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by yongjik 2y ago
Are we going to be angry that billionaires exist, which might be one thing (whether I agree with it or not), or are we going to be selectively angry at them only when some of them actually try to do something for the environment? Context ma
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Other than the infamous K-T extinction, most (all?) other mass extinction events unfolded over millions of years. Humanity managed to wipe out most of large animals in, like what, 10,000 years? It's like watching a two hour horror mov
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I'll grant that communism makes it easy for a single person to have all the power, but "one single person in power can ruin everything" is not exactly unique to communism, and I am unconvinced that it explains why communist
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I'm no fan of communism but that's a reductive take. China of today is communist in name only, but it's still very centrally managed, and that didn't stop China from becoming a global economic superpower. One could say
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And put those children in an invisible cage with two adults who will tell them when to get up, what to wear, what to eat, what to read, and when to go to bed, and these kids will learn...... what? I think homeschooling could work for some
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But that's the thing - You probably don't want to sit outside under direct sunlight in a summer afternoon, do you? Unless you live very far up north, having summer sunlight hit your floor is not very pleasant, either. A well-pos
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Anecdotally, it feels like Americans generally don't care about natural lighting. About twenty years ago, my wife was looking for apartments and asked the leasing office if there was any unit available facing south or east. Apparentl
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To nitpick: under modern analysis "future" is not a tense in English: the future verb "will" (or "shall") behaves much more like "can", "may", "must" and so on - they're colle
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In school grammar, "present perfect" is a tense. School grammars are basically tradition, so you can call it whatever you want as long as you agree with long-dead grammarians. Ditto for Turkish - I'm sure it has its own dea
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In English, school-taught grammar is often wildly different from modern linguists' view. For example, while traditional English grammar has no less than 12 tenses, linguists consider it to only have two tenses: past or present. The r
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That's an odd complaint. The time to solve a proof for the first time is when you're doing your homework. The course work is supposed to make you practice until your brain can easily pick up the recurring patterns. Sure, if the
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> Because you can easily teach a four year old not to make illegal moves in chess with very little instructions ... Have you seen actual four year olds? Most would not only make illegal moves, they will also throw a few pieces away, pla
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> If people understood this is how science works, they would laugh off anything they disagreed with, as likely to be overturned a decade from now. I'm sorry, but it starts to sound like you have a poor understanding of how science w
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> For example, when a judge last week ordered federal Fluoride standards to be re-examined. It doesn't need to be a total vindication of the conspiracy theorists, for trust to be substantially damaged. This is such a weird way of lo
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And vice versa. So many English works translated to Korean read like chewing sand. It doesn't help that books don't sell well in Korea and translators are poorly paid. Often you can literally see "Oh the original English wo
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Isn't it a crime to pay people to register to vote?
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And that's why the US is such a terrible place right now; more than 150 million people voted in the 2020 presidential election, a stark decline from the days of 1776 when the entire country had about 2.5 million people in total, many o
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If I want the public to tune out of climate issues in disgust, I can't think of a more effective way than throwing soup on Van Gogh while crying "Climate!" The cynic in me wonders if somebody is funding these protestors. If
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Also a surprisingly large number of them are libertarians, whose view is that government can never do anything right and if anybody claims a government intervention (or a concerted society-level effort) is necessary then they are lying. Cli
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I could get past their survival (if they didn't there would be no more story!) but the level of technological development really strained my imagination. I mean, are we supposed to witness a space-faring civilization that can hoist a
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Even that doesn't agree with reality. Some tyrants prefer to say they're doing things for your freedom, your money, or your rights. (In fact, you know what, it's silly to expect tyrants to stay consistent.)
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Linux didn't support per-monitor fractional scaling until fairly recently. I only got it after I changed to Wayland about a year ago (not sure if X supports it these days), and then it turns out Wayland doesn't support color prof
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For some reason, South Korea became a country of young incels and young male Koreans have taken a hard turn into sexist conservatism. There's probably an element of them "getting back" at those evil feminist girls who wouldn
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The difference is nobody sees firefighters saving a homeless man and thinks "Eww gross I'd rather not have them saving lives next to me." When public transportation gets the reputation of being the place of juvenile delinquen
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(Off-topic?) Not talking about the pheasant, but I once read that the Japanese used to eat cranes (presumably the same kind shown in JAL logo), and even offered them as delicacy to a group of Korean ambassadors, who were horrified, because
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> Sure, societies evolve, but they evolve together. Introducing heterogeneity is an entirely different thing. As I just said, Japan suffered a brutal defeat in a World War, with two atomic bombs, losing sovereignty for ~7 years, military
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> mass immigration would effectively mean the end of Japanese society. Meh, in the same sense the country being forced to open up to European merchants, the Meiji Restoration, or the two atomic bombs and the Emperor's fall from a go
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Sounds like you experienced car vs. bus in a car-optimized city and liked the former, which is pretty understandable. In a bus-optimized city, you'd be saying something like "Sure I can drive to work in 15 minutes, but it takes 5
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From what I heard, they are obviously critical but not a single point of failure. In fact they're made of several points that are expected to fail in a pre-determined order to cover the "engine falling off the plane" scenari

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