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Posting through it.

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@Dale_Chu Edtech is in big trouble. It will be a sign of an elite education to have as few screens as possible, while iready is for the plebs.

[Mildly Catastrophized @FaintlyBased]

exactly right. NYC grinder culture doesn't translate well to other areas

[Conor Sen @conorsen]

An advantage that the Sun Belt has over the coasts in an era where college-educated Millennial dads are more involved is there’s an understanding that family time is a priority here and I don’t think NY/SF business culture will ever accept that.

[Mildly Catastrophized @FaintlyBased]

"the social sciences, and sociology most acutely, have normalized a systematic asymmetry in evidentiary standards: permissive toward ideologically congenial claims, stringent toward inconvenient ones."

[Dirk Van Damme @VanDammeEDU]

"Sociology might be running out of time to fix itself". "sociology’s reckoning has arrived, and the debt has come due. Let us resolve never to borrow against the truth again." With telling examples on transgender identity, microaggression, poverty, etc.
https://t.co/K1cLc0vMyg

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@eigenrobot Someone could write an "Agatha All Along" song about how Pat Buchanan was directionally and substantively correct 30 years ago but lost to the Bush faction in his party.

[Mildly Catastrophized @FaintlyBased]

@DeenBot @eigenrobot We often hear the hijab is a personal choice, but is it truly free will when taking it off means risking family rejection, community ostracization, and intense religious guilt? True freedom isn't just the absence of a government mandate (though those exist too).

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@Amandae4sm6 @paigered3 You think she is actually choosing this?

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@DeenBot @eigenrobot Their husbands and religious leaders force them to do this. This attire is not their default natural state.

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

Don’t let your life 'narrow'.

I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years. The thing I watch happen to people — more than any injury or surgery — is what I call the narrowing.

Most of my patients have no idea it’s happening. They think it’s just aging. It’s not...

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@FreeBeacon @aaronsibarium @kayleighmcenany The left just loves to rank people based on their perceived level of oppression on the intersectional totem pole.

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@nicolegelinas The city can have a safe transit system with zero (0) murders on it, or a dangerous system that only people who have no other options are forced to use but not both.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Boomers are the first generation in history to basically not give the slightest damn about leaving any wealth for their children.

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@nypost Strange that so-called progressive feminists support the most regressive anti-women regimes in the world.

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@PubWanghaf Good lord.

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@SociologenHD The Democratic Party in the US should heed these warnings if it does well in the upcoming midterms. But it probably won't.

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@JustineBateman @SeanTrende The funny thing about that article is he looks for examples of it being astroturfing but cannot find any.

[Mildly Catastrophized @FaintlyBased]

Exactly. Higher crime is a policy choice.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Violent crime is really just a tiny fringe of very bad people terrorizing the vast mass of nice normal people.

We need to put that tiny fringe of violent villains in PRISON.

PRISON, PRISON, PRISON.

[Mildly Catastrophized @FaintlyBased]

@DaizyZeeX Everything on the insanely large menu is made from scratch.

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Article: https://t.co/vuvk6hMK0Y

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From the WSJ, the battle against screen time is heating up:

"In this community outside Philadelphia, tensions boiled over in recent days as the Lower Merion School District board weighed a major policy shift: whether to repeal a policy that contained language saying parents could opt their children out of one-to-one use of school-issued devices."

[Mildly Catastrophized @FaintlyBased]

This is exactly right. But it seems certain victims require a greater sense of urgency than others. Why do we think that is?

[Nilam Civok @CivokNilam]

Mr. Johnson,
By my count, 15 transgender individuals were killed in Chicago over the last decade. That's 1.5 per year.

Based on a cited rate of 0.5% of adults, that works out to a homicide rate of about 14 per 100,000 transgender residents per year.

During that same period, Chicago averaged about 645 homicides per year. For the rest of the city's population, that works out to roughly 24 homicides per 100,000 non-trans residents per year.

If 14 per 100,000 is a "state of emergency," what do you call 24 per 100,000?

The average Chicagoan who is not transgender faces a higher risk of being murdered than a transgender resident. If you believe the risk faced by transgender residents warrants emergency action, then the far greater number of murder victims across the rest of Chicago deserve at least the same urgency.