HoverSausage

It's their job to know

Only around 5% of people are gay and many gay people have children. How can this possibly have a significant impact on birth rate?

Yes, I 100% agree that reality is complicated and not everything is about race, but some things are still about race and we shouldn't be afraid to talk about it.

Racists aren't idiots, most of them know they can't openly spout racial slurs any more and still be taken seriously, so they use proxy issues framed in ways that do more harm to the groups they hate than to middle class white Americans.

You can't simultaneously solve every single social problem in existence out of fear of being called the real bigots, and making it all about whichever example of bigotry or injustice you're talking about in the moment. Sometimes you have to zoom in on a particular sub problem, be it income, education, crime, pollution, housing, disability, race, class, homelessness, or whatever.

So no, in short I don't think the worst racists of today are the ones who talk about the privileges or difficulties that come with being born into one race or another. The worst racists are still the same people they've always been, the people who try to hurt or kill the racial groups they don't like using every tool at their disposal, be it he media, the police, the law or whatever.

Maybe I've misunderstood, I'm not a climatologist, but I thought climate change means certain events become more likely but it's still impossible to say if climate change caused any single individual event.

For example, if climate change makes it 7% more likely to rain somewhere, it doesn't mean every rainy day is climate change. You can only say climate change made it 7% more rainy on average.

So climate change increases the chance of phenomena like "World's largest iceberg", but you can't say for sure if this iceberg in particular was generated by climate change.

I think that's all the article was trying to say with "could"

I've seen a few cats that'll bring back toys you throw for them so you can throw it again.

I thought the early reluctance to recommend masks was because there was a shortage and medical staff needed them more, and there was the fear that constantly touching your face to adjust a mask and incorrectly wearing or removing masks might increase exposure.

That's possible, it was a long time ago and I can't remember for sure

I actually ran into this once not as a joke. I was using some software which had an option that would change the default base it used for all numbers. After typing <command> 16 and fiddling about in hexadecimal I tried switching back to decimal using <command> 10, yet I was still in hex mode. It took me a few more seconds than it should for me to realise what had happened.

It's a way programmers have to show off, have fun or be artistic. You write a programme but you restrict yourself in some way such as creating it for a 1980s era computer or by file size say the entire thing has to fit inside 4KB or some other extreme limit, and then you try to do things using visuals and/or music that you initially wouldn't think are possible.

It's working for me. Firefox 78 on Debian

So many Babylon 5 actors have died too young

The same for red robins which have orange feathers on their chests

Where are these manufactured?

Extra rights for politicians should not be a principle in a democratic society.

I know very little about trade law so this may be very stupid of me to ask, but if we're making it difficult for foreign companies to sell into the UK won't that put foreign companies at a unfair disadvantage compared to UK companies? Are we going to face retaliatory trade barriers from 195 countries soon as they try to level the playing field for their businesses by making it equally difficult and costly for UK businesses to sell into their countries?

I just managed to find the home address of a YouTuber I'm a fan of in 15 seconds. Creepy site. Glad I'm not in the US

During the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK, it wasn't a small percentage increase of deaths, the number of deaths DOUBLED.

The study says "They (significant cognitive deficits) were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised, but also for mild but biologically confirmed cases who reported no breathing difficulty."

So according to that study, it doesn't appear to be from ventilators if the effect is also seen in mild cases. Or am I reading it wrong?