trts

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by trts 10mo ago
respectfully it is not a lie, and more than a half a dozen people I know personally lost function of their hands, legs, were hospitalized with myocarditis, had local paralysis/palsy. I personally lost the use of my hand for two months
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by trts 10mo ago
In a March 29 2021, MSNBC interview, Rochelle Walensky stated publicly that CDC data suggested "vaccinated people do not carry the virus" and "don't get sick". a knowingly false statement at the time and at best an
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by trts 10mo ago
most of the critics of this particular vaccine are the ones that took it. either the people who got covid anyway or were injured by it. it was incredibly destructive for trust in the medical establishment to oversell / mandate it and
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by trts 10mo ago
you never get a second chance to make a first impression
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by trts 10mo ago
guess you can believe what you want but data shows the Epstein topic has been damaging his base support
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by trts 10mo ago
not sure where you are looking but Rasmussen polls have been showing Trump hemorrhaging support since June among his base. if you visit X this is where many of them converse, and they are quite openly unhappy with the admin lately
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by trts 1y ago
experienced something very similar. thought I would leave my field permanently out of frustration and despair. I like my work now, but faced with that burnout again do not think I could power through it a second time. Apropos, I had chron
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by trts 1y ago
anyone remember XPDE? I'm not sure it was ever finished / packaged in any major repo but came across someone doing a walkthrough of it the other week and it looked pretty complete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by trts 2y ago
a couple pages that describe the agency and their projects, for those who were not familiar. the agency was created in 2014. https://18f.gsa.gov/our-work/ https://www.govtech.com/civic/what-is-18f
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by trts 2y ago
generally intelligent people tend to perform well on intelligence tests people who perform well on intelligence tests may not present as generally intelligent
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by trts 2y ago
you do know different people say different things? I am sharing my personal opinion The opposition will always employ fear tactics like socialist, marxist, fascist, science denier etc
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by trts 2y ago
it is hard for me to think of a more status quo candidate than Harris
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by trts 2y ago
interesting to behold this inversion where the "conservative" side is taking dramatic and rapid action, changing things quickly, while the "progressive" side vociferously defends the status quo
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by trts 2y ago
maybe both of us are doing some presupposing
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by trts 2y ago
not sure if their policies have changed but in 2021 Amazon Studios implemented quotas for performers and creatives on each project based on race/ethnicity, gender, and ability, with the actor's real-life identities expected to ali
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by trts 2y ago
I think that is a valid argument and makes some sense. have to toss the hot potato. The argument for the trade offs are pretty simple I think. It encourages more concentration of wealth in assets and increases the amount of malinvestment
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by trts 2y ago
care to cite some examples of deflation quickly destroying an economy? there are many such examples for inflation. Argentina, Germany, Zimbabwe, Greece there is deflation that comes from shrinking of the monetary base and there is deflat
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by trts 2y ago
1-2% inflation is "healthy" is a trope that nobody really justifies. Perhaps its true, and it is often repeated as gospel. the "2% inflation target" was derived just from the comments of economist Roger Douglas in New
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by trts 2y ago
not sure there is a country on earth that you could save your money in the national currency and not watch inflation rip away the value of your earnings. The purchasing power of USD has declined 95% over the past century. Prettiest horse i
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by trts 2y ago
deflation in computers, cars, apparel, materials and other technologically manufactured goods has been consistent for generations ... is this bad? would it be bad if the cost of college education, housing, or healthcare decreased? why would
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by trts 2y ago
a lot of people were advocating for a primary in 2023 and got shouted down by the establishment dems
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by trts 2y ago
I actually feel Apple did a decent job gobbling it up and incorporating some of the best features into their native weather app. Merry Sky is a good homage but I've never evaluated it much for accuracy: https://merrysky.net&
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by trts 2y ago
CPI doesn't measure things like healthcare properly (17% of GDP) as those prices are not paid by consumers. the insurers get their cut straight out of your paycheck. College either. Tuition is priced as is, but what about people who
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by trts 2y ago
maybe more like Bush. Clinton was the last president who oversaw a brief surplus in the federal budget and once said "the era of big government is over". pretty wild to think that surplus was in part driven by the internet boom.
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by trts 3y ago
an eye for an eye doesn't end well because nobody gets their eyes back China can change their policy easily with respect to reciprocity
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by trts 3y ago
this is kinda funny to me. practically every social scientist I’ve known that had to use R was appalled by how cryptic and unintuitive it was. I always understood that it was its open source nature being a successor to the S language that g
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by trts 3y ago
two reasons for me 1) tidyverse makes prodding and plotting my data faster and more enjoyable. when I am prototyping a model I'll sometimes do the groundwork in R and then migrate the production version to python 2) I can't seem
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by trts 3y ago
the number of people saying this in this thread is what feels inorganic to me. what created this era where people are eager to come to the defense of incumbents? what's wrong is wrong; this isn't good policy. someone reported on
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by trts 3y ago
I used to have a 3 mile walking commute and was almost always in a great mood, full of ideas and inspiration by the time I arrived at work or home. It took about 35 minutes each way. probably twice as slow as driving, but 10x more enjoyabl
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by trts 3y ago
have never seen anyone point out this incredibly obvious (or obviating?) point

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