Because eclipses predictions were always accurate, sometimes to the exact minute or even second it will happen, and you can physically confirm they are right. Out of the dozens or hundreds of climate "prediction", we can physically confirm none of them has been true so far, not even close.

Correctly predicting an eclipse makes money, since people will travel far to see it and buy special glasses and such. There's no money in incorrectly predicting an eclipse, so even corrupted people will have to make correct predictions. Having someone stay healthy brings no money to the pharma industry. Having someone stay unhealthy for as long as possible, makes pharma very rich, so corrupted people have an incentive to keep people sick in any way.

UK killed 750 000 dogs and cats to prepare for WW2 due to possible country-wide food shortages (and that was still at the very beginning of the war, when all infrastructures were perfectly ok).

If a country is attacked from 2 opposite sides by the 2 other biggest military power in the world (both with an army size far above yours), and suffered constant bombing, local revolutions, and other small operations all over your territory to cut resources, wouldn't you expect some logistical issues too? Even the tiny war (in comparison) between Ukraine and Russia right now has impacted logistics on a multi-national level. Remember the logistic nightmare that was at the end Afghanistan war by Biden, where all countries where in panic mode to retrieve their soldiers and equipment?

Regarding the French version: He used "mâles" to refer to men. In French, it's purely reserved for animals of scientific talk, not day-to-day like this when referring to men. It can't really be translated, but it's basically a huge sign of disrespect, treating men as just animals acting on instinct.

Progressive and Christian are oxymoron. One requires you to constantly evolve your viewpoint around the modern society, the other has a fixed viewpoint based on the Word of God (that is immutable and eternal).

2nd, the idea of a pope is completely backward. No one is above or lower, the only example to follow is Jesus, not who ever is in charge of the Church.

If you say "it's the Pacman shape", everyone knows what you're talking about. He's also so simple anyone can draw him.

That list has to be a troll of some kind. Lara #1, Agent 47 #3, Sackboy #5, 2 characters from BG3, Ellie from Last of Us but not Joel.

the poll was engaged with by over 4,000 players from all over the world.

Since they wanted the most iconic video games characters ever, it would have made more sense to choose non-gamers, and just ask them "Can you name this video game character?".

Ah yes, the classic "Hide behind fake death threats".

Also, I speak French. There's no "pretending to not understand the original text", it can't be interpreted in any other way than what it was and what everyone interpreted it as. The Google translation was just fine.

It's re-inforced by the fact that the 1st and 2nd edit doesn't mean anything in actual French. I get what they mean, but the sentence should be something like "Par quelqu'un qui, on croirait, n'a jamais vu de femme". Is IGN France even written by a French? I wonder at this point.

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Blocks everyone who disagrees with them

Ok, so I guess they won't have a problem if we make children read the Bible and pray to God then? It won't make them Christians, so it's fine, right? Right? It's just about "helping them learn about the world around them"

I guess genes can have some influence on it, at least indirectly. But by far what seemed to be the biggest impact was the musical surrounding and transfer of experience. If you were taught by the best composers in the world, and if you happen to have a little bit of musical talent on top, it's just very likely you'll eventually become a very successful composer if you put some work into it.

Mozart was taught almost everything by his father, who was an excellent musician (composing maybe not so much) and initiated him with stuff like Bach. Mozart and Beethoven met many times and it's likely Mozart gave him some lessons as well. Beethoven was also a student of Haydn (another very big composer), then Beethoven was Czerny's teacher, which was in turn Liszt's teacher (maybe the most famous pianist in history)... The more you dig into it, the more links you find between the most renown musicians / composers.

The last time I saw an ad with only white people, was that "Please consider killing yourself" ad from Canada.

Somebody has to figure out a way to get kids off the internet.

You mean, like simply not giving them a smartphone? By simply controlling what your kids are doing, just like how humanity has done it for thousands of years, until the last 20 years or so when parents started to rely on technology to do the "parenting"?

Once again, we seems to be hemorrhaging basic features. A thing that vast majority of games had in history, even the bad ones, is now missing on a $70 AAA game from one of the biggest developer in the world (being able to start a fresh new game). What's the excuse this time?

It's really funny seeing how many African countries are against LGBT, most of them punishable with prison or even death. What's the woke answer to that? I thought black people were the best and most tolerant people on Earth and can never do anything wrong?

Shouldn't Titanfall 2 has a similar exploit then? It's also based on Source, possibly an even older version.

"Water" is offensive, please say "Dihydrogen monoxide" or you're an aquaphobe-enabler.

"Train" is offensive, please say "On-rail motorised vehicle" or you're a mechanical bigot.

should be avoided because they are "frequently used by anti-LGBTQ activists to denigrate LGBTQ people, couples, and relationships."

Oh, it's that easy? All we have to do is use the word, and you'll stop using it and find a replacement for it? Good to know you're as weak and desperate as we thought you were.

Man I didn't know about that, took a peek just to see how bad it was. I wonder what's worst, the fact that the dev paid someone just to have this crap written than anyone could have made for free as a joke, or the fact that someone was paid to write this, and it's the best they could come up with.

I never understood why people here (or from the right in general) seems to like AI.

1. It's going to cause a massive competency crisis when its popular. You think DEI is bad? Wait until everyone is dependent of AI for absolutely everything. People will progressively lose the ability to make any choice, develop their own thoughts, and will just follow AI's orders. I'm not opening that door, ever, even if it simplifies my day-to-day life.

2. Cheap stuff is almost always the worst stuff. Mass processed food is by far many times worst than naturally grown food, even though it's many times easier to make and in big quantities. AI will be the same, sure you'll have more images than ever, but say good bye to any form of arts with actual thoughts put behind it. Instead, it will just be a bunch of stuff duct-taped together as quickly as possible.

3. Enjoy your loss of control. Sure, there are programs that are free for now, but the moment AI will be big enough to pose a serious threat to most industries, and thus, most money-making opportunities, say good bye to any free projects, just like how it happened with many other free and open source softwares. That, and AI will get exponentially harder to create and maintain just like any tech, to the point only giant companies will actually be able to invest and maintain it.

At least don't lie to yourself. You're not a mathematician because you're using a calculator to do "sin(45)", and you're not an artist because you used AI to draw some random pictures.

An eletric mixer doesn't bake your cake in an instant, you still did the actual work, only with less physical labour.

When you focus on improving yourself, you also improve everything around you. When you focus on destroying yourself, you destroy everything around you.

People a few years ago: "In the future. people will use generative AI to make porn of women whenever they want."

The future: puts clothes back on women

I have to say, with clown world I'm prepared for a lot of things, but that, I really wasn't expecting it. For once I'm ok with it.

What ticks me off is the background music. The "dramatic" type, just there to make you react in anger about what's being said. Just a dirty manipulation trick, show me the actual footage.

I watched the Thailand female team. They did better, but still much slower than most male team ( I saw a few other teams, generally it was between 3:00 and 3:30, but the female team was 5 minutes, basically 50% slower ). That's without the penalties I believe, not sure about them and how/when they are counted.

I legit have no idea how they can even finish up the course. The part where you have to lift up a truck tire over 50m? Or when you need to go back to start with an injured teammate on your shoulders? I'm fairly sure they either have an easier course, or they cheated even more.

It's not a remake anyway. They changed absolutely everything. They "modernized" the gameplay (a.k.a. it's just a button mash now), they changed the characters, story and dialogs, and they bloated the game beyond measures, just to split the game into $70 episodes to scam people.

But sure, be ashamed of one of the most impactful game ever released because "muh stereotypes". Tifa's beautiful so that's bad, Barret's a strong male leader so that's bad (I fail to see how he's a black stereotype though, is it because he wants to destroy everything he sees?) and Cid's pissed off because his wife stopped him from accomplishing his childhood dream (going in space, something he worked all his life for, destroyed in a minute). In fact, Cid realise later in the original that his wife truly saved his life, and changes his comportment with her. You know, a real character progression, what a RPG is supposed to have?