AmidFuror

It’s important to stress the “full blown” modifier in any example.

It’s Cunningham’s Fallacy.

Not just HIV, but full blown AIDS?

What a silly thing to get hung up over.

What if you can’t afford the whole encyclopedia set and can only buy the sample volume?

And speaking of volcanoes, man are they a violent igneous rock formation!

One reason could be that most of the audience doesn’t want to watch them if it feels like what they’re doing is artificial or inauthentic.

Might be a terrible analogy, but since people cheat on video games, why don’t they have an esports league where aimbots, wallhacks, speedhacks, etc are all allowed? It might be a novelty for 2 minutes, but most people wouldn’t want to watch that. It isn’t how the games were meant to be played. It’s not that it’s cheating anymore if the rules allow it. It’s that it isn’t a good showcase for talent because it becomes about who bought the best cheats.

Because if you let one guy do it, you have to let everyone do it.

I recommend staying away from the island of Medici, although it has a great climate.

In addition to all the answers here, a costumer is someone who creates and/or sells costumes. The term is often used as a synonym for customer by people who don’t type/spell well.

Yep, it’s just semantics, then. We are not more advanced in the sense of biologically more capable than people thousands of years ago. A few hundred thousand, maybe. Since the split from chimps, I like to think so!

I don’t agree with how you seem to be defining “advanced.” You seem to be tying that to intelligence and resourcefulness, as opposed to culturally. I think most use it to talk about the sum of knowledge and technology that a civilization has.

While ancient cultures were able to learn a lot about the world around them, today we know what they knew and a shit ton more. They figured out how planets and stars move. We’ve figured out what they’re made of, how they bend space and time, their distances. We’ve landed machines on some and put them in orbit around others.

They had some cool medical tricks. We have many complex but routine surgeries with high survival rates due to development of drugs, equipment, and sterile environments.

They could write down their learnings to share with others of their culture. We have a global network of scientists sharing massive data sets and inferences.

Their innate capabilities were probably no different than our own, but we have massively advanced the scale and scope of learning shared with each generation. We have a much greater degree of specialized knowledge advancing and branching out at a very high rate.

“Thanks” is a short form of “Thank you.” Maybe it has developed a negative connotation for some because of “K, thanks, bye.” But for others it is like saying “morning” instead of “good morning.”

Have you ever done something that was difficult but you wanted to help someone out?

“No problem” implies to me that it was easy or simple. Regardless of difficulty, “you’re welcome” means you would do it again.

I guess it’s because people like the OP will scrutinize every word and associate some malicious intent to it.

If you had shit yourself looking at the prices you would have saved yourself $17-$40.

You’re thinking of mesophobioma.

That’s the fear of soy paste.

Not necessarily. The circumstances of the crime could mean you don’t have a viable defense even if innocent.

Flat Earth is silly. Some people take the stance to be funny or play devil’s advocate. Many seem to believe it along with other conspiracies.

From the beach or even several feet higher than the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, you can see the high rises on the island of Cozumel. You don’t see their bases or the land they are standing on. You just see parts of the buildings. It’s super obvious the earth is curved here. It’s one simple example of many that is accessible to anyone but conveniently ignored.

There are a shitton of simple or complex indicators that the world is roughly spherical. The “evidences” for the reverse are fringe or depend on deep conspiracies. You have to want to believe in the conspiracy or have very limited critical reasoning to think the earth is flat.

Thankfully we have people like you to tell him off for using the Internet wrong.