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  1. Comment on Patterns of worldwide religious affiliation, participation, and belief in ~humanities

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    https://i.ibb.co/jP9D1vrn/image.png "Share of people who are religious" - "regardless of beliefs" What? Please explain how this makes sense.

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    "Share of people who are religious" - "regardless of beliefs"

    What?

    Please explain how this makes sense.

  2. Comment on The Greenland crisis has boosted support for Danish PM Mette Frederiksen, who has become one of Europe's leading figures pushing back against the US president in ~society

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    She's not the prime minister of crises for nothing. It's like Churchill I guess. Highly competent in crises, pretty bad day to day.

    She's not the prime minister of crises for nothing. It's like Churchill I guess. Highly competent in crises, pretty bad day to day.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Patterns of worldwide religious affiliation, participation, and belief in ~humanities

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    The numbers for Denmark indeed do not make sense. Highly misleading. They did not do their homework. Probably the 80% number is because afaik every newborn is more or less automatically a member...

    The numbers for Denmark indeed do not make sense. Highly misleading. They did not do their homework.

    Probably the 80% number is because afaik every newborn is more or less automatically a member of the church. It's opt-out, not opt-in, afaik.

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    35 percent of Danes believe in God.

    66 percent of Danes believe in a higher power.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit appears more than a thousand times in new Jeffrey Epstein files, meanwhile her son was arrested again and faces thirty-eight criminal charges, including rape in ~news

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    You can't make this stuff up.

    The scandals involving Norway’s royal household just keep on piling up.

    On Sunday, Marius Borg Hoiby, the eldest son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, was arrested, accused of assault, threats with a knife and violation of a restraining order, police said in a statement.

    While the royals are generally popular in Norway, the Hoiby case has cast a shadow on their image. And the trial is opening just as his mother faces renewed scrutiny over her contacts with Jeffrey Epstein.

    Mette-Marit’s contacts with Epstein and the Hoiby trial are not the only source of negative publicity for Norway’s royals. The business ventures of Haakon’s sister, Princess Martha Louise, have drawn repeated criticism. In 2024, around the same time Hoiby’s case was making news, she married an American self-professed shaman, Durek Verrett.

    You can't make this stuff up.

    9 votes

  6. Comment on The downfall of OnePlus will be studied | The "enthusiast brand" arc in ~tech

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    At £1450 it better last at least twice as long as it already has!

    At £1450 it better last at least twice as long as it already has!

    1 vote

  7. Comment on The downfall of OnePlus will be studied | The "enthusiast brand" arc in ~tech

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    I totally get it, but that's actually what I like about him. I'm not very techy so the superficial level is perfect for me

    He’s no longer a leader in the tech review field…now it just seems like he follows trends and makes the most basic, superficial videos.

    I totally get it, but that's actually what I like about him. I'm not very techy so the superficial level is perfect for me

  9. Comment on American rock climber Alex Honnold reaches top of Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes in ~sports

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    More stupid than impressive. /noise

    More stupid than impressive.

    /noise

  10. Comment on US Democrats successfully strip all anti-trans riders from final appropriations bills in ~lgbt

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    I'm glad they stood up for us but I'm sure we were just a bargaining chip for the other side. What concessions were made to give us this?

    I'm glad they stood up for us but I'm sure we were just a bargaining chip for the other side. What concessions were made to give us this?

    7 votes

  11. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    Rogue One is my favourite Star Wars movie and Andor is my favourite Star Wars media overall. And yeah it's definitely curious to have watched that movie a dozen times already, then go to Andor and...

    Rogue One is my favourite Star Wars movie and Andor is my favourite Star Wars media overall. And yeah it's definitely curious to have watched that movie a dozen times already, then go to Andor and watch the changes, and then afterwards watch Rogue One once again - those differences really do quite stand out!

    Sounds like a great way to spend time on those flights.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I don't feel there's a quick way to really catch up in that sense. As unsatisfying as it is to answer your question this way.. you cannot really catch up easily. It's not like every movie in the...

    I don't feel there's a quick way to really catch up in that sense. As unsatisfying as it is to answer your question this way.. you cannot really catch up easily. It's not like every movie in the series is going to matter, but having only seen the teasers for Doomsday, there is so much background information that will be meaningless if you go into it having only watched a few movies like the actual Avengers movies. It comes out in nearly a year so I'd just say that if you do like superhero movies, just start from the very beginning. You don't have to watch everything but there's really no way to know what would be relevant.

    Starting from, say, the latest phase of movies would probably feel really unsatisfying too. It's a great question though and hope someone else has another/better take than me. Like, there's gotta be nearly no new fans to the franchise at this stage. The entire audience is probably built in from years of movies and shows? It's overwhelming!

    3 votes

  13. Comment on EU-US trade deal ‘on hold’ after new Donald Trump tariffs | MP: "The activation of the EU Anti-Coercion Instrument should be explicitly considered" in ~society

  14. Comment on EU-US trade deal ‘on hold’ after new Donald Trump tariffs | MP: "The activation of the EU Anti-Coercion Instrument should be explicitly considered" in ~society

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    From article: Wikipedia link about the trade bazooka/Anti-Coercion Instrument:

    From article:

    BRUSSELS — A landmark transatlantic trade deal will not be approved by EU lawmakers after U.S. President Donald Trump hit European countries with new tariffs as part of his efforts to wrest control of Greenland from Denmark.

    Despite the calls from the European Parliament, it would be a decision for the European Commission to trigger the Anti-Coercion Instrument should Trump make good on his latest threat. This would then require the backing of a qualified majority of countries — which could prove difficult given the long-standing divisions among EU capitals over how far to go without further antagonizing Washington.

    Wikipedia link about the trade bazooka/Anti-Coercion Instrument:

    If the Council, acting by qualified majority, confirms that coercion is taking place, the Commission engages with the third country to seek a resolution, including through negotiations, mediation, or adjudication.[4] If those efforts fail, the EU may adopt "response measures" such as tariffs, restrictions on trade in goods and services, limits on access to public programmes and financial markets, or measures affecting intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment.[4][9] These restrictions can be targeted at states, companies, or individuals, thereby deploying EU legal authority as leverage. Through a "geo-legal" lens, then, this pattern of legal responses situates the ACI within a broader EU toolkit of counter-coercive instruments.

    12 votes

  16. Comment on European nations to send troops to Greenland as US annexation threats escalate | Several NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland in ~society

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    Germany, Sweden, France and Norway have all since confirmed they are sending military personnel to Greenland this week. Canada and France have also said they plan to open consulates in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, in the coming weeks.

    News of European deployments to Greenland came as Danish and Greenlandic officials met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance Wednesday, hours after Trump said on Truth Social “anything less” than US control of Greenland is “unacceptable.”

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Pluribus full season discussion in ~tv

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    There were some pretty clear faults with it but I still liked it a lot. 8/10. Also very happy I decided to wait until it had finished airing so that I could binge it - I highly doubt I would have...

    There were some pretty clear faults with it but I still liked it a lot. 8/10. Also very happy I decided to wait until it had finished airing so that I could binge it - I highly doubt I would have enjoyed it as much as I did if I watched it week to week. Yes there is something to be said for slower stuff and just vibing with it, and no it doesn't have to be action packed and dramatic all the time. Actually my favourite Breaking Bad episode is probably The Fly. And my favourite episode of this show was the one where she was by herself and driving around. Soaking the vibes of this show was great. However.. waiting a full week to week to week to see new reveals? Abiding by cliffhangers? Hell no. I am totally over that formula. Almost every show I watch, I will only watch once the whole season is out. This way it also allows me to immerse into it more. And if it's a less than great show, it'll be like oh it's over soon, I'll find out where the story went in no time - this prevents me from dropping shows too. Like Peacemaker season 2 I would probably have not finished were it not for being able to just watch the whole thing when I wanted. That shoddy story week by week? Just not good enough quality for that. Pluribus was good though, but yeah, definitely made better by being able to binge it: in my opinion, all shows are. The structures are so much like movies anyway.

  19. Comment on What’s a point that you think many people missed? in ~talk

  20. Comment on What’s a point that you think many people missed? in ~talk

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    Well yeah but like behind the fridge and such doesn't exactly matter that there's some dust where you never go.

    Well yeah but like behind the fridge and such doesn't exactly matter that there's some dust where you never go.

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