we asked respondents to rate each president on a scale of 0-100 for their overall greatness

With this phrasing i’d expect the opposite result, Trump voters giving him a perfect 100 tremendous greatness would average out with all the zeroes and at least put him above the 30ish presidents that nobody really remembers

Hopefully this is a sign that the MAGA brain rot is going away.

There’s a million valid reasons to criticize Israel without any antisemitism… but if you make a generic “jews bad” comment and specifically mention a time period that goes before ww2 it gets pretty sus

The twin’s name?

Albert Einstein.

TLDR: privacy law won’t pass because it would limit the government’s right to buy “commercially available data” on anyone without a warrant

This includes location data collected from cell phones that are capable in many cases of tracking people’s physical whereabouts almost constantly. The data is purportedly gathered for advertising purposes…

A government that actually cares about privacy wouldn’t be debating ‘should we be able to buy that data’, it would be asking the real question ‘why the fuck is it legal to collect and sell that data?’

Even if we pretend that data will only ever be used for ads, it’s still not fucking OK for advertisers to stalk everyone everywhere 24/7 (and every use other than ad stuff is probably worse)

A more educated populace benefits everyone.

Except Republicans. They “love the poorly educated”

The announcement that ICF had reached the break-even point in 2022 provided hope that fusion power was drawing closer, and this will be bolstered by news that further progress has been made. But there are caveats. Firstly, the energy output falls far short of what would be needed for a commercial reactor, barely creating enough to heat a bath. Worse than that, the ratio is calculated using the lasers’ output, but to create that 2.1 megajoules of energy, the lasers draw 500 trillion watts, which is more power than the output of the entire US national grid. So these experiments break even in a very narrow sense of the term.

The movies did a great job at presenting thanos as an extremist that sincerely wants the greater good by questionable means, but it falls apart because his grand plan is just so stupid. The only way to reconcile the sympathetic character with the dumb plan is to point out he’s “THANOS THE MAD TITAN”, not “THANOS THE TITAN THAT FULLY CONSIDERS THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS ACTIONS”

Would have been much better if they just kept his original motivation from the comics: Death is a hot lady and horny thanos does the snap as a gift to her

That’s assuming you’ll meet literally every person on earth

Let’s say you will have a meaningful interaction with 1000 people ever, 1% of that leaves you with 10

If you’re not bi make it 5 before you even start considering wether you also find those people attractive back, if they’re single and in the right age range

So get that confidence back down. Statistics are a bitch

Real life the board game©

Yes

Our planet is on fire. The Nazis are back. Most of us are wage slaves. Women are going to prison over their physiology. Multiple nations are currently at risk of being wiped off the map…

Conservatives care about all of those actually relevant things, but they’re trying to make them even worse.

Of course that wouldn’t be very popular, so instead they just scream about what’s in people’s pants and their voters eat it up

Ouch my bones

Don’t make “hit” the new “slammed”.

The headline makes it sound like a fistfight, turns out it was just one post on the TwitterButDumber site

They can also make artificial diamonds that are good enough for jewelry, the perception that lab made diamond is different/worse than diamonds pulled from the ground is just propaganda to keep the artificial scarcity

But we still check every time, just in case

I was disgusted by the XML at first, but it’s a readable query returning a sane JSON object.

Meanwhile, I’m mantaining Java code where the SQL is a perfectly square wall of text, and some insane mofo decided the way to read the resulting list of Object[] 🤮 is getting each column by index… so I’d switch to SQXMLL in a heartbeat.

It’s not one sentence “no taxation without representation”, it’s the two groups of people “no taxation” and “without representation”

It’s a huge luxury to be able to make money off something you love, even more to just be able to do what you love without worrying about money.

Meta has no interest in being part of the fediverse, it only wants to eliminate any posible competition.

The usual MO of buying the competitors isn’t posible on the fediverse, so the way to do it is embrace, extend and extinguish

Defederating is important because is Metastasis is allowed in the fediverse it will consume the fediverse, and then we’ll be right back at the corporate social media we’re trying to break away from, with the surveillance, ads and nazis being welcome as long as it’s profitable

That’s the point of step 2: inspect ass

If you find or smell poopoo obviously don’t proceed to brlbrlelebrbrbr (or do if you’re into that shit who the fuck am I to judge)