julianapostate

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by julianapostate 6y ago
That’s 1% not the 10% from the original comment
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by julianapostate 6y ago
Everyone’s political signaling detector had its sensitivity cranked up.
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by julianapostate 6y ago
Nowaday political views are a lifestyle.
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by julianapostate 6y ago
See! Even the definition of a centrist is political!
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by julianapostate 6y ago
>School performance is affected by budget, which is paid via taxation, as well as resources available from the parents' contributions. Thats probably 10% of it. The socioecomic status and drive of the parents is probably 75% of it.
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by julianapostate 6y ago
Tim Berners-lee should have stopped to consider the potential for dark web criminality before he developed the internet.
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by julianapostate 6y ago
how would one, in good faith, cite a self-survey of people committing unemployment insurance fraud. people get laid off and are making ok money are likely not going to try as hard to find a new job.
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by julianapostate 6y ago
Liberals complain about the cotton piece and the editor resigns 4 days later. Scott Alexander deletes his blog and NYT has pretended nothing happened.
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by julianapostate 6y ago
im curious how either of those links prove anything, the first seems like a smart rite of passage and the second is meaningless without context... you can generally find familial Sexual Abuse in any part of the world.
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by julianapostate 7y ago
> The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now No it doesnt. the article's proof is about 8 links (half of which come from the nytimes itself). 8 links on whole internet suggestin
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by julianapostate 7y ago
by that logic you should also give that pass to beer and cigarettes, as they are comparably addictive and unhealthy. I think it's more cruel to have no standards for expecting responsible eating and spending as it only leads to more su
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by julianapostate 7y ago
so wait i thought wetlands were super special and important?.. but apparently we got rid of 99% all the ones in the bay area 100 years ago with no ecological catastrophe to attribute to it?
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by julianapostate 7y ago
fyi for anyone curious on that source.. those numbers come from america's largest labor union and professional interest group for public school teachers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Education_Associati
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by julianapostate 7y ago
does she work summers too? winter break, spring break?
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by julianapostate 7y ago
the article points out that even foods that you might not consider hyper-palatable but are processed, like sausage still seem to follow the pattern.
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by julianapostate 7y ago
the point isnt that he's not exceptional, the point is he's not frontpage news exceptional.