Makes sense that he’s now saying no more politics. I’d say he should throw money at the Dems except Lord knows those people don’t need more billionaire donors, either.

Can we just have a government of the people, please?

In other words-- your sexting is safe, friends.

I mean, while we’re being pedantic, you can never cut exactly 2/3 an apple for everyone, down to the atoms. Even with homogeneous apples.

That’s why you get the knife subscription plan.

A metaphor for life. Do everything right, die anyway.

Same, but given the time sink I’d like an abridged experience. I heard they doing that with DQX so why not FFXI?

The Subway training videos have gotten pretty weird, it seems.

Couple other things to add to this beautiful list others have: meta gaming and chat.

They barely added achievements and only for a couple games, while steam has that, guides, community art, and even a newish notes feature in case you’re playing an OG game that makes you track stuff. Guides have kind of been better than more traditional sources.

Chat is… better on steam, although discord kind of supplanted it. Game based emoji, stickers, etc. It’s actually very good, though, with support for couch coop stream gaming, etc, with voice comms.

One could also point to the generous family sharing function, but I’m not sure what Epic does in that regard. DRM is DRM though. Do keep in mind, though, the philosophy behind Steam is to make DRM palatable by adding features. Epic philosophy (on paper) is to give devs a higher cut, although I’ve heard devs feel more supported by steam-- especially since they aren’t afraid to throw obscure indie games into a users discovery queue.

Looks good, never thought about lemon cookies but should. Slightly disappointed that there isn’t a site called Martha Fuckin’ Stewart, though.

Language learning is just a hobby when you’ve got universal translators.

Real talk the main driver of advances are usually healthier environments, better nutrition and access to knowledge (e g. Via tech). I don’t think Z or alphas are getting better in those regards, kind of inheriting the opposite.

I technically meant that in regards to not seeing the research lately, but… lol

16 points, so about a standard deviation. That’s big, but your own varience can be just as high; the original point of IQ is a measure of how well you’ll do in school to detect who may need additional attention (and not an inherent intelligence) so later aged tests include more on knowledge base while earlier tests are more about things like pattern recognition, mental rotation, etc. Infact, it has to get recurved regularly as each generation tends to be roughly 10 or 15 points higher (although idk about gen Z).

All this is to say that a slump of 16 points doesn’t have to be shit like lead poisoning or gas fumes (although that certainly doesn’t help, and pollution matters), it can simply be the US education system isn’t good at teaching students. Cross culture studies already show that, as do differences between the rich and the poor. Or hell, just playing Tetris raises IQ, lol.

It’d obviously help if this wasn’t a click bait article, though. People wanting to know why need to read a lot of actual research to know the myriad of different things that impact IQ and not just “haha US stupid.”

Plus we’ve had that shit in research since I was in grad school over a decade ago. People acting like machine learning is new. Smh

Correct, even in progressive CA we have that. Granted, it’s like $30 bucks during rush hour but I’ve seen it used by the worst of humanity.

I just figure people are venting. AOC posts aren’t really the right place, though. I like her videos, and she does give my students hope for what it’s worth.

Idk how to interpret this when I read it while laying on my right side. What’s on my left… the sun?

Only one specific hipster place I’m thinking of in Downtown but yeah. Lol

The downtown experience: $45 burger with a side of truffle fries. It’s mediocre at best.

Actually, real answer is that fears of that are already lowering oil prices. That and OPEC manipulating it again. It’s not so much the ships but the transit after; also less people buying things, typical recession stuff.

Lower prices on gas tends to be seen as a win, although ironically the US is the biggest oil supplier so it hurts the economy here too.