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This is the real problem with academia right here. A huge number of professors are dumb as fuck, have absolutely no idea what is going on or how anything works, are unable to learn, and take up positions that could have been filled by someone competent and deserving.
Probably even less. I'd guess more like 10-15.
Of course it should go without saying that the other "work" (research) that you do is in service of your education.
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Hi @10DowningStreet I hear children are being groomed on @LinkedIn can you please ban that too?
π¨ NEW: The Government is set to ban under-16s from eBay, Vinted and Depop over fears their messaging features allow adults to groom children
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This is actually something that worries me--the younger generations really *don't know* what they're missing. They *don't know* what actually used to be objectively better. It's very hard to understand how much worse many things have gotten without having experienced them.
The younger generation don't know what they're missing. The older generation are busy getting angry at fake news they see on fb
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I mean this! I'm serious!
Aside from the fact that it's horrifying that anyone considers these people rational in any sense, it does enormous damage to the *actual* scientific descriptions of us and our effects on the world! People are suspicious enough of good quantifications!
Everyone is offended by the quantification, but what they really should be offended by is that a person who is allegedly rational, allegedly knows how to meaningfully quantify these things, and allegedly has thought about this, quantifies it as "I think perhaps 2 or 3 times."
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Overwhelming public support in the online poll you had to prove you were an adult to vote in by showing your government ID, in the country that sends police to threaten kids for criticizing the government online.
Tomorrow, 3 categories of pornography will become illegal under the Crime and Policing Act 2026. Our new poll shows the public support the banning of each type
-Porn depicting someone who appears or is pretending to be under 16: 88% support
-Porn depicting strangulation/suffocation: 78%
-Porn depicting apparent incest or pretend incest: 77%
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Who could've seen this coming! If only someone had told us that these laws had nothing to do with child safety and that was just an excuse!
Labour MPs are now trying to ban oral sex.
We're bringing back sodomy laws, chaps.
And because no one wants to be known as 'the sex mp', we're simply letting these awful miserable sexless puritanical modern mary whitehouses roll back the sexual freedoms hard won sixty years ago
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What is it that makes people respond to posts like this with the most simplistic childish responses possible?
Diet studies often find that ~80% of weight comes back within 5 years. If calorie math is so simple (calories in minus calories out), why do diets so rarely succeed long-term? Dr. Katharine Saunders explains in our latest Clearer Thinking podcast episode: podcast.clearerthinking.org/β¦
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Isn't this functionally the same as mandatory disability insurance?
European hiring rules are genuinely insane.
For example - if you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees gets sick, you are required to pay at least 70% of their wages for up to 2 years.
If they can't go back to work after 2 years and you haven't done enough for their reintegration, you pay their wages for 1 more year. And you can't fire them until after that extra year!
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What I really don't understand is, the cops who arrested her, the CPS people involved, the prosecutors involved, and everyone else involved at any point, are almost all old enough to have lived when this was extremely common, and their parents probably did this too!
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Do all these AI people think that mathematicians and physicists were previously doing everything literally on paper, with no computer assistance at all??
It's really nuts to me how they can read complaint after complaint and then post something like this.
Tbh I thought the point of advanced maths was solving useful problems but apparently I was just spectacularly wrong and there was this giant group of guys all stealing a living this whole time, doing something more akin to art criticism with numbers
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I love how often this gets posted, and every time no one comments on the growth stopping in *2014* or the clear decline gradual decline between 2015-2020.
Like, did you guys actually try posting on SO? There's a reason people dropped it as soon as any alternative existed.
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Comments here are cancer, so I'll post this as a quote.
Has there been any serious scholarship on how to deal with the "voting yourself more benefits" problem? This is an issue for *any* kind of benefit, not just welfare. Once that group becomes a majority it's all over.
If you receive welfare, you shouldnβt get to vote because you'd be a single-issue voter on maintaining and increasing your welfare, plus voting for any party that promises to do this.
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So I have this theory I developed when I was in high school, reading comments to threads like this.
The theory is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, high-functioning schizophrenia is a real disease and it's relatively common. The thought patterns of it are very identifiable.
If faster-than-light travel were possible at all, the question βWhy haven't aliens visited us by now?β would become βWhy won't any future aliens ever visit us?β
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My concern isn't that these laws are awful or that the politicians who support them can't see why. Those are both big problems, but they are solvable.
I am *much* more worried about the inability of the political system as a whole to identify and prevent these problems at all.
Ofcom admits thereβs been "no significant change" in children encountering harmful material since the Online Safety Act came into force.
The law created giant digital ID honeypots and rampant censorship - while failing to stop harm.
The left fell into a Tory surveillance trap by backing content prohibition over platform accountability. Why are we now expanding a broken law into subjective topics like "depression" and "body image"?
Itβs time for a total rethink - which must start with Labour scrapping the Online Safety Act.
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Dear god, the comments here are conclusive proof that no one on twitter should ever be allowed to vote or participate in society in any way. The collateral damage of intelligent voters who use twitter will be well worth it.
Hot take: the voting age should be lowered to 16. If you'll be an adult for the majority of the next administration, you should have a democratic say in it.
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Can we try ever being serious about drug development? Maybe we can all start by understanding even one thing about it before making a blanket statement like this?
It's possible for the FDA to be slow and inefficient but also for trials to be useful and to take a long time.
the death toll from the drugs the FDA was slow to approve is likely higher than the deaths they've prevented
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I will never understand how a person can look at large-scale social issues and think they're the result of every individual just making a bad decision for no reason, and it could just easily be undone if they made different decisions.
It's the "egg producers are greedy" of social arguments, but worse.
It's just magical thinking. Bad things are caused by bad things, and intent is what mediates this. That is *literally* what witches believe! lmgtfy.com/?q=setting+intentβ¦
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It frustrates me so much that people think the internet was ruined by greedy companies.
No! It is the cumulative result of pressure from advocacy groups, regulation, and laws, creating burdens that make the old internet untenable.
And they are trying to destroy what's left.
We saw so much we grew up with that gave us meaning as kids get taken from our hands and smashed by evil old folks and tech demons
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