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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Yes it’s odds that you will like the movie going in.

    Besides, aggregate scores are hard to work with.

    The best thing you can do, when dealing with critics imo, is to find a critic with similar sensibilities to you, and then figure out the things they like.

    If a critic hates car chases and you love them, it doesn’t matter what the score is, because you can see them score it low for car chases and use that information. What matters more than score with critics is consistency.







  • You keep posting this graph with no context, but the euro has also had very high inflation.

    This is bad faith and you know it, that’s why you aren’t actually discussing it, just posting a misleading graph.

    USD had 141% cumulative inflation since 1990

    Euro has 115%

    The pound has 143%

    Brazil ( a member of brics) has nearly 1000% since 1994 (25 million percent from 1990 like the other countries.

    China, arguably the biggest contender for stability in brics has 160% inflation.

    Why aren’t you including charts for all of these countries? And why are you using a chart showing inflation values from before USD was used as the international currency in 1944 with the bretton woods conference, without demonstrating why that is important and what it means? Given that this is in the context of global currencies?


  • Isn’t the first graph just general inflation? What does purchasing comparing purchasing power mean in this scenario? And how does it compare to other currencies like the pound or the euro?

    Also the conclusion of the second article you linked seems to indicate that no other large scale currencies are replacing the shares of the US dollar, instead things like gold and diversified currencies are taking up this space, those don’t take the place for international trade.

    Neither of these seem like a death knell for USD to me.



  • I think there are a lot of other factors in that case.

    The biggest reason why it’s rare to see regular cars get to a million miles is because they don’t get driven as much. At the average of 14k miles per year it would take 71 years for someone to drive 1 million miles. Since it takes so long to get there, many non engine related issues start taking hold like rust and obsoletion.




  • You asked the question with specific emphasis that sets it up to be easy to argue against.

    For example using the words ‘perfectly fine’ when you should very well understand from their previous statement that they don’t think that to be the case, you exaggerated their stance in order to misrepresent it. This misrepresentation allows you to frame their position with a question that is easy to defeat instead of actually refuting their claim or answering their proposed question.

    You also loaded the question, implying their position within your question and reducing their possible responses to extremes.

    This is a high school debate club 101 straw man question, I was just letting you know, so hopefully in the future you can structure your arguments better.

    For example, if I responded to you saying “so you think everyone who calls you out, just doesn’t understand what a straw man is?”

    It’s exaggerating and purposefully misconstruing the point in order to ask a question that is easy to rebut.

    And here’s the definition: an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent’s real argument.


  • Yes, honestly the fact that ‘youtube music’ is literally just a different frontend for YouTube drives me nuts, it goes both ways, the YouTube app for TV doesn’t have proper features either, it’s unclear if you are getting the music or video version and the most egregious of them all imo, on the TV app, you can’t freaking browse for a different song while music is playing, you have to stop the song to go to the search bar.