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  • New CNBC Generation Lab poll shows almost half of 18- to 34-year-olds favor democratic socialism

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  • Yeah, unfortunately you're the exception.

    I was recently looking at the data from the last presidential election and it continues to be disappointing.

    It's kind of to be expected, I suppose. It takes time for people to learn that they need to vote, so you'll always see a higher percentage vote in each older group. The data I was looking at showed it peaked at about 75% around 55, then dropped very slightly for people older.

    So highest percentage of voters are in the "Fuck! I thought I was going to be able to retire, but I'm going to have to work till I die!" group (my people). Slightly lower among the "The world's turning to shit, but at least I'll die before it gets really bad" group.

    I've often thought that, in addition to making election day a holiday, states should give some kind of encouragement to bring kids into the polling places. My wife and I always brought our kids in with us, specifically to make sure they would see us voting. They've all voted in every election they were eligible to vote in.

  • PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data after cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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  • Just because they are called "public" it doesn't mean they're owned by the public. It's a non profit created to produce media for public consumption, but they still have bills to pay, employees, etc.

    If they have content for streaming or DVD sales or (probably more likely) licensing to other PBS stations, they need to get income from it to maximize their ability to continue to produce the free broadcasts they were created for.

  • Give me your best 3 song playlist for waking up my teenager for school.

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    What thing would be nice to have but can't have it because we can't trust people?

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  • I've read that the same thing happens to the little "library" stands, but if the person who sets them up doesn't give up, after a short time people stop stealing from them and vandalizing them and they just start using them as libraries.

    I think the theory was that after a relatively short amount of time, the assholes get bored and go screw with something else.

    I don't know how well that would work with tools, and it definitely needs to have a strong-willed person stocking it.

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    What thing would be nice to have but can't have it because we can't trust people?

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  • Democracy

  • Trump’s justice department arrests expert on far right as part of SPLC crackdown

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  • They don't have to say they are dangerous. In fact, if their tongues don't cut themselves loose and jump out of their mouths on their own, they can claim that the groups are innocent patriotic social organizations targeted by the evil antifa terrorists.

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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  • Still didn't respond to my question. Are you thinking I libeled the Black Lives Matter movement, or do you think I libeled the police? Which erroneous assumption have you made?

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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  • Reading over the responses from people here, I'm realizing that Philly drivers really are as bad as I believe they are.

    Most of the responses here describe what I've been seeing in Philly for decades. Running red lights, blowing through stop signs, turning right on red from the left-turn-only lane. I refer to that as the "Philly Right Turn". There's also a "Philly Left Turn" (AKA, turning left on red from the right-turn-only lane) which is slightly more advanced because it involves crossing at least one additional lane of moving traffic.

    I had a guy hit me because he went straight in the right-turn-only lane and the road had a dog-leg at the intersection because of construction. He said it was my fault because "everyone does it". His insurance didn't agree with his argument, and I got my deductible paid (thanks, dashcam).

    When I was in college 30 years ago, I used to joke that Philly drivers should have their horns linked to their brakes so that when they leaned on their horn to warn other drivers that they were going to run the red light, the car would automatically brake instead. That wouldn't work since then because people stopped bothering with the warning honk.

    The things I've seen change more recently is what I mentioned in my other comment: driving on the wrong side of the road and driving while staring at their phone.

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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  • I have no more insight into how Waymo manages these overrides than anyone else, but I don't find it unbelievable that a remote operator with access to an interface to the autopilot and an ability to see the data it is presented with could direct it to ignore an incorrectly identified obstacle and continue.

    It seems to me that it would be a hell of a lot safer and easier to correct the mistaken decision of the autopilot and let it continue than to rely on a connection from halfway around the world for real time vehicle control.

    However, like I said, I have no insight into how it works.

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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  • Counterpoint:

    The last time I was rear-ended, I was in stop-and-go traffic going uphill. Every time I moved a few feet and stopped, the car behind me would pull right up to within a few inches of my bumper. It was driving me crazy.

    Sure enough, the person behind him hit him, then he hit me.

    The rule from the book when I was teaching my kids to drive was: You're supposed to stop when you can still see the where the rear wheels of the car in front of you touch the street. If your good obstructs the view, you're too close. If you can see street between your car and their tires, you're too far.

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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    1. It would be libel, not slander (slander is spoken, libel is written).
    2. Who would be the target of this alleged libel?

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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  • I think it's a combination of fallout from the pandemic and BLM protests.

    During the pandemic traffic disappeared. If you were one of the unlucky few who still had to go on-site to work, the first thing you noticed was there was no traffic. What was a 1.5 hour commute previously was a 45 minute commute during the shutdown. When people started driving again it was like they all forgot how to do it.

    Regarding the change in driving habits, the most dramatic example I've seen is people crossing the double yellow line to pass cars. I never used to see that, but it's almost routine now. I've seen people do it in areas where they can't even see oncoming traffic. Crossing over into the other lane to pass 20 cars sitting at a red light. It's insane.

    Apart from all that there's also so many more people with their eyes glued to their phone when they are driving. You see someone swerving all over the road for miles, and if you get close to them they are always looking at their phone.

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    Re BLM, in some cases police policies directed officers not to get involved in traffic stops. In other cases, I think butthurt cops decided if they weren't allowed to abuse brown people, they'd just refuse to do anything.

  • Mamdani’s Taking On Amazon. His Opponent? Chuck Schumer’s Daughter.

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  • Has Chuck Scummer (gesture-typing error, but I'm leaving it) ever rolled left for anyone?

  • I have heard enough, make them pay taxes

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  • From everything I've read, that's basically it. Babies get their linguistic start by just making babbling sounds "ba", "ma", "da", etc, because they are easy to produce. We as adults attribute meaning to them, that meaning is reinforced for the infant, and then it is accepted.

    What I was curious about was why so many unrelated languages seem to use the "ma" sound for mother. If babies make random sounds and we assign the meaning to them, how did unrelated cultures agree on what each sound meant?

    There's a section in this article that includes a suggestion of an explanation:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa

    Linguist Roman Jakobson hypothesized that the nasal sound in "mama" comes from the nasal murmur that babies produce when breastfeeding

  • Following the recent tipping question, what's a good wage for a server? What are they paid outside the US?

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  • If we label is as low skill we are justifying paying them less.

    I think the counter argument is, should someone who spent decades training to do a job be paid the same as someone who just walked in off the street?

    When you're talking about justifying paying someone less, the people who think that way would be happy to see neurosurgeons paid $2 + tips, but they can't make it stick because someone else would be happy to pay them whatever they ask for if it means they get to live longer.

    However, I'm not in favor of the term, "unskilled labor". I don't think it really applies to any job. I prefer "entry level" when you're talking about a job someone can do without any prior training.

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    Women 30+, how do you deal with all these symptoms? I've been dealing with all of this ever since turning 30 (am 32)

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  • I'm not sure how useful replying to your post is because everytime someone replies you don't listen to what they are saying and just tell them you've done everything that can be done and they didn't understand that there's nothing that anyone can do because you've already seen doctors and they can't find anything wrong.

    However, I'm going to try anyway.

    Without trying to diagnose you, I'm just going to share personal experiences.

    First, an easy one:

    I thought things I was feeling in my 30's was just aging, then I had a doctor say something was wrong, tested my thyroid, and diagnosed Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Before you react and say "They tested my TSH and it's normal!", I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about me. I thought my symptoms were because of aging, but discovered that was bullshit.

    Next, a much more difficult one:

    My wife started having symptoms in her 20's. Not your symptoms, her symptoms. She started seeing doctors. Sometimes doctors would try things, sometimes they would tell her she should see a shrink.

    She did see shrinks, multiple times. They told her she didn't have any mental illness and she should go back to looking for a medical solution.

    Her issues progressed. She couldn't work anymore and had to sell her optometry practice and go on disability. She continued to search for a doctor who could help. She did her own research to learn about what could be happening. She started teaching her doctors about what was wrong.

    We saw doctors up and down the east coast. We went to Johns Hopkins. We went to NIH facilities. We flew across the country to see a doctor in LA. Some doctors came up with things that helped a bit. Some tried for a long time, but then ran out of ideas and gave up. No one had a permanent solution.

    Our youngest child, in her 20's, went to see a doctor about joint pain. That doctor tested her for something and the test came back positive. That disorder is genetic, and it matched some of my wife's symptoms. My wife got tested, and her test was positive. Now she gets a treatment for that and it is starting to help. She can walk more, do more. She's started to imagine she might be able to do things like drive a car again.

    My wife has been seeing doctors about her health problems for longer than you have been alive. Ultimately, it was a doctor treating our daughter who identified the test she needed. No other doctor in more than 30 years thought of that test.

    My point is, when people tell you you have to see other doctors, YOU HAVE TO SEE OTHER DOCTORS. When people tell you to do more tests, YOU HAVE TO DO MORE TESTS. If you give up, no one is going to help you. Stop whining about how hopeless it is, get off your ass, and do the hard work of taking charge of your healthcare.

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  • But, if you can't put it in your mouth, where can you put it?

  • RFK Jr.'s staff shuts down questions as he admits he eats 'stuff I find on the street'

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  • Rich, dumb, white people fall upwards.

    Poor, dumb, white people fall the same direction as everyone else.

  • Flock Cameras Got the Wrong License Plate 71% of the Time in California City

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  • They shouldn't, but when has that ever stopped them? The (stupid) assumption they make is that the computer wouldn't make a mistake, so they assume it found the exact person they were looking for.

    Judges shouldn't be issuing warrants solely because a face matching algorithm found someone who looked like the suspect, but they are probably as clueless about the technology as the police are.