The question the original post raised was if Trump “supported” this action. I illustrated that you can call an action “great” or “genius” or “savvy” without those words meaning you “support” the actions. Ollivander did not imply “support” of Voldemort when he said Voldemort did “great” things.

You can certainly make a…

Yeah, it would have been smarter for me to draw my analogy from “great” books that almost no one has read (outside the hallowed halls of academia) rather than “bad” books that many people have read and have been adapted to films that almost everyone has seen.

Did you gain dominion over a country the size of Texas, at very little cost, as a result of that right turn? If yes, then you are a fucking genius... perhaps the greatest genius that has ever genius’d.

I suppose the outcome will dictate how “genius” or “savvy” it really was... as I said, it’s looking like he’s going to get what he wants and the worlds not going to do anything (of significance) about it... so...

As any chess player would point out... simple actions (taken at the right time in the right context) are com…

Did you see any other former president speak glowingly about Putin’s actions?

I mean... Fuck Trump... but saying Trump “supports” this is like saying Ollivander supported Voldemort because he said “he-who-must-not-be-named” was “great”. This could be a “genius” and “savvy” move on the part of Putin (and it may actually be, from the perspective of Russian international power, considering the…

The fairly well-understood relationship between physical activity and bone strength is taught in Biology 101 courses... there are volumes of correlative and direct observational studies that substantiate these sorts of claims.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179512/

This is a well-researched area of health... a few minutes googling should turn up a bunch of articles like the one below. I don’t think I’ve seen any research on the “nintendo generation” relative to previous generations (specifically), but it’s totally rational to believe that people living more sedentary lives will…

All I am asking is for those reviewers to either wait until release date to post this type of content or at least warn readers about “potential spoilers”, since everyone measures spoilers differently.

It looks like a little like what Witcher 3 accomplished 7 years ago. It wasn’t perfect... trees sometimes looked a little too rubbery... but it’s was pretty close.

they’re not really bullshit. they’re necessary for people to gauge the general consensus of a product from a broad range of sources without having read each individual review in it’s entirety.

Wouldn’t a casting call for dark people (to replace the pale people) be the essence of tokenism?!

I was just warming up my fingers to go on a diatribe about how tedious it is that this stuff always seems to break down in to an argument about the validity of basic epistemology (how can you, like, even know what people really think?!)... but you handled the rebuttal way better than I would have. Kudos.

People are fragile, as this article illustrates.

It’s like trying to get an accurate reflection from a funhouse mirror; you can polish the surface until it becomes clear as much as you want, but it does nothing to fix the distorted reflection of the truth that forms the foundation of the image. And even though it’s a fictionalized, fantastical version of the Orient,…

But I also don’t see what the alternative is, realistically. Do people expect him to donate 90% of his income and live in artificial poverty for the sake of an image?

Almost as bad as the bad faith shits that conflate “spending less than 200k on a car” with “destitution”.

This just wouldn’t be a story if he had purchased a 35k luxury sedan or even a 60k luxury sports car... and the original story probably wouldn’t have trended if he’d bought a (relatively) modest 800k-1m home in…

America, for example, is made up of about 2-3% of immunosuppressed individuals that can’t be vaccinated or for whom the vaccinations simply can’t offer the same level of protection. I feared for those 6-10 million people before the pandemic... and I still fear for them because I’m not a fucking monster.

The people not…

He’s quoting Zack. Zack (ostensibly the paid professional) introduced the word “cure” to the discourse and Beetle just lobbed it back (wisely using quotes).