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I guess they just forgot about gorillas

We often take for granted how much information we have about the animal kingdom. Gorillas are native to central Africa; it is highly unlikely Plato ever even met somebody who had seen one. What makes Greek philosophy impressive is how much they were able to accurately describe given the incredibly limited slice of what is now “common knowledge” available to them, and how durable the methods they employed have proven when provided better priors.

Those are generally the concerns of a college. Universities are primarily research institutions, which appears to be the lens with which these rankings are created.

The $1.50 hotdog isn’t exactly done out of the kindness of Costco’s heart. It’s hard to estimate the market price of bulk goods but everybody knows $1.50 is a great deal for a hotdog, and your brain elides that into a perception of Costco as “the place with great deals.” IKEA pulls the same trick with their cafe, though to less of an extreme.

I’ve found Obsidian to work well for me. Its plugin ecosystem is pretty robust, so there’s a lot of room to bolt on features.

And if you really need an open source option with every possible tool and a full customization language… emacs

That still wouldn’t justify including “Jew” in a list of otherwise entirely negative descriptors

No, they aren’t. It’s extremely easy to separate the actions of the Israeli state from the beliefs and moral worth of the Jewish people. A great way to start is by actually talking to Jews, you will find that many are incredibly disenfranchised by Israel’s actions. Sure, some support the IDF, but so do many American Christians, so you can’t exactly draw conclusions from that.

I’m glad to see the memory of violet08 remains honored in this space

For sure, but even making Texas remotely competitive would be a huge blow—it’s a large state that takes a lot of money to reach with political advertising, and if republicans have to start campaigning hard to keep their bedrock state then that time and money drain can start dragging other races.

Fair enough, but I would contend “a broad range” is compatible with “all but one”

The definition is not that difficult

Idk if you’re trolling or just obstinate, but if you don’t explain the exact definition you are using, it is impossible to determine what meets it and what does not.

For example:

Walkability is a measure of how accessible services and amenities are by foot or transit. A city is walkable if a broad range of these are thusly available.

Define walkable.

I can walk to literally everything I need in my daily life except my job, and the share of residents lucky enough to work in the city can walk or bike to those too. My city scores incredibly high in both walk and bike scores; this drives real estate prices up, which drives employers to the suburbs, and—wouldn’t you know it!—the cheapest places to build office parks are situated away from the commuter transit.

What do I do if the public transit is pretty good and the city is walkable, but all the jobs are in office parks 40 minutes out of town?

Flood insurance is often also subsidized by other insurance purchasers who are not at flood risk! The insurer purchases insurance insurance in case they need to pay out more then they have, which gets added to their admin costs and distributed out to their customers.

At will employment means either the employee or the employer can terminate the employment at any time for any reason, provided it isn’t discriminatory or retaliatory, so unless you can argue premarital sex havers are a protected demographic, it’s completely legal.

Oof, I’ve read about plans to do that sort of thing but didn’t know they were already implemented. Godspeed to all affected.

Huh? Last I checked it’s just a checkbox with no actual verification mechanism

No, but most in suburban America have a gas powered lawnmower

Most people don’t have a spare electric drivetrain in their garage, though.

The almond industry is also unfathomably lethal to bees. If you care about bees, eat honey, not almonds—honey producers need their bees alive and well, while almond growers merrily slaughter them by the billions to force off season crops into existence.

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