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You are avoiding cars constantly when driving with a non-zero amount of traffic. Way more incidents than predators in the savanna while doing persistence hunting.

Not sure what you're arguing.

Your brain gets used to in-distribution events.

Car accidents (and the conditions that cause them) are out-of-distribution events.

It's that simple.


That’s not how the brain works. It is evolutionary adapted to stay alert for out of distribution events.

Correct, and by the time an out of distribution event happens in a car, you are milliseconds from collision (if that).

Most car accidents are effectively instantaneous. The fact your brain perks up as a bumper is coming through your side window is not very helpful.


Created Feb or March this year it looks like lol.

LOL. So here is the truth: I named it because my oldest son was really into the “67” meme. I was trying to come up with a domain name, everything decent seemed taken, and chess67.com was available.

I figured it would just be a temporary name until I came up with something better.

Then it stuck. I will say it has been easy for my customers to remember the name!


> he signed a declaration of intent to do that if a peace deal with Russia is made

Interesting. Thanks for letting me know a Ukraine-Russia peace deal will never be signed.


That’s a pretty childish take on a serious subject.

No, it’s a very strong indicator that a peace deal will never be signed until unconditional surrender. Because concerns about NATO troops in Ukraine is main reason why Russia started this.

Claimed reason.

If Russia is so afraid, perhaps they would be open to a peace deal guaranteed by NATO troops stationed on their ground?


That's literally what they don't want... so how does what you said make sense?

Putin said this, but he says a lot of things which are not true.

Regardless, his sucessor may be more relaxed. Especially considering how badly it went even without Ukraine having NATO membership.


Yes, they don't want that. Yet they still keep claiming fear as their excuse for aggression. Pathetic.

“Talking points” for one man is simply the truth for another man. When you look at everything through a conspiracy lens, eventually the truth can become “talking points” and you end up in an island of delusion (I hope everyone still remembers the “vibecession” we had…, the inflation is not real actually, etc etc).

We seriously need to evaluate this “talking points” accusation lol. Propaganda accusations in general, they’re mindless and kills actual discussion.


No I mean literally a specific set of iirc 5 points, that none of them had ever used before, that they all did with very little variation, at the same time, one morning. They didn't all just independently end up with the same subjects they needed to talk about at the same time.

It made lots of people who had previously believed in their bullshit wake up and take notice.


Ok…so they read the same article or watched the same video that went viral. And people repeat what’s in the article or video because it makes sense. It’s a very very common phenomenon in the internet. People do it all the time. Does not imply conspiracy.


It affects everyone who visits India, so it's not really an edge case. I'm sure there are plenty of towns in India that is primarily tourism-based.


Ok I get that, but 9 million people a year is less than 0.1% of the population. so they wouldn’t even show up in p99 stats.


For something as sensitive as a payment system you need to go way further than p99. Like way, way further


for reliability, sure, for fraud, also.

But making sure that tourists don't pay a 3% charge, and/or can't do p2p? naaa. thats deliberate.

tourists are rich, generally, and can be a rich source of money laundering options.


That’s not how statistical implication works… Learn about sufficient condition vs required condition before you start criticizing people. Taking zinc and smoking cigarettes still increases your chances of cancer, for example.


I understand that entirely. I'm saying that the way that GP is presenting their information it sounds like a "one neat trick", which of course it isn't because nothing ever is, which you and I are in agreement upon.


Lol, someone completely missed the point… American propaganda is such a part of the culture, it gets barely noticed. Even movies that has military equipment, the military gets to have heavy input towards positive depictions of american military. US military has paid millions in marketing to all the sports organizations for promoting the military. Etc etc. This is just one aspect of the propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment...


>etc etc

please, keep going...


Americans literally recite a brainwashing mantra every day in school and are punished if they don't (despite the constitution).


The guy is using translation software to post it. So maybe don’t take the phrasing into consideration too much and focus on the intended meaning behind it.


It’s how science and discoveries are done too…


I think the accusation is more that they are propagandized sheep doing what the sheep are expected to do instead of actually thinking about what they are doing from a wider perspective.


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