Lucius Finkter

Has a Pokemon game ever mentioned Darwin?

They are exploiting a vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to privileged information. Sounds hackery to me. It’s not their fault that Zuck made it easy.

Just in case there any kilogenerians?

If you’ve never thought about shooting someone, then on what basis can you even say that shooting someone is wrong?

Am I supposed to know how much a box of tomatoes normally costs? How big of a box? Why not give the price increase as a percentage?

I hate headlines.

Ok, now do sponges. Is it obvious sponges feel pain? How can you tell it’s obvious?

Why would you assume another organism can feel pain without any proof? Rationalism requires skepticism.

Police would share the file with a local women’s group, who would then deliver the information to the person who made the request and offer professional support.

That’s weird. Even if it was a couple of gay men, the info would be transmitted through a women’s group?

I think omission can be used for misleading/deception, but that it’s distinct from a lie.

Why were they storing passwords in plaintext in the databases?!

The term “featherbedding” is usually used by management to describe behaviors and rules sought by workers.

The most rigorous evidence comes from a 2018 whole-population study tracking nearly half a million children born in Western Australia between 1980 and 2001. Of those, 1,870 developed schizophrenia, but not one of the 66 children with cortical blindness did.

1,870 / 500,000 = 0.374% of people in the general population

0.374% * 66 = 0.25

Not particularly rigorous.

I bought a Dell about 5 years ago because it came with Ubuntu installed instead of Windows. And the normies/boomers aren’t using Linux.

Once you go back far enough, everyone is related. Everyone alive today with European ancestry is a direct descendant of Charlemagne, for example.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford

There are ways to be compelling other than annoyance.

A lot of people here are happy to see others lose a freedom that they themselves were never going to exercise.

Petah?

I’ve never understood why people get so excited about tax refunds, but this provides some context.

I suppose anyone gullible enough to buy Himalayan salt is also gullible enough to believe salt expires.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.