Then check the sources listed under that wiki article.

If you couldn’t be bothered to look up something as simple and undisputed as this, then it’s really silly to make a stand with “Wikipedia isn’t a source”, it just makes you look like a bad troll.

They were going downhill towards that bridge. Once they reached the lowest point (the bridge), they would naturally start slowing down and the boat would be pushing into the car, making the connection point want to go in a perpendicular direction from where the vehicles are going + at the same time the wobble gets worse because of the deceleration.

If they had been descending slower in a controlled manner, then they would have had enough power margin at the bottom to accelerate out of the pickle, but instead it seems like they sped downhill at max power, so they had no margin left. The vehicle was probably more than adequate for the job, but speeding down hill is usually not part of the job description of towing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

You should have just looked this up yourself. It’s going to be the first result in most search engines.

It’s real. From the yahoo news article that someone else linked: The defense secretary wrote “Cool story, General” in response to a tweet from retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges about Adolf Hitler gathering Nazi generals in 1935 and them being “required to swear a personal oath to the Führer.”

I think no one mentioned these yet: My favorite tablet games are the ports of old BioWare classics like Baldur’s Gate 1+2, Icewind Dale, … Excellent ports imo, bur I did play them on a 10" tablet, I wouldn’t try to play them on a phone. https://www.beamdog.com/games/

I’m on Android and android has something called app pinning, but that still allows full functionality of the open app and is thus open to abuse. I looked up the guided access system and it’s a lot better than the android method, but it seems much more convoluted to set up. I just want a simple option: you can look at what is currently playing, but touching does nothing.

I want this, but not just for toddlers, just for handing over my phone to anyone really. Put on some media (photo, slideshow, video), lock your phone inputs, hand it over to someone else to look at, without having to worry that they will invade your privacy as a prank.

I remember a news report from during the Yugoslav wars about a Yugoslav doctor who was attending medical university in Belgium. The Belgian professor said that they were basically teaching together, because he had nothing to teach to the refugee doctor. They were advocating for recognizing foreign diplomas and those of the Yugoslav refugees in particular.

Nowadays we do have established procedures to recognize (at same or lower level) foreign diplomas of other countries, but I suspect that was only because the Bologna accords forced us to have procedures.

Euler thought up or improved way too many things for them all to be named after him, it would get too confusing.

From his wiki: “Euler’s work averages 800 pages a year from 1725 to 1783. He also wrote over 4500 letters and hundreds of manuscripts. It has been estimated that Leonhard Euler was the author of a quarter of the combined output in mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation in the 18th century.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler

And a relevant xkcd:

There’s a lot of stupid generalizations there: SK is an american enclave, “their” lives evolve around … And the other nutter who was saying that “their wives” put on make up to look white. It’s stupid generalizations and profound prejudice, but it’s not overt racism (I think). On that slippery slope scale I posted earlier of: generalization > stereotype > prejudice > overt racism, they are at the stage of prejudice. So it’s not overt racism, but it shows a racist mindset (Imo).

It’s negative generalizations about everyone from a specific country/ethnicity.

I found a good reply on old.reddit that goes into the slippery slope of generalization > stereotype > prejudice > overt racism: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/nqoas/what_is_the_difference_between_generalizations/

Putin is so popular in Russia, that even the dead vote for him.

The stink of axe deodorant is really unmistakable, I don’t get how people can stand it either. And it doesn’t even do away with bad body smell, I just get to smell the body smell + the stink of axe on top. Other fragrances are less offensive though, but axe marketing works I guess.

The smelliest people I’ve known, where there had to be an intervention at school/work, smelled badly because of their clothes / home environment, not because they didn’t wash enough. More clothes changes and storing their clean clothes in a safe space worked every time.

At the time when I became inactive on Reddit, Azerbaijan was building up to finish the Nagarno Karrabach conflict once and for all. There was a lot of blatant anti Armenian, pro Azerbaijani misinformation being posted in relevant discussions (that they were tolerant, only wanting peace, there was never any ethnic cleansing, …), and most of those comments went without anyone posting a simple fact check to debunk it.

I suspected that they had been sharing a blocklist and had blocked most of those who would call them out on their bullshit. I didn’t bother either since I just expected to be blocked as well and I had basically given up on the platform anyhow. I found swapping accounts to read threads annoying as hell, so it was easier to not comment and just be silently disappointed in humanity.

The fact checks that I did see at the time, were mostly posted as a reply to the top comment of the chain, hoping to go unnoticed by the one spreading misinformation, but that will only work for so long. Reddit is fucked when it comes to discussing political news or gauging public opinion (imo), it’s now designed for spreading misinformation (imo again).

For anyone wondering how the blocking feature has been weaponized to spread misinformation, in 2022 a redditor did an experiment: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/testing_reddits_new_block_feature_and_its_effects/

Afaik, the blocking feature is still in the same state as in 2022, which makes modern reddit a heaven for spreading misinformation.

All the usual suspects calling this decision antisemitic, makes me more supportive of it. They could have used other language to appeal to humanism or reason, but nope, straight to fake accusations of racism and hate mongering against the decision makers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia

Tldr:
Fled from gang violence in San Salvador as a teenager, married to an American, has american kids, was living and working legally in the USA, was still illegally deported to a prison in San Salvador, had to be brought back under court order, is then falsely accused of crimes in Tennessee and now they want to deport him to a country that he has no connection to whatsoever.

Ironically, to get the Tennessee accusations, the usa government struck cooperation deals with convicted criminals, one of which was going to be deported after his sentence, but now not anymore.

The cost for the USA government to persecute this 1 single person has to be already in the millions by now.

This page references several works by French missionaries: https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/explorers/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1430-e.html

I could easily find the first mentioned book “Le Grand Voyage du pays des Hurons”. A scan of what I think is the original book: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109515f/f2.item There also exists an English translation, but I couldn’t find a free version of that one.

Nationalism? You’re really stretching there. I don’t really get how that comes into here either. More ad hominem arguments, this time against me, won’t convince me either.

Ultimately it’s really simple to convince me. There is data. You want this data to not be true and you want to convince me that this data is not true. To convince me that this data is not true, your options are:
A) showing that the institution has on other occasions fabricated data. B) or showing that that report has been shown to contain fabricated data or used a flawed methodology.

You can do neither. All your arguments against it are purely ad hominem, against aspi, against the entirety of Australia, against the evil west with their freedom of expression, with also some whataboutism about Israel thrown in. But you have no actual arguments or any kind of proof whatsoever that that data is not real. You may not want it to be real, but it apparently is. Your unwillingness to accept facts that do not align with your beliefs is a you problem.

Whataboutism? I’m not going there. All your arguments against the data that you don’t like were ad hominem. You have no objective basis for your narrative other than your personal beliefs.