Like i am still not fully convinced i understand what the "global south" consists of, i am fairly certain academic people i spoke to had an understanding but don't think the average online vitizen who uses it has any clue

My vague understanding is that it means, in an argument, giving your opposition an excuse for *why* they can change their mind without admitting they were wrong before (ie offer a way to give themselves permission, like, "you *were* right based on the data at the time, but there's new data")

As with any issue a complex understanding of scope-1, scope-2, and scope-3 water consumption, vs water withdrawal is being compressed into a simple to understand number. So much so that the simple to understand message is far too simplistic.

I have returned from my trip to Denmark with a deeper understanding of the country's water/wastewater industry and a case of COVID. This photo was perhaps one of the most iconic Danish sights I experienced...

I'm a Pokemon outsider who developed an intense disdain for the franchise after watching the idiotic cartoon in the late 1990s ("Pika Pika! Pika-a-choo! Just twenty bucks at Toys 'R Us!"), but my understanding is that Nexomon delivers the classic feel absent from modern Pokemon games.

“It is our understanding that Bluesky in its current state is largely a social media platform for people who have a problem with authority.”

Humans adopted #dog talk speech patterns for better understanding between species. "Who's a good boy? Ohh what a big stretch!"

'Who's a good boy?' Humans use dog-specific voices for better canine comprehension

The voice people use to address their dogs isn't just because of their big puppy eyes. Humans slow their own speech when talking to their dogs, and this slower tempo matches their pets' receptive abil...

Understanding the Death Project will lead to the horrors consuming you, but also insulating you

Those that are feeling horrified, anxious, and afraid do not understand the Death Project. Understanding means living with horror omnipresent, a thin layer of it coated on the inside of your skull, it means microdosing fear and impotent rage every day, every second.

An unredacted lawsuit contains damning passages from Snap employees complaining that the company's content moderation flow for removing child predators is totally broken www.platformer.news/snap-new-mex...