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Texas and Florida deaths per day are under 100
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I don’t have a source to link because I’m feeling lazy, but I do recall hearing today from the CDC director that there’s some preliminary evidence that vaccinated people don’t transmit the virus basically at all
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Side hustles can also turn into a new job. What starts as a small YouTube channel can become 2x your annual salary with a fraction of the effort. A side project could turn into a full fledged business. While obviously uncommon with side pro
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This made me laugh. I read an article by some educated professor backing the doomsday argument and the logic of it just feels like an abuse of our implicit understanding of logic rather than actual logic, like those puzzle stories that soun
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My qualm with this is thinking is that it supposes the gender role binary is created then reinforced, rather than emergent and reinforced. The key difference being the conclusion: is the gender role binary reinforced by oppressing individua
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The fallacy comes from forgetting these are people. “Surely theres 1 in 10,000 who want this” is wishful thinking, “There exists a type of person who wants this, and I can point to them, but they happen to be a small segment of the populati
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I wonder what this correlation looked like 150 years ago, when most colleges were religious too (including the Ivy League). Did the educated end up more religious? More likely to attend church? If so, that’d add credence to the argument tha
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I agree. The problem is that if this is undeserving news coverage of a nonnewsworthy accomplishment, it’s misinformation and has all the problems and baggage associated. It’s incorrect info pushed as truth, in connotation or definition, and
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I wonder why this is such a prominent focus on our society. I was watching Gothika the other day, and at one point Halle Berry walks into a public shower nude and my partner’s immediate reaction was “wow Halle Berry and her unrealistic body
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I think their point is: is this getting coverage because it’s actually novel and impressive, or is this relative simple but getting attention because of her race/gender? In other words: Is the coverage a good signal for whether one sho
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I’ve heard the argument on the right that the fairness doctrine was in name only, as in it gave the news media monopolistic power while they showed a skewed perspective of what the other side actually believed. Consequently, Rush Limbaugh g
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Sure, and at this same time Europe still hadn’t, Nancy Pelosi was telling everyone to come party with her in SF Chinatown, Biden was still running campaign events, and the CDC was saying masks are ineffective. Most people didn’t realize how
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Why? Out of malice and ignorance? No other country in the world ramped up masks immediately. People put too much stock in the presidency, a position held for 8 years max, and too little stock in the massive systems decades, or hundreds+ yea
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New infections isn’t the metric people care about - if young people get sick then there’s little harm. The metric is deaths, and MA is trending with its lowest new deaths from covid since nearly the beginning of the pandemic
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There’s an economic concept called “psychic profits”, and it encapsulates exactly those non monetary gains one gets from volunteering like power, recognition, respect, status, and so on
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I don’t remember where I heard it but I recall some stat that child sexual abuse reports are just as common in public schools as they are in religious organizations
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The problem I have with this thinking is: why do you stop at covid then? Isn’t deciding the national budget, or when to go to war, or public policy just as difficult an assessment and the public just as incapable of making it? The president
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I mean, that’s life? Sure, doubling my money in every investment is great, but unrealistic. Plenty of strategies work as long as every does it and everything works perfectly. The problem is finding a strategy that works in the real world. L
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I think we’re getting in the weeds here and more philosophical than necessary. The frustration in this thread is because actual royalty with a trust fund is receiving an executive position most feel he isn’t deserving of on his merits. We c
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I think the distinction is his worth vs the worth of his happenstance connections. It’s not like he built that Rolodex from his own accomplishments, hard worker, and providing value to others, he just got it by the luck of being born in the
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I’d be very surprised if Elon consistently works more than 60 hours a week, and pretty surprised if it was more than 50. It’d be a waste of his position and talent if he did. He has the capital and influence to have others do almost all oth
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Compared to the video of the beta, the results may be the same
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Maybe Tesla should follow the “mock it til you make it” pattern with a lot of these AI companies: just hire a bunch of gig workers to sit in simulators driving your car remotely using the cameras and sensors themselves. Have the model learn
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My response to this is: why should anyone care? Write a book about whatever you want. If people want a “more authentic rendition” then read the story by the Mexican American immigrant author. If the white author has a flair to the story you
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I think more lines need to be drawn here. The claim is "did he say it" and the answer is "yes". If they wanted to fact check whether "Biden said he didn't care about young people in a disparaging way", tha
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You either don’t understand human nature and economic incentives or you don’t care. You’re either ignorant or authoritarian.
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I think the same could be said in reverse: if this change is truly so small and insignificant, why was it done in the first place? The frustration is at the paternalistic and placating nature of it - really, Github did their part by renamin
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By what measure? I’d argue that the majority of countries in the world are “less tolerant on average” than France, and the vast majority of societies in human history have been less tolerant than modern France. Thus, France is actually incr
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An awesome take away from the comment you replied to may be: why call it white privilege? It’s seems better to call it majority privilege. It’s more accurate, more general, less inflammatory, less targeted, less convoluted. It seems better
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I think you’re overfitting history with your current perspective. It’s so limiting, and mostly a recent phenomenon, to look at the past and politics as just “deciding where the power goes”. Most humans even in the US today don’t care except

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