Humans aren’t selfish or greedy by nature at all? Have you met humans? Like, not online? Most of them are cool ! If you’re having problems with some, just go somewhere where there are other ones, they’re all over the place!

Whether you learn to speak a language has very little to do with school lessons anyhow. We had french from elementary school in the UK till I was 16, and I’d estimate my fluency at A2-B1. A combination of excessive focus on grammar, painfully slow lessons, and utterly no exposure outside of the classroom means nobody learns it. As an adult I’ve moved to another country speaking another language, attending language lessons, and I’m seeing this pattern again- the classmates who never use the language at home or work barely seem to make progress beyond a certain point, whereas those using it at home, socially or at work are making lightning fast progress.

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Because blåhaj is indispensable sleeping companion

The guy who invented chiropractic literally says he learned it from a ghost called Jim Atkinson. He also did “magnetic healing”.

I went to a chiropractor as a kid because of back pain. They pretty quickly figured out it was because one of my legs was longer than the other, and did several adjustments to my back, next, and legs, none of which did very much. I was told to keep coming back and it would take time to work, and that if I stopped, the pain would come back. (Of course, this conveniently meant I would have to keep paying for sessions)

The words the guy was using about why things worked were utterly crackpot, including stuff about how adjustments or pressure applied in specific parts of the hands could affect parts of the gut or brain etc. about how my organs weren’t getting enough nerve supply. All sorts of ridiculous charts on the walls showing things that I definitely knew weren’t in the body.

I later figured out my back pain was because my schoolbag was too heavy. My legs are the same length as each other.

Oh and yes, I absolutely can and will deny that acupuncture works. It doesn’t. It’s all placebo, which is very powerful.

Oh that rabbit hole is gonna get a whole lot wilder for you: they produced man portable atomic mortars! Search up Davy Crockett mortars

South Africa made atomic cannons like this one too back under apartheid

It’s literally just whatever you write in but backwards with umlauts over the A

Yeah but i dont know when ec2 became a thing

Only 90%?

TBF you really shouldn’t be defragging most devices anyways these days. It actively hurts SSDs

But but but… Ec2 instances aren’t ai, you could have done this with a cron job in 2018.

An ec2 instance is just an Amazon server, like a computer you can use for anything. She does mention ai but token use isn’t what’s incurring the cost here.

I suppose all those children speaking both Hungarian and Latin will have no problem with the Latin name of this creature named after a Hungarian biologist

Halal finance is an entire massive industry. Because taking interest is a sin in islam (based), and used to be in Christianity too. Ursury.

My partner is quite a fan of the Ollie Richards story learning books. I think they have a couple of those for Spanish.

Inkscape kicks ASS god i love Inkscape

Not in the uk. Was shocked to see depictions of “drug stores” in American media as a child.

He’s mad that people are selling stuff in the temple when it should be holy (and commercial activity is NOT holy)

It’s a fair critique. I suppose i personally dont really know many pundits that aren’t of this type of another. I wouldn’t say TV ones or YouTube or podcasts any other place would be a better (though my suspicion is YouTube has the greatest reach but I wouldn’t assume any particular subculture from it was world changing or universally known or whatever, the culture is too deeply fragmented)

As for the groups discussions, I suppose I don’t think “pundits” as a concept is really that important to us. It’s like asking what literary critics a writers group talks about a lot, we’re more interested in the politics than talking about the people talking about the people talking about the…

Kinda the whole point is that we want to think about the interesting problems ourselves and what we can do about it rather than having other people do that for us

I’m in a leftist group that regularly discusses politics. I know one guy who follows him, and regularly talks like this (he’s the biggest happening thing, a huge voice on the left etc)

Noone else thinks about or talks about him. I’m not here to trash on the guy, hes probably fine. It’s more a point about the usefulness of twitch as a political project. It’s a deeply insular place. Much like it’s annoying when people act as though niche twitter stuff is world news

Thousands is a bit of an understatement, there were over 500 organisations present. Police say 50,000, organisers say up to 500,000