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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Is a "luxury studio" a real thing in NYC real estate or was this a joke? The term itself sounds absurd and oxymoronic to me, but also I know NYC housing is absurd and I can imagine that there are places that do nice interior finis
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
You can get medical care there. You just can't end the life of a baby, unless the mother's life is in danger.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Oh boy do I have good news for you - nobody is looking at you if you're not currently talking, and nobody is going to notice or care if you look down or have the "minutest reaction". People are primarily looking at the speake
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Or, it's just kinda and interesting story on it's own, no crazy conspiracy theories needed? When Bernie Madoff or Enron or any of the other major headline-grabbing frauds fell apart, the victims generally got back almost nothing.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that whole notion of these magical loans to avoid taxes is a made up internet conspiracy theory. A) Loans need to be paid back, with interest. The person must either be selling assets or drawing in other (taxed) income
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I think you've misunderstood the comment you're responding to. They're suggesting that to give the optimal assistance to those countries, the IQ of the current adult population needs to be considered as an important variable
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
This comment strikes me as unintentionally helpful in understanding the problem. "Gun violence" is of course factually a non-issue in America. Being scared of guns is like being scared of shark attacks or being struck by lightning
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> most of the content was total bullshit / pseudo-intellectual woo. At least you're getting supervised practical training in the internship If you're lucky enough to get an unusually good internship. Won't most of the
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
So he's a political prisoner. The political establishment doesn't want the proletariat having journalism that reports against the wishes of the powerful or of regular people having free speech to be used against the government. No
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> There’s an extremely toxic (and ironically very anti-scientific) culture of “study says it so it’s true” that permeates medical and scientific fields I have never witnessed this in real life. Every actual PhD and MD I've ever inte
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Race is such a weak proxy for privilege. A white kid from a trailer park in West Virginia with low-income, absentee parents is far less privileged than a black kid from Palo Alto with affluent, involved parents. Affirmative Action (or DEI,
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I studied this extensively during my phd. There is real evidence that the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats in the diet has measurable impacts to health outcomes. Unsaturated fats (those which contain carbon <-> carbon double bonds, ra
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
It's funny, because most of the people I know want the exact opposite. We want physical buttons and dials, not touchscreens. We don't want our location and driving data recorded and sent over the internet to their servers. We want
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
That's a very optimistic and charitable interpretation. It also might be that "its continued use in psychology suggests" that false information taught to university students can result in years of incorrect orthodoxy before t
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> due to the reckless speed at which we implemented the covid vaccines There was nothing "reckless" about the speed of the vaccine development. That's just a fear-based reactionary thing, with no basis in any sort of fact
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> State of Hawai'i, which is most authoritarian state, required vaccines or testing before flying in So your bar for "authoritarian state" is not wanting people with a highly infectious, airborne disease to vacation on a r
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> $2.5M is more than enough to retire on For a single, childless person who wants to live a lower-middle class lifestyle in a low cost of living area, sure. But if you want to live in a decent location, you're looking at needing at
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
There was a period of time (80s-90s) that the American middle class was booming and thriving. Boomers with stable but unfulfilling jobs regretted not following their dreams, and the future looked bright, so they told their millenial kids to
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> It's clearly operating directly against the interests of the group It's operating against the profit margin of the for-profit utility company. It's operating for the interests of the general public as a group, as distrib
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Keep in mind that the layoffs followed a period of massive hiring, and in many cases the companies still had more employees post-layoff than they had pre-hiring-spree. Unions would likely prevent this behavior (hire 10 then layoff 2) becaus
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Oy. I'll try to respond in good faith. >When Fox News started the lie you're repeating I don't watch Fox News, nor do I really consume any rightwing media that would repeat their messaging, so, I don't believe I'
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
You've highlighted a couple snippets of a quote, which taken out of context and interpreted through a cynical and paranoid lens, could be taken to mean "There won't be voting anymore after I'm elected". Of course, e
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
To a less casual observer like myself, early YouTube looked like a bastion of protection for fair use of copyrighted material. Sadly, the copyright cartel swiftly attacked and all the regular people lost their rights. It seems like the less
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Interestingly, when I was in school, we were taught that "he" could be used both for male or for gender-neutral usages. The shift to treating he/him/his as exclusively male seems to be a fairly recent phenomenon (last fe
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Have you ever given any serious consideration to the possibility that the podcasters and youtubers you've been listening to are in fact lying and manipulating their listeners for profit? When I get invested in a certain belief, I find
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
1) There are very serious long term side effects, people are just either unaware or value weight loss enough to tolerate/accept the risks and harms. 2) Your "aside" there is the whole thing though. Obesity drives a lot of cos
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Low taxes on gasoline. Approval of oil pipeline through Minnesota. Support for factory-farmed meat industry. Allowing agricultural pollution. Increased government spending on car-dependent infrastructure.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Thanks for the links! They were reasonably well-balanced, well-reasoned and well-sourced pieces of journalism. The profile on Walz was interesting. The overall assessment of "moderate" seems fairly reasonable, and the article did
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Nobody is asking you to write a 20 minute email with careful feedback. A templated rejection email sent from whatever tool you're using to manage resumes/interviews is fine. "Dear applicant, we have decided not to move forwar
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
:wave: Hey, the rest of the thread is over here. It looks like you moved the goalposts so far away you might be lost.

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