It’s Scientific American, not Complete Bullshit American.
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It’s Scientific American, not Complete Bullshit American.
Look at the sentence you wrote. Since the Korean War. And the Korean War was the biggest since the one before that.
Turn the news off and look at the data. It’s important to end these conflicts, but in terms of scale, these are far smaller than the past.
Here’s homicides per capita in Western Europe. I highly recommend reading The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It goes into this in depth.
Violence has been going down for centuries. We’re hearing about it more, but it’s declining. It peaked around 1993, and it’s been trending downward ever since.
If you zoom out and look at super long term trends, it’s been declining for centuries.
fawning celebration of its subject
That’s all I needed to hear to know that it’s bad.
Last show I watched with a crashing plane, there were a lot of unanswered questions, characters died, people came up with conspiracy theories, and it ended with the audience really upset. Sounds accurate.
Let the record show that I gave the 34th upvote to this comment…
*promised to give. Anyone following self-driving cars over the last decade knows Elon’s promises are worth nothing.
HTML is not a programming language
It’ll take so long before you can even leave your physical ID at home and count on everyone accepting your digital one. And it may never happen that people stop accepting your physical one.
It’s so people can trial having digital IDs. Some TSA and others can scan the new IDs, but not everyone can. So in the meantime, you have to carry your physical one too.
People are pointing out potential negatives, but this has some good possibilities for privacy too. If you show your ID at the liquor store, there’s no need for the clerk to know your name or address. The scanner can just verify your age.
Everyone’s talking about the tech, but I’ll talk about the user base. When you make a post or comment on Reddit, it often feels like you get lost in some black hole of other posts or comments. No one sees your comment because there are 1000 other comments on the same post.
At Lemmy, there are fewer users and fewer comments, but your comments actually get seen. People upvote. I weirdly get way more upvotes at Lemmy than I did at Reddit, in spite of the smaller user base here. Because of that, I’m way more active here than I was on Reddit.
https://www.marketplace.org/2021/01/19/why-rich-people-tend-think-they-deserve-their-money/
Fascinating read. They gave one player (after a coin toss) way more advantages in the game. In the end, they inevitably won, and no advantaged person talked about the coin flip being the reason. Instead, they attributed their perceived skill.
Against the rules? It’s the whole point of the game.
Checks notes… yep, it’s terminal.
The last one could just have just been review bombed because it was “woke” for casting a person of colour as the lead, or a woman.
Right. Throughout human history, if someone was cast out of a community, they didn’t survive. We’ve been trained through evolution to go along with the tribe because it’s unsafe to question anything and get cast out.
The sad thing is that the rest of the world knew.