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It's not well intentioned. Those egregious privacy violating measures are the intention, "protecting kids" is a smokescreen.

Looks like the Chinese word for stingy literally translates to "narrow" but can also mean closed-minded or petty depending on context. A very plausible mistranslation.

Why are we continuing that pattern? Generation X gets named that, fine. Then we call the next one Generation Y, a few years later we realize that's stupid because we'll run out of letters and rename it to Millennial. Then we learn literally nothing from that, repeat the same mistake with Z and then loop over to the Greek alphabet? If we were going with the alphabet, why not start at A?

How about we send actual wrecking balls through the oil rigs instead?

4° C is apocalyptic. 1.5° C is still catastrophic and will result in massive floods and global famines.

The funny part is that they supposedly believe in the Antichrist but don't realize Trump is closer to that description than the Second Coming.

I wouldn't even mind that if the end result of engaging with all those systems was something more satisfying than just completely nullifying the combat, the part that's supposed to be the core of the game. Why even have different types of enemies if as soon as your build gets up and running they're going to die before they're even on screen, let alone being able to attack?

Also disproportionately inflicting false positives on neurodivergent students.

"At six" works in 24 hour time too.

In fact, a confirmed alien spacecraft would, by definition, not be a UFO.

"It's worse somewhere else so the problem doesn't exist" has always been a shit argument and you know it.

That's just efficiency, inflicting and curing heartburn at the same time.

The worst part is it looks suspiciously like a deliberate strategy. They told their base that deliberately not taking precautions "owns the libs", that you should vote in person on Election Day without a mask. This creates a correlation between voting method and candidate, with mail-in votes being mostly Democratic. Then they simply attacked mail-in votes.

Thankfully it ultimately didn't work, but they were willing to kill their voters to try it.

They also very quietly issue a retraction after the bullshit goes viral so they can claim to be innocent.

4 degrees is the apocalyptic scenario. The vast majority of oxygen in the atmosphere is provided not by trees or any plants, but by the algae and cyanobacteria in the ocean. At the 4 degree threshold, they can't do aerobic respiration anymore, so they switch to anaerobic respiration. This means they stop producing oxygen, drastically reducing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and drastically increasing the carbon dioxide. This does two things: kills any large fauna, humans included, and the additional carbon dioxide continues to act as a greenhouse gas, accelerating the effect even further. Eventually, after almost all oxygen breathing life is dead, we reach equilibrium, assuming your definition of 'we" includes insects, because that's basically all that would be left. If there's a risk of reaching the 4 degree threshold, we would be forced into taking our chances with the literal nuclear option of deliberately inducing a nuclear winter.

Like many things, the damage was done by the British. Specifically one Bishop Robert Lowth. In 1762, he wrote a book of prescriptivist grammar rules starting with the premise that Latin is a perfect language, and any construction in English that doesn't match Latin is a flaw. This is where those nonsense rules like "never end a sentence with a preposition" and "never split infinitives" come from, as well as the claim that the singular they (in common use at the time) should be phased out in favor of the generic he, because that's what Latin does. The damage this one book did to the English language still has not been fully repaired.

One of the first people to be arrested at Stonewall was just a random passerby that saw people throwing bricks at cops. He just started grabbing some bricks and joined in, saying anyone who would stand up to the police has his support.

It can be less aggressive than that of course, but that's an example.

The problem is if you open it up, you just get trillions of numbers. We know what each function does, it takes a set of numbers between -1 and 1 that other nodes passed it, adds them up, checks if the sum is above or below a set threshold, and passes one number to the next nodes if it's above and one if it's below, some nodes toss in a bit of random variance to shake things up. The black box part is the fact that there are trillions of these numbers and they have no meaning individually.

The current PM of Italy is openly a Mussolini sympathizer.