This echoes my concerns every time someone (especially under the age of about 40, especially American) praises “communism” (as if it were one thing) with some kind of absolute adoration.

In this case, OP: how did that justice work for the political dissidents sent to gulags?

“I have no response to that.”

Wait, in the first one it looks like the S has a cape.

Is Lemmy supported by ads, now?

Assuming this is a reasonable representation of public opinion in the two countries (and I don’t yet have reason to assume otherwise, despite the neoliberal position of the founders of the institute commissioning the survey), I now think it would be interesting to see a breakdown, country by country, of the discrepancy between public perception of democracy and independent observers’ ratings of democracy in those same countries.

It’s my goddamn IBS again.

Depends on the crime.

White collar: Probably daytime, so your presence (real or virtual) doesn’t stand out.

Physical property: I’m guessing this is mostly at night.

Illegal U-turns: first week or two of the month.

There’s a much larger (and not resolved, even among statisticians and Serious Quant People) about what approach to take–and some people say don’t take any–but just getting this info out to people who are unaware is a great thing to do.

Bob

As a man, I’ve found this applies to almost any traditionally* feminine activity.

• “Traditional” is a red herring, quagmire, and propagandum with gender roles. What is “traditional” for men vs women shifts around over time and place, and within cultures and subcultures. I actually mean something like “hegemonic” or “stereotypical within your specific cultural milieu.”

Thank you for typing this all out. It was lovely and inspiring to read.

Thinking one step further: Even if I somehow got into MENSA (unlikely), I can’t imagine ever saying, “I see you have a MENSA discount…” ugh.

Don’t forget racists. Plenty of those are drawn to the Mensa labels, too.

This is worth the entire post and more. I’m chuckling while my kid gives me weird looks from the other room.

You sound like one of them rabid haters of chiropterotemporal gelato antivendors.

This goes a bit deep. Seems like it’s going to be about customers being too stupid to figure things out, but it ends up for me a story about engineers not accurately anticipating customers’ needs.

He’s been doing that for years, with a big acceleration when he bought Twitter.

Elon is kind of stupid, definitely not as smart as he has presented himself. Reading his tweets, however, I have very serious concerns about the critical thinking levels of his fans.

The second thing is legit, I think. I often communicate with, or see content from, data analysts and researchers from England (I’m in the US). England and many other parts of Europe use a comma as a decimal point.

I’ve never heard of the semicolon in acronyms/abbreviations, but hey, it’s a big world and I don’t know lots of things.

Noooooooo!

(From an old-school semicolon user)