Eww Reinhart and Rogoff, all my homies hate Reinhart and Rogoff.
TL:DR Reinhart and Rogoff infamously cherry picked their data and had coding errors to support austerity measures that fucked over much of the world, subsequent meta analyses found that austerity doesn't work.
Growth in a Time of Debt - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt
Physical Vs chemical changes.
It was typically taught that physical changes are differentiated from chemical changes because they could be "undone" or that they had "no chemical reaction." Which was very confusing, because you can't uncut paper, and dissolving stuff in water clearly results in different chemicals being produced, yet both were examples of physical changes (actually the latter is sometimes taught as a chemical change). Furthermore, most chemical changes are actually reversible.
It has since been recognised that this classification is BS, and most changes actually exist on a continuum.
❌Gay Pride
✅Gay Shame
"Gay Shame was created as a protest of (and named in opposition to) the over-commercialization of the gay pride events. Members attack "queer assimilation" into what they perceive as oppressive societal structures."
Gay Shame - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Shame
All incel, no braincells
Literally yes. I recall there was a study (can't find it now) which showed that people who vote for extreme candidates often do so under the assumption that they won't actually follow through with their promises, and hence the vote is more about "sending a message." In some sense, it is a sick version of normalcy bias.
Brown until proven white
Counterpoint: tried the above to make a "good" profile, and also a "basic" profile literally generated from AI as a control.
The basic AI generated profile full of cliches and revealed nothing about me consistently got more attention.
Research has shown that most people overwhelmingly prefer "average" people, so if your goal is just maximising the number of matches then an "interesting" profile is actually worse.
For anyone who thinks this is an overreaction, here is an example of a Temu jumper catching on fire, and causing severe burns to an eight year old. She now has to have skin grats for the next decade of her life. Such an incident would not have occurred if it had met fire safety standards.
Temu recalls flammable glow-in-the-dark jumper after 8yo girl suffers burns - ABC News - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/temu-recall-flammable-glow-in-dark-jumper-australia-consumer-law/104787390
❌Lest we forget
✅Best we forget
Text Publishing — Best We Forget: The War for White Australia, - https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/best-we-forget-the-war-for-white-australia-1914-18
Shoshana Zuboff really was ahead of its time. So many people who were privacy conscious and therefore thought they were clever by simply thinking that Google makes money by only selling your data completely missed the scale of manipulation and control big tech has (myself included).
Google/big tech doesn't sell your data. Google/big tech sells advertisers predictions of your behaviour, a highly refined, processed version of your data. Advertisers cannot purchase your data, only "impressions" or "views." In an extra sinister twist, Google/big tech then uses it's resources to manipulate you in ways such that their predictions become true.
This is why their predictions are the best, because after making them, they have a financial incentive to manipulate them into being true. It is why we naturally see more and more polarization, because after Google has sold the prediction that you will engage is a specific type of content (e.g. right ring rabbit holes), it is financially incentivised to make that a reality, and therefore further push you in that direction, to make their prediction true.
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207022001066
Unregistered hypercam 2 + notepad instructions + evanescence is an aesthetic tho
Sike! Many developed nations such as Canada, Australia, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore all provide little to no support for dental. Although the UK does have dental ln the NHS, finding an NHS dentist is very difficult.
Many of the residents in these nations end up engaging in dental tourism to nations such as Poland and Thailand, where a dental travel package that includes round trip international air fare + 5 star hotel + dental work is still cheaper than getting dental work done in their home country.
The cybertruck design or that timeless work of art on it?
Although by far the eco friendly option, natural (or direct) burials are still quite expensive, at around $2600. Most of this is related to the cost of the plot itself, and most of the savings come from using a cheaper/no casket.
Direct cremation is generally cheaper, being $800 - $3000, with most options averaging around $2000.
How Much Does A Green Burial Cost? - https://choicemutual.com/blog/green-burial-cost/
What is the average cost of a cremation? - US Funerals Online - https://www.us-funerals.com/what-is-the-average-cost-of-a-cremation/
The catch is that rural Japan is a a shithole rife with xenophobia, privacy violations, bullying, and problematic neighbors. And that's for ethnically Japanese people, so it's be way worse if you were actually a foreigner.
There's a reason why people in Japan try so hard to move away from rural areas into cities.
Not for a long time. The Economist Democracy Index demoted the US to a "flawed democracy" since 2016, where it has been ever since.
Democracy index, 2024 - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu
He just bought a Tesla, and with any luck that'll drown him like it did Angela Chao, the billionaire magnate whose brother in law is Mitch McConnell.
Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68622898
Ask not what your country company can do for you, but what you can do for your country company /s