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Atlas Obscura has great stuff, but their articles are never enough. Always too short.

We need to fund some studies then.

Such as:

Are birds more likely to avoid black, white, orange, or polkadotted cats?

Is neon better than bright pastel?

There's a difference between content moderation and censorship. Not to mention shaping user experience.

For example, If a site has a mechanism where after X number of downvotes by users, your comment is hidden, that's not censorship.

You've spoken your piece, and other users voted on if they liked your comment or not, or if it contributed to the conversation or provided useful information, etc.

Those other things you mentioned, you do so without context. No social media site can function and be a useful and valuable place to visit without some form of content moderation.

The distinction lies in where the line is drawn. Can you (constructively) criticize the site mods or parent company? Speak your own views in a reasonable discussion that don't cross the line (calls for violence, unintelligible ranting, trolling)?

There's a fine line for a lot of this.

I mean, that's should be a reasonable understanding for most people. Sure, there are companies out there I don't support because I don't like what they do. But there are others with opinions I disagree with, but I still patronize them.

And its important to recognize that the stores I refuse to patronize, and those I do that hold views I dislike, are probably not given the same distinctions by others, even those with ideals like mine.

But the core point should be we can have a calm, rational discussion on it, and leave with the understanding that your thoughts and views are not 100% my thoughts and views, and that's ok as long as neither of us hold views promoting violence or hatred.

I've never met a person in my life I 100% agreed with about everything. Not my mom, not my dad, not my sister, or my wife .

Talking and finding commonality is more important and necessary than finding reasons to dislike each other.

It would be a likely explaination... if mass hysteria resulted in brain damage.

How many psycogenic illnesses are known to cause physical damage?

But a psycological cause wouldnt result in the damage found on the victims, right?

Didn't one doctor who examined some of these people describe damage that looked like "a concussion without a concussion"? I.e. damage to the brain you'd see on people who had conxussions, but they experienced no physical trauma?

No, it's not.

Lying? You mean changing their understanding of something new as more information becomes available? That's how science works they use the best info available, and change their understanding as more info becomes available.

Oh look, another conspiracy theory! That didn't take long. Does this one tie John in with Epstein too, like another comment's conspiracy theory does?

Perhaps classes on ability necessary to the sport should be the only way to go?

So your argument is that men are inherently superior to women in all physical aspects? Yea, no bias there...

Why wouldn't people support transgendered people able to be the gender they wish and being able to do so in all possible aspects? Be they transwomen wanting to play female sports, or transmen wanting to play male sports (which you oddly leave out of your question).

I don't know the history of all sports, but the few tidbits I know all point to sex/gender separation as being initially based on beliefs that women were inferior to men. From physical sports to mental ones like chess, sex separation was due to women not being seen as equal to men.

I think its time to do away with separations on sex, and go with ones based on ability and size. Boxing does it with weight classes, why can't we do it with everything?

But you specified they wouldn't give you FMLA leave, not unpaid leave. If that's how you requested it, then they wouldn't be able to give you that, due to FMLA itself.

"Nike sued MSCHF last week claiming the "Satan Shoes [were] likely to cause confusion and dilution and create an erroneous association" between MSCHF's products and the company. "

Nike felt the way the shoes were marketed and sold was confusing enough that people might assume these were official Nike shoes.

If you're speaking about the resale doctrine when you say "right of first" in trademark law it appears that altering the goods so they are materially different is where the line is drawn.if you substantially alter them, it sounds like you don't retain the rights and protections under the resellers doctrine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

What do you mean the ulnar "side"? The ulnar nerve controls several fingers on each hand. The middle and ring. iirc. I started getting that tingling and numbness in my fingers, and it kept getting worse and worse until one day on the train I was thinking "ok, something is REALLY wrong" and went to a specialist my general referred me to.

He agreed that it seemed my ulnar neve was getting pinched by my elbow, most likely (i had Google around, and while I don't think googling equals an experienced doctor, I told him my symptoms, what I read up on, and asked if he thought it was something like that. To my surprise he agreed after some tests and asking me questions).

He told me to start sleeping in a manner where I couldn't curl or fold my arms. He even advised taking a small pillow, wrapping it around my arm, and ducttapping it, so I couldn't bend my elbow at night even if I wanted to!

I didn't do that, but I did pay more attention to how I sleep, and kept my arms naturally straight (relaxed) when I slept. I did have an extra pillow, and I'd lay that across my arm, which was enough. Anytime I woke up and my arm was folded, I reextended it.

After a few weeks of that, and the pain and tingling not growing, it started greatly reducing and went away. I still try to sleep with my arms as straight as possible.

So she's just an all around terrible, toxic person. Doesn't surprise me she's been apparently banned from Stripe, CPAC and probably a bunch of other places.

But reducing it down to a basic fact exists in all of these. We agree the boat is stuck. We agree an election took place in the US. We agree there is an Earth.

But yes, regardless it is still nice to just say:

The boat is stuck.

And everyone agrees.

Brave is built directly on Chrome/Chromium. You still get extensions from the Chrome store. Its underlying functionality is all chrome.

What would that accomplish?

"It doesn't guarantee mutual annihilation at all. We've already used nuclear weapons"

That's a weird thing to say.

When was the last time we used them, during a war?

Back before any other power had them. Literally the US was the only country with those bombs. That's obviously not mutually assured anything.

Now, almost everyone has at least one, and the US and Russia have many more.

I read sci-fi. The idea that you only "write what you are/know" is laughable. Sure, if you write a book with such offensive ideas about another culture or race, you're a terrible person. But if you research, interview, try to understand, and come at it for a work of fiction, that is what large swathes of fiction is!

I read books about spaceships, about robots, about humanity that's split off into different evolutionary groups.

I credit part of my immediate acceptance of LBGT+ and people on the sci-fi books I read as a kid, where changing your sex/gender was as simple as a 15 min visit to a shop (or similar), and the protagonists switched genders or sexs regularly. Hell, or some where neutral (in one case, they were neutral, because they used to be a warship, and the author used the female pronouns to describe all characters, even men! Great book series, by the way. Ancillary Justice was the first one).

Or with two characters fall in love, when they're not human, or not male and female or whatever.

One of my favorite authors (two of them, they're sisters, SK Dunstall) wrote some amazing male protagonists (and female ones). Not once while reading their linesman series did i ever stop and go "they shouldn't write about a male protagonist". Hell, at times their male protagonist was better written as a male protagonist than books I've read written by men!

There's a book on my reading list now, (to be taught, if fortunate) about humans genetically modified for specific environments, like space!

The discussions these books generate is important, in many cases. Some are meant to, others meant to just be enjoyed. Intent is important as is accurate research and characterization, when possible. Sure, if someone writes a book that's purposely harmful, or accidentally (but with a huge, disproportionate impact) harmful, then the book should be reviewed and maybe issues addressed to the author or by those who sell it. But only when its extremely harmful as a whole.

But the important thing is, these are all fiction. There's good fiction, bad fiction, and 90% of it is subjective. Fiction gives you the license to go beyond who you are, what you know, what ties you to the real world. And invites those discussions, invites people to learn more.

"Uhh, is there a human doctor around?"

"Young lady, I am an expert on humans. Now pick a mouth, open it, and say [Zoidberg Noises]."

"Ahem, [bad attempt at copying zoidberg noises]"

"WHAT?! My mother was a saint. Now GET OUT!"

You're blaming "the left" for distrust in voting? I don't know where to begin...

I learned some countries have things like this after an article last month where someone traced an IP range used by palor or another organization like that to a country with similar rules, and filed a complaint with the company that leased it, who revoked the range. (Going from memory here, sorry if I'm getting things wrong).

Especially given Ive heard some of these TLDs are cheaper to encourage their use, people who want to run services on these should be careful even if enforcement is often lax or nonexistent until a complaint is filed.

As a security person its hard as heck training (some of) our users to understand how basic domain formats work. We use a phishing simulation service, and outside of certain content,putting part or all of our company name in the domain but adding other words/underscores/etc is what tricks a lot of people. I tend to explain how it works in a basic format, and often you can see the light bulb go off when I point out how a subdomain works and why an underscore or dash creates a whole new domain anybody can register while a subdomain is something our company can only create/use (mind you, I'm not going to confuse them by explaining how this can be abused, these people i talk to about this are having enough trouble grasping the basics).

I find it always fascinating, that the same groups (Greenpeace, etc.) are always quick to point to UN reports about climate change (like the IPCC report) as if they were gospel but all the reports of the UN about Chernobyl and Fukushima are supposedly fake. I personally believe both are correct.

I find this sort of thing is a reminder that I always need to find multiple sources, try to understand what the studies are and the extent they cover the topic and what the experts are saying about them to get a fair idea of what is going on.

Its also a reminder that everyone has biases, both implicit and explicit, and it reminds me that I need to constantly review my stances to ensure I'm not only going by what my own biases want to follow (instead of the facts).as well as ensure I identify why a group may support one thing, but not another when currently available and reviewed info suggests both are correct.

I also try and discourage myself from two other things I find common. The first is taking a large organization and assigning the same value to anything and everything they produce, even when its an org of many people and experts who have different internal groups that are experts in different areas. Its too easy to go "oh this group knows their stuff of X, published by doctors A, B, C. That is automatically equal to this other paper on a completely different topic published by Doctors X, Y, and Z."

This happened to me with audible. They didn't have the cancel subscription on the app. Had to hunt for it on the site.

Was asked if i was suuuuuuure i wanted to leave, 3 separate times before it canceled.

Definitely not thinking of doing that again, or like i do for some streaming services, pay for a couple months, stop, then pay for a few more.

Utterly rediculous.

And again in 2018, as we all know too.

Did you click that site? I can't read the damn article because of all the ads.