We literally did. There are dramatically fewer journalists now than just a few decades ago, …

There's more to it. The short form content "crushes" what options are available, so it becomes much easier to classify you into buckets with similar people. This is what actually d…

How many Psychologists did Slashdot hire with the explicit task of making slashdot more addictive? Meta has entire teams. It's like believing that cigarettes are fine and shouldn't…

You are extremely ignorant. There are many parts of the US that have legislated away all sex education other than abstinence, despite it having the obvious effect on teen pregnancy…

Therapy and an emotionally mature and patient partner.

Costco microwave popcorn is about 36 cents a bag

If your heart rate is up, Fitbits will recognize pretty much any rhythmic activity as some sort of exercise and start tracking. "Spinning" is a common one.

Tens of millions of Americans, including republican leaning voters who claim to believe in climate change, demonstrably reject the reality in front of their eyes. The same generati…

Republicans in congress have decided that Trump should not be stopped. Ever.

This is a problem though, because those fishermen vote.

>we’re already seeing city-wide, county-wide, even state-wide bans, even in states where much of the state is very low density Are we actually though? I bet you heard about the Mai…

"Lists events in your area" is always the hard part. The bars in my city don't have public APIs. If you start small and local, you could maybe get buy in from some places, "Send th…

>Army never had a lot of ATACMs to begin with as launching missiles at things is not really their job It's called the Army tactical missile system FFS. It was literally built for t…

The US does not have enough B52s and Mk 80s to carpet bomb a place the size of Iran. We barely managed it during Vietnam using depleting surplus and losing many irreplaceable airfr…

>the Iranian regime has no capability that could prevent its country from being turned into a smoldering parking lot. This is a laughable amount of ignorance. The capability that I…

No, it's like saying "I can easily afford a ferrari but I won't be able to afford groceries for a year after that because I've emptied my savings account. The military might be cap…

RTX, formerly Raytheon, has the same revenue and net income as PepsiCo. PepsiCo has a higher profit margin. Most of these companies are public and you can find their stats. A Tomah…

That is, again, a great example of the same administration being utterly incompetent at directing production. Every single manufacturer in the US stated plainly that they did not f…