mikeyBoy14

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are probably ways to correlate the military test with a standardized IQ test, and which point the military test might be a rough proxy for IQ. If that was the case, the 80 IQ rule might be roughly accurate.

I don't know if that's been done though. Just playing devil's advocate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Taylor Swift chose to list on Ticketmaster with full knowledge that those fees would be included.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Interesting topic, but the article's writing style is god-awful and a bit hard to get through.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your title reads like immigrants are more susceptible to silicosis than non-immigrants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So it's not the best analogy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mate, a good third of the countries on that list are currently suffering such brutal ethnic violence that it might be considered genocide. Close to half are riddled by islamic terrorism, usually directed towards ethnic minorites. At least two of them are in the middle of civil wars.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

There's a not insignificant chance that it'll be the secured creditors' company soon 😂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. You can like the comic and I can not like the comic. That's perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms.

Jake and Amir parodied this well in their "Facebook Redesign" episode.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand, Google/Apple Pay are both pretty great products that replace a horrendous legacy payments system. Recall that for like 40 years the most innovative consumer payment system looked like this. And it was essentially a duopoly as well (Visa/Mastercard).

At the end of the day, cash is still a thing as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Man, Lemmy is savage with its downvotes.

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