I really wonder what’s going on in the editors minds here.
The entire premise of the article is “All experts say no, but I think yes” - why would anyone about any topic publish this? If it would be an actual debate, maybe some contrarian but actual experts arguing in favor of sentience, you could get into an argument here. But this article is blatant science denial. Climate change deniers and antivaxxers use the exact same approach “facts say X, but my feelings say Y”.
Don’t underestimate the stupidity of white people looking for an identity to fill the void of meaning in their lives.
Since New Zealand isn’t very big, there’s a good chance we’re just a fad away from having millions of 22 year olds getting shitty imitations onto their faces thus ruining it for the Maori.
It’s not cultural appropriation BTW, because Kaylee and Braden absolutely do have Maori heritage 409 generations ago!
Narrator: it did suck. And in ways, OP didn’t even consider.
I mean, obviously. They had no other choice after the woke mob and their “slavery is bad, mkay” destroyed the entire workforce market!!!
(/s, just in case)
And you really think “the elites” are the ones buying and selling here?
Yes, they have a lot of wealth in stocks, but usually they simply own a large chunk of their (or their parents) company and the rest is managed by a fund manager. And if you have millions or billions, you don’t need to think quarter to quarter.
What happened to librem anyway? They used to be all the rage, now it’s nothing.
One part is a reverse game of chicken, buy the dippest dip to realize most profit from less dippy dip buyers.
The other part is the assumption that this means the tariffs will never actually come or at least in a much relaxed form.
I mean, “safest” is a superlative, not a positive. It’s perfectly possible that all other pipelines ruptured three times or more.
Not to sound confrontational, but you’re way too focused on your - likely rather advanced - usage.
90% of people search for very simple stuff. They want to know the weather or want to know about that new movie they don’t quite remember the name of. And for that use case, Google is perfectly serviceable. And since people are used to it, for example by it being the default on most platforms, they use it.
A lot of market leaders are objectively a bad choice, but they’re a known brand. Coca cola, McDonald’s, Oracle, etc.
That is …
Surprisingly deep.
Pronouns are not adjectives, they’re pronouns.
Maybe I’m talking weird, but how often do you refer to yourself by any non-reflexive pronoun?
It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a medical definition.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
You’re not OCD because you sorted Skittles by color once either.
But trauma, as I understand it, is more like a broken bone
That’s a medical trauma, yes. But the situation described here is a light bruise at best.
Yes, these terms encompass a range of severities, but at some point you have to say “No, Terry, a broken nail is not a trauma, and you can’t go to the emergency room because of it”.
People love the feeling of being super empathetic if they support this language. And others love the feeling of self victimization.
And the actual victims don’t get the attention they need, because Terry cries about having made a bad joke yesterday.
Of course there is. As I wrote above: if everything is a trauma, nothing is.
You can’t just expand the meaning of a well defined word just because you like the vibe of it applying to the victim group of the day.
… And that in turn means the term is practically meaningless - as you can see in the example above.
If everything is a trauma, nothing is.
Not every bad experience is traumatic. Abusing that word devalues the actually traumatizing experiences. Being an outsider in school and being raped by your dad are categorically extremely different experiences. Lumping them into “traumatic” is just not helpful.
I’m a software developer. A few years ago, we were all sent mail by a sketchy looking company that had our company’s logo slapped onto the header in the sloppiest way possible and wanted us to click on a link to a “mandatory Cybersecurity training”.
Obviously everyone ignored it. Which is exactly what you’d want people to do. Turns out, it was real and not a scam, just incompetence.
Man, that table is wild. South Africa has a lower life expectancy than Afghanistan and in Russia women live 12 years longer than men? Bonkers.
Because it’s not using hot steam, but vapor, it’s more like sweating.
The heat exchangers are sprayed with misted water, which evaporates and takes away heat. But the resulting vapor is still only slightly above ambient temperature and can’t be reasonably condensated.