It's not real. Honestly it's never real, and companies keep pretending it is because it gets views. So stop believing this shit.

Even when it's so real that world leaders are doing press conferences about it, you should still be at least somewhat skeptical.

I was in the gifted program and I felt like all it did was separate us from the 'normal' children so we'd be less annoying to the teachers.

Everyone I don't like is a human shield (and some-fucking-how that means it's okay for me to kill them).

I believe they're vaguely more regulated in Europe. But be careful the conclusions you draw, the modern way of supporting the lie is mixing this lethally dangerous pseudoscience with real science.

Even if they did nothing else, it's possible that their massaging the neck was enough, and the rest was nonsense/dangerous. Placebo in babies is also a genuine thing (usually proxied via the parents).

Source missing from that post, but it's from the Pew Research Center.

I couldn't find any justification for their picking those countries (maybe they're the only countries that let the Pew Research Center establish any presence). And their methodology seems to suffer similar biases these kinds of wide opinion polls typically do (e.g. if you don't answer the phone or agree to talk to weird strangers you're not counted), which typically skew towards older conservatives who are sitting at home. Sample sizes also leave a lot to be desired.

Not to say this data is entirely inaccurate, but as with like 90% of these studies, they leave so much statistically uncertain that it's borderline meaningless.

More hug emotes needed

Guy who has fucked with Python here for like a decade; as far as I'm aware, sadly no. Though if it's all the data is representable in text, consider JSONs.

Please let me know if the answer is actually yes though because pickle is a pain.

No kidding, as a child, I printed out a full 43 page guide on rearing Chaos, it was the bomb. Just a focused and fleshed version of that as a game would be rad.

In spite of the public figures and reputation, I'd argue the UK is honestly fairly trans-friendly as a culture IME. In decades of knowing and seeing trans people out, as well not always dressing to my own supposed gender. I've never seen anyone have a hard time for it anywhere (I'm sure it happens, but clearly not that frequently).

It's still a crumbling fascistic country in decline, but not really any more so than all of the fucking west. I'd still rather be here than the USA. Downside is citizenship gets you access to butt nowhere else, whereas EU gets you access to all the EU.

Yeah, this will happen, at most, the second election cycle after Trump. I'd bet money on it. Even people on Hexbear frequently underestimate how much memory holing happens.

You can't see the comments directly, but you will see "x more replies" which means a blocked user replied. Which is very annoying.

Sims 4 is already just bad, it's core mechanics suck and DLC will never fix that. Sims 5 may or may not be good, but it's a chance at least.

Blocked people have replied to me in the past. It definitely only half-stops you seeing their posts.

If you want a conversation to stop, especially with a user who's constantly replying or following you. You can respond with "Disengage.", and the user is obliged to stop posting at you about whatever it is. The post has to be a simple 'disengage', rather than trying to get the last word in with "you stink and here's five reasons why also disengage".

I wish blocking worked better, you can still see when blocked users have replied. And blocked users can still see and comment on your posts all the same, doesn't feel nice.

Without naming names, I've got in arguments with some users who will just keep coming back and posting more replies after you stop responding. Sometimes for days, in one case, weeks.

I also think there's some value in actively signalling that the conversation was actually really sucky and you hated it. Helps steer people in nicer directions, I'd argue.

Militaristic world superpower has more firearms, tech, and manpower than relatively small country??? Who knew

Yep, Russian news is basically censored across the continent, and travel sanctions effectively mean you can't meet any Russians in person either.

Just in case we see them as actual human beings or something.

Firefox has honestly been a better PDF reader than the inventors of the PDF for about a decade now.

Adobe PDF reader is the peak of bloatware and really shouldn't be installed anywhere anymore. Last I saw, it was like 400MB of software to read-only open a file type? Could be gigs if they have AI shit in it now too.