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Your criteria exclude much that is useful. For example, scientific studies that confirm theoretical predictions or replicate previous results, which are both essential to good science. Your emphasis seems to be entirely on challenging established understandings and institutions and shaking things up, but if that's the only thing you respect as not "drivel", you just end up pushing contrarianism. Sometimes it's valuable to agree, or to come to consensus. Sometimes it's valuable to delve into the subtleties of an existing way of understanding the world. Sometimes it's valuable to explore how others already understand the world, while keeping quiet and not asserting anything of your own until you are well steeped in it. Not everything needs to be shaken up or disrupted all the time - to look only for this is the unwisdom of hubristic tech bros and conspiracists.

Yes, "reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order. It is better to sell or give away an old PC instead of just sending it for recycling or even landfill.

The Linux experience has changed quite a lot over the years. You're unlikely to have trouble getting your computer to work with it now.

You'll be more vulnerable to malware because it won't be patched against newly discovered exploits.

You can't generalize about public transport across the whole of the USA. It's very variable between different cities, and some have pretty good systems.

They have played us for absolute fools.

The problem is that, as people say, the people who are rich enough never lose. They can parse any situation into greater wealth. It's us little people who always lose.

As I stated during my Joint Address to the Congress last month, my message to every American child is simple: you are perfect exactly the way God made you,” reads Trump’s statement.

The implication is that God didn't make anyone gay, trans, non-binary, etc., and if any minor claims to be naturally the way they feel they are, MAGA fascists will step in to correct them with God on their side. They will tell themselves they're doing a good thing. That's how the original Nazis lived with working in concentration camps committing mass murder too, and like MAGA fascists they also considered themselves good Christians.

They expect single Americans everywhere to be celibate. Except themselves, because that's different.

All that time and money invested in agent Krasnov is really paying off.

It's not that I feel any particular sympathy for Elon Musk. But I'm sure there are lots of people living with small dicks who don't experience any need to become crazy Nazis, and lots of crazy Nazis with sizeable penises. I just feel this whole "a man needs a big dick to be secure, and any insecure man has a small dick" thing is a somewhat offensive outlook.

The controversy began when restaurant owners Darwell and Nettie Mechelle Yeager posted a video promoting a limited-time discount for “real couples only”—explicitly excluding same-sex couples and trans people. “Cause we don’t do the trans or the lesbians or gays,” Nettie said in the now-deleted clip. The duo emphasized that only “couples who can produce a child” were eligible for the special.

Republicans are just so weird. Why on earth would you make "Can the people at this table conceive a child with one another?" the criterion for whether you'll sell someone a burger? Their psychological issues just leak into all aspects of their lives.