The appeal of fark ended when they started shadowbanning people for even mentioning competing sites, while still continuing to take their money if they were paid subscribers. The best way to get people to stop caring about a site is to treat the users like shit.

What does this PC do?

Ensure most people make their purchases through apple.

In general, it should be a default position to never accept anything based on a single study. Being able to reproduce results is one of the cornerstones of proper science. There's always room for unseen elements within a single study that are factored out by further research.

It's one of the things I find most amusing about people's expectations with space. But when you think about it, they unintentionally prove their own point about how important it is to get up there. It's part of no longer thinking of humanity in terms of "us" being where some rich guy in a big building says "we" end and the other begins.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but these are of immense historical importance. Often times the big historical events are only seen as such in retrospect. So people's reactions to them tend to be heavily based on conjecture and memory rather than solid data. Say what you want about twitter, but it serves as a minute by minute log of the emotional state of people within seconds of anything happening. And yes, there is some selection bias going on in that it's only data from the kind of person who uses twitter. But that's still a million times better than the couple articles by newspaper writers looking for a story, and who'd probably not be interviewing the common man on the street for what seemed like a blurb at the time. The short answer though is that it's not for you and me. It's for the generations not yet born.

tl;dr: Slippery slope fallacy.

I used to live in montana about six years ago. It was old news even then.

I used to do it all the time, and none of the companies I was with ever showed evidence of it aside from the rare person who just wasn't very good speaking in any situation. I'm going with the sentiment that it's mostly about the people running the meeting, and not the nature of it.

Similar situation here, except it's $15. Too much for me to justify being lazy about it. Though it's more annoying for the fact that it's the only thing I use checks for at this point. I could just be done with them otherwise.

It would not do to imply that an all-powerful, all-knowing being needs not play with their creation like an ADD toddler playing with their ant farm.

I totally agree. Though given all the evidence of darwinian evolution that's one of the reasons I became an atheist. I'd agree that it's an either/or situation. It's just that the deity theory has no evidence while the atheist one has tons.