bostonbananarama
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- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
But that’s not true. It depends if you live in a “right-to-work” state. Currently there are 26 of them, mostly red states. I would assume that, by population, the majority of Americans do not live in “right-to-work” states.
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 1 month ago:
If it makes you feel any better, that house would sell for at least double that price where I live.
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
Yes, I’m on one side, with dictionaries, etymology, and the majority of atheists, and you’re on the other side. I would agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.
Google:
noun: atheism. disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.
Gnostic - adjective. relating to knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.
Me:
Theism is belief in a god, atheism is a lack of belief. Atheism is not necessarily a belief that god does not exist.
Gnostic is about knowledge and not belief
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
Theism is belief in a god, atheism is a lack of belief. Atheism is not necessarily a belief that god does not exist. Gnostic is about knowledge and not belief, which is why you can have an agnostic theist. Agnostic is not a middle ground between theism and atheism, there is no middle ground. I can correct you, but I can’t make you understand it.
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
Theism is belief in a god, atheism is a lack of belief. Atheism is not necessarily a belief that god does not exist. Gnostic is about knowledge and not belief, which is why you can have an agnostic theist. Agnostic is not a middle ground between theism and atheism, there is no middle ground. I can correct you, but I can’t make you understand it.
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
What I said is absolutely correct. If you have a disagreement perhaps you should be more clear and less snarky.
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
Atheism is the belief that there are no gods and out right rejection in the belief of any gods.
No, not quite. Atheism is not believing in a god, it doesn’t mean you claim there is not a god. A subtle difference, but it is the difference between not believing, and believing not. Also, agnosticism isn’t a middle ground between theism and atheism, there is no middle ground, as it is dichotomous. Agnosticism speaks to knowledge, or what you claim to know. So, a person could be an agnostic atheist, or an agnostic theist.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You’re just saying libertarian in more words.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 7 months ago:
Oh did Democrats stop the Republicans when the winds shifted?
Oh no they didn’t. They went along with them.
What the hell are you talking about? Your comment is entirely divorced from reality. There were 175 cloture votes to break a filibuster on nominees during the Obama administration and 314 during Trump. Nearly doubled in half the time.
When Schumer was minority leader, he vigorously used the filibuster to do just that. Under his leadership, Democrats used the filibuster to block funding for construction of Trump’s border wall in 2019. They used it not once, but twice to impede passage of the Cares Act — forcing Republicans to agree to changes including a $600 weekly federal unemployment supplement. They used it in September and October to stop Republicans from passing further coronavirus relief before the November election. They used it to halt Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) police reform legislation so Republicans could not claim credit for forging a bipartisan response to the concerns of racial justice protesters. They used it to block legislation to force “sanctuary cities” to cooperate with federal officials, and to stop a prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion, bans on abortions once the unborn child is capable of feeling pain, and protections for the lives of babies born alive after botched abortions. - Washington Post
- Comment on How big is this dog? 7 months ago:
Neighbor: Why does this dog eat so much corn!?!
- Comment on If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials? 8 months ago:
It’s not though. The question makes the assumption that he would have been handed over for the Nuremberg trials.
It absolutely misses the point, and so have you. It is a hypothetical whereby he was captured, turned over to the Nuremberg trials, and found guilty. That’s the basis of the hypothetical. Saying that wouldn’t have happened absolutely misses the point of the hypothetical.
- Comment on Gwyneth Paltrow Is Full of Regret While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones 8 months ago:
Interesting how the reaction is split so far. It occurs to me that lots of celebrities have sold sketchy shit, but female celebrities get grief over it.
Dr. Oz seems like a great example in line with her. They both made bogus claims about snake oil products that don’t provide the benefits claimed.
Did Matt Damon get cancelled over his crypto Superbowl ad? Food for thought, guys.
Damon did an ad as a spokesperson. Crypto is inherently risky; it’s a currency based on nothing that people just made up. Unless I’m missing something, I don’t even know how they’re comparable.
- Comment on Gwyneth Paltrow Is Full of Regret While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones 8 months ago:
Was the George Foreman grill a high quality product?
Yes. It was a grill. When you plugged it in it heated up and cooked food, exactly what they claimed. Unlike her “snake oil”.
- Comment on [United States] Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average 9 months ago:
Please stop with this narrative that the uncontrolled gender pay gap is meaningless. It is not.
It very much is useless.
The uncontrolled gender pay gap is hence an extremely succinct number at summarizing all forms of economic disparity.
Succinct, as all good statistical analysis should be. It gives you no actionable information.
Yes, controlling for factors such as education and job titles - but the controlled pay gap is meaningless in a post equal pay for equal work environment.
What? Then stop talking about pay equity if you’re not interested in that issue.
The problem is now that women do not receive the same levels of access to education and higher level job titles, a phenomenon which is captured very well by the uncontrolled gap.
But access to education and higher level job titles are not the sole factors that are controlled for. Several studies have noted that women have different priorities in the workforce, and some women choose to be the primary caregiver to children or elderly parents.
So why would you use a statistic that doesn’t control for several variables, which I just mentioned, to better understand access to education or higher level job titles?
There are already statistics that deal with educational attainment by sex. If that’s your focus, why would you ignore a data set that directly addresses your area of study to instead focus on the effect caused by what you want to study? That would be analogous to studying covid by looking at a data set regarding fevers, while ignoring data sets specifically tailored to covid. Sure, undoubtedly some of those fevers were caused by covid, but many were not.
Also, if women’s access to education is caused by, or heavily correlated with, the uncontrolled gender pay gap, then why do more women than men have a bachelor’s degree or higher? Isn’t that antithetical to the uncontrolled gender pay gap that tells us that women make nearly 20% less than men?
In 2022, 39.0% of women age 25 and older, and 36.2% of men in the same age range, had completed a bachelor’s degree or more…
Census.gov
- Comment on [United States] Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average 9 months ago:
Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average
Can we stop with this already? These numbers are less than meaningless. What information do you glean from comparing the mean wages of men and women?
The adjusted pay gap is about .99 to every $1.00. You can hope to make meaningful change unless you understand the problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Absolutely this. All the metrics already tell us that productivity does not decline from allowing employees to work from home. Why would additional data suddenly cause CEOs to admit what’s already known?
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 1 year ago:
I wish that’s advice I had at the time. Live and learn.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 1 year ago:
I just threw it away, I was done with it. I definitely should have tried to repair it, but my frustration with all things Vizio made that an unappealing option at the time. The others I just moved to less used areas.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 1 year ago:
For personal use I buy Visio displays, and have had nothing but success.
I have some smaller, older Vizio TV’s that were great, no issues. I recently bought 3 large, expensive Vizio TV’s and had problems with all 3. All issues dealing with updates. Had 70" get stuck in an update cycle, no fix, even customer service couldn’t help. Other 2 repeatedly will not turn on after an update. Problem persists occasionally, but usually resolves in 5-10 minutes.
Done with Vizio. Sony if I want to spend a lot, Samsung if I want to spend a little less.
- Comment on If you can say enough things about a thing does that mean that you know what the thing is? 1 year ago:
If you make a question ambiguous enough, can it have an answer?
- Comment on New Speaker Mike Johnson Blamed School Shootings on the Teaching of Evolution 1 year ago:
Whoa! You can have any gun you want, but we draw the line at allowing logic.
- Comment on Peter Hitchens Storms Out of Interview 1 year ago:
I think dumber needs to be preceded by “much, much, much” to even be in the ballpark of an accurate statement.