eric

Not a Bayesian, not a Frequentist, but a secret third thing (bad at math)

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@m1guelpf

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@jbraunstein914 @eigenrobot Could you explain what role “some suburban dad” is playing in your argument? Does one or both of suburbanism or fatherhood imply something about one’s credibility? If not, why is it included here?

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@Andrewnsnyder That “hence” is carrying an unreal amount of weight

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@powerbottomdad1 your perception doesn’t match mine or that of families I know - idk enough about your situation to say why that’s the case (maybe your family is small, idk). But imo, raising multiple young kids on a median U.S. income hasn’t become significantly easier because of “mealkits”.

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@powerbottomdad1 So to clarify, if you find housework and child rearing to be trivial and thus an increased share in that work to be insignificant, i assume you’re a raging misogynist who thinks women who performed the vast majority of domestic labor for most of the 20th century had it too easy?

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@powerbottomdad1 for your benefit, please see what my hours of rigorous research have wrought

to head off the obvious lazy snarky response - nobody is saying any of this is bad, merely that the idea that fatherhood has gotten easier is suspect at best

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@powerbottomdad1 why on earth did you feel qualified to make the original post if your ignorance is this profound

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@OrthodoxOrigen If by tax cuts you mean deductions from income, the premise of the question doesn’t make sense - you’re still reducing your post-income net, just by a smaller amount than donation size alone would imply. To do it “merely” for profit, then, is either impossible or deluded.

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@daniel_mac8

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@MorlockP Realizing over the course of the past decade or so that 80+% of the population will never be able to distinguish between “socially constructed” and “arbitrary” has been a very sobering experience.

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@bilbosfootcomb Idk man, I think most parents of young kids reach a point with toy overload where they’d wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.

Not to say this current approach is the optimal policy response to that reality, but there are worse arguments out there.

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@wanyeburkett There are 2 and only 2 kinds of people in the world: those who understand and accept the knowledge in Job, and those who either don’t understand or don’t accept it.

So I guess maybe 3 kinds of people if you want to be pedantic.

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@sonyasupposedly Mostly it’s a matter of shifting your mindset from junior dev (bulk of time coding) to lead (bulk of time reviewing PRs from junior devs and architecting). If you wouldn’t delegate something to a bright but inexperienced junior, don’t delegate it to AI IMO.

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@sonyasupposedly Yeah probably true for friends and acquaintances - I think it provides sound reasoning for the traditional family pressure (the classic parents pushing for grandkids), but that’s probably declined in effectiveness in tandem with family as an institution.

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@aquilasurgens @BeSaintly

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@ojfsaa @yacineMTB But having your journal publicly read is like crowdsourced therapy.

My contribution is: you need to chill a lil bit

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@eigenrobot @ArnenLocke @yacineMTB Ah, there’s the catch.

Can’t even fathom how life-changing it must be to have grandparents who are willing to do that.

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@bilbosfootcomb Come to think of it, is RotS the last major franchise movie to do this (take itself seriously with mostly staying free of millennial-core quippy writing)? Hard to think of another more recent example.