What field are you from? It sounds borderline schizophrenic. I’ve gotta learn more

I think most people, if asked “Is it important to listen to arguments by people who disagree with you?” would answer in the affirmative. I also think most people don’t really do this

Destroying a media source feels distasteful, esp. since it sounds like people’s opinions can be moderated by exposure to contrary arguments

Maybe the solution looks more like algos that counterbalance outrage-bait with quality examples of disagreeing views to break people out of rage spirals

This finding is likely false. It keeps getting spread because it appeals to people’s biases — it just feels so right that authority would cripple empathy and turn leaders into sociopaths — but it doesn’t replicate.

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This is even wilder than the woman burned alive subway story

Why were the Merovingians like this

Holy shit

What I’m picking up from this Wikipedia skim is approxo-France used to be a really rough place populated by people named stuff like Sigebert, Guntram, Athanagild, and Goiswintha

Would be very pleased if fencing is an exception! I rowed in high school and we definitely weren’t beating or even meeting the boys’ times, which is always kind of a bummer.

Is this true? Do women fencers perform as well as male fencers in mixed sex bouts?

I know there are a few sports with impressive records from outlier women, like freediving, but I don’t know of any where the 80th percentile is more or less equal between the sexes.

Being both asexual and kinky sounds like when a drug’s listed side effects are both constipation and diarrhea

Ace and kink?

But they kept giving me really hard French words

Man. It’s nuts that people who despise Trump would also happily dismantle rights fundamental to a free society if they had the chance.

It makes me think of those Portuguese jellyfish

Is that a dig against women or what

People should be allowed to vote irrespective of their political beliefs.

Genesis was good. The whole arty witch house era.