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techwooded

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  • Milpamérica, a social network for resisting the Musk algorithm

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  • Seems like they don’t have federation turned on either, unfortunately

  • Sacramento sheriff's office patrol vehicle spotted on streets of Poland

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  • This is what happens when you don’t pay your tickets kids, the sheriff hunts you down

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  • The main crux of the “Biden is too old” criticism though wasn’t the actual age number, it was that he wasn’t mentally all there, which was on display constantly. Bernie always comes off as put together and his speeches are well executed. Biden’s issue was that he sounded less put together than Trump which was impressive in its own way

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    CNN Exit Polls - This math is odd...

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  • The problem with exit polling, as with the problem with polling in general (exacerbated by the modern age), is that they’re voluntary. The simplest explanation is that a higher percentage of women answered the exit poll than men. Or that women who voted for Trump were less likely to answer the poll. Or the people lied when they answered the poll.

    There can also be statistics reasons for it too. Not knowing the methodology behind how this was collected, but you can also have selection effects. If I’m trying to run a statistical analysis on a population, I want as many respondents as possible to reduce the error and deviation, but I also have to operate with limited funds. Be much more efficient to post a few people up in higher density places like cities that tend to vote more blue anyways than having pollsters scour the backroads of Wyoming, for example, where I would wager a higher percentage of women voted for Trump.

    In the end, don’t put too much stock in pre-election polls, and definitely don’t put too much stock in exit polls. Think about it like this, if you got a phone call from a random number, would you pick up and answer questions about how you vote in such a controversial election? If the answer is no, then you know why polls aren’t accurate

  • What is a genetic modification that would cause a massive chain reaction to possibly horrific effects?

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  • Not very up on biology, so not sure if this would even be a thing, but I would say some kind of internal structure like plants allowing animals to overcome the square-cube law

  • Can Puerto Ricans vote as expats?

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  • Don’t forget that these restrictions also apply to the Americans living in Guam, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands, as they all have the same status as Puerto Rico. It’s interesting too because citizens of the 50 states can vote absentee from other countries, and American Astronauts have voted from space. That would make Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa the only places in the universe an American can’t vote for President

  • Why are politicians doing nothing for first time home buyers?

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  • As other have said, housing, at least in the US, has always been seen as an investment, and investments are supposed to appreciate in value. It is difficult to sell to political bases that one of two things must then be true: 1) People who bought houses 20+ years ago will have to lose equity on the house which they potentially were relying on for some amount of retirement, or 2) The government will have to step in and fill the gap (a la systems similar to agricultural subsidies). Neither of those things would you be able to sell to a wide enough base that they could be acted on.

    In the end, this was caused by two things. On a practical level, prices continued climbing while wages stagnated over the past 40 years. On a more philosophical level, I personally don’t think that necessities such as housing should be commodified.

    This also brings up the fact that single family homes, the predominant home type in the US, are not good from an environmental standpoint or an urban planning standpoint. It would be better to convert into duplexes and such. In the end, I agree that buying a home is way too much, but in the long run it may be good that the market is pushing more people towards lower impact forms of housing

  • Is there such a thing as a bullshit-free news agency?

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  • I would check out Semafor as well

  • what's your favorite thing to put on fries that isn't ketchup?

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  • Malt vinegar or brown sauce

  • What Podcasts do you listen to?

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    • Accidental Tech Podcast: Three dudes talking about tech and (mostly) Apple
    • The Allusionist: podcast about language and linguistics
    • The Bruenigs: Matt & Liz Bruenig talk about random stuff
    • Cortex: podcast about productivity by Myke Hurley & CGP Grey
    • Factually: Interviews with interesting people hosted by Adam Connover
    • Hello Internet (Dead): two dudes talking, GGP Grey & Brady Haran (Numberphile)
    • Intentionally Blank: Random conversations with Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells
    • No Such Thing As a Fish: Intersting and odd facts by the team behind the British TV show QI
    • Puck Soup: Ice Hockey News and information
    • Stuff You Should Know: Funny podcast about all kinds of stuff
    • The Tennis Podcast: podcast about tennis
    • Ungeniused: brief episodes about interesting Wikipedia pages
    • The Unmade Podcast: mostly random stuff, but about pitching ideas for other podcasts
    • Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me: the NPR News quiz

  • Do you ever feel the "dormant person feeling"?

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  • For me I think part of it is more nostalgia for a certain relationship I had with this person, even if it wasn’t a close one, and my life during the time I knew them.

    I think that the internet has given us this almost elongation effect to personal relationships though. Some people are just meant to pass into our lives for a brief time then pass out of them, and that’s okay

  • Is cake a sort of bread?

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  • Lots of cakes in Germany for example are traditionally made from yeasted doughs

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  • I feel that way whenever I finish a reread of Wheel of Time or the Broken Earth trilogy that makes me have to avoid the genre for a bit afterwards

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    US Lemmys what could Biden do in the next 6 months to EARN your vote? (other than just not being Trump)

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    How do people fall for believing in socialism, despite its downfalls?

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  • The problem isn’t socialism in the countries I’m sure you’ve seen (Soviets, etc), it’s totalitarianism. Leaders have used the guise of socialism to get the initial public support to gain power, and they make a show of it, but the real game in town is the power structure. Look into Pinochet’s Chile for a similar example with a hardcore capitalism as the economic system

  • Do I need a good argument for you to respect my opinion?

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  • Correct me if I’m wrong, OP, but it sounds like you’re talking about retreating to the axioms of the particular belief system, as in there is a point where reason breaks down because you get to things that you (the person whose expressing their opinion) have accepted that’s different than me.

    To me this is a bit of a Motte and Bailey fallacy as your question was whether or not you have a good argument and then someone replied to that and then moved to the set of assumptions which has nothing to do with argument.

    For me personally, the other person has to demonstrate some level of critical reasoning for me to respect their opinions, even if their assumptions are different than mine. Beliefs that are entered into using reasoning are more useful than ones without because they can be changed which is what discourse is all about

  • book apps recommendation

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  • Link for people who, like me, spent 10 minutes trying to get links other than Barnes & Noble and publishing houses: https://hardcover.app

    I also recommend StoryGraph for this same purpose

  • Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.

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  • Don’t forget the Baha’i, the Babs, and the Druze. Don’t know if they’re considered people of the book or not. Same with the Samaritan Israelites

  • Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

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  • Daniel Abraham & Ty Frank. The Expanse series evolved out of a D&D-like game they hosted together. Abraham also has a good sized Fantasy catalogue to check out too