It’s this MatPat’s alt account?

It’s not a good look for the party that is harping on the Epstein files to be reluctantly releasing redacted documents in responsive to widespread outrage.

There’s a difference between being funny and referencing something funny. This isn’t humor, it’s recall.

Funerals are already celebrations of life. At least, every one that I have been to has been.

It says the program is opt-out. So no, they are not asking permission. They are informing you what will happen if you don’t intervene.

Morgan Stanley is not mentioned in the article.

Seems weird to call out a specific brokerage that doesn’t have any specific connection to Trump just to reference an advertisement from a quarter century ago.

He said: “Growing up in Tottenham in the 1980s, my biggest fear was ending up in prison. That may sound irrational, but in truth it was the fate of so many young Black boys like me.

“You saw it happen slowly at first. People missed school, got into petty trouble, started hanging around with the wrong crowd. No one stepped in to pull them back. For us, going to jail didn’t feel shocking or distant. It felt almost inevitable.

I don’t understand why he thought going to jail was something that would ‘happen’ to him. As if he can’t just choose to not break laws.

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.

“I like pancakes.”

“Oh, so you hate waffles?”

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.

A lot of criticism here for numerical scores, but consider the popularity of tier list ranking videos. Maybe we should be ranking movies relative to one another. Not sure how that works as a UI though.

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.