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Jay Howard
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@mstokes1981 @wresbyterian @CAHutch1990 I can see the argument against "no songs that aren't recent", but that doesn't describe all non-denominational congregations. I don't see the argument for hymns that are "specifically Presbyterian". What would that even mean?
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@mstokes1981 @wresbyterian @CAHutch1990 Out of curiosity: why? Must hymnody be denomination-specific?
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@marcportermagee One note: they define "underemployed" as "working in a role where fewer than half of individuals in that role have a bachelor's degree". So someone who gets a chemical engineering degree then ends up teaching middle school technically isn't underemployed.
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Who gets to put their degree to work at their job?
Nurses, engineers and special ed teachers
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@ernietedeschi You might -actually- be poor (as opposed to the "Europoor" meme). Or you're living in an old-age home and it's not your call to make.
This is a good point, though- most heat deaths in Europe are probably "avoidable". The deceased just chose to roll the dice and forego AC.
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@jayphoward Why couldn't you get AC? My impression is that the reason it isn't popular in Europe is that energy is expensive and buildings/home usually don't come with AC units, but you can still buy portable AC units.
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To make it modestly less crazy: the EU27 has 34% more people (449 million v 336 million in 2024).
But the number of EU heat deaths is ~37% more than the number of US gun deaths.
So the *rates* are roughly even if not still a smidgen higher in the EU.
Bryan Beal 🎧@bryanrbeal
The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns
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@ernietedeschi ... commit crimes, your likelihood of being killed by a gun go way down. However, in Europe, you could "do everything right" and still die to heat because you just happen to be old and/or sick.
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@ernietedeschi One angle to this: most U.S. gun deaths are either self-inflicted, committed by someone known to the victim, or happen in the context of the *victim* committing a crime (often drug related). If you aren't suicidal, aren't in a gang, don't keep a gun in your home and don't ...
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Semi-serious Q: What's a good term to use for a professor who (a) insists they're not a Marxist, but (b):
- Agrees with 95% of what Marx said
- Loads their syllabi with Marx & other explicitly Marxist readings
- Appeals to Marxist analysis and concepts in all their publications
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@ImNotAStatistic My dryer broke and I called a local repair place. Technician came out, fixed it, then gave me the price which was labor + parts. Paid using an app on his phone, which had a tip option.
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I was at a concert last week and purchased merch for my kid. The girl that turned around and got the hoodie from a bin then showed me a checkout screen with a tip option.
Anthony LaMesa@ajlamesa
I feel like we’re not talking enough about how tip creep has made people feel bad about the economy. The America in which I grew up didn’t ask me to leave 20% extra on top of my $3 Dunkin’ Donuts purchase.
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@marcportermagee Because multiple students in the same class did the same google search, and because those searches returned the same example, they were flagged for copying someone else's work (or allowing their work to be copied).
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@marcportermagee I read the subreddit of my alma mater. Recently some computer science students reported being flagged for academic dishonesty on some assignments. Seems they had googled "how to do X" and the Gemini search results contained a working example, which they then submitted.
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Did AI break professional writing?
“As I read The Future of Truth, I ran across an unusual amount of clunky repetition, formulaic transitions, and perplexing passages”
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@RyanRadia @mattyglesias btw, I just googled some coffee places I frequented when I was a college student in Austin to see when they opened. The earliest opened in 1993. There may be some others (now closed) that opened earlier that I've forgotten. First Starbucks in town opened in 1994.
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@RyanRadia @mattyglesias Yes! We considered it! I anticipate making this trip several more times (kid is a college student in Minnesota), so next time I may try someplace that isn't a chain.
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Zoomers would struggle to understand what coffee used to be like outside of maybe a half dozen neighborhoods in New York.
Stan Veuger@stanveuger
Better economic analysis from Wallace Shawn than 99% of what we see here: “In a way, I’m still downwardly mobile from my parents…But I don’t think my mother ever had a cappuccino. So am I downwardly mobile or upwardly mobile? Because I can have cappuccinos all the time.” interviewmagazine.com/film/wallace-s…
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@RyanRadia @mattyglesias That's surprising. I would have guessed Starbucks to be the first to arrive. At at a Jason's Deli in West Des Moines earlier this week, btw, while driving from Minnesota to Texas. Not that that has anything to do with anything.
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@mattyglesias In Des Moines, I think the first second-wave coffee shop opened in 1991, and there were at least a half dozen independent second-wave shops by 1996. (But no Starbucks locations until 2002.)
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@ubuto23 @cremieuxrecueil @orthonormalist Programs that purport to flag AI are unreliable. I don't pay attention to them. Ran my own tests with work I did & saw it's all nonsense. Stuff that was 0 percent AI flagged as 70 percent. Stuff where I had an AI generate text in a way to avoid known detection patterns was 0% AI.
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Update: After scanning almost 23,000 dissertations, I can now say... it's REALLY bad out there.
More than 1-in-5 dissertations uses AI nowadays, much of the time to do all of the writing.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
I just found something more indicting than this. I'm writing a paper documenting the rise of AI in PhD dissertations. As you might predict, there's been an explosion in the use of AI to complete PhDs. It's embarrassing: PhDs will increasingly not mean 'experts' on anything.
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@ubuto23 @max_spero_ @cremieuxrecueil @orthonormalist This result seems to be saying you can tweak AI-generated text so that detectors rate it as human. If these Ph.D. students are doing that, then wouldn't that imply the share of dissertations that use AI is actually *higher* than what @cremieuxrecueil found?
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@3471Mgm @MatthewKeysLive Apparently not since we're on twitter talking about him right now.
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@MatthewKeysLive Why cant these people just go away. They cannot leave the spotlight. Realize that nobody cares once your not forced upon people on TV. Colbert will be forgotten a few days after hes off the air.
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Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.
Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.
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@CoreyWriting Likely has to do with the distinction between recruiting and using different admission standards. This is the former.
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@MostlyMonkey Even in a scenario in which median income is higher in each generations there will be many individuals who earn less than their parents by way of regression to the mean. For instance, if you're Elon Musk's kid, it's not a personal failing to not be the Musk of your generation.
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If you make less than your parents did, that is a personal failure, not a cohort effect. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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Is this downward mobility in the room with us now?
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@leon78431 @CoreyWriting Sure. So the person's surprise in the quoted tweet seems pretty reasonable for the "T" set of voters. Somewhat less reasonable for the "LGBQ" voters, but even there somewhat reasonable considering some of the AfD's stated positions.
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@jayphoward @CoreyWriting i'm not and the bulk of those people are just from the LGB category
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They're at the most vulnerable from leftist immigration policies.
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
Wait, what? I didn’t have the German LGBTQ community voting for the AfD on my bingo card. What am I missing here?
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