The Stars Sing Out☄️

If the path to your ideal society depends on everyone agreeing to live by the rules of that society, what you have is a fantasy not a solution. The first question of social change must be how to accommodate those who don't support it.

I went to Alamo Drafthouse last week. The meal was $14.25. The drink was $15. That's why.

@johnhboyer There are a lot of students whose goal is to be employable in a professional job who would prefer not to take your class. Perhaps some kind of arrangement can be reached where you only teach students who want to learn philosophy?

My job is not to train the future workforce. My job is to teach philosophy.

@AConcernedPare2 @herosnvrdie69 Under this plan, they don't get jobs. Look at Spain, Italy and Greece that have very high minimum wage and job protection schemes. Youth (15-24) unemployment is over 40% in those countries. There are no entry level jobs.

@herosnvrdie69 What kind of jobs should teenagers do?

“Get a better job” is not the answer to people being unable to pay their bills. Every job should have to pay a living wage. If you don’t believe that, then you believe as a society people who do necessary jobs should permanently live in an under class.

@herosnvrdie69 @user177635076 you are using guidelines written in the 1960's based on surveys done during the great depression. While food prices have dropped and housing now is 50% of the typical household income. Welcome to the 21st century.

@user177635076 When rent here is on average 1,300 dollars a month budgeting guidelines say you should only spend 30 percent of your income in rent MAX. That means I’d need at MINIMUM to make 4,000 dollars a month. A CNA only brings home 2,480 a month. It’s a cycle of poverty.

@herosnvrdie69 Ok fine, but you are not allow to turn around and complain that childcare is unaffordable and hard to find, that eldercare will drain every dollar you have ever saved, or that grocery stores only operate in suburbs where people buy high margin food and cosmetics.

@S_Surprenant @neurophil1999 I thought we were not expected to read the whole text. Why bury the context in the parts of the paper we are not going to read.

@neurophil1999 That is visible in the text, where the reference is used.

Let me explain this for people who do not do research for a living. Research papers are not written like novels. They are structured from the start with the view that most people will selectively read its content based on their needs. Most will glance at the abstract to find out what are the question, method, main results. Others will go further and read specific sections in details. Almost no one will read the entire paper. There are use cases of citations that involve a low effort in reading. If you want to know if your results align with others, you don't need to understand the nuance of footnote 8 in the online appendix. You just read about the method, the data, and the key results. It's minutes, not hours. Another example is when you use a method that was introduced by a paper or a series of papers. You just need to know if the method is there. That takes seconds. Now, there are other use cases where you have to read all the fine prints. If you extend the analysis of paper, criticize it, or want to contrast your results to theirs, nuances are not optional. That can be measured in hours or even days. Most of the problems with citations that you will find are about the first situation, not the second. So, the situation isn't that people are not engaging deeply with imagined content they did not read. The situation is laziness or, sometimes, limited knowledge spread errors. For instance, a few people misinterpret a result and erroneously cite a paper for it. You then come across 10 people who claim that X found Y. You should spend a few minutes to go check that it is true, but some people do not and repeat the claim. The error can also enter later. A few people might say that X found Y, but a few rounds of telephone game later Y became Z because people loosely interpreted each other instead of going back to the source every time. Again, all of them should check directly, but not everyone does. A more excusable type of error involves the attribution of origin. No one knows the full set of all relevant papers on a topic, so it's possible to misattribute origin in good faith without being lazy. I gave an example of that recently with Jorda and local projections -- they date back to Dufour and Renault (1998), as far as I know. Now that you all the lay of the land, let's go back to what happened here. She lazily repported what others repported without double checking. We're very far from using the hallucinated references made up by a chat bot or from arguing with strawmen instead of other papers. I don't know about her field, but I have never caught anyone getting into a detailed response to papers they did not read in my field -- economics. If you believe otherwise you're a dumbass. Also, that would be amusingly hypocritical if you did not read as many papers as I did before making that bold claim. The errors that do slip through tend to be annoying, but ultimately inconsequential -- i.e., answers to important questions are unaffected.

@TerribleTerry83 The only stadiums I've been to that no longer exist are Candlestick Park and the Oakland Coliseum. I have no desire to be back in either.

If you could go back in time to your Top 3 baseball stadiums that are no longer in existence. What would they be? Here are mine. Ebbets Field- Brooklyn Dodgers Original Yankee Stadium: Yankees Houston Astrodome: Astros

1. “Data”, like “news”, is a non-count noun — you ask “how much data do you have,” not “how many…” 2. Non-count plural nouns take singular verbs. (“The news is bad”, not “the news are bad.”) 3. So “the data is…” is grammatically correct; scientists should get over themselves.

@AuthorGFAllen Toni Morrison

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Yeah… I’m NEVER reading anything by this person again.”

@wellifihaveto @tweetsbyDorian @Atomic_Ferret @Euthenos_ No, you won't. According to the CDFA, California produces 99% or more of the supply of these crops: Almonds Artichokes Celery Figs Garlic Raisins Kiwifruit Honeydew Nectarines Olives Clingstone Peaches Pistachios Plums Sweet rice Walnuts cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDF…

@antarestrader @tweetsbyDorian @Atomic_Ferret @Euthenos_ They'll buy it from other places while you won't buy shit because you don't have any money and your farms are all tanking anyway.

American suburbia would be acceptable if: - Bike infrastructure connected it to local train stations - It had frequent commercial areas - It wasn’t a cultural desert - It didn’t represent 80% of the urban footprint

@snowoverrain @NTSB_Newsroom "I have a number for you to call. Let me know when ready to copy..."

@NTSB_Newsroom I would like to invite NTSB to a hearing for the said incident. The hearing will cover but not limited to; The basic technology in encoding and decoding audio across mediums, pre post verification and checks, recall of posts, possible negligence.

The NTSB is aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released as part of NTSB investigations, including the ongoing investigation of the crash last year of UPS flight 2976 in Louisville, Kentucky. The NTSB does not release cockpit audio recordings. Federal law prohibits such public release due to the highly sensitive nature of verbal communications inside the cockpit. The NTSB takes these privacy restrictions seriously. The NTSB docket system is temporarily unavailable as we examine the scope of the issue and evaluate solutions. We hope to restore access to the docket system as soon as possible.

@Nanocyde @JomboyMedia Really! For just a few dollars more a zoomer can get a Chipotle burrito for lunch and whine about it.

@JomboyMedia I like the idea and burger sounds delicious, but $16.49, good lord that is a lot of money.

There's a "Fuck the Dodgers" burger at the Padres stadium. It has three rings on it (via u/redsolocuppp)

@nickclement Comcast

Name me a company you dislike more than Meta.

@Woody56292 @tweetsbyDorian @Atomic_Ferret @Euthenos_ Literally the *first* words of the post I replied to "Rural people." You know what we do out here in the stix? We grow your food - so long as you don't take all our water.

@antarestrader @tweetsbyDorian @Atomic_Ferret @Euthenos_ We are talking about suburbs not farmland. Suburbs don't contribute to the food supply.

I put a few of my college essays from 1998 into an AI detector. Apparently in 1998 there was an 89% chance that I was a robot.

@tweetsbyDorian @Atomic_Ferret @Euthenos_ Tell me what cities eat if we stop sending them food? Tell me what cities drink if they cannot steal our water?

@Atomic_Ferret @Euthenos_ Rural people and suburbanites are completely dependent on cities. You take city tax revenue to build your sewers, highways, power lines, and schools and then make it your life’s mission to punish the people who fund your lifestyle for thinking/living differently from you

@PurplNutsak @DJSnM This was what I was told in flight training. It would be an addition to a long list of stories and legions that are passed off as fact and science in the world of aviation education.

@DJSnM What about the claim that with FM, if 2 aircraft transmit simultaneously then one transmission gets wiped out completely but when 2 AM radios transmit together, the receiver can still hear both (even if slightly garbled)?

A common question asked about aviation is why AM radio is used rather than FM, I found a historical source from the 50's explaining that they actually tested AM & FM side by side. The differences were small and the manufactures saying they could deliver better AM equipment.

@WatcherontheWeb I ate out frequently in the late 90's. Then the dot-com bubble burst and I spent a few years only eating out if someone else was footing the bill. Then life got better. Then the Lehman Brother happened and I tightened my belt again. Then life got better. Now it's getting worse.

It's crazy how apparently every restaurant until the lat 2000's apparently stayed afloat by selling to only the top 5% of society At least that's according to the Gen X and Boomers on my timeline trying to bullshit and tell us nobody ate out I come at this from the other side of it... I ran/plan to reopen a resteraunt.... Don't lie to me dog....... Y'all ate out. I know you did, because I can look at restaurant customer information restaurants recorded during the period.... Do people my age have a problem doing it too much and ordering WAY more than they should when they do? ABSOLUTELY! But don't lie to me and tell me you didn't eat out ever. MOST (not all) of you are just doing the boomer thing where you selectively remember your past in order to support your point

I want a 2 seat electric pickup the size of the old Ford Ranger. 150mi range would be just fine. Its mostly just going to the hardware store and the nursery.

When someone is bitching about the high cost of takeout food, then bitching about the high cost of groceries, then bitching about the high cost of cookware, then bitching about how much time it takes to go shopping and prepare food from scratch at home... ...it's time to accept the fact that this person doesn't want a solution. They want you to validate their decision to eat out all the time, and validate their victimhood around how much it costs.