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I don't see why European artists should self-censor so as not to hurt the sensibilities of Americans just because your country was built on slavery and genocide. Sort out your woun…

Yeah. Basically the concept of species is bust taxonomically and largely a social construct at this point. (That is to say, what is a species is what the community agrees to be a s…

Both terms are meaningless in our current understanding of systems biology.

You mean "not worse". If almost everyone got cured there's hardly any leeway to be even better.

For people that didn't read: it's "disappointing" because both the control and study groups largely tested negative (93% and 87% respectively). That 87% figure sounds worse than th…

It's (used to be?) a prophylactic for malaria. Literally billions of people took it. I did it myself when I was living in malarial areas. It does have secondary effect but they're …

Slightly off-topic, but if you're in quarantine and wondering how to play wondorous games of Magic, say no more: https://cockatrice.github.io/ http://xmage.de/ (the latter is way m…

We're already saturated with information. Even if 99% less filtered through paywalls that'd be more than enough to satiate anyone's needs.

Alright, then ban displays of advertising if it has to reach eyes that didn't ask for it, the same way we ban pornography, gore or violent stuff on display.

We would be certainly better off without advertising. We don't need people to tell us to buy things to function in society.

It's very simple actually. No more sponsors, no more covering every square meter of public space with brands, no more commercials on TV, no more ads on websites. People will have t…

>Newspapers would need to be subscription-only or patronage-based. So be it. >Distributors become kingmakers. If the incumbent's product is in the grocery stores and the upstart ca…