Obviously, only that tiny percentage of the population “care”. Not sure what they care about, but they care.

Who’s to say what it means to present as or behave like a certain gender? To what extent does one need to conform in order to be considered conforming? Why is anything gendered at all? Does the rejection of gender as a whole not fall under the same umbrella as non-binary?

Financing is available for your $1 candy bars now.

German has always felt like one of the softer sounding languages to me.

That majority of people that are worse than AI slop are also not producing anything, so we’re not flooded with human slop. And when they do, we’re supportive because you need to practice producing bad stuff before you can start producing good stuff.

If humans produced slop at the same rate as AI, I guarantee you that everyone will be complaining about it just the same.

Rebates on used cars can come with the stipulation that the current owner has owned it for a certain number of years, and the amount can also be smaller.

Right, so that’s total investments that we want to reduce, not net.

It’s true. We don’t wear pants while on house husband duty.

Couldn’t you also theoretically hit net 0 while having 100% of our trades going through the US? I don’t know what the “lender” part of “net lender” means, so I could be wrong here, but it seems like this isn’t the right metric to look at if what you care about is trade diversification.

Yes

Of those who regularly donate (or think of donating) to FOSS projects, how many of them would’ve even had sudo cross their mind as a potential recipient for those donations?

we can just

Implying it’s simple to get everyone to stop buying anything tied to the US, and everyone in the US to do the same with Canada.

No one’s saying that anyone never does it. The context is this thread and others like it. One scenario in which it happens with some people.

I believe “tribalism” refers to the refusal to accept new evidence.

7 Minutes

Average time Americans aged 15 and older spend reading per day, compared to over 7 hours spent on screens daily.

That’s kind of insane. What do people spend those 7h on if not reading? Is it all video content?

A number is either positive or negative, no? Unless you manage to hit exactly 0, but I don’t think that’s possible in this scenario.

So, did you do it?

Is it possible that it’s one of those places where being visibly a foreigner grants you lots of extra privileges that locals don’t get?

Commenting on other people’s food is very common around here. Maybe it’s more appropriate to say “don’t content negatively on other people’s food”? Or better yet, “don’t comment negatively on anything unprompted”.

My work place has to keep sending out emails to remind everyone to not hold the door open for people tailing them.