@jakozloski This is just the same error as the "life expectancy = healthcare" people make. Insane people, drug addicts, gang members, prisoners, etc. are all likely to be unmarried. Until you can pull those people out, the stat is useless.
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The data on marriage and life outcomes is consistent and not subtle. Married people live longer, earn more, accumulate more wealth, report higher life satisfaction, have lower rates of depression and substance abuse, and produce children who outperform on every measurable dimension. The cultural narrative that marriage is one lifestyle option among equally valid alternatives isn't supported by any longitudinal research. It's a story people tell themselves to feel okay about not getting there.
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@jpodhoretz Jane Eyre is incredibly boring and whiny. Awwww your porridge burnt again, poor you.
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Here is my list of the top ten novels of all time: ANNA KARENINA. WAR AND PEACE. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. MIDDLEMARCH. JANE EYRE. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET. NOTRE DAME DE PARIS (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). TOM JONES. PERE GORIOT.
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@Iophiel @mattyglesias You should compare charts of mandatory maternity leave vs number of kids per couple. Opposite of what you think it would be.
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@mattyglesias They should pass a mandatory 2 year maternity leave paid by employers. Might get bipartisan support.
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@McHeartattack3 @chriswithans There aren't very many of them. They win Dearborn but thats it. And they pretty much vote whoever the D is anyway.
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@chriswithans Why are you sure they are not going to win Michigan? Get ready for 100% of voting aged muslims to swing the election 4-6%
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Yup. Pretty easy to see how the midterm goes if you're willing to accept that Democrats aren't as smart as the Iglesiases and Hananias claim they are.
Distracted by House redistricting and protecting Ossoff in Georgia, Democrats fumble both Michigan and New Hampshire. Maine never ends up competitive. Bam. +2 for Republicans on net as we await the results of the GA runoff and NC recount.
Not what Chuck Schumer expected. But then does anything turnout like he'd hope?
OSZ@OpenSourceZone
2026 Michigan Senate Race: 🔴 Mike Rogers: 42% 🔵 Abdul El Sayed: 41% 🔴 Mike Rogers: 43% 🔵 Mallory McMorrow: 41% 🔴 Mike Rogers: 42% 🔵 Haley Stevens: 39% MICHIGAN MIRS/Mitchell Research | 5/7
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@MurphyMurphyMu3 @RichardHanania Its a factor whether you want it to be or not. I'd rather have people get rich competing for students than wasting taxpayer money paying well-connected idiots who start NGOs and get huge government contracts rich.
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@RichardHanania I think I'd like to live in a society where the profit motive is not a factor in education and healthcare. Happy to see it in most other places.
As someone who works in education, privitisation of various things (mainly recruitment and catering) has been ruinous.
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Sweden is choosing capitalism.
Social spending as percentage of GDP is now 24%, lower than most of Northern Europe.
Sweden has surpassed the US in billionaires per capita.
School choice is universal, one in ten teens goes to a school operated by a company listed on the Stockholm stock exchange.
Taxes have been cut three years in a row.
Sweden has seen "more than 500 initial public offerings over the 10 years through 2024, more than Germany, France, the Netherlands and Spain combined"
Nearly half of primary healthcare clinics are now privately owned.
The result? Same as always. Sweden is projected to grow 2% a year through 2030, which is the same as the US and double France and Germany.
How many times does this have to keep happening across the world? How many times does free market capitalism have to prove itself superior to socialism before the world accepts the truth?
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@ZachFlyman @J_Swish24 Yeah we definitely need more people talking about those 3. Real deep cuts there.
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Swish top 5 guys to watch in The National (2025-26 regular season)
#1 Quinn Hughes. Filth edge work.
#2 Sid. Something about Sid man. Before he got hurt. He was still so nasty at 38 years stung. The Goat.
#3 Jack Hughes aka Jizzy. So Swaggy. Twinkle toeing. I think he can score 50 on multiple occasions with the right supporting staff of players.
#4 Martin Necas. Kinda plays like a way better prime Ales Hemsky. Hemmer was juice too. I like artists. Necas is a painter. He sees the mural before it happens.
#5 Matthew Schaefer. Pretty crazy an 18 year old can change the entire direction and feel of an organization and fanbase. Dude is a straight up vibe. Life is about energy. This kid oozes confidence. Confidence is the soil to energy. 23 tucks as a 18 yo. lol. Electric.
-People’s
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@themikedove @worldhockeyrpt McDavid had the best scoring season of his career in 2023. Karlsson outscored him at 5v5 that year. As a defenseman. On the Sharks.
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@worldhockeyrpt Karlsson should never have been nominated let alone won. He is the turnover king and just as lousy defensively as Bouchard
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So the threshold for Erik Karlsson winning the Norris was 101 points and a -26 but Bouchard can’t get nominated with 95 points and a +25
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@jedhenley @worldhockeyrpt Ya replace McDavid and Draisaitl with Hertl and Barabonov and see how many Bouchard gets lol
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@Oilersfan9911 @SensBuzz He was even at 5v5. On the Sharks. The minus is just a million empty netters against and very few for because SJ lost pretty much every game.
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Erik Karlsson was up 34 Points on Logan Couture and up 25 Points on the next highest scoring defenceman in the NHL
Evan Bouchard was 43 Points back of Connor McDavid and up 14 Points on the next highest scoring defenceman in the NHL
You’ve gotta remember the context of that great EK65 season
World Hockey Report@worldhockeyrpt
So the threshold for Erik Karlsson winning the Norris was 101 points and a -26 but Bouchard can’t get nominated with 95 points and a +25
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@LittleMikeyMcD @Hardymatt0 European advanced degrees are a joke. German professionals basically write an essay on how their first year at work went and they get a PhD lol
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My first degree was a masters in maths. My second was a masters in education. The difference is night and day.
The education degree is a joke. The only challenging aspect is thinking which thoughts and ideas you need to hold back on to not upset the clearly leftist ""'professor""". You don't learn anything useful. You just learn to adopt and use educational lingo: saying nice-sounding cliches that have zero substance to them.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Teachers average among the least intelligent university graduates. Little of what they 'learn' is even relevant to what they end up doing. In a given year, the lowest-scoring groups on the GRE, SAT, and ACT are usually those pursuing degrees in education.
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@Hardymatt0 @KrisinVermont "Correlated with IQ" and "intelligence test" is so unbelievablely different it is insane that someone talking about intelligence would post that lol. Search "classical name that song" on YouTube and you will get a million tests that correlate with IQ.
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@KrisinVermont GRE is highly correlated with IQ. It basically is an intelligence test
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@iknowthetimes @MattWalshBlog Animals already think and reason. Their communication is more primitive, but if cats could learn English or whatever its not like that would invalidate the gospel. In fact, it is insane to think that. Its completely irrelevant.
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@GeneralSnoop @MattWalshBlog I’m mainly speaking of non-redeemed humanoid life forms capable of thought and reason
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I'm a lot more open to the possibility of aliens than many people here, but the idea that anything related to aliens or UFOs could have "Bible-changing" implications is totally ridiculous. There is no reason why it should shake anyone's faith to find out that God created other lifeforms on other planets out there in the vast cosmos. There are like a hundred billion galaxies. My faith does not demand that I assume they're all completely empty.
Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS
Religious leaders told 'prepare now' for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations
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@SnowLizard2000 @DanFriedman81 @GarrettPetersen I dont think the mob disappearing people is ideal lol. We should probably just actually put him in jail.
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@DanFriedman81 @GarrettPetersen I wonder if 50 years ago somebody in that building called a guy they knew who knew a guy and pretty soon it was “whatever happened to that tranny with the ax, oh well” and the lack of this is why things keep getting worse
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He's been caught on camera masturbating in the building's hallways. He threatens his neighbors with axes. A few weeks ago, he opened all the burners on his stove and tried to set the building on fire.
He's still living there and the neighbors are terrified. The landlord can't throw him out because of New York's tenant protections. When the police arrest him, he's immediately released on his own recognizance and goes right back to the building. The prosecutors in the Bronx and the mayor of New York are deeply committed to keeping people like this out of prison.
There are a million laws and rules and institutions protecting him, and none protecting you from him.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Hatchet-wielding, cross-dressing, m*sterbating, New Yorker caught on camera terrorizing people in a Bronx apartment building. The thong-wearing freak has been identified as 28-year-old Anthony Orozco. Neighbors say they are terrified to go in the hallways where Orozco will walk around with no clothes on, touching himself. He is also accused of turning on all his stove burners in this apartment so that gas filled the apartment. The fire department came out and cut off the gas, meaning the entire building had to live without gas for a month. Orozco hasn't paid for rent in over a year, but gets to live for free, thanks to the fact that the housing court has not issued an eviction warrant, according to the New York Post.
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@KevinMcCurdy @citchmook To be fair, Karlsson was even/positive at 5v5. He was in front of SJs empty net for 3 mins every single game.
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@citchmook 11 out of the last 20 years have been the points leader (including the famous Erik Karlsson 101 pt / -26 season), 4 times they were second place, 5 times were not. That argument does not stand up to scrutiny. Do it over 40 years, it's the same story.
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The hypocrisy of this award is on full display on two fronts:
1. If it's a point scoring award (which is basically has been for the past 20 years), not including Bouchard here is a massive snub. In that timeframe the points leader won 11 times, second won it 4 times, and the remaining times (V. Hedman (5th), D. Doughty (9th), D. Keith (6th), Z. Chára (12th), N. Lidström (5th)) closed out the remainder. I haven't checked but I would bet the leader was a finalist in all those cases.
2. If in fact it's a defensive award now, not including Moritz Seider is a snub of epic proportions. He is far and away the best defensive defenseman in the league.
One has to question how the conclusions of the voters were drawn, it's not a bad list, but I'm not sure I can call it fair when the guy that led all of these guys by 14 points isn't even a finalist.
NHL@NHL
The James Norris Memorial Trophy finalists are in! 🏆 #NHLAwards The trophy is presented annually to the defenseman who demonstrates the greatest all-around ability at the position.
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@iknowthetimes @MattWalshBlog There are also like, elephants and bugs and stuff lol
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@MattWalshBlog Christ is currently seated at the right hand of the Father in a glorified human body. He redeemed humans, not any other life forms.
The Bible already has a category for other non-redeemed life forms in the universe; they are called demons.
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@EdAsante77 @kmele Ethnicity matters and race does not. Nigerians dont deserve to be binned in with Somalis just the same as I dont deserve to be binned with various former Yugoslavians. No race can have a decent average in anything with Somalis dragging them down!
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In the main white kids in poverty tend to outperform black kids not in poverty, so seems to me race does matter a lot.
Kmele 🖐@kmele
He's halfway there. But what accounts for the disparity @NickKristof highlights? It's family structure, curricula, various other policy choices... and all impacting the lives of PARTICULAR children. When you sort the same test results by income rather than race, a comparable disparity emerges, and it points more directly at practical remedies. If we stop obsessing over race, we see the problems/solutions more clearly.
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@paolodurex @NandoLinares @jmgmoron @RadioestadioN Thats the point. Right now the game is very heavily centered on the 1 and only non-interactive shot in the game. If returns become too strong, at least the person serving still has some control over the situation.
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¿Qué pensáis de esta opinión de Toni Nadal?
🗣️ "Para cambiar el tenis propondría jugar con una raqueta más pequeña. Hoy en día la mayoría de partidos se basan en pegar lo más fuerte posible y no hay táctica contra ello"
🎙️ @RadioestadioN
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@MH4188769972619 @foster_type General Patton had planes and tanks!
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@foster_type "Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, then anything built by man can be overcome." -- Gen. Patton (Geo. C. Scott), Patton (1970)
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Despite his structural disadvantages Lee opted to attempt to invade the Union twice and both attempts failed spectacularly and deprived him of resources and manpower. His strategy should have been more defensive, force the Union to attack fortified positions. Built a fortress. THAT might have worn down the Union's political will, where his brash offensive operations only strengthened it.
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You’re assuming that Lee had the luxury of excess manpower and supplies to strategize across multiple theaters. He didn’t. Grant did. And that Lee had that luxury, the strategic situation improved greatly. See Battle of Chickamauga. And I’m not even going to dignify a response to the claim that the union army was overstretched and exhausted
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@roleoor @puresinnema Or when he was almost unable to continue the match in the heat against Rune last year but they let him take a 20min break and then the net somehow broke right after, so he got like 45 mins to recover...
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jannik sinner has mathematically solved tennis. just like how the 3-point/analytics revolution in the nba has made it lose its mystery, jannik has done the same in tennis. absolutely 0 holes in his game, not one single achilles heel on the tennis court. you have to pray for divine intervention from the sun to even be worth his time on court. an absolute machine
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@ckreimendahl @taste_of_tbone Quite obviously the point of the question is that Skenes isnt in on it and throwing you derby pitches lol.
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If you can hit a ball 400' all you have to do is fully know the terms of his pitching to know if you've got a great bet.
Fastballs over the heart of the plate? Can I tell him where? Can I spend a month getting used to 94mph? Can I give him $10 million to throw 25 of them at 80mph?... Etc.
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