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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

And a few years later the bacteria is found to cause even worse diseases...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do the dems really want these released or is it just a pretend game from both sides?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Absolutely agree! Why can't we have a show where a strong army wipes out a minority from the Earth with the rest of the world cheering?

What? That exists and is called "Fox News"??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

No kidding: they spinned that one in France: "islamo-gauchiste" (something like "islam-leftist"). For real!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

In a wild area untouched by humans, there is not much "unwanted" you could get from grazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Assuming people upload their code to fix it, that means it's non working code. Great training material!

I'm joking but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't think that through...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're missing a non-formulated assumption that you should have diversified your investments, so it's 100$ in Amazon, and 100$ in competitor2, 3, 4,... Get to 10 and you have a good chance 1 or 2 will make it!

What? You can't afford 1000$ of risky investments per month??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Come on! We have ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Am I the only one who wonder about a Hamas "genocidal" strategy? That they wish they could kill all Israelis, no doubt, but "genocidal strategy"?

Are we supposed to believe they thought they would get all Israelis on Oct 7th or something??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You know, thinking back about how big the number is, it's probably both.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, the survey does not show the distribution of answers. So my guess (it's a guess, not data) is the people living in densely populated areas answered lower numbers, and people living in rural or remote areas ridiculously overestimated the number of trans people based on how much of a big "issue" medias are making of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately France is only lagging behind, but on the same authoritarian path.

First thing done after terrorist attack: declare emergency state, a tool designed for cases where the state is at risk of collapsing because of invasion by a foreing country or violent insurrection...

The police gains the power to assign people considered at risk at their residence. Very first use: assign climate activists at residence during the COP.

Emergency state is reconducted multiple times without any rationale, other than vague "terrorist threat".

One of the first actions from Macron once in power was to make it permanent, by passing its key elements in the law.

Protests against anti-social policies or for climate are now systematically met with a violent response. People come out with an eye or a hand missing due to flashballs and lacrymo grenades. Answer from the government is something like "they had it coming".

Cases of activists and journalists intimidation by law enforcement are multiplying.

Give it a bit of time, and France will catch up.

 

So it's been a while now since the leaderboard's challenge is Match Madness every day except on Saturday, when it's the Ramp Up.

I don't know if it's just me but that's getting me pretty disengaged. I quickly hit my limit on the Match Madness, then it has no interest to me.

Previously, I would use these challenges on a daily basis, as a way to review past lessons. Damned, I would use them over and over to score high in the leaderboard too.

Now I've completely lost interest in the leaderboard, but worse: I'm wondering if I'm moving back by lack of practice on past lessons vocabulary and grammar.

I don't feel like going through some past lessons and pick some randomly. How do you make sure you do pick randomly?

Am I the only one who thinks that "all Match Madness" thing is a regression?

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