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In the left-wing spheres here, terms such as "political act" or "solidarity" are just bloat used to make your message sound more left wing. It's a faux pas not to virtue signal in …

Can you extrapolate a bit more from my post? It's clear that I've put massive amounts of research into it.

I can evaluate the claim now , but I would not have been able to evaluate the speed gain of an Oracle database using whatever proprietary implementation they are using. Claiming I'…

Oracle's claims about speed-ups of their database are just that, claims. Their licenses explicitly disallow benchmarking, so basically we are legally bound to rely on their word.

The account name is "Wild West" and it's all agenda posting. Scrolled through it, half of the posts are about criminal immigrants, the other half about collapsing governments in "t…

In most cases it's not possible for a refugee who's already in Germany to gain a regular residence permit without going back to their country of origin and starting the entire immi…

The cult of 10x got their magical tool that lets them feel 100x. Don't take their toy away from an excited kid.

I'm not claiming any of those.

Yes, this is a valid point, mnemonics are totally valid when you are new to a concept. I'm learning Turkish right now for example, and the dative forms for me/you (bana/sana) perfe…

This kind of content is usually shared by people who are learning a language out of genuine interest for the first time. Most of the time it's Japanese because of the popularity ma…

While others might be like that, the type I'm talking about explicitly does not want to be challenged or alter their worldview. I find a comparison with religion an another poster …

Postman wrote this in context of television, which is a broadcast channel with no means to interact with it. But in times of social media, your reaction to the news is something yo…

I'm not saying that this is implausible, but this is one guess in a sea of many. We were shown a single word substitution with a claim that 300 others match, but no documentation o…

True, I did not think of the pi/phi distinction when writing this. There are other quirks exclusive to Linear B that don't occur in Linear A though, such as three different ways to…

Always glad to exchange! I'm a software engineer and a hobby linguist only myself, so don't expect wonders from me. But this is a fun topic to research for sure.

An in addition to that, a vast majority of documents are lists which consist of a "header" (1 to 3 words) and word-number pairs afterwards. An another common class are small clay s…

As an amateur who's been fascinated by this puzzle himself, I will add some context that might be relevant in assessing the plausibility of this claim: - The "Libation Formula", wh…

It would be great if people started to claim religious exemptions from making money for oligarchs and politicians. We would see this dumb rule gone in an instant.

The word "our" has other purposes than declaring possession. If a company refers to its customer base as "our customers", does it mean that it created them or owns them as property…

My dad had an immobilizer built into his car (a 1994 BMW 320 bought in Europe) which used this kind of key. I've almost forgotten about this detail until I stumbled upon this post.…

It's because restaurants make the most money on drinks, so selling you overpriced water with artificial branding becomes an excuse to charge the same money for water as one would f…

This is exactly my observation. Every now and then there's an Anglo posting on Polish social media asking people questions about some obscure Catholic doctrines and getting offende…

My experience is that on American platforms free speech means that these platforms are free to remove whatever content based on whatever heuristics, with little to no accountabilit…

Catholicism is different in every country, I would imagine that a church in a secular place such as France would contain itself a bit, because there's no societal expectation that …

I was raised Catholic and even though the last time I've been to a church could have been in 2019, I don't remember any priest who wouldn't just gloss over the religious content fo…