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Oh, I love this one!

🎵Eeooh eeoh eeeeeeee! cghghcghcghrshhhhhh!🎶

For me it was a bit different though, because the song was kept alive in rural areas until the horrors of Hugh's Net (and Wild-Blue-Exeed-ViaSat)

I think if you're a right winger in the stock market who still has money (hasn't lost it all yet), you've proven yourself capable of at least enough double-think for your WORDS to say "the market is in shambles! The economy is trash! Biden is destroying America!" while your ACTIONS express confidence in all of the things supposedly doomed by our supposed dictator Biden.

Dragged, kicking and screaming, to unprecedented wealth.

What a strange world we live in.

Well that's an awful trend.

I would have expected the reported sexual abuse cases to be lower in conservative states. You know, because victims would feel more shame and danger so fewer of them would come forward and fewer would file police reports? Is the first graph measuring estimated abuse or reported abuse?

I feel like if I ran a company, I would have folded my hand after Kellogg's and the Big Three automakers lost their respective labor disputes.

"Oh, these are your demands? Done. Better than selling my customers the media equivalent to glue-frosted pop tarts for the next two months because I can't admit I need my own workers."

I know there wouldn't be any billionaires if people thought that way. It just seems so much more sane and well adjusted.

Yeah, I ended up looking up the actual Flynn effect numbers AFTER leaving my comment, and had to edit because I was way off.

Oh yeah, they normalize IQ every year, and 100 is always used as the median.

But thanks to the Flynn Effect, getting a 100 (the number they always choose for the middle) in 2024 means you're significantly smarter than someone who got a 100 in 1990.

So when Carlin said, "think of a person with average intelligence" he was calling to mind (to his 1990 audience) a person who was average in 1990 but would score [EDIT: I originally said 70s to 80s, but I was off by a lot. Such a person would actually score right around 90 points] today.

This is what happens when you take the lead out of gasoline.

Alternatively, it's possible cell companies like T-Mobile will lobby against these anticompetitive agreements, since it does reduce their number of potential customers. I don't like cell company lobbying any more than ISP lobbying, but in this case, let them fight.

Something tells me T-Mobile's got a little too much class solidarity to have any interest in reducing the profits of Charter Communications.

Yeah... It's a tiny sliver of the species.

Oh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem.

EDIT: okay, looks like I was looking at median household income and not median personal income. Meaning my math is off.

Excellent response. Thank you.

So the most ethical diet choice is then "buy your meat local and make sure you know your butcher is not 13" ?