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Empathy, or rather sympathy, is easily used as a backdoor to control you. There's a reason we have the phrase "harden your heart". Sometimes, for example when faced with a manipula…

I don't think anyone ever thought that every 95th percentile IQ person is an intellectual overachiever. Question is how many, if any, 5th percentile IQ high achievers there are.

C is a lot easier to learn than Java, I know that much.

That sounds horrible, and should it occur I'll be in my bunker with my ebook plex server.

Yes.

I think the point is that relatedness is just one property, and not the one that actual matters in an immediate practical sense. Does it really matter that whales and dolphins are …

Weird that people do commit suicide, then.

Twitter's a private company, it can choose to comply with whatever power complex it wants; be that the american media or the indian government.

Google will roll up their sleeves and get the IOT guillotine ready, happily running all their american leftie-progressive marketing back home while they do so. Why not? Apple did i…

As propaganda ages and stops being an effective meme-weapon, the propaganda fades and the art shined through. Old, obsolete ads for dead products that you look up out of curiosity …

No way in hell. The idea of a nation didn't spring out of nowhere, tribes and ethnicities are much older. You're not going to make the greeks become germans by the EU... encouragin…

It's been a pejorative since nietzsche!

Why conserve when there are so many resources to acquire? Better to efficiently spend the available resources as quickly as possible to expand to space and start on the exponential…

Better to increase carrying capacity through innovation.

Twitter's moderation team

Because otherwise you unilaterally shut out speech half your users want to read, because you're shoehorning the broad swathes of humanity into the limited set of boxes that the cen…

The acid's definitely right- 'formic' comes from fourmis, the french word for ant!

The anger derives from the unreasonable requests.

What? Science is about finding the truth, whatever it may be. The map is not the territory, and your ideas about the truth are probably wrong, don't get wedded to them. This is par…

Now nobody can understand the law,and everybkdy's committing 100 crimes a day; the legal system just prosecutes selectively anyone who sticks out. Great job.

Hey, if the price of saving grandma is sacrificing some kids, so be it! We're all in this together, remember? Now watch these dancing nurses!

I hope you're paid for it!

It applies to newborns, and newborn monkeys.

Plus, have you seen the obesity rates for white women? Don't worry, you'll feel them, jurassic park-style. Edit: go on a diet instead of flagging!

But they failed at making money. The box office revenue went down. Just because you can't easily quantify 'good cinema' doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and is correlated with moneta…