Some features, such as melanin levels, are due to evolutionary pressures. High levels of melanin protect you from the sun, lower levels of melanin boost your vitamin D production.

Other features are just random. Over time, human populations were affected by random changes that weren’t exactly useful but not detremental either. They’re called sprandels. According to a quick Google search, blue eyes don’t seem to have any advantages, but not really any major disadvantages either, so that would be an example of that.

I’ve had both H450 and HD458, had the same issue on both of them, though as you note only on one side. Apart from that and them repeating “connection lost” forever, they are great headphones.

Sennheiser noise canceling over the ear headphones are comfortable enough to sleep in even if you’re a side sleeper

Hard disagree. If you accidentally cover the mic in the right way, you’ll be greeted by a loud, high-pitch feedback noise that will violently wake you up.

as cheap as it gets in my area

That’s not a very good approach to assess prices

Neither my phone internet nor my home internet has a GB limit. The phone internet costs 25€ a month, and home internet 30€.

You subscribe to communities, which are hosted on different servers. Upvotes and downvotes are what they are. AFAIK there is no karma counting here.

No and I don’t have any intentions to. It being a company means it has or it will have ads, and I have no interest in seeing more ads that I already have to.

University bureaucracy

Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 becoming retro consoles

They can be fucking annoying. Like we get it, you sit down and think you’re somehow superior for being different. Otherwise I take no issue with them.

Greetings from Sweden, here shared washing machines are really common and generally not disguisting at all.

There are also solutions to people behaving badly in apartment buildings. Unfortunate if nothing was done at yours, but it’s definitely not an impossible problem to solve.

Wouldn’t it be just a lot easier to prevent them from selling it in the first place

Microblogging is definitely useful for many things, short and quick thoughts, links to news articles, jokes, memes etc. You can also comment and share things easily. Microblogging actually resembles instant messaging in a lot of ways, just with an undefined ’group chat’ size.

I find it kinda funny that Twitter has become so toxic that people start thinking there must be something wrong with the format.

Also RSS clearly can’t replicate a big chunk of the desirable properties of microblogging (eg. easy sharing and commenting).

Oh so they are not new users coming in? Well that paints a pretty different picture then

You talk as if you don’t understand how plots work. If the change looks like a 90% drop, that’s how it’s going to be perceived.

Moreover, if you do start from 0 you instinctively see the 5% drop, and can make the conclusion that it’s big or small yourself. If you don’t do that, you need to calculate numbers. People don’t do that. They see line go down, and get the impression from that.

Any drop would look the same on the initial plot. 5%, drop 50% drop, 0.005% drop. The ’start your y axis at 0’ rule has a lot of exeptions, but this is not one of them. In fact, it’s the quintessential example of lying with a plot.

If you want to see the actual values for each timestep, there are better tools for that. Such as a table.

Explaining all of this feels bizarre. You are de facto trolling by this weird contrarianism.

Are you trolling or just very fucking dense

If you start at 0, you see exactly what you’re supposed to: there is a rather negligible trend in the given timeframe.

That’s the point. The number of users has very slightly declined in the past few months. Under the original plot, you have a lot of people (rightly) misinterpreting the data, and saying that a lot of users are leaving the site.

That’s why you start at 0. So that people interpret the data correctly.

Let’s put that to a test

The same plot with a more reasonable y-axis:

Active users (monthly is what you should be looking at) is very slowly declining, however we are still above the level that we were before the most recent influx.

If you start the plot at 0, you can distinguish between a strong trend, a weak trend and a lack of a trend. This one is terrible for gauging that.