Everyone likes to believe they’re thinking independently.

Can you elaborate on that claim?

I exercise some critical analysis, but for the most part I just have trust in human ambition. For example: the reason I believe human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is not because I’ve looked at the evidence and evaluated it for myself.

The reason I believe that human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is: that seems to be the consensus of people that have worked hard to impartially develop expertise and gather data to understand climate science.

There are two important systems at play

1: Scientific research, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial research and discoveries which overturn old assumptions/paradigms.

2: Journalism, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial reporting on various fields of human interest. (Reporting is why it seems to be the consensus of the scientific community)

The impartiality of these systems is (has always been) under assault by capitalism (which also derives its power by harnessing human ambition) and so one must, to an increasing degree, evaluate the appropriate level of personal mental effort to allocate to identifying biases in the reporting.

Glee?

Maybe beaver teeth go from orange to brown when they die due to further iron oxidation

Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.

So if I’m in Vancouver BC it would go from Friday to Saturday in the mid afternoon? Is Friday night the first night of the weekend or the last night of the work week?

I could be convinced that there is a part of Paris that is like that. It doesn’t look like a part of Paris anyone would want to spend much time in though.

I’m a person that saw this and thought “YES!”.

It’s a way to make my mindless scrolling a little bit less mindless. It’s not a Wikipedia alternative it’s a tiktok alternative (I don’t use tiktok, but I understand why people do, my attention span is also shattered). Obviously it’s not going to replace looking things up on Wikipedia, and I love exploring links in Wikipedia articles, but you don’t know what you don’t know so this seems like a good way to learn about things you didn’t know you were interested in.

Yeah I don’t think there’s any basis to the quote.

Interestingly the earliest composed Christian document that has been recovered (the didache, the copy we have is from Ca. 1000 CE, but seems to be in the original Greek) condemns infanticide, specifically including by exposure to the elements. It also prohibits private property so the document is not taken authoritatively by many modern christians.

Wait, so people can choose whether or not they’re subjected to hate speech? What tyranny!

If you don’t like the way communities are being moderated, maybe you should find/start a server that more aligns with your values.

If you sincerely can’t keep track of an acronym like LGBTQIA2S, I totally understand. I find it helpful to use people with minority “Sexual Orientations and Gender Identites” (SOGI). You could say

people with minority SOGIs

Or

SOGI minorities

Or

SOGIm

It’s not a super widespread abbreviation, so I’d recommend spelling it initially as I did in my first paragraph. I don’t think it’s best practice to say “SOGIs” Because everyone has a SOGI and typically we’re trying to talk specifically about those that face(d) disenfranchisement and bigoted violence.

If you’re not sincerely struggling with the acronym, and enjoy trivializing people for fun, I hope you think of me everything you stub your toe.

I saw a quote in the newspaper this morning:

We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.

It’s just so incredibly wrong and stupid.

1+2 is not always online on ps5, in fact I can’t get it to go online at all!

Smells like nirvana in my ass.

(Weird Al)

Could you suggest alternate wording that succinctly conveys what the commenter obviously meant?

I did 6 months for each of my kids and it was great.

Killing time are you being intentionally obtuse just to kill time?

How is real estate wealth not consequential?Real estate wealth is real wealth, it’s why it’s literally in the name.

Personal income tax is not a wealth tax, and there are myriad ways to avoid it without evading it.

I think it’s partly UV and partly being cleaned with paper towel. I think cotton is much softer on a micro level.

I am on an elementary school’s parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.

It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.