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Unless that person is you... but in that case you would just complain to your coworkers so nothing really changes I guess

The illiterate are customers, of course they will be included.

If you're flying at all, it's likely you are going to be spending some amount of money. In reality, it would be wildly unlikely that a person could afford a $200 ticket and not a $300 one with proper planning.

I'd rather not go to Florida in general if we're all speaking in extremes.

I jest, but which airlines have you been on? I've enjoyed my airline experiences more now than in the past flying Delta, American, United.

That is true, in addition, outcomes are not defined by intentions. It was my hope to draw attention to why we perpetuate this behavior (results).

There is a lot of gradation, the differences between stating misinformation you believe is true vs stating what the majority believes to be true due to laziness vs an intentional lie, etc.

Without vast knowledge, many unreasonable things are seen as reasonable. How much of our history's truth is based on what was told to the gullible majority? Should we not talk about Mythology because a skeptic questions it's authenticity?

Comedians make up stories all the time to entertain audiences. These stories don't require accuracy, they are more about delivering specific results; a laugh, a story to share, confirmation bias, etc.

Many people lie, believing they're telling the truth. I think you will have a hard time truth policing people who don't and won't care, but focusing on truth and validity is probably a useful skill for you in many parts of your life.

Did they have to rebag or double bag it? I've seen some of those tear in transit, quite the scene haha

When I worked at a coffee shop, a lot of people would come in for our "fertilizer". We would save it in buckets for people to take.

The blandness of the original description is part of what makes the quality of the article suspect. In fact it's the first sign. They later in the paragraph use the word manipulation to make this appear as some conspiracy I should care about, it's not that deep. These are all signals.

I recommend reading the rest of article if the first paragraph isn't enough for you to pick this out as low quality journalism.

To quote ARandomerDude below: The most shocking part to me is that this is "news." It's like saying "Exclusive: there are fake reviews on Amazon!"

Let me help out by asking two questions

What are the problems with sites with lots of ads? Does Craiglist have any of those problems?

Disingenuous no, they mean the site isn't lighting your eyes on fire with ads in the all the white space. Everyone knows craigslist is personal advertisement and it feels like you're taking it out of context on purpose.

I'm not sure if it's not super obvious to most since we're on HN, but it's the tone of the writing. The article is written in a similar writing style to other sensationalized news sources.

> Moviegoers, critics, and the average internet user have all used the aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes at one point or another. The website categorizes films and shows from “fresh” to “rotten,” with rotten being those with lower ratings. Now it looks like the site’s scores have been manipulated for more than five years.

This reads like dialogue a local newscaster would use to bait an audience into paying attention using hyperbole. Using extreme language to make actions appear more serious than they are.

I've never met a pro police type that would mention anything as corruption. If you asked them directly some would agree, but as a group I generally just hear apoligism.

It depends on the topic or place. Cynical views on family or children are generally met with negativity for example.

Or using pneumatic tools for 12+ hours daily for weeks, or spending time underwater with the worlds most powerful sonar

It is common and a part of your uniform on a lot of bases i.e. you will get in serious trouble without them.

I'll be honest, 120db was an exaggeration because it was VERY loud, I would not have had a way to measure it in combat gear. Additionally, earplugs are part of a military uniform at a lot of bases so you are required to carry them and the onus would be on you. At that point in time, I was not required to have hearing protection however.

You're not a civilian while enlisted, suing for any reason is not an option in most cases. It's more likely you would file to collect disability in the event of hearing damage after you get out.

I've done combat training in one (a 3-story aluminum sided building furnished like a large office) and they had rigged the whole building with an interactive surround sound system. Once the course started and we got up to the building, I thought I heard music coming from inside. We opened the door and Metallica was blasting at 120db and none of us could hear each other. We had to communicate using signals while navigating the course with fake hostages and combatants etc. all while Master of Puppets was assaulting my ears. You couldn't escape it either, we were being sound-gunned on every floor and every room.

Anyway, just thought I'd share since Sound is something people forget when imagining training in these buildings and the experience was invaluable.

>>We could argue about the meaning of the word "pregnant," but let's be plain. contrary to the original comment, fertilization does occur still at times, and then biology tells us that a new life with its own DNA has entered the picture. (This is why nightly emissions have nothing to do with this, bringing in your other comment.) That life is intentionally terminated by birth control and the morning-after pill in almost the same exact method as RU-486, which we know as the "abortion drug." Both cause the thinning of the lining of the uterus, preventing attachment or causing the loss of attachment to occur, respectively.

I wish your comment included the importance of sperm and eggs individually to the process of creating life. Any argument you make about life creation should be made hollistically, and drawing the line at the pregnancy because that is near the time medication is administered is a mistake, particularly since that is likely temporary and we will see many other solutions in the future. I'm not sure what you are trying to say by comparing the morning after pill to RU-486 other than you view them the same. That's like saying calling out of work sick the night before and calling out 5 minutes before your shift are the same thing because you used a phone and the result was you didn't go to work, so I'm not sure if that's really what you're implying.

>>Most people who work in the field of abortion know this, and that is precisely why they bring up the loss of birth control as one of the (either intended or unintended) consequences of outlawing abortion. >In other words, both pro-choice and pro-life people know this is true, and acting like pro-life people are ignoramuses for believing this reveals a real lack of understanding of the science, not to mention the politics, and the moral questions involved.

I don't think most pro-choice or pro-life people know much at all about the subject and are opinionated anyway. As with most contentious political topics.

It would be a mistake to assume that all pro-life people are ignoramuses or lack understanding of science. This bias comes from the media showing pro-lifers purposefully rejecting science historically. The media has also shown many years of pro-choice pretention and that is why none of this reveals a lack of understanding of science as much as it reveals our laziness towards learning truths and our reliance on others to provide talking points that confirm our naive suspicions; especially if they allow you to uninvolve yourself directly with the problem, and that's on both sides without a doubt.

I guess conspiracy theory can be thought provoking.

>notice how many Westerners today respond to big families; instead of joy, it is often disgust or horror

I don't want to live in a world where everyone is forced to be excited that you wanted spread your seed 10 times. Bringing more mouths into the world is not automatically incredible, magical, or special.

A lot of people showcase cynicism towards family life because family is a very personal thing, no one should be expected to jump for joy except hopefully the family, friends, or small community.

>Gen-Z are fapping in their parents basements.

Yeah this person is not living in reality. I don't believe any modern argument framed around generations are poignant, accurate, or worth discussing seriously. People just use this pop-topic to signal, its so boring. These conversations are brimming with generalizations and bias.

You're focusing too hard on conflating the actions with the outcomes. A woman using preventative medicine to decrease the chance of a pregnancy is by definition not an abortion.

You're argumentation would also imply that if a man has a nightly emission he is performing abortion because a child could have been created, then listing the biological comparisons between a nightly emission and abortion claiming similarities make them the identical.

In this case no one is pregnant yet, so it is not an abortion by definition. It so deliciously ironic that you accuse them of spreading misinformation.

Yeah, I've seen snow in Tokyo but you go farther south and snow becomes very rare. So imagine mainland would vary a lot too.

In one of your previous comments you wrote: I've lived in Japan for many years and its essentially a western nation with a stronger social conformity / shame culture.

I have also lived in Japan and I don't know how you could believe that is true. Westerners usually experience culture shock when visiting Japan.

Japan is 98% Japanese by population.

From the article:

The names were also originally taken from China, but they did not always match up well with the local climate. In Japan, they were eventually rewritten in 1685 by the court astronomer Shibukawa Shunkai. In their present form, they offer a poetic journey through the Japanese year in which the land awakens and blooms with life and activity before returning to slumber

The "need/want to fit in" would be high so based on that... the real question is... where do they live now?

Oh I see what you're saying now. Took advantage sounds a little strong to me but I mostly agree. I don't think either party had a choice and were just maintaining their constituencies as they have been for 70+ years. It's not like all the republicans recently moved to rural areas from non-rural ones and ONLY THEN the politicians started pandering to their respective demos.

I think the knowledge of this strategy's existence grew, but the strategy itself has been the same for a long time.

Immigrants go to cities because there are jobs, not because they are blue.

As an aside, when you think of selecting a vacation destination in a foreign country, do you prefer to go to rural areas where you risk negative attention based on where you were born?

Would you do the same when selecting somewhere to live?