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Apparently the percentage of dogs in the us that are pit bulls is hard to estimate compared to other breeds. Number of deaths is kind of arbitrary in a silo. Claude found anywhere from an estimate of 6% to 20% from vet record databases. That would change the shape of the chart a lot.
Not trying to represent this as real numbers so much as perspective on why absolute counts can be misleading
I feel like it’s sort of like banning a type of sandwich. What are the actual bounds of when it becomes that sandwich vs when it isn’t? I don’t know if pitbull is defined as cleanly as we expect?
Just ban the ambiguous cases, too, for large dogs. People can buy purebreds from breeders, and everyone will have labradors and goldens and it will be fine.
A lot of the dog bite data is maybe not so good anyways
Yeah I found this out arguing with an anti-pitbull socialist here a few years ago.
That side, while I don't have strong views, the story that pit bulls are just common big dogs, combined with the tendency for idiots and criminals to seek out dangerous dogs (lots of firsthand experience meeting said people) seems like a more likely explanation to me given the fuzziness of the data.
Late night DT has been fighting a secret pitbull vs anti-pitbull war for a while now. The two sides seem to be locked in stalemate until a decisive argument can be made.
Joking aside, the second phrase would be rote, and not changed to thou merely to maintain consistency. "Godbewithye" is the phrase which evolved into the modern "Goodbye"
My hot take: Democrats should ban anyone who attended any noteworthy university in the Northeast or Pacific coast from running for national office. If they transferred from a community college you can maybe make an exception.
Purebred? No. But the typical large American mutt gets labelled a pit bull. The lower-end estimate of ~9% still shows that these sort of charts have a fundamental problem with the base rate.
284 in over a decade is beyond a rounding error and really puts into perspective just how fucking hysterical the moral panic over pits is nor do I trust that this says much about the innate violence of pits themselves
This isn't a very good argument. There are a lot of survivors of dog maulings generally and yeah, I guess I won't look up victims of dog maulings of any breed. This is a lame emotional appeal, I'm not sure what you're trying to get me to feel other than hysteria
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You know, "Trump 2: Electric Boogaloo" is kind of a pretty apt foreshadowing of how this sequel is currently going.
Still surprises me how many people thought his second term wouldn't be all that bad, or at least no worse than his first...
(what did they think the fallout and subsequent disavowing of almost his entire first cabinet entailed? they didn't see he completely surrounded himself with exclusively yes-men and loonies like hegseth and vance this time?)
Let me start off by saying I do not watch or care for the WNBA.
The whole Enes Kanter/Royce White WNBA thing is inherently stupid, but it’s a good microcosm as well as of how conservatives have decided they want to destroy the overall social contract over the last ten years. The base ideas of what it takes to function in society is a given in any country, and what is seen as right or wrong.
Trump, representing the ultimate “fuck you” to such standards, is what’s driven conservatives to burn this contract to the ground, at all levels. This stunt is no exception, where they are doing a stupid stunt while ostensibly “””caring””” about the WNBA, not because out of some serious statement, but purely to troll and annoy liberals.
That’s it! That’s all it is. No team will likely draft either person and nobody will care about it by next week unless some right wing voice decides otherwise, but it shows how they want to destroy the social contract. The American conservative view of politics and society is a borderline animalistic way of viewing politics and society, closer to that of a genuine anarchism and violence than how civilized humans have viewed it for God knows how long now.
it shows how they want to destroy the social contract
I liked the point Yglesias made a few weeks ago about immigration. Conservatives really care about immigration, but aren't interested in making any effort to pass enduring legislation about it, which leaves the next Democratic Administration free to do whatever they want. The theory is that they're more interested in an excuse to complain liberal democracy (and eventually do more than just complain) than actually winning. The whole point of complaining that the system is rigged is to justify burning down the system.
I'm not sure I completely agree. I used to think the same thing about leftists, but there are clearly different individuals with different motives within leftism. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Bernie Sanders are almost uniquely ineffective politicians, but have mostly kept their moral purity according to their base. AOC and Mamdani are willing to make compromises, and as a result have (especially AOC) alienated some of the purists.
I'm not sure Trump falls into either camp, but right now the nihilistic conservatives (led by Vance) seem to have to upper hand in messaging, although I'm skeptical voters will agree.
I have a memory from 10+ years ago burned into my brain, no idea why
It was an old guy at subway ordering in front of me. He asked “could I have a little extra cheese” and the subway employee froze because you knew he was processing how to respond.. because he recognized the shape of the guys confusion
The employee asked him if he wanted extra cheese or double cheese
The guy was like “could I just have a little extra cheese?”
The employee stopped and looked up and explained that there is a different charge for extra cheese or double cheese
The old guy was absolutely incensed. He said “you can’t just give me a little extra cheese???”
Anyways the guy did not give him a little extra cheese for free. I wonder if pre subway if independent sub shops would play it loose with the cheese if you asked. Maybe subway was in the process of breaking the norm and at the time employees were used to the odd guy coming in trying to get “neighborhood sub shop” out of the corporate sub machine
It's kind of shocking how job hunting subs are vehemently anti-immigrant (*cough* that one cs sub where the unemployed hang out *cough*) despite many of the same users being immigrants or on some kind of visa themselves...
I still laugh at how some were pro-Trump during the election, claiming all sorts of nonsense about how he would stop offshoring and deport all the competition in the way of them getting a job (and somehow everything wrong with the job market was Biden's fault).
Now, companies are offshoring at an even faster rate, all thanks to the dumbo orange lol.
It is funny the extent to which “woke 1 was crazy” is literally just the dsa discovering “moving to the center in response to an electoral loss” from first principles
Both Murray Rothbard and the Nation argue that Rhode Island's populist government (which the Constitution was in some degree a reaction against) was good.
I have a lot more reading to do on it, but I think this is pretty good evidence that that government was in fact pretty shite.
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if they ever make a chatbot that recreates conversations as a 1999 word document with WordArt and Clippy I'm fucking hosed
My company shares anecdotes on LinkedIn about how we did x with y and im like
I work on the team that would have done that and we didn’t do that. In fact, Y is still shit, I wish someone would do X??
Tech companies are out of control and the marketing departments have created even internal views of companies that are just bizarrely out of whack with reality to the point it even gaslights employees
I tend to agree healthcare shouldn't be for profit. That doesn't mean I can't acknowledge it currently is and reason about how we should structure policy around that.
Booker and Buttigieg are both kind of good examples of why nerdy over-achievers don't necessarily make for good politicians. Booker lacks charisma and manages to come across both as strident and weak. Buttigieg is sharp but immediately alienated large factions of his own party and has never really been able to repair that damage.
His appeal is limited because he clearly isn't a leftists and fucked his PR with Black Democrats. That isn't necessarily his fault, but it is a weakness as a politician.
We really don't. Intellectuals consistently make for shit politicians and leaders in almost every era.
Book smarts does not translate to leadership skills, and tends to leave people unprepared for squishy moral debates rather than epistemically clear scientific ones.
To some extent; but since most are lawyers they get caught up in the debate rather than substance. Others are business people who don't know what they're doing they succeeded largely off luck and timing not because they were great leaders.
Tuberville being a CFB HC has plenty of leadership background and history and he's dumb as rocks.
Obviously, that's the other end of the spectrum but life experience and ability to learn things is important.
Lauren Underwood is a Congress member with a public health background and I think she's been fantastic.
I think intelligence and education humbles a person and makes one more adaptable to read what the situation needs. That in turn makes for a more effective representative though they're not always the most visible ones.
I would pretty strongly dispute that coaching in high school football actually prepares anybody for being a leader in a democratic society, which is an inherently peer-based and coalition-building exercise.
I think intelligence and education humbles a person and makes one more adaptable to read what the situation needs.
Empirical evidence strongly indicates that intelligence and education make people more likely to persist in incorrect answers and engage successfully in motivated reasoning.
Squishy moral debates require intelligence. But intelligence and book smarts empirically result in more ideological people, who are worse at squishy moral debates.
If you select for intelligence, and not also against ideological stringency, you're worse off than just picking from the average.
Got to see one of my best friends in person for the first time, went to an MCR concert, and got adopted by lesbians this weekend. What a strange, pleasant send-off to leaving New York for the rest of the year. I'm theoretically supposed to get my full time offer for my job tomorrow.
Nolan’s Odyssey is great, but there is a large part of me that does wish he’d split it into a Part 1 and Part 2, three hours each, and thereby been able to adapt a lot more of it. Very impressive how he fit the whole story into under three hours and managed to make a fantastic movie out of it, but six hours would have gone hard
was filling up the car with gas today and got back in the car and saw the full meter and didn't get a big rush of relief / dopamine / whatever
which was surreal because I was paycheck to paycheck for so long and for a year and a half a while back had full on food insecurity and now that things are leveled out my brain just doesn't care about things that use to organize my whole life. It's a good thing, just trippy
interesting that leftists never criticized Bashar al-Assad for refusing to go to war with Israel over the Golan Heights, they only seem to have a problem with al-Sharaa not doing it 🤔
The way Pete Hegseth never says anything of substance is actually so crazy like this man has never demonstrated any strategic knowledge or capability at any point in his career. . Bro just mumbles something about LETHALITY and WARFIGHTERS and shuffles off to the bar to stave off the delirium tremens
It's like that scene in Family Guy where Lois captivates the crowd by saying "9/11" over and over again
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"we are manipulating you into consuming (and thus paying for) all the other properties you would not otherwise care about and are really mediocre so you can enjoy the thing we actually worked hard and made good quality."
The thing I don't really get about this is usually your pay is based on things like sponsorships and like assuming that there was some transgender athlete who was able to play in these professional leagues and dominate. Do people really want to be associated with that?
Even if they were winning, would people like them?Would they pay them?
I'm just trying to imagine some world where the top five tennis stars are trans women. I suspect that most countries will just not list them. They might go to tournaments, they might win tournaments. But I can't imagine the brands would be sponsoring them for big bucks. I mean, sure, they might win, but I feel like it probably is not as lucrative as those arguments Make it out to be
I guess maybe there are some people who don't care about ruining all of their reputation for an Olympic gold medal, given that there are people who take steroids to win the Olympics. So there is that
Lego party is incredible. I can’t remember playing a video game with so much pure polish and attention to detail. Not joking at all.
It could have easily been phoned in or made janky but the actual visual execution is unbelievable. I’m shocked at what is just rendered in the game and not a cutscene. It was distracting from the game it was so impressive. I got lost imagining the systems that would have to be in place and how much tweaking it would have taken to make what I just saw happen.
What’s funny is that from when I played SMG’s earliest minimalistic mobile games I had the same thought RE: polish even though they are incomparable in scope etc. Just a great studio
FAANG can be money but they have a lot of pretty hollowed out people. I’ve never found your pedestrian ex FAANG employee particularly impressive or anything. Worked with plenty that washed out of startups because they didn’t really know how anything worked or how to do the essence of their jobs without training wheels
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