Since we talked about language learning in another thread: 1232. When you use Baldur's gate and other fantasy games/books/movies to learn a language. And then you end up knowing loads of words for me… (View Post)

Hurricanes have a close relationship with temperature and get their power from water evaporating from the surface of the ocean. Of course the hurricane would've happened even without global warming, … (View Post)

I find it ironic that any political discussion that doesn't degenerate into a polarized exchange of insults, death threats and extremism will eventually be called an echo-chamber. You'd have to ignor… (View Post)

The night is darkest just before dawn Except it's not. (View Post)

Literal or not, how could you ever build a functioning democracy if the premise is that a whole bunch of people "deserve a bullet" first? Whose life is improved by calling people you know n… (View Post)