Legally easier to ignore a ghost department.

No, I’ve seen this before. One whack to the head changes someone, but then another whack changes them back. Same principle.

Everyone with long covid just needs more covid to fix it.

The US sent 592 athletes and competed in 34 events.

China sent 388 athletes for 33 events.

I think you’re getting downvotes because you’re projecting a narrative onto @Reyali and using quotes around non-quotes. They didn’t say they were “probably not right.”

I agree, everyone should be skeptical of information someone else is sharing, because we can’t assume intention. But what would motivate someone to say “I’m probably not right” anyway?

What’s interesting to me is that for you, your guard went up for someone admitting a potential of having missed something, which may make you more susceptible to people who are confidently wrong.

Most others’ reaction is the opposite, taking their statement as an attempt to be genuine and open to feedback. If someone invites feedback, is willing to admit they might be wrong, that’s a much better starting point for conversation.

These world class athletes are just better and stronger than us, so they can totally tolerate 5x the safe level. Maybe even 10x! It may be true that we don’t know how many times more they can take! A million? These are important questions that we must answer.

“Snitches get <wounds that will require> stitches” Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

That’s a delightful response to my snarky comment, thank you.

I agree, the incentive structure is such that it undermines the goals of journalism. Compounded with a firehose of misinformation, even full-time journalists must be overwhelmed.

I’m unwilling to give them a pass, however. Their job is to report accurately, they understand the risk of reporting things that are not fully vetted, and choose to anyway. As you say, they’re complicit.

Surely you’re not accusing the media of any malfeasance!

The number of people who believe in homeopathy after it’s explained to them is TOO DAMN HIGH.

To paraphrase GW “Fascism me once, shame on you. Fascism me twice? … Can’t get fascism-ed again!”

“Consent” was not a popular topic on early Reddit. Or the internet writ large, I guess.

This article is from 2018 and talks a bit about the suspected causes of increased myopia. The theory is that our eyes are responding to the environment and elongating (axial myopia). So it’s not that humans have lost the ability to have good vision via selection, it’s that we’re adapting to screen vision.

Your point about natural selection is well addressed by @Shawdow194@kbin.social already.

As long as you can profit from new data, data scarcity will never end.

This is why I always try “Jenny’s Number” for loyalty programs when I can enter an phone number (Local area code +8675309). A Safeway near me used to offer fuel points with grocery purchases up to $1 discount per gallon. I saved a lot of money in gas for a while, then it seemed Safeway got wise and deactivated those numbers.

I mean, if we’re being pedantic, traditional cheese did/does use male goats to make baby goats and get milk. We just generally artificially force pregnancy instead.

I feel weird explaining this, but male goats are not used for cheese.

Ha, great skit. Last I visited was for a wedding between a Swede and a Dane, they both claimed the other spoke like they had mashed potatoes in their mouth.

My grandmother took me to her birthplace in Denmark and kept saying she couldn’t speak Danish with the locals, despite having spoken Danish with her family in America semi-regularly. I never thought it was because her vocabulary and accent was stuck in 1940s and she didn’t feel confident speaking that way.

Well, carve out 1 mortgage perhaps. We have too many safe-havens in real estate.

This may be No Stupid Questions, but there sure are a lot of stupid answers.