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Everyone thinks they're intelligent. For some it's a high IQ, and I used to think this too. For some it's education. For some it's common sense or street smarts. For some it's success. For some it's achieving happiness and/or contentment. Few people think that they're actually dumb, and those...

I stole this from Paradox off topic (where I also guessed 268) and it seemed the superior method. This is the most simple way of doing it. One number. Map ones can work alright but they can get a bit silly depending on rules structure for picking a winner. This way gives a basically undisputed...

Try to successfully guess/predict the outcome of the election. Each person gets one guess, and that guess should be in the form of a number between 0 and 538. In order to make this as simple as possible, you are simply guessing the number of electoral votes that Hillary Clinton will obtain...

So when I worked in personal finance one of the first things I would ask people is how good are you at saving money? How financially responsible are you? Many people thought they were good but did not write up a budget, did not put aside money as part of a routine (unless 401k), and most...

The bigger they are the harder they suck.

I supported FSR genital equality. Yeah.

1. Shotgun with unlimited ammo seems fun: 2. Magic and titties sheeeet 3. Gotta rock the best motherfucking remix ever recorded:

The hygiene hypothesis is actually very interesting. I became aware of the concept after visiting smelly ass Paris and people justifying the metro stank. It has a ton of statistical backing and I think makes sense; it's certainly hard to dispute in cases like food allergies. All very...

I have money that Garland is not the next justice, GOP wins Ohio, and I think a buck on Clinton is not president (it was even odds with the other POTUS bets but it pays out if she dies despite Trump losing, so hell yeah).

Bling >

GUESS WHAT I GOT LAST NIGHT? Probably gonna skip raids and play civ 6 tonight because I'm still that salty this happened.

Many experiments that don't pan out do offer something to learn, even if that's just "don't keep doing this" or the like. That stuff is often not published in the medical field, or worse, it gets buried and hidden as long as possible if it is found alongside a success. The "nature of research"...

Three problems here. First, you need to research something with market viability. Second, your research needs to pan out in success; you won't do very well no matter how hard you advance the field just because you discovered all kinds of ways to rule out failures; discover something or bust...

On one hand there is nothing easy about curing diseases. On the other hand there are many issues holding things back leaving vast room for potential improvement. You have pressure from both ends of the political spectrum eg homeopathic bullshit from the left or eg stem cell bans on the right...

Everyone is dumb. I picked forum moderator. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

We've seen repeated examples in the past of big hacks conducted by swedes. I've not seen anything to suggest state sponsorship of it. The only hacking I expect from Sweden's government is hacking off the heads of those who criticism Islam; cyber attacks are assumed individuals. Likewise, when...

Please man, you must realize just how speculative so much of that Buzzfeed article is? Surely? They're drawing incidental information and context clues and past actions and drawing it together to create links to Russia's central government in a way that is about as well supported as would be...

Games like HOI4 sell in Germany, you just can't put in Nazi symbols and I think SS? You'd know better. Hitler himself minus the regalia is left out because it's Hitler and people are pussies, not due to legalities.

On my cleric I would get CONSTANT buff and rez requests from out of fucking nowhere. It would drive me nuts because the people usually weren't in range for buffs or even in zone if asking for rez. Trying to tell someone you won't go to them and buff them makes you an elitist asshole. Refusing to...

That would create rather awesome uniforms, since Al Nusra soldiers would look like Nascar drivers and various rebels would have Israel's star of David - awkward! Assad's men could probably get away with looking cool sporting Iran's emblem over Russia's tricolor.

Polygamy. Edit - yeah, uh, basically on one side dynasties don't really struggle with dying out the way European ones do. Things like personal unions due to marriage politics don't come up. You can even see it with something like the Osman dynasty that was discussed, or various other muslim...

We did a solid job of interventionism for the sake of our economy. We pulled China and east Asia off of the USSR and they're a huge trade partner to this day. We got the house of Saud to use US dollars for petroleum and get the neighborhood to do it as well. Our stock exchange shits all over...

Actually I believe we're relatively bad at election rigging. US interventionism history has a lot of propped up dictators and election winners who proceed to immediately shit on us. I don't believe we fucked with our allies elections beyond perhaps advice and a normal amount of aid, no rigging...

The DNC blamed Russia, as did Hillary Clinton, and Intelligence officials. So when I say the DNC blamed them for hacks my statement is true. Meanwhile I saw more evidence for Iraq's WMDs than this bullshit. Russian methods, Russia has a history of it, Russia likes to do it, it must be Russia! I...

Canada was a baller in WWII and they started re-funding their military thanks to Afghanistan. At this point they could probably conquer Europe...

Nations are calling for Russian leaders to be tried for Syrian war crimes, so Putin tells them to get their families out of the west. USA moves weapon systems into the Baltic region so Russia moves weapon systems to Kalingrad. Looks like a bunch of reasonably logical and stupid dickwaving to me...

I suspect Europe wants to use Muslim ties to obtain access to and leverage over the middle east, rather than the other way around. You and I suspect they'll just end up being bullied and manipulated by the Islamic world but I surely doubt the Germans and Swedes think that way. Germany sees its...

It's the opposite of nobody will nuke because nobody will nuke back. Nobody will full conventional-only industrial war because the loser will still nuke back. Nukes don't just stave off nukes, they stave off anything that would result in nukes. Soviets rolling tanks towards Frankfurt would have...

Syria is Russia's regional ally. They're the only place outside the former USSR housing a military installation - a naval base which gives Russia a port with Med access that's not reliant on Turkish permission. They've been quite friendly with Russia historically, even to the point of refusing...

Allah smiles upon your logic.

Hmm, true, changed my vote.

"In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not in a strong enough social position to give meaningful consent-an assault on individual female autonomy uncannily reminiscent of old arguments for why women should not have political rights" Post...

That's sort of true but it gets exaggerated, and often conflated with future outcomes. The Qin were unifying China parallel to Rome defeating Carthage. The Romans end up arguably about two centuries behind the Chinese, conquering Gaul and dominating the whole of the Med and materializing as an...

Good shit like this amidst a sea of crying almost makes me want to come back and play again. Almost. Is GOD still planned for an OOW bundle?

I don't mind the forged. The incentive has to be doing harder dungeons is better for gear, and it is, but these mean you MIGHT get something out of a normal etc. Timmy getting an 880 off a quest? Good for him. The problem is there is not the stable alternative. Forged is not giving you some...

I agree with this sentiment as you put it. What if, however, the raid version was actually slightly easier than the group? So the idea was you could choose to do the easier version at the cost of herding, or do the harder version but with the advantage of less pleb interaction. I suspect both...

I enjoy raids and raiding. I dislike that they are perpetually the highest form of progression. I would be very happy with a game where larger raids are relatively simple and used to gear up, in order to allow you to complete the more challenging solo and small group content. I just came back...

I won't play the personal net worth dick size game. Ask Cad.

I am the bourgeoisie sir.

I hate this phrase. Stones rhymes with bones. Words does not rhyme with me (or heart). Fuck that. I'll try anything else: ...are for the birds, ...can only upset turds, ...are usually lies when said to the Kurds, ...get SJW emotions stirred. Anything's better than those two shit options.