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Think that probably explains it. Slow news day, I suppose?

It could make sense very briefly if they arrived and saw a drunk lady by a car and assumed she’d been driving it. One would think this would be cleared up very quickly though…

They outcompeted it by being more contagious. They are, however, less virulent (ie, less nasty should you get it). There may be a trend where these two correlate but it’s very far from a rule.

This just seems like an explanation of the old idiom ‘aim for the moon’

? A guy risked his life and literally wrestled a bear to save his friend, and both are expected to make a full recovery. How is this not uplifting?

I’m struggling to imagine how you read this one sentence headline and think it isn’t. What could be a more stereotypically uplifting story?

More like desperate wrestling

“Yeah right, granddad”

*Bear Grylls grills bear.

Bear grills Bear Grylls.

Bear Grylls grills Bear Grylls’ bear.

Bare hands vs. bear paws

I mean, if someone said that, I’d indeed probably assume it was their coach

Right. It’s not even the most dangerous bear in the U.S. Globally hippos, tigers, some highly venomous snakes/spiders/jellyfish, extremely poisonous frogs and various living infectious agents and vectors would probably be up there too. And crocs, depending on what you’re doing at the time.

There’s a reason it’s usually the other way around. And fair to remember both these guys are college wrestlers. Sure, a grizzly is way stronger, but being 30% as strong with fighting experience gives one a hell of a better shot than being 10-15% as strong with far less, especially since it’s still taking on two people.

It’s a confusing expression for non-native speakers to get the negatives right

Why do you find this hard to believe? This is one of the most famous and genuinely performed swindles out there. You think that planting a rat from some bag is a limit that people might go to for a lot of money?

One simplistic way to think about it would be that while random chance has a lot to do with whether a molecule gets to the vicinty of a receptor, once it’s vaguely in the neighbourhood it isn’t all just random luck getting into perfect binding position: chemistry is ultimately electromagnetic, and opposite charges attract by a real force, so the more positive parts that want to bind to negative parts etc., so the right parts of the receptor and molecule will be attracted accordingly until they bind.

Everything in physics is trying to find a local optimum, and there are real forces guiding them to that optimum.

It's neither edgy nor original to point this out. The two are also not at remotely the same scale. No Western democracy brainwashes or represses dissidents the way Putin does, and if you think they're comparable you're on another fucking planet. Ciao.

Unfortunately, at least per the likes of Levada and other dissidents who do research into this sort of thing, somewhat over half of Russians fo seem to be generally brainwashed fans of his.

Ah at least you (indirectly) clarified which of the [one] countries in the world you meant in the main body…

A lot of people don’t realise how quickly the attitude to this word and its usage changed and come down on older folks for whom it was the kind, ‘technical’ term (and didn’t grow up with South Park…) too much like a tonne of bricks. But in this case the usage and intent are not nice at all…

The people who cross the 1 mile mark in a marathon first are also more likely to get from the 1 mile mark to the 2 mile mark fastest. The causes - buildup of tau proteins and/or whatnot - are probably developing faster in general.

One person may overturn the perception that it’s rare…?

‘Only’ is a bit simplistic: there were periods of oppression there too (like the Massacre or Granada in 1066, and there was always a level of discrimination against all non-Muslims (who were the majority) we’d find unacceptable by today’s standards.

It was far more tolerant of Jews than most of Europe, but the Middle Ages saw other periods and areas of relative religious tolerance, like Poland under Casimir the Great, which is why many Jews moved there (he also married a pagan Lithuanian princess, and was relatively enlightened for his time).

Similarly, Jews in the Byzantine Empire were mistreated by earlier emperors but from around 700 onwards they had a golden age of their own, until the Fourth Crusade brought more intolerant Frankish rule.

Most of the major countries of Christian Western Europe expelled the Jews at some point, and there were intermittent massacres, blood libel and discrimination across it. But Medieval Europe as a whole was a very large, diverse region over the course of a millennium.

Would agree if it were like other posts here where the context of bad news is new too, so the overall message of the article is tragic.

But in this case the whole world is already aware of the massive tragedy in Turkey and Syria. That’s presumed context, not what this article is adding to most people, just the rescue of the dog. Which is uplifting.

Imagine if there was a Bosnian (!)

2balkan4u meets rule 34

Yeah I remember a joke at school (in a developing country) that a good proportion of news stories are always about buses ‘plunging’ and the currency ‘plummeting’, and maybe they could switch it up to add some variation