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by djaque 6y ago
I have found an excellent resource [1] for data-driven policy that has been shown to reduce racism and abuse in police departments. I have written all of my local leaders who are up for election where they stand on each one of their ten po
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Yes, there are many data driven policy solutions that have been proposed. See for instance Campaign Zero [1]. [1] https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
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I'm sure it varied quite a bit depending on where you were. In the podcast, the interviewee talks about how in some major cities there was only one funeral home which would serve that population. Those places have now become the only
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A report which being widely disputed by professional medical examiners. George Floyd seemed to be alive and walking around before he had his airway closed off.
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Two things make this different: 1) There's record unemployment in the US and there's an active pandemic. People are unhappy and the country is a powder keg ready to go off. 2) The footage this time is especially graphic. You can
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George Floyd's murder is only the straw that broke the camel's back. This is now about decades of injustice and police officers that stand by silently and enable their peers to abuse and kill and get away with it. Protests have
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I had no idea that he died of AIDS and that was in the 90s. It's terrifying how recent it was that he would have received public backlash for contracting a disease during a surgery.
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It was worse than that. They laughed and made jokes while they did nothing [1]. [1] https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids
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Looking closer I found this [1] which is the guy the interviewee was speaking about. It looks like it was his ashes, not literally his corpse. I think it was referred to as his body in the podcast which is where I got it from, but I'
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I didn't understand the AIDS epidemic until I listened to a podcast [1] where they interviewed a gay survivor. I can't imagine my friends dying off one by one around me from an unknown specter. The government pretending you didn
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> I just wonder whether the WHO could have been repaired as-is But that's the thing. The WHO isn't perfect and I'm uncomfortable with how much power China has inside of the UN in general, but I don't understand why p
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President Trump has spent the past four years trying to cut funding to the NIH and congress has repeatedly overridden him. I would be shocked if that money went anywhere but the places he thinks will fire up his base of voters.
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> WHO is not a reliable global partner That's based off of what evidence? When I search for "WHO corruption" I only find conspiracy theory youTube videos and far-right leaning publications that have a leg in that race. Be
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I don't think anyone was arguing that Trump was someone that "thinks these things through"
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All of this because Twitter (a private company) had the gall to tag a misleading statement and threat of violence on their own platform. With multiple racially related killings of black Americans in so many weeks, it is ridiculous that cons
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Woops, that's my fault for reading too quickly. After going over it a couple of more times I agree that your reading is probably more inline with what they meant. In fairness, they're kind of missing a few verbs there and that a
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All because of a private company tagging misinformation designed to disenfranchise voters on their own platform. Here's the actual EO because of the paywall: https://kateklonick.com/wp-content/uploads/2020&#x2
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Hahahaha... I guess that's one way to put it.
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I'm a physicist and I cringed hard when the HEP people in my department started pushing out arXiv papers about covid-19. I see this a lot in CS too. It's easy for people in these more abstract fields to look at another problem s
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That's a really interesting idea that cosmic rays caused the chiral asymmetry. Any biologists want to chime in on how this fits in with other ideas on the problem?
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Hahahaha.... I just made it through the article and was trying to figure out the weird taste it left in my mouth. You just named it perfectly.
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I have such a love-hate relationship with latex. It gets the job done and does it well, but there's so much overhead and the syntax is pretty out of date. I wish there was something that bridged the gap between the ease of markdown a
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I also feel trapped between two bad choices. My point wasn't that the political left is a shining example of purity. It was that the corruption of the current administration so far exceeds anything that came before that saying "
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"badly biased" is the author's way of saying that the articles he finds don't agree with his far-right view point. The current politicization of what is fact and what is fiction by the current administration in the US d
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> I speculate that previous administrations have been just as corrupt, but much better at hiding it. This is just the perennial "both sides" argument and I don't buy it. The excuse is that "everybody does it and so w
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The short answer is that you can put it on a breadboard, but it will require attention be paid to the first op-amp circuit. The first op-amp is used as a charge amplifier. A high energy charged particle will deposit a charge Q on un-ground
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It's amazing how accessible some of these detectors can be. I wonder if you could perform some of the classic physics lab experiments with them like muon lifetime measurement.
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Whelp... I'm 0/2 for my senators. Here is my letter BTW, feel free to copy it and use it to get in contact with your reps. Look up their votes here [1]. Dear Representative $NAY_VOTER, I'm writing you to express my disappoi
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Just a reminder that if you're upset about this, politics is an active process. I'm going to look up my senator's votes right now and send them an email if they were one of the nay votes.

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