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  • Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles

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  • I could understand the argument for factoring people's feelings into policy in some cases, but let's take this study as an example.

    Handguns are responsible for far more harm than AR-15s, but this study shows people "fear" AR-15s more. A policy that is based on these findings and not empirical data may attempt to reduce gun violence by addressing AR-15 ownership. Thereby not having a major effect on reducing actual gun violence.

    A policy focusing on reducing handgun ownership would be much more effective at reducing gun violence, despite people not fearing them as much.

  • 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances

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  • I'm trying to understand your argument against the article and what point you're trying to make by using their chart.

  • 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances

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  • I don't get the point you're trying to make with your graph. Obviously there wouldn't be many Zoomers working full time; most are still in school.

    Zoomers born after 2006 haven't graduated high-school, and those born between 2002-2006 are in college. That's leaves only a 5 year window of people you'd expect to be employed full time.

    The line for millenials looks about the same as Zoomers.

  • 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances

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  • So you spend $400/month on restaurants?

    $150 x 4 = $600/month.

  • Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles

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  • AR-10s have been gaining popularity for deer hunting in my area recently.

  • Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles

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  • Fair enough for a general survey question. However, the point about how policy decisions shouldn't be based on opinion/anecdote is still valid (at least in the case of gun control).

  • Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles

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  • The hip fire point really got me. Hip firing a gun makes it far less deadly. You have to actually aim to hit targets. Real life isn't like video games.

  • Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles

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  • Probably because the vast majority people are capable of using a subwoofer responsibly.

    Subwoofer ownership isn't an explicitly stated constitutional right, so it can't be for that reason.

  • 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances

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  • Assuming you're in the US, that's either a really cheap mortgage or a huge family. Where are you seeing grocery expenses exceed mortgage payments?

  • 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Actual size is supposed to be 1.5

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  • And if you're a fan of quotation marks you could call it a "2"x4"."

  • U.S. company fined $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants

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  • It's always immigrant kids. Nobody should be surprised that the companies that are willing to illegally employ immigrants are also willing to violate other labor laws.

    Allow these people (the adults, not kids) to become legally employed and this problem will be drastically reduced.

  • Twenty-nine research teams analyzed the same data, and they all reached different results.

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  • 9 of the teams reaching a different conclusion is a pretty large group. Nearly a third of the teams, using what I assume are legitimate methods, disagree with the findings of the other 20 teams.

    Sure, not all teams disagree, but a lot do. So the issue is whether or not the current research paradigm correctly answers "subjective" questions such as these.

  • The U.S. labor market is shifting toward skilled labor as white-collar hiring slows

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  • All the practical to automate physical/blue collar jobs have already been automated. Anyone who's job doesn't require interacting with the physical world is who's at risk for automation/AI nowadays.

  • Poultry enterprise in California to pay $4.8M after employing children to work with sharp knives

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  • But don't they always say sharp knives are more safe than dull knives?

  • Harvey Weinstein faces New York retrial after 2020 rape conviction overturned

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  • I would image it's because the original trial was declared invalid (mis-trial). Not because he was found not guilty. Essentially no verdict has been reached, therefore double jeopardy isn't applicable.

  • Wisconsin school district says active shooter 'neutralized' outside middle school, lockdown ordered

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  • No kidding. There's no need to be so judgemental of that woman over such a short quote. People react to all sorts of events this way. Tornados, fires, kidnappings, etc.

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    In 1960 Over 90% of Homicides in the USA Were Solved Compared to Only 50% Today

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  • The beatings will continue until cooperation improves.

  • Russia would lose a war with NATO, Poland warns

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  • Not to mention the fact that all it takes is for one nuclear exchange to happen, and the world as we know it ceases to exist. The stakes are incredibly high.

  • Russia would lose a war with NATO, Poland warns

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  • Great quote! That's one of my absolute favorite books. I recommend it to people all the time.

    If you liked Alas, Babylon, I'd strongly recommend On The Beach by Nevil Shute.