sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
11mo ago
This has nothing to do with attached garages and everything to do with garages being the most prominent part of house facades. The latter is indeed bad, but an attached garage is neither necessary nor sufficient for this to happen.
sarker
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11mo ago
How much of the budget is being footed by the taxpayer? Corporations, as we know, have pitched in millions for this particular party.
sarker
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11mo ago
Every game today has a
This really isn't close to true, unless all you play are AAA games.
sarker
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11mo ago
Agree if the French give up "royale with cheese".
sarker
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11mo ago
The European mind cannot comprehend cheese in a charcuterie board:
It features a selection of preserved foods, especially cured meats or pâtés, as well as cheeses and crackers or bread. In Europe 'charcuterie' refers to cold meats (e.g. salami, ham etc.) and the term 'charcuterie board' would not be widely used for a board with cheese, fruit and a small amount of meat as is the case in North America.
sarker
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11mo ago
The Tolstoy.ru ebooks usually footnote the French phrases with translations.
sarker
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11mo ago
sarker
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11mo ago
Particularly, he advocated tactical lying to help prevent Trump getting elected.
Is that really true? From the linked post:
Not only have I never advocated lying to defeat Trump (despite what that misleading clip from the Triggernometry podcast might suggest to naive viewers), I’ve taken great pains to defend Trump from the most damaging lie ever told about him. Elon knows this, because we communicated about the offending clip when it first appeared on Twitter/X.
What is the evidence here?
sarker
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11mo ago
It's not hidden.
sarker
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11mo ago
I again remind you that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2004, evicting Israeli settlers from the strip. Then the gazans elect Hamas and start bombing Israel, after which Israel blockades Gaza. A blockade is completely reasonable in response to such an act of war from the gazans.
sarker
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11mo ago
I am Administrator themotte.org
sarker
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11mo ago
That would depend.
sarker
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11mo ago
What happens in other countries is what matters when characterizing a relative characteristic of a country-level population
Again, I never implied anything about any relative characteristics. My point is that 18 miles is not much in an absolute sense.
This can go from comparisons of GDP per capita (we don't go with a median income)
Median income is often more useful for the same reasons I describe above, and the same goes for the rest of your points (although I must again stress that between country comparisons have nothing to do with my claim).
sarker
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11mo ago
when spectrums are non-symmetrical it's also non-representative.
On the contrary - it is representative in that half the people you meet will be above that number, and half below. A mean would represent a much more unusual case.
In the structure the claim- 'American transience is overstated'- the very premise is about the nature of the outliers (if Americans are more transient than others), but the model of averaging chosen specifically omits the role of outliers.
The claim is not about the nature of the outliers, it's about the nature of the median experience. The other comments in this thread talk about all or many/most people being transient and not living in a particular place for a long time. The median speaks directly against that in a way that the mean does not, because you're more likely to encounter a median American than a mean one
As for cross country comparisons, I didn't say anything about those at all. Obviously you should compare means with means and medians with medians. My point is that 18 miles is not very far, and that stands regardless of what happens in other countries.
The article / you worked with an assumption that it's because people never move away in the first place (non-transient), but a transient-lifestyle could alternatively simply move back after some point (to take care of an elderly parent)... or see the parent move after the child (moving closer to the grand kids). Transience could be very high, but the median being used (heh) wouldn't reflect it.
This is a legitimate point and I'd be interested to see more data that looks at this side of the equation.
sarker
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11mo ago
I think this is a salient concern when discussing two regimes (driving distance vs flying distance) but less salient when we're really just focusing on the driving regime. I'd be surprised if there's any plane route that you can take that's faster than driving 18 miles anywhere in the country (excluding perhaps LA at rush hour?) once you account for driving to the airport, security, waiting, baggage claim, driving from the airport, etc.
sarker
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11mo ago
The Baltimore region seems to have a higher median fwiw.
sarker
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11mo ago
I don't know how it's characterized in other parts of the world, but median makes intuitive sense given that the distribution has a long right tail and it tells you what the situation of the typical American rather than an ""average"" American who may not exist in any large numbers.
sarker
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11mo ago
Geographic transience in America overall is overstated - the median American lives 18 miles from their mother.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html
sarker
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11mo ago
Okay. Off the top of my head, Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo are woke. Does that help?
sarker
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11mo ago
deBoer provides several examples of the kinds of people who compose "they".
Also, they propose sweeping changes to K-12 curricula, but you can’t call it CRT, even though the curricular documents specifically reference CRT, and if you do you’re an idiot and also you’re a racist cryptofascist. Also nobody (nobody!) ever advocated for defunding the police, and if they did it didn’t actually mean defunding the police. Seems to be a real resistance to simple, comprehensible terms around here. Serwer is a guy who constantly demands that he and his allies be allowed to do politics on easy mode, but he’s just part of a broader communal rejection of basic self-definition and comprehensible terms for this political tendency. Also if you say things they don’t like they might try to beat you up. Emphasis on try.
I am not sure how else "who is 'they'" can be answered (when we're talking about a movement that rejects labels) if we don't describe them by their beliefs. Do you want a list of names or what?
sarker
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11mo ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
11mo ago
Whiplash involves hyperextension and then hyperflexion of the neck. Babies are strapped into a car seat in a recumbent position. Hyperextension is simply impossible, and I can't imagine what kind of impact would cause a baby's neck to enter hyperflexion in a car seat unless the whole car rolls over.
I like attached garages but realistically speaking 3/4 of garages I've seen open in my neighborhood are stacked floor to ceiling, wall to wall with various garbage. Only about a quarter are usable shop spaces, gyms, etc.
Also, even if you don't have a particularly nice car or live where it snows, your car is probably better off not sitting in the sun all the time.
Also it's really nice not to have to go outside to get a tool from the garage.
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