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Using an obviously derogatory term for trans people really doesn't help your point at all. It hints to the possibility that you have a personal belief that sees trans people as unnatural and because of that belief it's easier for you to believe in an outlandish conspiracy theory than simply accepting that the reason for an increase in visible trans people is acceptance by society.

Edit for context since OP has edited his comment without acknowledging it: Where it now says ""transsexuals"" it said "trannies" before.

But you at least have to admit that it seriously undercuts the credibility of that site if they engage in every conspiracy theory out there. It's very hard not to simply dismiss somebody else's arguments if they believe that the Holocaust and Covid are just made up. Human attention is limited.

What you describe as "fascinating" is just a crazy conspiracy theory. The link you give also just throws homosexuality and bisexuality in there as well and while not exactly saying that all those things are "unhealthy for a society" basically alledges this in the first few sentences.

> That existing risk was already at the limit of acceptability.

Do you actually thinks so? I've never heard that aspiring teachers are thinking about their increased risk to illnesses, especially since many have children of their own and are exposed to an increased risk by children anyway.

That doesn't make any sense and it's not how it works in a number of other countries. You could (for example) make it illegal to send these pictures instead.

The whole article is leaning a little bit too much on the "what if"-part of things. First it will be important to see whether their first at-scale Prototype actually works next year.

> And I'm afraid that last 0.1% of aquisition is pretty much impossible to obtain deliberately unless you abandon your native language. Even your English, whilst technicaly good, has a couple of flags

But those last .1 % are not very useful anyway if you're not living abroad. You want to be able to communicate fluently and not make noticeable mistakes, but it's not necessary to seem like a native speaker. Unless you want to become a spy maybe.

But I would claim that nobody has ever said "flight times from London to Sydney will go down to 2-3 hours in 10 years". Si the above example does not really make sense.

The distance from London to Sydney is 17.000km. The current flight airspeed record is 3.500km/h. I would doubt that anything close to 8.500km/h is physically possible without using rockets. That's the speed of the fastest missile.

> Fourth depends on the fill level of the vessels.

I don't think it does.

Maybe they would need to cut that specific line but apart from that? As far as I recall, everything else should be fine.

At what rating do you play? Around 1200 on chess.com? I don't see cheating as a big problem online for two reasons but I only play on lichess, not on chess.com.

First of all it's not that bad to play against a cheater once in a while. If you compare it with other games, playing against an engine is a huge disadvantage but will not fundamentally change the structure of the game. You are still playing chess, but against a superhuman opponent. You don't want to play against the computer but it's not as bad as the other player abusing a glitch in the game.

Secondly, I'm guessing that cheaters will mainly play at the entry level strength (1200 on chess.com) and a bit above that. If you are seriously cheating you will be caught very quickly. So maybe if you change your rating you might encounter less cheaters.

Edit: I just looked at your comment history to find out what your rating is and apparently you are playing (for an online game) with extremely long time controls? That's probably the reason why you are encountering many cheaters. The player pool for long online games is much much smaller, so you will automatically have more cheaters who just recently signed up for the game.

> No, they only have to satisfy the legal requirements of countries where they have established organizations.

Which for Google and other companies means basically most countries, right? For example they have an office in Malaysia (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/googles...).

If you have an office, the state will be able to seize your assets, or potentially jail your executives. This is not like Pirate Bay or Sci Hub.

>The GDPR does apply to non-EU based services

That's only correct with regards to the processing of data subjects who are in the European Union. See Art. 3.2 of the GDPR.

No, that's not correct. As an EU citizen living abroad, using non-EU based services, the GDPR will not apply. It would also be impossible to enforce something like that.

It's completely unreasonable to look (for example) at the situation in Brazil and question the enormous death toll of COVID-19.

>Ad hominem attacks are worthless in a discussion of ideas.

Some of the conspiracy theories are part of the twitter thread. It's entirely reasonable to discuss these here, especially if the thread and account get this amount of attention.

>Honestly, these are pretty damn tame.

Comments like this one make me seriously fear for the political system of the United States. If that's "tame" I do not know what isn't.

These are literally two out of the first four paragraphs I read when clicking on that link:

>Dearest Friends & Fellow Americans,

The eminent trial of our Age is upon us. Those whose courage fails them now, who shrink from the fight, and sit idly while the very foundations of our nation collapse should sit in shame; but those that stand boldly by the Constitution deserve the eternal thanks of all mankind. Malignant tyranny, like other pogroms of the past, are no simple feat to overcome; Yet we know also through the trials of history that the greater the force of evil, the more august the achievement.

> The Malignant States, the Federal Government, and the Tech Politburo have avowed to create and enforce a progressive establishment that places Marxist Race Doctrine, Anti-American Sentiment, and Western-averse Cultural and Governmental Practices at the forefront of legal and social policy and have declared that they will fully enchain the American populace to this destructive course.

Edit: I hope that nobody thinks that's still "Christian and Republican", right? Even if you're extremely critical of current developments it's certainly crazy to call those a "pogrom".

I mean it's one project out of 145 featured on their website. Looking at their financial statement for 2019 it's certainly a very small amount compared to other projects which include for example funding medical research.

> it's a thinly veiled employment opportunity for the heirs that does very little actual charity

I'm looking at their financial report for the year 2019 and that's just not true. They are a very complex organization and simply looking at one film award project and calling the whole thing a scam is very wrong and frankly lazy.

OP (and others in this thread) might not want to reveal their IP address or their Wikipedia username.

> A Wikipedia 2.0 is needed... one where edits are put into a queue rather then having someone come in ten minutes later and delete your edit simply because it is live immediately.

This is how some language versions of Wikipedia work, for example the German Wikipedia. Edits by new editors or IP-addresses are not live immediately but are put into a special review state for a more experienced editor to confirm the change. The English language version only uses this for a subset of pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes

Why not simply post this xkcd-Comic instead of linking to an overly complicated search engine result? https://xkcd.com/793/

> Beijing is the currently accepted western name.

In the English language, probably. I'm not a native speaker of English and momentarily forgot that "Peking" is unusual (although – in my defense – the English Wikipedia page still has it). But in my native language (German) everything other than "Peking" would be highly unusual.

Yes you are correct, that's an important thing to look at. Apparently the main energy usage which causes the 1.5kwh number is drilling, I'll see whether I can find some sources.

If it's actually drilling that makes a big difference because drilling might not be done where the oil is raffined

Interesting calculation! But the point of shifting electricity usage from refineries to car batteries still stands: Apparently it's 1.5 kwh per liter of gasoline [Edit: this might not be accurate, or might be mainly related to drilling, see comments below]. At 7-8 liters/100km we've already covered 11 kwh.

Edit: And 7-8 liters/100km for a Tesla seems optimistically low. But maybe 18kwh is also optimistic.

Fun fact: Stuttgart is considered to be one of the worst cities in Germany with regards to air pollution, because of the geography ("Stuttgarter Kessel"). But the difference between any other German city and Stuttgart is obviously negligible when compared to Peking.

The parent company of Air France is AirFrance-KLM which is a publicly traded company. France and the Netherlands are the largest shareholders and hold about 14 and 12 % of the stock each. So it is probably not correct to identify Air France as a company owned by the French State.

As a publicly traded company they are to some extent required to choose employment options that are financially beneficial, I would guess that's happening here.

No, it's certainly not. If the bomb threat wasn't real (and I would definitely doubt that it was) that's a violation of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, Art. 5.

There is some interesting research into this, also known as liquid democracy, if somebody wants to Google that. I'm personally not a big fan, because it's very difficult to organize it in such a way that there is not some form of mob mentality. Representative democracy has some downsides but it also has a lot of advantages that we simply take for granted.