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I don’t think it’s entirely one way either.

Someone mentioned malaria-afflicted test takers before. Of course better healthcare leads to lower disease load, which leads to higher IQ, but it’s only a weak link, simply not leaving old tires with water strewn about the place is free.

I suspect accuracy of any IQ test falls off the further you get from 100 in either direction, so I’m not married to any global IQ dataset in particular. But they all show the same trend.

All the politically and economically prosperous countries show as high and the basket cases show as low. And if you sit in on their political discourse it increasingly sounds like you’re in an open air mental institution. (Though regrettably that model has been losing a lot of predictive power in the democratic West lately).

I don't get it. Is the author surprised that the world figurehead of being anti-religion is not a fan of Islam, which is a religion?

Has he not spoken against any other religions, or practitioners thereof?

And the subsequent PSOE admins show precisely why Spain had to be a dictatorship.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Another one that the Europeans like to this effect is unrealized capital gains tax, to make sure you never make it to the unicorn stage.

Who on earth are those 1.7% men who go for "obstetric and gynaecological devices"?

Are they accompanying their wives, end up fainting during the procedures, hit their heads and have to be patched up?

Why don't the anti-underground disposal crowd advocate more for long term dry cask storage where monitoring and maintenance is both cheap and easy?

If you don't want to keep women chained to their desks and away from children, then what's the problem?

Paying for a few security guards to sit next to the dry casks and point out that you'd better not crack them open and snort the contents for 50,000 generations will be peanuts compared to all the other expenses associated with keeping a society going for 50,000 generations.

This was my impression as well, both watching Smarter Every Day and visiting a nuclear power plant myself and taking the tour.

Yes, safety is important, but I think they're far into diminishing returns territory, and we have to take the penalty in both energy cost and security.

What was I supposed to think you were objecting to besides what I wrote?

So you admit that you are just making things up to be angry about.

You still haven’t explained what you think I have on my hard drives.

It’s now misogynistic and repulsive to self-determination to and social equity to let women have maternity leave and spend time with their children?

You American tech bros are absolute ghouls.

What criticism, calling them "regressive troglodyte opinions" without any substantiation? You're not trying to have an argument, you're just trying to start a flame war.

I think you're holding it wrong, because that's a .webp image, not a .webm video.

What if furthering the human species through the use of stable two-parent households happens to be my kink? You wouldn't kink shame, would you?

It will always be funny to me how little it takes for the mask of limitless tolerance to slip and reveal what you people think of those of us who dare even dream of deviating from the prevailing social norms.

I used Avid VideoShop back in the day for that, which was Avid's consumer level offering. But I still appreciated being able to copy and paste from Movie Player when I just needed to paste a clip into a different application, which was much quicker when that was all I needed.

I thought it was just trading more download for less upload when last mile bandwidth was limited by re-using old POTS copper.

Wasn't dialup largely asymmetric too? I don't think p2p streaming was even on the radar back then.

But I don't want more tools. I want to be able to view a video on YouTube, shift-scrub to select a short clip, hit copy, then go over to X, write some commentary, and hit paste. I don't want to have to go through yt-dlp, a dedicated video editor, and a file picker.

This functionality was taken for granted when video on personal computers were first invented.

Of course only a pedophile would even think of having intercourse with a woman who has not yet entered menopause.

I should probably also get the lethal injection for being a product of such a sick and depraved congress, because apparently a child is guilty of the crimes of the father.

Cinepak was one such codec and that could be arbitrarily seeked and copied just fine, even in the early 90s, if the player was competently implemented. It's just a matter of computing from the nearest keyframe.

What really happened was that the feature was first paywalled as QuickTime Pro, then removed altogether, in typical enshittification fashion. It had nothing to do with the technical limitations of any of the codecs.

What do you think I have on my hard drives? I'm genuinely confused by that comment.

No, it's also iOS that's arbitrarily restricting it. I opened a bare .webm directly in Safari and got nothing on long press and nothing in any of the control widgets to save it.

I'm absolutely not viewing the past through rose colored glasses. RealPlayer was a dumpster fire, but that came later.

I could hold shift and drag on the timeline to select, copy, then paste it into a document or another video. I can't do that with VLC today. Apple removed the feature in later releases too.

I remember when QuickTime came out in 1991 and it was obvious to everyone that video should be copied, pasted and saved like any arbitrary data.

It's absolutely insane to me how bad the user experience is with video nowadays, even video that's not encumbered by DRM or complex JavaScript clients.

Because then it's just visual clutter, and in the case of tattoos, unnecessary pain, expense and health risk.

If I'm going to put a sticker on something it's going to read like a diff, what sets me apart from the mainstream culture, not all the different ways I conform to it.

They won't give a shit about your political opinions as long as it's one of those in the linked gallery of corporate-friendly pre-approved ones.

Anything right of center and suddenly people start caring very much.

There’s also the problem with both most tattoos and all the stickers in the article that there’s nothing left that’s counter-cultural about them, which defeats the entire purpose of doing something edgy as a statement.

I got rid of all mine after getting disillusioned with every one of the causes they represented.

Why does the next guy hate Citizens United? I’m not American, so this is the first time I’m hearing about them.

I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC and it seems to me like a plain reading of the first amendment supports CU’s position.

Wouldn’t the opposing view imply that you are allowed to have political opinions, but only as long as you go at it alone and don’t organize too much with others?

For all I know that might indeed be a better way of running society, but that’s definitely going to take a big constitutional amendment.