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  1. Re: It's their fault! on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can wax philosophical about it all you want. The simple fact is that women are the gatekeepers. They have this role and this responsibility. On the upside for women, men get to die defending them and providing for them.

  2. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We don't have too many Swedes... Africa is the ticking time bomb. When western nations decide to stop feeding the population growth there and eventually they will due to changing demographics and economic collapse in their own countries, it is going to get real ugly real fast.

  3. Re: Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    There isn't a dearth of families wanting infants to adopt. It is the older kids and the handicapped infants young ones that tend to get stuck in the system.

  4. Re:This says little about AI on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is our school system in decline or are the students populating it somehow different than they were in the first half of the 20th century. hmm... On an unrelated note, Swedes seem to be losing a quarter a point of IQ ever year. Strange.

  5. Re:Uforgiveable on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 2

    It is very easy to do especially when you have to test and troubleshoot these things. I've several times had "oh crap" moments like this. For example if trying to figure out say an email delivery problem and... oops probably don't want to point this to the actual smtp server or oops... that's a comma separated list of all our customer's emails.. don't want to use that.

  6. Re: Yay, snowflake college on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I see you haven't done much research into IQ statistics across the various demographic groups in the US...

  7. Re:Useful for most students on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The top third of today's classes are really the only ones that belong in college anyway. SAT/ACT type test taking never correlated to effort for me but if someone is willing to apply themselves to the degree that they are able to significantly raise their SAT score even though they may not have the natural aptitude... that's another group that should be in college.

    Honestly, how can someone be said to be ready for college if they haven't even bothered to take the standard test? What is so amazing about them? Obviously not their work ethic or intelligence... or they would have taken the test.

  8. Re:Diversity is dysfunctional. on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming this is true, the military likely draws certain subsets of people from each population. Maybe not but... I'd guess there's a selection bias there.

  9. Re:Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequen on France's President Macron Wants To Block Websites During Elections To Fight 'Fake News' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0
    Here is a list of 15 news stories that were fake that have been broadcast in mainstream media recently: http://thefederalist.com/2017/...

    I'll see your gunman in a pizza place and raise you an actual shooting of Republican congressmen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... by a leftist

  10. Re:For Now... on Amazon's YouTube Workaround on Fire TV Works Just Fine (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt Google will actively block anything. This whole mess is on Amazon as far as I'm concerned though so I'm not super concerned. They started this and Google has just been reacting to each new dick decision from them.

  11. Re: No, it's all going to hell again on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, not 50... more like 21,386 gun suicides a year in 2014. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fasta...

  12. Re: No, it's all going to hell again on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a nice story but the fact is that "red" was associated with "commie" and given that news networks were basically 95% democrat leaning, it seems a stretch to assume the current color scheme is due to anything other than a desire to paint "your team" in the best possible light. Democrat reporters, democrats get labeled blue.

  13. Women find men in positions of authority over them attractive. Men find women subordinate to them attractive because authority and respect are strong aphrodisiacs for men...

  14. Re:40% without internet! on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So no examples then. East Asian countries do not seem to have suffered under this colonial influence... Iceland has build a first world nation on a volcanic barren island. Are you seriously telling me that you believe every African nation and every other majority black nation on this planet was unable to succeed because of a European boot on its throat? I do respect your desire for egalitarianism. The desire to treat all races as one is noble and I appreciate your response but eventually you have to reach a point where however intelligent you might be, you are no longer able to perform any more mental contortions and are forced to look simply at the bare facts. Africans are a rich and varied people with many beautiful qualities... the ability to build a large scale stable society doesn't seem to be one of them.

    Please don't take this to mean I think Europeans in all ways superior or even more than marginally superior in that specific quality but the fact is that the ease and social order we experience in modern life is not inevitable. Even in Western society we hold onto it by our fingernails. That small but statistically significant inclination toward stable societies among Europeans is not something we want to subject to unneeded stress.

  15. Re:40% without internet! on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you would be better served by posting a series of examples of successful majority black countries.

  16. Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that that the original Nazis are still kicking around?

  17. Re:Book? on Ask Slashdot: How Many Books Do You Read a Month? · · Score: 1

    I used to read voraciously. I can remember as a teenager a couple times running out of books at night, panicking and just compulsively going over ingredient labels in the pantry.. it may have been a bit of a problem. Anyway, I kept reading into my 20s but these days other than audible and new books in a few fiction series I started reading years ago I don't really read for pleasure at all. I could probably count the number of books on one hand and I used to go through a book every day or two. Mostly, I spend time online now or listen to podcasts or audible.

  18. Well that and large amounts of estrogens, xenoestrogens, phytoestrogens... introduced into the environment.

  19. Re:So... when does it get moved to fiction? on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    This is just a reflection of how things work everywhere. You always have a small portion of individuals that do 90% of the work then a smaller portion of those individuals that are responsible for most of that 90%.

  20. If I take that view though I'll never get married because by extension, I'd be an idiot to not assume financial ruin.

  21. Re:As someone who lives in Florida on Florida Attempts the Largest Hydraulic Restoration Project In the World To Save the Everglades (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't spent much time in bayou country ;)

  22. Re:Old compatability workaround on No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've often thought the same thing about osx. Homebrew and such things are just enough of a pain that I always hop back to Linux.

  23. Re:.gov is more accurate? on No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming federal workers would hit those sites more often and since federal civilian workers suck down an average salary of 88k I'd expect that to play a role in skewing the results given that the median income in the US is 44k or thereabouts.

  24. Re: Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 0
    Their needs aren't being met? 27% of Puerto Rico is on welfare. Every interaction between the US and Puerto Rico's is about meeting its endless "needs". Consider the staggering welfare numbers along with the fact that they don't even pay federal income tax. Less than half of working age males are employed, 35 percent of the island’s residents are on food stamps...

    Leeches of the first order. I'd think the US glad to be rid of them.

  25. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It was legitimate enough throughout the history of the southern states in the Union so I can't imagine why that would be a valid argument against secession.