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@ArtemisConsort Do you have sources on these claims? Would love to have them available when I talk to social constructionists

Men and women are psychologically different on average, and the more dimensions you consider simultaneously the more stark this difference becomes. We find it in every culture, and it persists as societies liberalize. We find it in other great ape species. We find it in pre-verbal children. The idea that this is all socially constructed is an unfalsifiable conspiracy theory. Whether or not a biological view of sex differences is “progressive,” it’s true.

@C_Kavanagh Gotta be exhausting dedicating so much time to hating on people even after they've died

Scott Adam’s wasn’t a master psychologist or an insightful political strategist. He was a cartoonist, a self proclaimed master hypnotist, and a polemical partisan MAGA supporter, who endorsed lying when it served his purposes and regularly promoted conspiracy theories.

Then you are a terrible thinker.

@ChrisMartzWX @AviBittMD curious what your thoughts are on this

How climate “scientists” deceive people with statistics: Figure 6.5 from the 4th National Climate Assessment (NCA4) shows that the 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 of record high temperature occurrences to record lows in the United States has increased significantly since 1930. The authors imply that this is incontrovertible evidence that record high temperatures are occurring more often now than they used to, saying, 🗨️ “𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 [sic] 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒-1970𝑠 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒔 [sic] 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝐵𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠. 𝑂𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 (𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑤-𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠). 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑒𝑤 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑖𝑛 15 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 20 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 2012 𝑎𝑛𝑑 2016 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 (𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦).” 🔗 ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/… I wanted to reproduce this chart, so I took the liberty to download all NOAA GHCNd station files. I then selected all United States stations and filtered them so that I could examine records from long-term stations (which NCA4 did, although to my knowledge, they didn't define their criteria). Using my judgement, I selected all 711 stations that have at least 100 years of daily data with at least 85% of daily observations available (i.e., no more than 15% of days missing in the records). Finally, I wrote a Python script to analyze daily record high maximums and low minimums and count the number by year set (including all tied records where applicable), then ran the analysis from 1895 to 2024 (since 2025 is not fully in). As it turns out, the number of record high temperatures have not increased since 1895. In fact, they have decreased since the 1950s (see top panel of figure on the right). The number of record lows (middle panel) have decreased too, but sharply since the late 1980s. Because of that, if you compute these raw values as a ratio with record lows in the denominator, it produces a sharp increase in the ratio of record high to low temperature records after 1990. That's what NCA4 did, and I was able to produce a very similar plot to verify that. So, while NCA4 didn't lie, they mislead people by using ratios. The IPCC does the same thing with hurricane statistics.

@Hindsight__ How does this work

Intentional body block.

@soigomaa Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

please recommend some movies that feel like therapy, pls pls. movies that make you realize so many things in life. movies that make you cry so hard, that are gut-wrenching yet cleansing, and that gently remind you of your most vulnerable side

@AviBittMD I also stand peeing up

Just checking in on how Woke Right Sherlock Holmes is doing...

@AviBittMD I wonder if there's been an increase in the white demographic/decrease in the others over time and if this has caused a perceptual change that it's all white women getting abortions now. Any idea how the demographic breakdowns trend over time?

This is just divorced from reality. White women have the lowest rates of abortions, mostly due to having lower rates of unintended pregnancies.

@AviBittMD Same here. Worked well for me but I remember having conversations with other classmates who said that method didn't work for them. Like you said though it's probably worth being open to new techniques if you're struggling

This might just be me, but I nearly always found my performance as a student to be best when I didn't take notes at all (written or typed) and simply focused all my mental effort on seeing, listening, and understanding the material. Everyone to my left and right were furiously scribbling away and it seemed they were more focused on the task of replicating the material on a piece of paper than actually absorbing it in their minds.

@thealsaster But remember when Shuton daired a pikmin

Belmont has the worst recovery in the game

@ThePriscilla Can you buy it anywhere?

Listen very closely please 40% of the population has the MTHFR gene mutation which means we can’t properly process vitamin B from most sources. The only form of B that processes correctly is an ORAL SOLUBLE Vitamin B ->FROM FOLATE<- It will fix you.

@ThePriscilla Denver has great weather and scenery. Probably similar to Minnesota in some respects but still a lot of great people

Where should I move?

@ThePriscilla Screwtape Letters is a solid choice

What are your favorite books? In no order: The Count of Monte Cristo The Scarlet Pimpernel Persuasion Sense and Sensibility Lord of the Rings The Screwtape Letter The Four Loves The Art of War Winnie The Pooh

@ArtemisConsort LOL what a twist

Okay follow up: she is his employee, and evidently a very bad one. I guess he fired her recently. They had a big messy argument about it.

Listening to a party next door. Woman: “you seem fertile, can I say that? Like, girls, doesn’t he seem fertile to you?” Now he’s talking about how he only has one descended testicle, the details of spermatogenesis (including that term). Incredible fumble.

@alexandrosM Yeah he dismissed the idea that the FCC pressured them. I've seen elsewhere people claim the FCC simply notified ABC he had broken their rules and then ABC made the decision. I hadn't seen the context with Carr you provided until after my initial post. Agree with your take

@samfish_smash He doesn't make an argument. He simply dismisses the obvious trigger. x.com/johnkunza/stat…

However indefensible, Jimmy Kimmel exercised free speech, and you're not different than Fauci demanding punishment of people who don't repeat what he considers to be the truth.

@XzibitAtLaw @Chronos_Carried Only watched parts of it but what's an example of where it's disingenuous/missing context

@Chronos_Carried I abhor political violence. I disagree with Charlie Kirk on most things, but I condemn his murder. That said, this video is comically disingenuous and it takes all of 15 minutes of looking into the context to see that.

Amir Odom if one of the most inspiring voices for me and he represents a lot of my views. He still has left leaning friends. He still has friends in the lgbt community. BUT… he has morals. And he tells the truth.

Pray for Charlie Kirk and his family. Looks unlikely he will survive but hope he pulls through.

@JRay5280 Bro I kinda forgot about you how's it hanging. I remember you but forgot your tag before you changed it lol what was that Roy goin by back in the day

@stevewilldoit btc

I turn 27 today. Sending someone 2.7k BTC cuz I love u. U changed my life. You aren’t fake demonic motherfuckers like everyone else in my life . I love u . Comment btc and like

@jamkinamki Five more years you will discover it was you who was bad. Will I need to come back and put these other characters in place?

it’s taken nearly 5 years of playing smash ultimate to accept this, but i finally have: villager is BAD i’m still committed to them, love them, will always main them, & do think they are still better than people think, but i've lost a lot of faith in the characters viability D: