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The fact that you're retreating to the semantics of the word narrative and ignoring all surrounding words is a dead giveaway that your blinders are growing longer.

The author also says this, but also basically claims literacy hasn't improved humanity. So you repeated him without adding anything (in fact subtracting much), and I repeated mysel…

This is a really interesting piece. I've been wanting to rage against illiteracy lately but I'm not too active in public discourse (even this). That said, I don't think it's some s…

The parent comment never endorsed Gall-Peters. It's unclear whether they were simply made aware of different projections through the show or if they thought Gall-Peters was the ult…

The problem with this line of thinking is that a state is not a person is not a company is not an x. (Let's put aside any tangential Citizens United rebuttal.) Or more simply, why …

I've been over these stats 4 times and reread the parent comment and its post but still have no clue how one is supposed to tie to the other. I think the point I'm having difficult…

The short answer is that Fox News has been outrageously successful and dragging all discourse into the mud for almost two decades now.

Just from experience, I'm not sure I'd trust a military-style assessment to accurately identify skills. For example, I scored off the charts on linguistic comprehension (the Defens…

Literally your entire comment is based on the assumption that I advocated "a single, winner-take-all-bloc." Elementary reading comprehension in all its scarcity reveals that I neve…

"More representationally elected" does NOT equate to any of the absolute garbage you are assuming are my views. Please respond to actual comments rather than your vivid imagination…

I really can't grant that first paragraph in good faith without some evidence. How could you possibly divine the intent of the 2016 Trump campaign? We still can't agree on a vast n…

I think you're right about the outrage that the electoral college gets, but not its actual faults. To be sure, it's silly to oppose the electoral college due to personal political …

Sadly, "burden of proof" has never gained traction despite its essential nature. I really wish I were intelligent enough to systematize it, but billions of dollars have so far fail…

I think laws are extremely far-reaching. Imagine you're a group of like-minded people in power in the world's most powerful country right now. What's to stop you from dismantling a…

Could you elaborate on a plan (of course a really rough sketch) for "creating infrastructure jobs" during a global pandemic? I agree with the premise, but I would like to know how …

The key phrase you failed to comprehend was "root cause" two posts up. That's where it was asserted that it is about healthcare. Your comment is therefore out of context.

I don't know a lot about Freeman Dyson so I read that article, but don't quite get it yet. So he was a very outspoken mathematician and physicist, and people like his sci-fi ideas?…

Are they not also carbon based fuels coming out of the ground? The farts are a byproduct of digested organic matter like corn and grass, and contain some unusable or "un-harvest-ab…

This thread is absolutely bananas. I actually read most of it at 759 comments. The short version is that people with kids are insanely defensive about it. In many cases, they have …

According to this article: Blockchain, big data, cloud computing, AI, and magic are roughly equivalent. Don't waste your time reading it even if blockchain is weak.

Thank you! I don't like admitting to this behavior, but I can't trust a headline (any headline).

The net beneficial effect mentioned refers to some kind of societal net benefit. The sentence doesn't stand independently from the rest of the post.

I believe the simplest perjury in this case is that the officer necessarily lied about their probable cause.