This right here is the best answer in my opinion. Regardless of the story, the teller is just so into it that they can’t stop laughing. You’re probably going to end up laughing with them.

Except with Matter, all of those other standards are buying into the universal standard.

The sad thing is that the rest of the world knew.

It’s Scientific American, not Complete Bullshit American.

Look at the sentence you wrote. Since the Korean War. And the Korean War was the biggest since the one before that.

Turn the news off and look at the data. It’s important to end these conflicts, but in terms of scale, these are far smaller than the past.

Here’s homicides per capita in Western Europe. I highly recommend reading The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It goes into this in depth.

Violence has been going down for centuries. We’re hearing about it more, but it’s declining. It peaked around 1993, and it’s been trending downward ever since.

If you zoom out and look at super long term trends, it’s been declining for centuries.

fawning celebration of its subject

That’s all I needed to hear to know that it’s bad.

Last show I watched with a crashing plane, there were a lot of unanswered questions, characters died, people came up with conspiracy theories, and it ended with the audience really upset. Sounds accurate.

Let the record show that I gave the 34th upvote to this comment…

*promised to give. Anyone following self-driving cars over the last decade knows Elon’s promises are worth nothing.

Yup. I’ve heard many, (like the tri-colour toothpaste) and at one point I learned all the ways they were heresy.

I’m going to use that logic toward everything in my life now. Why are you spending your money on a big tv instead of investing it? That makes no sense! Exactly. That’s how you know my logic is divine.

Even this would be considered heresy by the Church. The idea of the Trinity is that all 3 can exist at the same time, but they’re still the same person. Not just masks, but 3 literally different people, but also the same person.

Right. Before, people would check GitHub, but they found that it didn’t mean that people were better programmers, they just had more free time.

I’ve seen a lot of people asking which interview method the interviewer would prefer (project or algorithm interview).

It’s definitely pro-single person, and anti-parent.

At least give people an option. Otherwise you’re just hiring people with the most time on their hands.

Not the majority.

Of America, not of the world. Believe it or not, there are so many other people in the world outside of America.

Also, look at the presidents of the past. America has had many pro-slavery Presidents. Trump was awful, but he wasn’t even the worst President. The fact that so many people felt he was awful also shows that America has progressed.

But back to my first point, you’re looking at a country of 350m out of 8 billion people in the world. The world has moved on from so many of the things that the US continues to struggle with. As a people, we’ve advanced much further than we’ve been in the past.

Edit: wrote a “k” not an “m” for America’s population.

I disagree. We’ve had many political revolutions overthrowing leaders, religion has been on a heavy decline, and most people accept that science or basic logic is the most important element in an argument, not authority.

We just see so many people NOT doing that, and we hate it. We live in a world where the person doing the stupidest thing that day makes the front page, and we’re enlightened enough to critique it.

Stupid people will always exist. The idea that we hear about them more now and we hate them for it actually proves we’ve become more enlightened.

Right. Not only was everything not local like advertised, it wasn’t even encrypted as advertised. Never buy Eufy. Never ever ever.