Article makes it sound like they are getting spooked because of monsters or something, but they are really just deciding they don't want to ride with a weirdo.

And the EU wants to impose the right to be forgotten on all sites as well. Pretty scary that if you don't comply with their order to shove an article down the memory hole your entire site could be taken down.

Nah, don't reward clickbait. If they want to be taken seriously, treat the reader with respect.

Then you're the exception and not the rule, the sentence was not meant for you, and the only reason you are even responding to it is so you can not-so-subtly brag about how you don't own a TV^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H use linux.

Do you feel the same about the Fappening?

It might be secured against a house or something. The bank and Denton could have negotiated the loan knowing he couldn't repay, but they get a house, and he doesn't have to put it on the market to sell it. I dunno, I'm not a banker.

It's in the front page title though.

The reason that politicians cannot admit mistakes is because it is political suicide to do so in front of a finicky public. And the fact that they answer to the public and the public is allowed to discard politicians as they please is where they get their legitimacy. Where do these experts get their legitimacy? How can they convince a public that had no say in how they are selected or do their job to accept hard decisions? The "noble lie", a la Plato's Republic? The Enlightened Despotism of the Renaissance? If you don't trust the public and are unwilling to accept suboptimal decisions, then the rulers here are going to just end up justifying their actions to the public with "because I say so". And if they do answer to the public then you'll just end up with more politicians.

You seem to have "true" confused with "provable". There are uncountably infinitely many true things that can never be proven with any finite or countably infinite amount of time or evidence (proved via Gödel). There either is a god or there isn't: one of those must be true, even if we never know which.

Jeb spent $130M and all it got him was some pocket turtles.

If economists thought that nuclear war would be good for the economy, they would advocate it. There are things that matter more than GDP (at least in some values systems), and Russia's value system is not any objectively worse than your own.

They probably took a look at the data and saw that only five (or whatever) percent of users used more than that.

"You seriously think you're smarter than us, you uppity little shit? Fuck you, eat my snark. SNARK SNARK SNARK"

Yeah, he's complaining that she's pointing out the truth.

Nothing wrong with being a plumber. From the replies that I've gotten, I can see that it was taken as an insult. I didn't mean that, but I can see how I fucked up. I was actually trying to disparage the people who think anything they don't want to learn is worthless as being anti-intellectuals. I think they should go to trade school or do anything else that they want to do, because college is not for them. And that would be good too. There are too many college graduates. Quality over quantity.

That's good. College educated does not mean smart (though making mistakes does not mean stupid either). Many are dumbasses, most maybe (probably not though). But I wasn't addressing that. I was criticizing the almost anti-intellectualism that comes with this fad of wanting to change college curriculum because they are super specialized in one specific skill and woefully lacking in others, and feel some sort of superiority from that ignorance. Part of getting a degree is taking a history course. If you don't want to do that, go learn a trade and you won't have to. There's nothing wrong with that. But they should pretend that the stuff that they personally don't want to learn has zero value.