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by syops 5y ago
My statement was, with few exceptions.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/why-students-foot-the-...
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From the linked opinion piece below [1]: A recent N.C.A.A. study determined that only about 20 of the 1,000 or so college sports programs in the nation were profitable. The 30 largest universities in the country each routinely generate a
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With regard to your last paragraph. I believe it is the amount of money that is the corrupting influence. It's not college athletics per se but rather the massive amount of money spent on certain sports that generates problems. The
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Schools are not making fortunes off of college football. With few exceptions football programs do not pay for themselves with their revenue. I haven't looked into it but I doubt any football program paid for the stadium they use so I
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Thank you for the link to the Pew research. Here’s my response to the claims of the research and this response is solely based off of my observations and clearly my observations could have led me astray. In 1980 anyone claiming Jimmy Carte
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Instead of comparing the murder rate to the entire U.S. it’s more telling to compare Newark’s current murder rate to it’s historic rate [1]. In 2019 it was at a 6 decade minimum. https://abc7ny.com/newark-crime-rate-murders
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The buyer does not pay for the costs of using real estate agents in upfront money. They pay the cost of using agents by paying a higher price for the property, all other things being equal, if no agents are used.
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by syops 6y ago
What kind of society do you want to live in? One where children’s attention can be exploited at the whim of corporations because they happen to have parents that aren’t vigilant enough? Shouldn’t society in the form of it’s government loo
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by syops 6y ago
Perhaps you missed this sentence: Those nations are threats to various interests of ours and some pose economic threats to our position and interests. It’s not always described as the U.S. imposing it’s will. The U.S. seeks to impose it’
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None of those nations are military threats to the United States in the sense that they can realistically threaten an invasion or takeover of the United States. Those nations are threats to various interests of ours and some pose economic t
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Then why use MSM instead of just “mass media” or instead of just saying, “verify sources to the extent possible”? My claim is that Facebook has far more power to do damage than the sources you’ve stated.
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So the last sentence I made is false. The rest is correct, right?
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You apply the term MSM and thus must have a notion of what constitutes the MSM, right? So which media sources don't count as MSM? If you can't name such sources then why use MSM instead of "mass media"?
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I was using the first order Peano axioms in my comment. I'm not familiar with the Dedekind axiomatization. Didn't even know such a thing existed but the statement I made holds I believe. The standard model under the first order
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So who are the non-MSM in your opinion? Facebook is more than merely and aggregator. They know how to keep peoples' eyes glued to them. They know what stories/narratives will push your buttons so to speak.
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Who do you consider to be non-MSM? Facebook has been around at scale for a short period of time so the total amount of harm it has done so far won’t compare to propaganda done by others but this should not detract from worry/blame&#x2F
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Assume consistency. Take the collections of all true statements about the standard model of the natural numbers and make these statements your axioms. Now every true statement about the standard model of the natural numbers is provable. I
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Gödel showed that a consistent, recursively enumerable axiomatic system capable of producing the standard model of natural numbers will have statements in which that statement is true in some models but not in other models.
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None of this is germane to the legality of his treatment by the police. I’m not a doctor but from the ones I’ve spoken to they are highly skeptical that his death was caused by anything other than from having a knee on his neck for more th
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by syops 6y ago
My post was directed to your statement that no matter what the police chief should have his officers’ backs. You did not write anything to address the question I asked nor did you address the point raised about the widespread use of extra
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Shouldn’t we expect police officers and their leaders to value justice and the truth over having officers’ backs? The widespread use of extra judicial punishments with impunity by police in the United States is a serious problem and as far
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I think how arguments are framed matter. It’s one thing to say, “If A happens then this means scary scenario B will happen.” And another to say, “If A happens then we need to be vigilant that B doesn’t result as a consequence.” The proble
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Yes, they fought a war with the Soviet Union but the country didn’t suffer the sort of devastation Nazi occupied Soviet territory did. Finland’s experience since 1918 is sufficiently different than Russia’s that I don’t think one can concl
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I did not know about this. Thank you for the correction. I think the rest of my point stands. I hope!
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Finland was not nearly as traumatized by the war as the Soviet Union was. Finland did not fight a brutal civil war. Finland didn't have U.S., and British forces trying to subvert it's government during a civil war. Finland is m
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From 1919 to 1959 the Soviet Union fought a civil war, a world war in which they bore the brunt of the fighting in the European theater, faced famine, and purges and also managed to be the first to put a man in orbit. Tragedy and triumph a
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It's hard to claim that this can only happen in a magical world when there are numerous examples of universal healthcare that provide better outcomes with lower costs.
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The factors might not go away. It depends on how the reform is done. To say that they won't go away is incorrect. You don't know this. As with all reforms, they can be done well or poorly.
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The fallacy of the slippery slope is not a fallacy because the slope can't ever come to fruition. It's a fallacy because the scary scenario is always a possibility even if the status quo remains. The slippery slope is a fallacy
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I can't comprehend how someone can believe in a flat Earth or that vaccines cause autism but I'm knowledgeable enough about those issues to emphatically state that such people are stupid or willfully ignorant. With regard to gover

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