User survey shows the editors hold left-wing and right-wing beliefs about equally

all i found was that self-responses are preponderantly left/center-left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-04-25/Recent_research

why is guy being bullied for writing what all can understand

I would expect them to be confused and suspicious of the term "surplus labor value". If not, then education has a problem.

editors hold left-wing and right-wing beliefs about equally

source? i’d doubt that unless you’re defining liberals as right-wing here

I don't think this is an unpopular opinion.

10–12 stories, a little mall

the lower stories would be more valuable. i would think there’s at least one grocery store on the ground level.

pathing from public transit

i think people are used to taking the escalator in malls

I'm thinking we should start banning yahoo.com from this commag. All that site does is copy from another site and attribute it so that we can't see what the actual publisher is from the domain. (You can see at the top here that the OG source is Slate.)

most chinese malls mainland or not are used to and designed for handling that many people; in fact probably the rest of east asia too. they do have a lot of escalators. hong kong’s got 7M and the mainland 1.4B after all

to be technical, it’s more trump’s fault for promising something the US could not guarantee. of course it’s israel’s fault for doing all this war in the first place but creating an unworkable deal is trump’s fault.

you can of course be left-and-center and still make mistakes such as this. despite what it was in the 1930s, guardian has been pretty consistently fair about this

what would’ve going to the OIG achieved but his arrest?

they stopped that very soon after the controversy started

I do agree! (and that was a delightful reply to read) I'm just still upset that this was called truly "awful solutions to the Fermi paradox", because physicists have entertained the possibility that these assumptions are true. Even if it is very unlikely, at least the principles of discovery and that Earth's more-advanced civilizations have destroyed the less-advanced one in nearly every contact are likely enough that consensus is apparently to not broadcast, just to be safe. According to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/the_dark_forest/, that is their reasoning.

TL;DR: I agree that it's very unlikely (and that it's made as a fictional device; to do classic science fiction, essentially) but I disagree objectively that it is "awful" lol.

how is Andor supposed to appeal to “Disney adults”?

oops. just because he’s dead now and not because he changed his mind, right?

i never understood the vitriol against debug-only opt-in telemetry

Death Note style "I know that you know that I know that you know that I know..." style bullshit that falls apart

yeah if you didn’t like that part of death note (which i guess would be another of your responses to this question) you definitely wouldn’t like that plot line, which PSA to other commenters takes up about 1/4 of the second book. (i’m also curious to hear why you think it falls apart and debate it though i presume you wouldn’t be interested in debating this book lol. i liked the plotline partly because you also have to deduce what he’s going to do and going on through his mind)

awful solutions to the Fermi paradox

the Dark Forest Hypothesis has been around and proposed by physicists decades before the book popularized it, though not with that name; it is plausible that Liu independently thought of this. Stephen Hawking is a major proponent of this hypothesis.

fans will all say "Oh, yeah, the first book is bad

i don’t think that’s how it goes. the fans i know all say both books one and two are really good (second one being better than the first of course, but no the first book is still awesome) while the third one is controversial. i personally agree with that except i also like the third book though i agree that one did nothing to dissuade misogynist interpretations and there are little if any strong femm characters in the series

the axis of resistance’s goal is to maintain its collective security, after all

tenacity development looks somewhat moribund and lacks so many of audacity's added features and fixes like pasting audio. tenacity's release porting audacity's added realtime effects, beats and measures view, and opus support has only been present in an alpha released eight months ago.