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My point is that there is a difference that creates a category of error in bilingual speakers. French speakers are likely to use the word fairly commonly; whereas, people with Engl…

> In that sentence, the article hasn't defined hieratic or quotidian I suspect the author is a native French speaker? Where "quotidien" is an every-day word.

This might misunderstand how science authorship works. I was once congratulated for publishing a paper I had no idea existed , after I gave someone permission to use my research wo…

> That's a point of view, and a pretty cynical one. Twitter can and do ask for user feedback all the time, without making a press release about it. I don't find it cynical to ask w…

I understand "credibly neutral" here to mean the idea that you appear neutral, whether or not you are actually neutral. Compare with: plausible deniability. The goal of credible ne…

> But the betrayal at the end just makes zero sense It's more surprising than we expect from Disney: there's no 'villain song' explaining the villain's private intent. I liked it t…

Electricity in the UK is provided in two ways - some pay at the end of the month on a contract basis, some pay via a pre-payment meter (on different terms - more expensive and more…

> I've also noticed that even fact-checking is being weaponized for political reasons. I don't think fact-checking exists for any other reason. People like fact-checking that confi…

I feel sad about Snopes, which used to be about exploring urban legends. It had a good sense of humour; it was delightful . I spent countless hours exploring it. From my recollecti…

I imagine my consciousness as a communion of all my cells... a central decision-making council, if you like. If my cells are in conflict or disagreement about what action to take (…

Governments have taken the decision to pause vaccinations with AZ, on the basis of this emerging information. It's only right that we, the people, can see what our elected represen…

Living in London (specifically Haringey, which is mentioned in the article), I was amazed - positively - when my residential street switched to directed, white, LED light. It lit t…

Thanks, I didn't know about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_hypothesis

I appreciate these points, which are well-considered. > But it's interesting why this is the case. Why us, and not chimpanzees. As you admit, we could ask about exceptional adaptat…

> If that isn't scientifically provable exceptionalism, I don't know what is My point is that it isn't scientific at all. Any person can declare themselves exceptional - I have obs…

I often find it "justifying human exceptionalism" presented as science. The unstated assumption is that humans are somehow better than chimpanzees (here, it is almost literally sta…

Labour accounts for about half of world income, from memory, with capital accounting for the other half of world income. If wealth centralises, then so does income. Besides, you re…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq... World Gini coefficient for wealth has increased from 0.804 to 0.904 between 2008 and 2018, where 1 means that a sing…

> That's what the video is arguing, but it won't be the case unless we've fully satisfied all of our desires. If we haven't, there are, by definition, still things to do. If wealth…

Valencia (the region) literally has a part which locals jokingly call "Little Britain", where residents primarily expect to speak and conduct business in English.

> Available resources (internet, libraries, universities) (mentors, support from authority, sufficient time/financing to be able to use the available resources) If a professor beli…

I hope and expect that you did learn more in hours than what you could have learned in two minutes. If you had spent those same hours after two minutes of support, you might have l…

> But there are other effective ways of learning that are not frustrating and that allow people to explore and be creative. Like... asking for help and having a chat with a mentor …

I don't believe that letting someone struggle for a day is a better learning experience than just telling them what they need to know. Sometimes it might be, but I feel it is more …

Not really. Islington (London)'s population is around half what it was in 1914, but rents are out-of-control.