not OP, but according to some of those definitions (cambridge, collins, longman), NYC would be the only metropolis in the US, as it is the US’ largest, busiest, and most important city.

Giving people money to rise them out of poverty does buy happiness

Greedily accumulating wealth after you have enough money for anything you could have ever needed doesn’t

also, if a game relies in a complex physics engine, the physics simulations has to be done with a stable interval and FPS, which means it had to be decoupled from the rendering (which was not stable and depends on what you are drawing)

The diet that we evolved to consume (fruits, lean meats and fibrous plants) was much less damaging to our teeth than the current high-sugar, high-fat, highly processed foods. And human lifespans was shorter, so less time for teeth to damage. So there wasn’t a strong evolutionary need to regenerate them (unlike an animal like sharks)

But when you have dispensaries have large signs and even highway ads and pay taxes, it is not just “unenforced”, it is for all practical applications, legal

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

Even if people were thinking “i want to just harm someone in a way that they can still make a full recovery”, modern medicine also tells us much more about ptsd and other mental health issues that can happen from violence. So even if the while premise of “let’s get violent, they can heal” was true, it would still lead to less violence

94% of the population of China lives in east of the heihe-tengchong line, which means that for 94% of the population the timezone is at most 1 hour off of the “true” time, which is pretty normal.

if you don’t trust microsoft, why would you use windows at all?

that photo was almost definitely taken during covid, when going inside was not an option

I don’t think he ever was a great person, but social media also has the power to radicalize people. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or smart or anything, using too much social media exposes you to being radicalized, in any direction