that photo tho

This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics, which has repetitively been empirically refuted.

conservatives think people should have more children and the study finds they do in fact have more children. i don’t see what the problem is here

curious, why was there ice in your bottle?

edit: i was genuinely curious guys i’m sorry!?

what was al-qaeda mostly funding then

fork found in kitchen

they’re trying to compete with Renault’s handsome EV designs

why is guy being bullied for writing what all can understand

I would expect them to be confused and suspicious of the term “surplus labor value”. If not, then education has a problem.

User survey shows the editors hold left-wing and right-wing beliefs about equally

all i found was that self-responses are preponderantly left/center-left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-04-25/Recent_research

editors hold left-wing and right-wing beliefs about equally

source? i’d doubt that unless you’re defining liberals as right-wing here

most chinese malls mainland or not are used to and designed for handling that many people; in fact probably the rest of east asia too. they do have a lot of escalators. hong kong’s got 7M and the mainland 1.4B after all

10–12 stories, a little mall

the lower stories would be more valuable. i would think there’s at least one grocery store on the ground level.

pathing from public transit

i think people are used to taking the escalator in malls

I’m thinking we should start banning yahoo.com from this commag. All that site does is copy from another site and attribute it so that we can’t see what the actual publisher is from the domain. (You can see at the top here that the OG source is Slate.)

I do agree! (and that was a delightful reply to read) I’m just still upset that this was called truly “awful solutions to the Fermi paradox”, because physicists have entertained the possibility that these assumptions are true. Even if it is very unlikely, at least the principles of discovery and that Earth’s more-advanced civilizations have destroyed the less-advanced one in nearly every contact are likely enough that consensus is apparently to not broadcast, just to be safe. According to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/the_dark_forest/, that is their reasoning.

TL;DR: I agree that it’s very unlikely (and that it’s made as a fictional device; to do classic science fiction, essentially) but I disagree objectively that it is “awful” lol.

1. That’s true. It doesn’t change that Iran is more oppressive, unfortunately. I hold that oppressing everyone (and especially a certain nearly 1/2 of the population) is worse than apartheid oppression.
2. My entire argument is that “Iranian claims” is different from “Iran claims” and The Guardian uses the noun phrase for everyone at the same rate. You might argue about the latter, but the former is what The Guardian uses to refer to “the things that X said” and not “X said”, because there is no such thing as “Iranian saids”, and the closest alternative “statements” is just longer and rare.
   Your reply does not address that, or that I did also argue the latter. From looking across their articles, including the one you sent and not just that paragraph, The Guardian uses “claims” the verb for Iran at about the same rate it does for the US. In fact, the same goes for the noun phrase in that article. (listing both: Trump claims, Iran has claimed, Trump was quick to claim, Mohammad Eslami[ ]claimed, Iranian claims, Trump’s claims.)

oops. just because he’s dead now and not because he changed his mind, right?

1. as bad as Israel is, it is not an authoritarian state oppressive of its “own” people, even though that doesn’t justify invading Iran. it is trending that way but it’s somewhat far from having an IRGC
2. you’re not comparing “Iran claims” to “US said”; you’re comparing “Iranian claims” to “US said” instead of “US statements”. here, “claims” is just shorter. in your example the word “claims” is used at the same frequency for trump and iran. google results suggest “US statements” is used at about the same percentage as “Iranian statements”

Death Note style “I know that you know that I know that you know that I know.…” style bullshit that falls apart

yeah if you didn’t like that part of death note (which i guess would be another of your responses to this question) you definitely wouldn’t like that plot line, which PSA to other commenters takes up about 1/4 of the second book. (i’m also curious to hear why you think it falls apart and debate it though i presume you wouldn’t be interested in debating this book lol. i liked the plotline partly because you also have to deduce what he’s going to do and going on through his mind)

awful solutions to the Fermi paradox

the Dark Forest Hypothesis has been around and proposed by physicists decades before the book popularized it, though not with that name; it is plausible that Liu independently thought of this. Stephen Hawking is a major proponent of this hypothesis.