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The policy solution for poverty seems to be to punish the poor for not working hard enough

How many birds should we have?

Never heard of Hot or Not? This has to go to the Dutch voters of the early 2000s.

I only read Twitter because it doesn't cost me anything

Not just a shorter skirt...the miniskirt reflects a cultural shift in how women are understood in society, a change in what qualifies as sexy, and a transformation of morality as e…

Yes. Check out Margaret Rossiter’s work on women scientists.

I refuse to acknowledge an AI/ML-based stoic unless it is named Sparkus Aurelius.

I’m not really in the business of sympathizing with CEOs for poor past decisions

So, a fad?

Agreed but also it’s weird how a lot of lay-off %s are 7% +\-1 though?

IMO, the quest for longevity and renewed youth is already causing social resentment between generations. Do we really need older generations to hang around longer hoarding wealth a…

Sigh

No. It’ll be my mom’s default search engine, but I will never stoop so low.

If anything I think those being laid off right now will be sought after in areas that want tech sector quality but have not been able pay tech sector wages. Government jobs, educat…

I think violent crime peaks in warm months but property crime peaks in cold months, IIRC. Am I correct in assuming you’re talking about violent crime?

There are some parallels between your critique of this startup and what educators critique about ed tech startups. Mainly that the tech comes first and the context that tech is sup…

What’s going on in August and September that suicides are, on average, so high then?

As if to say: I heard you like AI outputs, so I put an AI output through another AI so you can have the AI output of an AI’s output

Washington post had a nice economic and historical analysis of what you are talking about a few years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-r... It’s not …

Probably the same thing that we can see happening now in right-wing US politics.