@metr0politics I think the thing I don’t get is, what does their argument have to do with the actual original claim, which is that the US l—as a prospective tourist destination or physical geographic location—has no history.
@usedacidtab@LadyEphemeral@Aerodronee The more obvious conclusion is very few people working there work full time, and it’s just one of many gigs they pick up between online content, dancing, modeling, or other jobs
Cat parents will hear a very specific “mrrrp” and instantly translate it into full instructions like “Oh, okay, you want the heating pad on, understood.”
@suchnerve Yeah it appears that the retracted study accidentally counted couples that stopped responding as divorces, so the actual rate is about 20%, which is still disturbingly high but not quite as catastrophic
@4Wvz7gq0CE5G6xV@BrainDamageReal Much like how every subsequent Flanders appearance has him do new insane things loosely justified by him having been Christian in the early episodes, yeah
@4Wvz7gq0CE5G6xV@BrainDamageReal But the five billion different things are based on hyperbolic escalation of the core premise in a way that undermines its functional utility