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[augusttulips @AugustTulips]

If your (and everyone else's) goal is avoiding any death at all, then the button is a coordination problem. Your goal is to, without communicating with your team, either land in the 50+% blue zone or the 100% red zone. The choice is obvious.

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@RAVerBruggen How much of this is just "dysfunctional families are bad, and divorces often happen in dysfunctional families?" If divorces make a bad situation less bad, this study would have the same result but divorces themselves would be good.

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@nosilverv Can you share a link to the paper? I wanna read it and shove it at my friends' faces.

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@SenatorLuma Tariffs and protectionism was Bernie's schtick since 2016. He's not going to change his views just because the worst person he knows is doing them.

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@GaryWinslett Unfortunately she's part of the leftist wing that carried water for the idea of tariffs and protectionism; she'd have to admit she was wrong about tariffs in the past to criticize this.

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@kentookal @LittleMammith "Firms like Blackstone" own around 3.8% of US single family homes. https://t.co/hM6MDmc6z6

[augusttulips @AugustTulips]

@CartoonsHateHer At 30-50, the kindest are hidden in happy stable friend groups with good partners. The cruelest are dating around, hopping from group to group, and generally being a visible menace. At 20s, the kind and the cruel commingle in public and produce a balanced view.

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@adambravomusic @NickyFrank30 I want both. I would like a blitz of pro-immigration propaganda, but also I'd like the Democrats to tactically abandon immigration until the propaganda works and the people agree that it's good.

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@DongyJammin I'm a progressive, but I'm aware of how easily I could've fell down the same hole. Please, I really hope you can make an effort to imagine an experience different from your own, then imagine how it could've led you down a similar path.

[augusttulips @AugustTulips]

Unfortunately, the most normal, socially pleasant Democrats were the quietest about politics. They shouldn't be, because the only mental association with Democrats I could make was otherwise unpleasant.

[augusttulips @AugustTulips]

The idea that "woke" hurt Kamala wasn't about Kamala herself or her policies. It's about her followers, which was mostly out of her hands. Some of our disgust with Trump comes from hearing his worst followers. Trump voters do the same with Kamala's followers.

[augusttulips @AugustTulips]

I personally liked Kamala and her policies, and voted based on that. But whenever I encountered the loudest people in that camp, they would be policing language, making extreme leftist arguments, and generally be socially unpleasant.

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@KyleKulinski Democratic leaders didn't, but unfortunately various Democratic aligned groups were championing this and Democrats were tarred with the same brush. Democrats couldn't afford to disavow them, but just the appearance of being aligned with them hurt.

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@UrbanismAvenger @DrewPavlou FT is pretty reliable; their audience has a bigger appetite for reality (since they use it to inform their financial decisions) rather than confirmation bias: https://t.co/yJlxMCbTb0

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@ichbinilya @AlecStapp Yes. People attribute higher wages to their local environment/personal ability, but attribute higher prices to the national economy. Even though swing state voters locally thought their circumstances improved, they thought the country was doing poorly.

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@catmount1 @wanderinsouI In 2016, when Millenials were in the 18-29 range, they voted +18 Democrat vs. Gen Z voting +13 Democrat in 2024. This isn't a perfect comparison, but it accounts for how people shift rightwards with age.

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@WatcherCanada @jacktism_ In isolation what McCain said is offensive. With the context of all the birtherism nonsense, McCain was cutting at the initial lie that spawned all the conspiracy theories at its source.

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@WatcherCanada @jacktism_ With a similar context, yeah I don't take issue. If I were to go out in public and state "I'm a Mexican man." and an angry, conspiratorial mob were saying "He's lying! He's a white KKK member!" Then the next time somebody starts saying, "He's white..." I'd love that defense.

[augusttulips @AugustTulips]

As someone not in the field, the response to this has made me doubt the entire field of sociology. So many social scientists are saying that burying the lede like this is valid; if this is how this field works, I can't believe a single word out of this field.

[Justin T. Pickett @JustinTPickett]

(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...

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@AlbertoMCR95 @ashdgandhi @UCLA It's mind boggling to me if for every hour of teaching they need to spend 10 hours of prep and grading, especially since my understanding is that after developing the curriculum once, they just need to do minor refreshes and tweaks to it. I must be missing something.

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@AlbertoMCR95 @ashdgandhi @UCLA I'm not in academia so I'm curious; how much time is needed for prep and grading? My friends teaching high school have a 1:1 ratio of work outside the classroom to in-class instruction. These lecturers need a 10:1 ratio to reach full-time work levels, no?