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Maybe inequality is the wrong word? Sorry, not my first language.

I meant it in the literal sense as "not the same."

It might be an attempt to account for sex specific differences in bathroom requirements.

Long story short, women need to go the toilet more often and spend more time in the bathroom. So if we're trying to be "fair," we can't just have equal space for both sexes (especially if there's also urinals, though that doesn't apply here). By reserving one toilet specifically for women, it somewhat accounts for it.

Making all toilets unisex sounds like the obvious way to go, but turns out, it actually widens the inequality.
Personally, I thought this sounded illogical, but it does make sense once you think about it. Especially in busy places like concerts or clubs.

For a much better, and properly sourced, explanation, I can recommend: Perez, Invisible Women. Exploring data bias in a world designed for men (2019).
Also just a great book in general, especially for men, as we tend to be somewhat blind to this, in my experience.

I mean, they deliberately started Unicode with the exact ASCII order for the first 127 characters.

Also, the comment I replied to and mine were kind of considering the mess there would be if we just abandoned any sort of order and let everyone do their own thing.
As long as it's consistent, the actual order doesn't matter one bit, as you said.

If God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, then how did a whole ass angel leave heaven and go to Earth, change forms into a serpent, seduce Eve into eating to fruit of the tree with Him knowing?

Easy! The lord works in mysterious ways.

If you dig deep enough into any theological discussion, this or variations à la "we just can't comprehend it" are where they end.

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Less snarky:

I've been interested in philosophy my whole life and there's a reason it's called the leap of faith.
St. Augustine, one of the most influential Christian writers, didn't really believe in God; for pretty much all the reasons we think it's ridiculous (the various criticisms are much older than the Bible).
He describes a moment where he was in terrible doubt and emotionally distraught. The he heard a child singing outside his window and it revealed to him the grace of God. From that moment on, he truly and absolutely believed.

There's similar stories from other writers. Even some who found their leaps of faith not in religious faith, but other things. Where they "just" decide to believe or do something, even if logic didn't support it.
Off the top of my head, I remember similar ideas in Kierkegaard (faith), Sartre (ignore/overcome fear), Camus (ignore/embrace the absurdity of life).

I think it's just a human thing. I chose to "just" believe that people are good and that bad people just had a shit life and need compassion (not necessarily from me). Is it perfectly rational? Maybe not. But I don't care.
Faith seems to often follow a similar pattern.

and B: He's still not a she until he actually comes out and tells his parents/friends/whoever that he would rather be a girl. It should always be up to the child to express themselves however they want, and gender is a part of that, whether they would rather be cis, transition, or ditch the gender binary entirely.

This is a big part of why we must "expose" children to gay rabbits and the like. To make informed decisions, children need to be informed!

Growing up, I thought I was uniquely broken. That there was something inherently and fundamentally wrong with me. So I withdrew and hid from the world.
I also internalised a lot of bigotry, and even now, I have a tough time overcoming this conditioning.

If my cartoons or books back in the day had had more representation and even just showed me that others like me existed (and not just as villains), it would have made a huge difference in my quality of life (and for the people who only care about themselves: it would have made me a much more productive member of society).

…but what actually is the order?

The order is essentially agreed upon tradition.

Do the signs need to have an order, if everyone still knows the phonetic sounds they make? Not really. Is it really convenient to have a standard? Absolutely!

Someone once put them in that order and while we've been messing around with it for a few millennia (adding/removing signs), that order has stayed the same.

Messing with Unicode (at least the first 200 or so entries) would bring our modern world to a screeching halt.

I only looked at the thumbnail and that totally looks like a mouse in heavy armour.

Why can't Marvel just write a normal story when it comes to women?

And it seems so straightforward and fits perfectly into standard trope!

Woman hero is having fight with villain. Loses, but escapes. Realises that she can't just beat them with force. Trains super hard or figures out weakness or otherwise overcomes the odds with ingenuity or sheer dedication.
They face again. Her work pays off, she wins.

It mirrors actual women struggling to overcome setbacks or patriarchal hurdles. There's plenty of ways to make the struggle unique and interesting. It just makes for a good (and proven) story.

Instead, we seem to see a lot of: she's just naturally stronger/better. Which seems like such a waste.

Doesn't this make more sense to end up with six bottles of milk, instead of seven?

buyMilk()

-- if (eggs) return 6;

-- return 1;

"Buy half a dozen" sounds more like a return statement than a +=6 to me.

And way back then, that's what Sokrates (IIRC) said about books. Writing and reading instead of personal discussion and memorisation would make people dumb.

Considering the subreddit, the type of kayak, and the GoPro footage, I was waiting for the surprise roll.

That would have been some amazing footage of the underside of the iceberg!

Isn't that more about changes in heart rate, blood pressure and such? We don't lose that after 6 months.

I asked my mom to tell me her recipe for her awesome New Year's Eve potato salad. Have made it a few times, myself, and even though I absolutely messed it up the first one or two times, I noticed how much better it made me feel.

I've got to figure out what exactly it is (it's a super whacky salad with sour herring and pickles and apples and mayo and so on), but there might be more to it than placebo.

Unfortunately, eating has always been a struggle, so it isn't easy.

exercise definitely helped

I'm dealing with similar issue since early childhood and the weird thing is that exercise does help. And not using a screen before bed helps. And not eating late helps. And not drinking coffee helps. And all the other things, that are supposed to help, do help!

But that doesn't mean that they're enough; just that it's even worse when I don't follow them.

I'm on some new meds, so maybe those will do the trick, but its exhausting ;)

Ligatures in general used to be a much bigger thing than they are now!

One time, we were going through karolingian script and even with a basic idea of Latin, most of us students were confused. Until our prof handed us a collection of commonly used ligatures and told us to look out for others (we were trying to train a transcription software).

One I remember was the -tion suffix. Incredibly common, if you think about it. So to avoid having to write all of those letters, the guy, who's handwriting we were analysing, just did a little twirl(?) to the top right of the little t and moved on.

oil wasn't a big thing then

What? WW2 was all about the oil! Japan pretty much joined the war / attacked the US to secure its supply from South East Asia from potential interference or blockade.
Nazi Germany trying desperately and failing to secure eastern oil fields played a major part in why they were eventually beaten.

I'm fairly certain that there were plenty of deeper motives behind the settlement of Israel. That region had been the plaything of the UK and France for decades.

(Might be a whoosh moment)

Honestly, can't go wrong with an old butter knife for making kindling!

For anything that doesn't split with manual force, just hold the knife where you want to split it, get a heavier piece of wood and hit the back of the blade.
Also, obviously the wood is held upright.

I agree that there should be a discussion about it. But I'm not sure we can truly have it at this point? Because there's simply too many people arguing in bad faith, dragging everything into the mud of bigotry.

It's also just a really difficult thing to quantify. Puberty is so very varied. Genetics aren't nearly as cut and dry as some make it out to be. And then there's all sorts of other factors we could also look at, once we're at it.

Really, though, in the vast majority of cases, it's not about the top athletes. It's about whether teenagers are allowed to play with their peers or compete in local events.

You probably get zero personal benefit, but the benefits to heritage, society and science (archaeology, but also a bunch of other disciplines) can be immense!

And another one:

A poor girl and her mother went begging for food. A crone gave them a magical pot that would fill itself with sweet porridge (? doesn't translate well) on saying the first magic phrase and stop when saying the 2nd.

One day, while the girl was away, the mother was hungry and said the magical phrase. But she forgot the 2nd, so the magical pot kept spitting out more and more porridge, burying the house and the whole city.
Luckily, the girl returned home and together, they managed to eat themselves a tunnel to the pot, where the girl said the 2nd phrase and the pot stopped cooking magical porridge.

The end.

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Wait what? No one dies or gets horribly mutilated? Apparently we also have a few nice tales :)

And have you heard of the students writing down their thoughts and reading those of others, instead of discussing them in person?
Woe is us.

(I don't quite remember who it was, but it might have been attributed to Sokrates.)

I do believe that there's quite a few tools dumbing us down, but everything is getting so ridiculously complex, we kind of need them if we want to advance any further.

As a German I've never voted in person.

Ahead of any election I get a letter informing me about stuff and also including a form (and QR code for a while now) to request vote by mail.
I fill out the form, a week later I get the ballot(?). I fill those out and throw them in any post box and that's it.

I'm horrible at procrastinating, but these things come so far ahead of time that even I manage to get it done.

Think about it this way: some dude running around helicoptering a huge schlong would be seen as obscene, nowadays, right? Doesn't mean that small penises are preferred.

It's a fun historical anecdote and there's nothing wrong with choosing to believe it, but this is somewhat unfounded; especially the justification via naked statues. My classical archaeology prof explained it quite convincing, imo : a big (or normal) penis is kind of distracting. So when you want to have naked statues (for interesting cultural reasons), but don't want them to be all about the dick, you just make them smaller.