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I always found the birkin interesting because of how working class it looks versus its price tag. I grew up fairly poor, and the birkin bags always remind me of the leather purses …

side note: the flynn effect is reversing in most developed countries, and started doing so between 1991-1997.

Impossible is almost always a colloquialism, almost everything is possible is you accept a low enough probability of success. We are talking about something less likely than almost…

It's possible in the same way its possible that you will spontaneously phase through the floor due to a particular outcome of atomic resonance. Possible, but so unlikely it almost …

>Society is doomed because we stopped silencing disinformation peddlers. We know what happens when Nazis are allowed to spread propaganda freely - because that happened one time in…

The US is a major outlier in sentencing for violent crimes and sex crimes. It's not the absolute peak in terms of sentencing, but its somewhere between the Latin American mean and …

The main rifles I've seen depicted in this conflict are AK pattern rifles, with the rare ancient armalite pattern rifle scattered among them, and a singular SCAR. Based on where mo…

As a heads up, flagging is rarely done by mods, and overwhelmingly done by normal users with sufficient karma to do so, so it probably wasn't Dan or Scott. For example, the comment…

I fail to see how that conclusion is even possible. He's not advocating for anything, he's just taking the opportunity to dunk on Israel. His actual cloaked argument, insofar as it…

Honestly, thinking it through, there's no way I'd engage the public at all on something like that except possibly a singular utterance that no, it didn't happen, ever, not even clo…

Look, I also find sarcasm extremely annoying, it's an anathema to meaningful discussion. However... your non-sarcastic interpretation is clearly in bad faith, and ratchets up the h…

Recently, any time I see someone railing against about one-sided coverage, it sets off alarm bells for where the person themselves is coming from. To explain, there was a study of …

FWIW in my experience is less the monster energy / black rifle coffee audience, it's actually the red bull / white claw audience. It still feels wrong to me, but that's how it is.

Whatever your own feelings on the matter are, condescending to people with terms like "fee-fees" only engenders more conflict and outrage. It's a fraction of a drop in an ocean of …

I think people view it more as an irreparable shattering of the social contract. Society exists, but the rules just don't matter. Many people have become strict conflict theorists,…

The person might not intend to be trivializing the problem, but that is the common outcome. This was very observable in the wake of the Snowden leaks, where "is anyone actually sur…

There's a lot of difference between "we don't officially support X" and "we will programmatically prevent you from using X". Even "using X will void your warranty" is actually sign…

US military doctrine does often play out like this in the field. We prefer maneuver warfare strategies and tactics to positional and attrition ones as a general rule, and a key ele…

Speaking of vibe checks, the vibes in this post are worse than what you've replied to. "something something", "I'll meet you at your level", "Do you see?", "you got it 200% wrong."…

I still do it, for emphasis. Never had anyone complain thus far.

Academia certainly does, although, humorously, we also have professors making the same proclamation you do, while while en or em dashes in their syllabi.

My observations largely match your own, and also applies more generally to non-technical interactions online. I help manage a group that runs a local LAN, and have run into both th…

You dropped your conjunction.

As an American, the answers to these questions are yes, no (subject to draft), and yes. Iran considers us to be "the great Satan", to give an example.

By this measure, the Armenians were also not the subject of a genocide. Which of course, is the common opinion in Turkey, and almost no where else.