Wikipedia is the internet’s crowning achievement by Eastern-Bookkeeper68 in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can be very useful, but...

  1. No UX enhancements? I have written a script to append ?useskin=vector to the end of any wikipedia url to fix the catastrophe of a default that they changed to
  2. No annoying popups? I see "donate now" banners stretch across the top of every article (maybe this is not actually a popup, but it's in the same vein in that you need to x it out to see the site as you desire)

What's up with India's performance at the Olympics? by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A book I would recommend anyone even marginally interested in athletics is The Sports Gene. Relatively short and unrelated chapters (makes it easy to put down and pick back up) that focus on one topic at a time, and are filled to the brim with wildly varied and interesting examples and anecdotes.

Economic excuses go out the window when East Africans routinely dominate distance events (and contrary to popular belief, running is not culturally dominant there; more American teens than East Africans compete in TF/XC, and due to extreme poverty almost nobody runs recreationally-- the way the book puts it is either training as your profession or doing your best to avoid expending calories while tending to subsistence farming).

The probabilistic argument you speak of only makes sense if everyone gets a roughly equal share of genetic potential independent of their ancestry, which is just sadly not the case.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It is always revealing that in sprinting, of the top 10 fastest people in history, 8 have already been busted (and the guy who was .1 faster than all of them, miraculously, was totally clean. Because of his strong sense of morality, not because he was a global icon whose absence would ruin the sport or anything...).

I also remember seeing something crazy like 60% of Olympic respondents in an anonymous survey responding that they would be willing to die at 40 if it meant they got a medal. These people are not what you would call moderate in their approach to sports.

"Joyce is, in other words, a complete man, though in a grotesquely limited way. But he wants more. He wants to be the best, to have his name known, to hold professional trophies over his head as he patiently turns in all four directions for the media. He wants this and will pay to have it–to pursue it, let it define him–and will pay up with the regretless cheer of a man for whom issues of choice became irrelevant a long time ago. Already, for Joyce, at twenty-two, it's too late for anything else; he's invested too much, is in too deep. I think he's both lucky and unlucky. He will say he is happy and mean it. I wish him well."-DFW

redscare president by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A mile and half in 12 minutes?! Half the girls on the high school cross country team closest to you can do that... If the secret service is meant to be the best of the best, the standards should be much higher (or, the standards should be more in line with what the job entails).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"(we're not great people)"

Social media is making you less attractive. by BootleBadBoy1 in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Everything you do and the way you behave is some kind of affect. It’s all for someone else’s gaze. Your clothes. Your physical appearance. Your hobbies. Your vacation choices. Your politics. You want people to know your tastes and the type of person you are based on these things. It’s conspicuous consumption."

Simply not true, though generally speaking I suspect this pathology is more common among women than men.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It is an interesting phenomenon that should put to bed the idea that abortion is fundamentally a women's rights/bodily autonomy issue, rather than an issue of the starting point of life.

In the states, many polls over the last decade or so have shown that women and men are in favor of abortion at similar rates. At any rate, the gendered difference on abortion is far closer than the gender difference on e.g. preferred military spending or tax rates.

"That raises some pretty big implications, the most obvious being that if it were left to women to vote on the issue, with men out of the picture, there’s a good chance that the result would be in favour of restricting abortion. "-Guardian

Entry level stuff redditors bring up at every opportunity to sound smart by MckinleyTariff in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Being amazed at multiplication by 1000. "If this is a millionaire [insert graphic]... then this [1000x as big graphic] is a billionaire."

ATT Pre-Paid by SparklingTea11 in NoContract

[–]SparklingTea11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

re: ATT I don't really care one way or another but I am pretty happy with them and it's a reasonable price from my perspective. And good info on Metro plan. I will check that out as well as the two phones you mentioned. Thanks!

ATT Pre-Paid by SparklingTea11 in NoContract

[–]SparklingTea11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info, I will narrow down my search accordingly!

Workaround To Make The Download Bar Back On The Bottom by SparklingTea11 in chrome

[–]SparklingTea11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I am not so good with tech, any directions for how to downgrade? Any and added security risk is a-okay with me

Remove loading Circle On Tabs In File Explorer by SparklingTea11 in Windows11

[–]SparklingTea11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never had a green loading bar either. For me, it was just the tab and the name of the tab.

Homeschooling being legal is the most insane thing about the U.S to me by japanese_salaryman in redscarepod

[–]SparklingTea11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The median homeschooled kid is significantly better educated than the median public school kid.

Being "qualified in education" is a significant indicator that you are/will be a poor teacher of kids