The Military Selective Service Act was passed in 1948 and used during both the Korean and Vietnam Wars to draft 1,529,539 and 1,857,304 individuals, rezpectively.

Not discounting knowledge decay, but fwiw it could be interpreted as the poorly-scoring teenagers who become adults lowering the average, which builds up year by year as their portion of adults steadily increases and the higher-scoring adults die off, rather than the individual adults scoring lower every year. Could totally be existing adults continuing to score lower as years pass, though.

Haven’t looked into the study, just adding my two cents on the graphic.

It’s the flag of Israel, specifically. He had ties to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Israeli intelligence services; apparently Mossad was involved in his island’s security and supposedly alleged that he worked closely with them. He also funded the IDF through the US nonprofit Friends of the Israeli Defense Force and other settler efforts through the Jewish National Fund. Calling out Israel is not antisemitic; Israel is a state, not a religion or ethnicity.

Yes, no, QWERTY; I use the F and J nubs to center my hands but I dont’t keep them in the “correct position” as was taught in my elementary typing class. Regular computer use lends itself to getting good at typing quickly. I only have to look for some special characters that I don’t often use.

Literary RPG; novel with RPG elements like classes, levels, stats, skills, etc. with a focus on progression. Can be considered a subgenre of gamelit, which is any story in a game-like world.

Not sure about why the author and artist went for that cover, aside from the obvious of the guy holding what is presumably the eponymous staff.

I tried starting an audio call (had a telephone icon) yesterday but it turned on my webcam without prompting. Didn’t see a setting for it not to do that, and that’s a wild default.

iirc in D&D if any of your stats reach 0 you die. Might be only body stats (str/dex/con), not sure.