This is very important. There's a light-year of difference among a typical scholarly article, a physics paper, a math paper, or some kind of incomprehensible humanities bafflegab that no sane person could comprehend. The former, if it's not too technical, should be readable to the average undergrad. The second and third might not be because there are so many specialized concepts and so much specialized language. The latter (and I'm not indicting everything coming out of the humanities, but a lot of it) is incomprehensible because it literally doesn't make sense.

Surprise! It's $24 Billion with a B! That's how much ransom Trump is willing to pay to get himself out of vietnam. If only Israel will stop attacking Lebanon. Which they won't. So this continues on ad infinitum. Welco mm e to the forever war literally everyone told him not to get into, and countless generals took early retirement in protest for. But keep pushing a partisan agenda.

Hey AC how big is the check the big guy is writing to iran? Does it start with a B? Is it more of less than 10? Oh it's more than 20? Does that sound like winning to you? Because I have a bridge in brooklyn to sell you.

The country you're awkwardly putting in quotation marks has the leader of the free world tweeting about his surrender terms for a war he started, so if that's the bar for dysfunctional, uh,

Iran is at war with Israel and the US. There's no version of reality where they open the strait and don't negotiate peace with israel

Nice try, Israel

This is a three sided war, Israel needs to also agree to all the terms including the "don't invade lebanon" one. At this point they have shown zero indication of signing the MOU. Without participation of Israel this thing is pretty much dead in the water.

The US has had price shocks with Iran and Russia and..... there was a flight to quality. To GOLD. The price of bitcoin sat flat, and then shrank, whereas the price of gold keeps going up and up. Bitcoin never really recovered after that. First real test of bitcoin as a store of wealth and it failed. It's never really recovered since then. Gold remains king.
 
I don't actually own any gold and don't have an interest in it, but it's been hilarious to hear people claim bitcoin was digital gold, and when push came to shove, people pushed bitcoin off a cliff, and the price of gold stayed strong, proving all the bitcoin promoters wrong once and for all.

Did they take into account that most countries drive on the right? If you're walking the perimeter of a room counterclockwise, it might be because you are staying on the right.

Young kids only understand immediate consequences. Like, seconds to minutes after. Doing something like taking a picture, and then it causing problems hours, or more likely days or weeks later has no impact on their decision making.

^^ Probably the most on-the-nose comment here. There are lots of exceptional people working at high level from unusual backgrounds. Unfortunately he got burn-noticed because he crossed the wrong person/s and was tipped off to local authorities, probably.

I wouldn't mind if it were a static image, but it's that Gemini ad that's constantly writing and erasing text. It's definitely cut down how long I stay on the site.

Pope jumping in on the AI policy debate about a decade before it's going to become relevant. I'm pretty skeptical whatever is written in there will be super applicable in 10 or even 30 years, but it's now part of the historical record for all time.

No, those are the words of someone who has seen nothing but slop for more than a decade (OK, there were a couple of exceptions), and has reached the point where there is no expectation things will ever get better. I have also given up hope that Star Wars will ever be good again.

I expect your opinion, which I share, is a majority opinion. Star Wars is almost nothing but slop now.