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> It sounds like violently agree with everything other than my framing and wording choices. No, you previously implied that the discovery of this information is somehow leading to …

I think you're misreading that last line. I'm pretty sure what the author is saying is: > the evening we found the love letters my mom said to me, "he wasted his entire life, his e…

Aggression and building rapport aren't mutually exclusive - a lot of this is subtle negotiation for relative status. Just because all parties are okay with these as a way to get to…

How are you defining groceries here? I suspect that some people are being fairly expansive and including everything that they'd buy at a grocery store, while others are being much …

Labor participation rates among women haven't changed drastically since the 80's. Also: https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2022/06/22/us-household... > In fact, this is also a pe…

If you find yourself having to hit the brakes hard frequently because a pedestrian stepped off the curb while being distracted, you probably also need to pay more attention while d…

You're wildly off the mark here. From the study quoted: > In 2017, over 60% of 110,531 US veterinarians were female, and in 2016, approximately 80% of students enrolled at US veter…

Sure, but at this point you're no longer talking about why vets are dying from suicide at a higher rate. We don't know if vets tend to deal with more "distress and hopelessness" th…

Yup, suicidal attempts are often impulsive, so any barrier (in this case literally) even if it's relatively easy to get around, reduces suicide rates. Here's another study, this ti…

We can talk about other negative aspects of being a vet, but the primary factor is that they know how: > But that reality of the job can also colour the way veterinarians view huma…

I think this is a good take - the legal theories mentioned in this thread (1st amendment, Section 230) seem mostly baseless, but this doesn't seem like appropriate legislation at t…

This is legally nonsensical - nothing about Section 230 precludes any further restriction on moderation by another entity. Section 230 is and has always been about the act of moder…

This is content-free nonsense - it's easy to do the math, but those who are eligible for significant "credit boost" from Obama-era whatever plans are non-factors when it comes to i…

It's even worse than that - $44,356 is the median salary for high school graduates aged 25 or over with a full-time job (it's extrapolated from the median weekly wage of $853) in 2…

I would go even further - it's complete nonsense. I'm going to guess the author never wondered why Americans feel uncomfortable asking for a discount at a store and would rather ju…

Btw, your message behind this is that you should work at a startup (maybe yours), is that correct? How do you plan to compensate individuals who do this type of work at your own st…

Sure but a lot of things don't happen without that one person pushing for it. If Alex is correct that he's the one who pushed for it to happen and created the momentum for this pro…

Sure, it's a privilege, but the privilege does not exist for the benefit of its employees. > What purpose an organization turns it's work to is up to the people who make the decisi…

Banks don't know which of their borrowers are insolvent - in a credit crisis, the problem isn't merely that the banks aren't paid what they are owed, but that there's a systematic …

> everyone gets the same nominal payout, debtors must use the payout to pay off debt I'm generally supportive of these types of measures especially in a financial crisis, but keep …

Once again, this doesn't even make the slightest bit of economic sense and you're once again failing to understand extremely very basic points. No one is saying saying FAANG only c…

> But it absolutely calls in question the notion these companies wouldn't do something just because they're "competing" against each other. This doesn't make any sense and you're m…

Sure but that collusion actually makes sense from their perspective and is literally the exact opposite of what's being alleged, which is that Big Tech is essentially keeping the c…

I mean this is true in that large organizations are internally wasteful - a lot of people are just there to shuffle resources around and a lot of the decisions are bad, entire team…

This is and has always been nonsense. FAANGs (and more) all compete against each other and if they do not derive significant value from these hires, it doesn't make any strategic s…