Speaking as a…USian?..many of us know about these already and are ashamed of them.

p=0.149 had me lol

Yes, but you’ll barely feel that. They sting with their stingers, which are so small you typically won’t even feel it at first. If you watch them sting up close, some of them will grab onto you with their mandibles and furiously sting you with their stinger repeatedly. Ants evolved directly from wasps and are basically wingless wasps, which is why they’re such dicks

Same for scorpions, wasps, and ants

Also not true, the Great Oxidation Event likely knocked out 80% of the species on earth in the paleoproterozoic due to cyanobacteria respiration

I have the second most upvoted comment on that post: https://mander.xyz/comment/19100228

This is a shit take. Ahmed al-Sharaa renounced al Qaeda years ago and has demonstrated leadership as a moderate who protects ethnic minorities. He aligned with al Qaeda in Iraq in 2003 against the US invasion that most of us were protesting at home

You got some great advice already, I just wanted to add that it’s certainly possible you’re reading way too much into this and are anxious about something that amounts to nothing. I agree speaking openly with your supervisor about it is your best route.

Atheist. Religion is an explanation of the world that’s made the fuck up. I think people make shit up to explain reality because accepting uncertainty is difficult, but that doesn’t make it ok. The world around you exists, just like it is. There is no special place you get to go if you follow the right set of rules .

Should we bring back the “Ehrmagerd” girl?

This sounds like she’s threatening anyone trying to test drive a Tesla lmao

Isaiah Thomas is 5’9". He’s been an NBA All-Star twice.

Muggsy Bogues is 5’3". He had 146 career double-doubles and got to be one of the 5 players in Space Jam.

There are more

Given Ukraine’s near-total economic destruction since its proxy war against Russia erupted in February 2022…

The phrasing of this sentence is just one example of pro-Russia propaganda in an article filled with it. Of course the US spins messages and creates its own propaganda, every country does this. It’s important to be able to see through spin to evaluate facts, but blindly eating up the propaganda of other nations just because you don’t like the story the US is telling is not a great take.

This represents 0.0036% of the USAID budget…

What blatant corruption?

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There doesn’t seem to be anything secretive or untoward happening here. What is he even alleging?

Emergence of DeepSeek raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom

Is the “emergence of DeepSeek” really what raised doubts? Are we really sure there haven’t been lots of doubts raised previous to this? Doubts raised by intelligent people who know what they’re talking about?

It’s hard to overstate how much money “2-3x what a run of the mill job makes” is over the course of a lifetime. I guess to you right now it doesn’t seem like much, but someone who makes three times more money than someone else is significantly more well off. There aren’t any wage jobs that are going to net you exponential salary growth. Your only hope there is to strike gold and found PayPal or Microsoft or something.

I can only assume you read the actual 78 page article and are comprehensively refuting the researchers’ methodology based on your deep well of knowledge on this subject

Look dude, I’m not here to argue about the US’s absolutely fucked foreign policy, and in absolutely no fucking way am I saying any one conflict is not driven in whole or in part by capitalism.

But “Capitalism is the primary driver of wars” is a fundamentally false statement. Just because it’s a driver of some or even most modern conflicts does not make it “the primary driver of wars.” War is a well documented and studied social phenomenon that predates capitalism by thousands of years, maybe millions. Fucking chimpanzee tribes war with each other. There are thousands upon thousands of wars throughout human history that prove your statement wrong.