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Why does nobody remember the role in slavery of Africans, Arabs, Asians, and other ethnic groups?

What if the Paraguayan and Chinese cannot (hypothetically) effectively work together because of cultural differences?

Ugh, maybe some of them are. But Kapuścinski and Lem for sure are not.

The thing is people consume lots of different things. It's hard to imagine emojis could cover a substantial part of them. So, why choose this and not that? To give an example, frutti di mare are underrepresented although they are very popular in many countries. OTOH there is a pregnant black man emoji, which likely represents something that has not materialized yet.

Bigos, borsch and żurek to be sure. But seriously, the list is very limited. Very much agree with Zababa's point of view.

OECD published a report[1] on EVs lately. I haven't read it but according to various press sources it claims that EVs might make things worse, e.g.[2]:

"The report assumes that diesel and gasoline-powered cars are going to be replaced with electric vehicles, eliminating tailpipe emissions, but that problematic PM emissions will remain or even increase."

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/non-exhaust-partic...

[2] https://www.treehugger.com/electric-cars-wont-save-us-from-p...

I agree with the general conclusion about exploitation, but racist theories and justifications existed in different cultures long before the 16th century.

Quite nice. So far I've been using http://paletton.com/ - not identical, but similar functionality.

This is a very strange point of reference for a foodie, as McDonald's burgers are not even remotely close to anything tasty.

Same in Poland, although it is often not enforced in practice.

It is true that Russians helped in ending WWII but as others pointed they were also one of the initial aggressors and allies of the Reich. If not for that the war might as well end faster.

Pascal’s wager does not make much sense even for the original case.

In these times it is not happening from the far left much but there are still exceptions (eg. Antifa). However, this can be explained by the prevalence of leftist views. It is mostly the right that feels compelled to use violence.

It seems nobody has mentioned a near-epidemic of respiratory system infections caused by air-conditioning. And I do not mean the cases where A/C is infected with some rare bacteria (e.g. Legionella) often causing death. Usually it is just common cold or sinusitis caused by overly chilled and dry air. I wonder what are the health-related costs of overusing A/C in moderate climate.

1. It is not true that no new coal plants are being built. It is not even true in developed countries.

https://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2017/01/13/southeast-asia-...

2. Usefulness of renewable energy sources is still not universally comparable to fossil/nuclear.

What about the wild boar? People hunt them in Poland, closer to Chernobyl than Germany.

How long does it take to recover from fossil fuel-based economy, including massive emission of radioactive material contained in coal?

So, are all "data science" jobs related to marketing?

> On the other hand, advertisers need to make money to survive.

And thieves need to steal to survive.

Advertising does not equal flow of information.

> I strongly believe that the continued and constant emphasis in taking pride in failure is EXACTLY what women need to be exposed to in order to let down their walls and break through the well-known façade that ‘you need to be a genius to be a computer scientist’.

Maybe that's my poor understanding of English but I feel that "taking pride in failure" is a strange choice of words. I would say you can be proud of making the effort but why be proud of failing?

OTOH you shouldn't be ashamed of failing to understand something straight away, and more importantly you should not be afraid of asking loudly for a better explanation.