Greg Alien retuiteado
Most people overestimate their level of natural talent while simultaneously underestimating the level of *unnatural* talent they could engineer through consistent high-quality training.
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Greg Alien
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@BristolTed @BelissaCohen @NormalGayPsych Plenty of Jewish terrorists in the early days of the modern Israel. And right now, the US government is dominated by Christian Nationalists who hate the same things extremist Muslims do.
The only mitigating factor in Christianity is that most Christians don't believe strongly.
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@BelissaCohen @NormalGayPsych How do they explain the shortage of Judeo-Christian terrorists?
Or the lack of a single non-muslim totalitarian theocracy around the world?
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Gay people really need to start openly speaking out against the spread of Islam in the West. We already fought for, and achieved, our rights. We don't want to lose them. Can you name one Islamic country where there are ANY gay rights? I can't.
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@NormalGayPsych If you're on the political left, it's almost impossible to criticize Islam without being labeled far right. This is a problem.
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@edudissenter Isn't the common core issue just a side effect of the too-common view that reading is a content-independent skill?
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Oh wonderful—Common Core, by fixating on literacy, spawned illiteracy.
David Labaree@DLabaree
Opinion | My Students Can't Read here is a final factor that is contributing to this decline in reading skills, and that is that the students arriving in my classroom today are the first cohort to have experienced Common Core-influenced reading instruction across the entirety of their K–12 schooling. Whatever the standards’ original intent, the on-the-ground implementation in many districts replaced sustained reading with the practice of pulling “evidence” from disconnected short passages, the same format used on the standardized tests that increasingly determine school funding. The education scholar Natalie Wexler, among others, has documented this pivot in detail: Students drilled on “finding the main idea” in two-paragraph excerpts never build the stamina or background knowledge that longform reading requires. The pandemic then added fuel to a fire that was already burning. NAEP scores for 13-year-olds dropped sharply in 2022 and have not recovered. A 2023 EdWeek survey found that 24 percent of secondary-school administrators described pandemic learning loss in English and language arts as “severe or very severe.” chronicle.com/article/my-stu…
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@necros111 @mungowitz That's absurd. You'd end up with no restaurants, which isn't good for society.
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@EsresGreg @mungowitz For the same reason you accept traffic laws, the good of society. They're free to put their money where they want then.
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Apparently the theory is that restaurant owners SHOULD, morally, lose money.
So only those wealthy enough to lose a LOT of money should own restaurants.
Why would I own a restaurant in the first place, then?
Wealth of the owner is a complete non sequitur.
Isabella@KhanSaba1278
If you can’t afford to pay a living wage, you can’t afford to own a restaurant
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@necros111 @ostap @mungowitz Guarantees == straw man argument. It's about expectations and a business plan. No restaurant is getting a 30% return.
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@EsresGreg @ostap @mungowitz No profit is guaranteed. That's how businesses work. Or maybe you want the state to guarantee you 30% returns, commie? 😂
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@necros111 @mungowitz Why should they accept lower profits? They expect a certain return on their investment or they might as well put the money in the stock market. Most of these owners aren't getting rich.
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@necros111 @ostap @mungowitz That's not how private enterprise works. People start businesses to earn a particular return on their investment; if they can't get that, they might as well invest in an index fund.
Odd that you view this as a moral defect of business owners, rather than stingy customers.
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@EsresGreg @ostap @mungowitz Sure but the customer can pay less and wages be raised at the same time, at the small price of a lower profit.
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@ColonizerJak @TMZ this is not the same as having distrust in vaccines tard
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Influencer Stacey Hatfield allegedly refused ambulance, bled out after home birth.
Details: tmz.me/3Schq09
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@PeterMoskos Agreeing with the 10,000 figure is one of those things you have to do to be accepted on the left. Dispute it at your social peril.
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Lies are not a left / right thing. But man-oh-man in bugs the hell out of me when people just make shit up, and nobody cares. Nobody holds them accountable.
I want her to live forever because I'm just picturing the glorious lauditory obits for her and Angela Davis and the likes.
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"10,000 extrajudicial [police] executions," she says. A worldview based on a lie. She could learn the data. There's no curiosity. Imagine being such a prominent and respected author and being an order of magnitude wrong.
And not caring.
Also it's 2026. This is like 2020 redux.
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
how then are thousands of people slain by police officers each year? isn't it something like 10,000? extrajudicial executions? surely you are not blaming them for failing to insist upon their constitutional rights? they are probably all described as "resisting arrest"--"threatening a policer officer." especially, persons of color have little bargaining power with an armed officer. you do sound very bourgeois, sheltered. confident that no police officers would ever harm you.
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@joelgombiner @ramez It's not really very good with biomechanics, though.
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@joelgombiner @ramez Yeah, people are so eager to point out its mistakes, but they ignore that doctors are wrong all the time, too. I've been misdiagnosed 3 out of the 4 times I've been to an orthopedist.
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I can't imagine managing my own health and not using an LLM at this point.
Joel Selanikio@jselanikio
A Columbia ER doc wrote in @nytimes that she typed her own lab results into ChatGPT and got better care than her own doctor gave her — availability, patience, and truly customized diet and exercise steps (not just a generic handout). Her doctor's response to the labs was "book another appointment to discuss." I have to say I've asked patients many times to do just that. But ChatGPT was available immediately, not in two weeks or a month. It asked about her day, analyzed the ingredients in her vitamin gummies, and came up with a customized plan right away. For free. When I talk about tech making healthcare better and smaller, this isn't the better part. It's the smaller part — while patients (even patients that are doctors) getting better care than healthcare can provide. buff.ly/8fWpMrL #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare #FutureOfMedicine #healthcareAI
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@joelgombiner @ramez ChatGPT chastised me over my glucose level and motivated me to make some changes. My doctor didn't even notice the lab report value. Same with vitamin D levels.
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@ramez Yeah, much more knowledgeable and caring than a doc in the system
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It's like blaming the handicapped for not getting the prime parking space at the mall. If the empty spaces reserved for the handicapped didn't exist, you wouldn't be parking there. They'd be occupied!
Nicole@nicolegelinas
The three lanes of cars are the problem here, not the one lane of bikes. If the fourth lane wasn’t for bikes, it would also be filled with gridlocked cars. Likewise, if you gave both sidewalks to the cars as much of America has done, they would fill quickly with … cars.
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Rachel Dolezal just won the Republican primary for lt governor in Georgia. Meaning, she's now positioned to become the first female lt governor of Goergia--and the first African American governor in the US.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Georgia Lt. Governor Republican primary 🟥Dolezal 55.6% 🟥Kennedy 44.4% 12% reporting from AP/NYT
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@ostap @mungowitz The customers *always* pay, it's just the method of collection that changes.
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@mungowitz Stupid people openly boasting that they're underpaying their waiters and shaming their customers into paying extra fees should, morally, lose money. And most likely they will.
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@EricMMrozek @Noahpinion Because most voters don’t think like this. They just vote for their team, based on cultural tradition or vibes. Very few people grasp policy or ideology.
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Rightists really believe that deep down, the American people think like they do.
No, you dorks, they don't.
No matter how you ask the question, Americans say that America is a CREDAL nation, not a RACIAL or RELIGIOUS nation.
Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81
@Noahpinion This is a rigged question. Chris Rufo never talks about "The Character of the Anglo-Saxon People." Rufo is Italian, and, like most Italian-Americans he would probably disagree with that statement. But most Italians are Republicans who favor strong restrictions on immigration.
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