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"...due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations" It isn't true that children whose permanent residence is a trailer park are counted as homeless.

Most facts are incomplete, it's almost impossible to give all the context to any given data point unless you just give people a URL and tell people to read for themselves. For exam…

Type in "Other agricultural workers" and then compare the result to other professions.

Or, just a different sort of integrity than you had in mind.

Anecdotally, I can confirm that my employer requires me to: 1.) Not allow my phone to be unlocked by fingerprint/face. 2.) Not carry USB sticks or similar portable storage devices …

Based on political contributions, police officers have donated their money to Democrats and Republicans almost in equal proportion for quite awhile... until 2018, when they became …

to arbitrarily remove... for arbitrary reasons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Popular English has taken a real hit in the last few years.

Here's a chart of Lake Tahoe water levels since 1900: https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/water-science-lake-tahoe-ba... .

> There must be hundreds of thousands of bolts 99,356 in USA & Canada, per this number: https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/chevrolet-bolt-sales-figures-u... I was curious about this so …

I was being too indirect. Your framework doesn't have predictive value. 'This person had an extremely favorable outcome, therefore they are elite' is a retrospective judgment, it c…

My partner is a civil engineer so I go to a lot of ASCE happy hours and it is common wisdom among civil engineers that for every $100 you spend on infrastructure, you get like $113…

Isn't your definition an example of a No True Scotsman fallacy? Aren't you liable to wind up in situations where you find yourself saying "Ah-hah, now that person I thought was not…

The degree to which our ethics should be consequentialist, or they should evaluate intent is worth discussing, but as consequences become more significant intent becomes more insig…

I think in any scenario where "nuclear war destroys a large portion of highways and communication equipment" then Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin will all be smoking crate…

It's impossible to know what would have happened if they hadn't, but if Julius and Ethel Rosenberg helping the Soviets achieve nuclear parity prevented the US from "using them when…

> FAQ 2.1: The Earth’s temperature has varied before. How is the current warming any different? > Earth’s climate has always changed naturally, but both the global extent and rate …

I think that's because of different vaccine uptake by age cohort. People 65+ have always been most likely to require intervention and they are also the most vaccinated age cohort -…

Maybe you're thinking of Russell's teapot, which is the idea that the burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims? That's specifically for unfalsifiable claims. …

I don't think its "first witnessed", I think its 80% of blossoms are open. https://twitter.com/sayakasofiamori/status/13739565776071311...

"...it is particularly frustrating as my personal FB account is tied to not only my Oculus library (which I can no longer access) but also my FB business page" Oof!