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by kaitai 6y ago
The camera crew was told where to stand by the police prior to the arrest.
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by kaitai 6y ago
You are more or less correct. The arresting officers were State Patrol; they're from all over but they're not from the community. I have protested in St. Paul and Minneapolis many times and in general SPPD have been decent at prot
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by kaitai 6y ago
Yep.
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People inside the gov't here are calling for an investigation because we actually think, in Minnesota, that we're "better than this". White people in Minnesota (and I am one) truly do think that we have less racism &
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by kaitai 6y ago
To folks saying "they're highly organized", listen to Walz's press conference -- they're not organized, the National Guard didn't get a plan so didn't go in, it's a series of excuses.
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by kaitai 6y ago
Yeah, not to pile on... but you're being downvoted because what you say is simply false.
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As someone from the Twin Cities, the opportunists here include white supremacists and outside agitators as well as local folks who took advantage of this loss of control. We had hockey riots too, & burned cars, in 2003 and 2014; no one
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by kaitai 6y ago
Dewatering won't take out the nasty vanilla flavor or the added 12 g of sugar. Moreover, some flavored types of yogurt contain cornstarch to add body, rather than the milk content one would like from a milk product. Plain yogurt truly
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by kaitai 6y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. It's easier to get a new job if you just spin it as a shift in business need & don't look like a troublemaker. Who wants to hire someone who'll think about what they're doing and p
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by kaitai 6y ago
Yeah, I'm already seeing reports from other sources that the Florida data is now harder to access -- data going missing or unavailable for download, site crashing [1]. That would tend to support her remarks. [1] https://www.
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by kaitai 6y ago
I actually agree with the beginning part of your comment, but then it makes much more sense to me that she was fired for political reasons. Pissing someone off or making them look bad is one of the few ways I see a fast firing happening in
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by kaitai 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. It's been interesting to see Uber's engagement with its other businesses (like freight): they've been running trucks at a loss for several years now, it seems, and folks have wondered how long this ca
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by kaitai 6y ago
Speaking of dissonant, as a woman it's always a bit difficult to figure out when "man" means "human" and when "man" means "not you, lady". "Men's room" = "not you, lady";
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by kaitai 6y ago
I always find it so interesting that a full-out flamewar is just fun, while a side comment about improving communication is "intrusive". This is the internet, my friend...
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Well, we'd have to have lots of politically uncomfortable conversations about what manhood is and what our economy is providing at the lower end, too. One reason for so many unwed mothers is that "having a kid" is certainly p
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by kaitai 6y ago
Employers should provide computers to employees who are WFH. It's the cost of doing business. Schools need to provide students with computers or computer access, as well; the coronavirus has certainly thrown a wrench into traditional d
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by kaitai 6y ago
I don't have telephone directories anymore, and I certainly don't have 200 lbs of them in easily graspable form... hand weights are fine but kettlebells are better than those, and neither is at all the same as a barbell.
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by kaitai 6y ago
A couple reasons: with the probable decline in numbers of students (particularly international students) I see furloughs and firings in the future at my former university. Pay cuts and furloughs are coming in my industry as well, but becaus
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by kaitai 6y ago
Compare it with equally dense neighbors, sure!
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by kaitai 6y ago
One can compare it to its immediate neighbors (Finland, Denmark, Norway) and get your order of magnitude right there. Norway: 206 deaths, population a bit over 5.8 million. Finland: 199 deaths, population a bit over 5 million. Sweden: 2,355
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by kaitai 6y ago
I taught master's courses in a mathematical topic for five years, running in-person and online courses in parallel. Online learners in my course were highly motivated, paying a sh&*-ton of money for a degree that could vault them i
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by kaitai 6y ago
I went to a poor school. 42 kids to some classes, not enough desks, couldn't bring the literally falling-apart history books home because we only had one classroom set of really old ones. Did full IB and went to Caltech and then got a
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by kaitai 6y ago
at some point in math you'll never use x for times/multiplication -- you'll always use a dot, unless you're specifically doing a cross product. And that is a good stage to reach. (I still have trouble using x for multipl
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by kaitai 7y ago
I've actually taken an essentially opposite view, interestingly enough. As a younger person I read widely, rebelled in a very thoughtful way against my religion (in my opinion! haha!), took things very seriously, tried to really unders
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by kaitai 7y ago
To everyone suddenly thinking about antibodies vs T-cells vs whatever else, the podcast "This Week In Virology" discusses some of the difficulties at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-602/ (discussion wit
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by kaitai 7y ago
Sweden has a substantially higher case fatality rate for COVID-19 compared to other industrialized nations, so it's an interesting case.
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In some sense, you're right -- Swedes are doing lots of things differently these days, and the reporting I've seen is broadly terrible and used to support various contentions. I'm most interested in the numbers. Sweden has tw
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by kaitai 7y ago
I'd like some evidence for this -- can you provide some? When it comes to wearing surgical masks, yes, hospital staff are to assume that everyone's got it because it's pretty annoying to get it from a guy who came in for toen
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by kaitai 7y ago
You do realize that, yes, "most [doctors] are not trained in doing controlled trials" because they have another job, the job of being a doctor? Running large RCTs takes time and a different sort of education. Source: married to a
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by kaitai 7y ago
Yep. The flaws of that system are becoming clearer and clearer, not that you'd see it from the responses you're getting. "If people can't pay for housing, they deserve to be homeless! If people can't pay for healthc

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