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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bingo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
2 parties is the inevitable outcome of FPTP, there’s no enforcement of 2 parties, it’s simply the most viable strategy in this voting system. Washington was right to deride the 2 party system but the framers were building an electoral system long before we had some extremely serious mathematics done about making voting systems more fair, and also proving that no voting system can be perfectly fair and satisfy all fairness criteria.

And they also weren’t one homogeneous group either, they all wanted different things and came to compromise about how to go about doing it, some wanted a centralized army to stand up to outside forces, others saw that as a risk, capable of waging war internally. They were working off of the collective knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, and more contemporary writers like Voltaire, Hobbes, and Rousseau. They didn’t have the next 250 years of political philosophy that would develop that we know today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
2 expansions, 6 Frontier Pass Packs, 6 leader packs, scenario DLCs, leader DLCs. There’s a lot more than just Gathering Storm and Rise & Fall.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You’re allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don’t be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.

I’m Civ it’s also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you “defend” yourself by taking their cities. You’ll be less of a warmonger.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Holds up spork
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meep⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
AI bs aside, Teslas actually do fall for the roadrunner gag because they use cameras instead of lidar for navigation.

Mark Rober actually put it to the test and… well… it failed horribly.

youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ The big moment is at about 15 min into the video.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oh yeah I’m saying it’s technically viable, not that it’s actually any good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cool we both agree it’s bad, now can we agree that the dems plans of “ok i guess we’ll slightly slow down the shipment of weapons to Israel but still honor the preexisting treaties we made with them” is not the same as “we’re going to send even more weapons and turn the Gaza Strip into a gilded Trumpland.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If it’s held at a slightly lower temp for longer it can achieve the same bacterial reduction the 145F the usda recommends, its the instant bacterial death time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bro trumps team literally made a shitty AI generated “we’re going to raze Gaza and build a gold plated hotel here” commercial. If that’s not “mental gymnastics to paint genocide as a good thing” idk what to say to you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call Them. Replace Them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Fun bit of additional trivia about him, he was injured, shot in the leg while serving on the American side. After his defection, there is a likely apocryphal tale where he captured some Americans and asked what would happen if the situation were reversed. He was told his leg would get full burial honors and the rest of him would be hanged for treason. Funny enough there is a memorial of a leg at Saratoga for the injury he sustained and his importance at the battles in Saratoga but has nothing mentioning his name or the rest of his body. Which honestly is a level of pettiness to aspire to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something something sexual tyrannosaurus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Fuck me in the ass 'cuz I love Jesus!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Personal injury lawyers might not be as big as they are, but lawsuits in the US are kind of important for more than just monetary compensation, it’s to have case law and in essence introduce new regulations. McDonalds didn’t just have to pay medical bills for the Hot Coffee lawsuit, but McDonalds also had to change how they serve their coffee. Its part compensation and part making sure it doesn’t happen again or if it does, there is a clear path for what needs to happen. As awful as it is to have something bad happen, it’s worse if we don’t learn and change from it and our system of incorporating case law is pretty decent at that, if imperfect. No legal system can cover every scenario, but if it can adapt as new scenarios arise then it is all the more resilient (although that does kinda assume our Judiciary is truly impartial and there are no cronies trained by think tanks to give the illusion of impartiality)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In general it’s asking another person to change their appearance to suit your preferences rather than just respecting whatever mood they’re in or how their naturally resting face just looks. Forcing a smile sucks. It takes some amount of conscious effort to maintain a forced smile and smiling does engage quite a few muscles in the face, about 43 different muscles to make a smile.

Combine all of that with the history of women very much not having any kind of power in our society, and it takes on a more sinister tone when directed at women, hinting at the idea of someone’s only valuable because they have a pretty face and it should be pretty all the time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Boss make a grand, I make a buck, that’s why I’m stealing the catalytic converter off the company truck.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I shit on company time
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I used to be a programmer myself and it’s why there’s a specific default data structure built in to most programming languages to handle dates and internationalization of those dates.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The dates are written to match how it’s said. In the US we say our dates as month day year, and before you say “But the 4th of July” my counterpoint is that the 4th of July takes place on July 4th. And Cinco de Mayo takes place on May 5th. And May the Fourth Be With You takes place on May 4th.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s just how basic demographics analysis works. There’s a lot more people who are struggling with mental health problems/mental disabilities that make them more prone to believing scams. And so many games and storefronts use dark patters to make it extremely easy to make undesired purchases or have no safeguards to prevent children from using their parents credit card for purchases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahoy me hearties⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Def email the researchers, so many of them would gladly give you access to their research papers because they also hate the science publishing industry.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh I get it, you’re either just a moron, or your being purposefully dense and wasting all of our time responding to your drivel.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That sounds a lot like the k-8 class I grew up with from 1999 to 2007. We were rowdy, constantly got in trouble, constantly interrupting class. We got in trouble so often that for our 8th grade year we lost both our New York and Washington DC field trips. Ours is the only class that either of those trips were taken away. Substitute teachers always reported back horror stories of what we did while the teacher was away. Desks and seat assignments were constantly moved around to separate the disruptive problem groups to little success.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ll admit I certainly came off a bit more sarcastic than I was intending, and it’s been a good while since I’ve been in grade school, but times of entire classes of students just fully misbehaving have existed before and will likely exist again. I remember even back in the early to mid 2000s the class I was in caused a lot of major problems for my teachers throughout the years to the point that in our 8th grade year, our class was the only one in in years to lose the privilege of going on our New York and Washington DC school trips and the only one in years after to lose those class trips.

Many of the kids were flat out obnoxious jerks and we didn’t have an excuse of “we had multiple years of virtual learning to stunt our development” to lean on.

Believe me I feel sympathy for these kids going through one of the many recent once-in-a-lifetime mass human tragedy events. They’re in a tough circumstance, with teachers trying to do their best in a criminally underfunded education system, after living through the collective trauma that was the pandemic

My intention, albeit sarcastically, was pointing out that our hard wired desire to be social is generally a good thing and what has given us a huge advantage over other creatures. For as much as teachers want to and do make a huge difference in kids lives, the overarching structure is not actually geared to help teachers do their jobs best. There is so much administrative bloat and inefficiency and funding that goes to the top of the structure that gets in the way of teachers being able to focus on teaching their students and provide them with the tools and material necessary to educated kids.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Shocking that the offspring of a species that became the dominant species on this planet exactly because we evolved nearly effortless communication and social traits would be included to be social with other people.

Not saying you’re a bad teacher, you just fighting an uphill battle against our natural instinct to be social creatures in an education system that does everything it can to ignore that kids generally do like and actuall do need to be social for healthy development.