No it’s a great town
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More curious on the over/under on it being a battlefield on Jan 10.
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It might be really cold, but I’m guessing you can deal with that
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I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to tell before you go.
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This video is well worth a watch.
And that kid is a tough one.
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Latest Pokémon nonsense
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One of my best friends has been obsessed with this game since the first boom like 9 years ago. She still plays hours a week.
What drives me nuts is that 99% of kids are nowhere near this capable, and the numbers of this happening that we arent seeing must be staggering.
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Agree with what @NotBruceZ said. The election will have already happened and even the certification vote should have taken place. If things are still chaotic at that point, you should know and be able to cancel/change plans if necessary. Even on Jan 6th, we didn’t know exactly what would go down, but we had a pretty good sense that a lot of Trumpers were coming into town, that some of them would be violent, and even kinda knew where they would be most concentrated (what bars/restaurants were most MAGA friendly, etc), so it was relatively easy to avoid them.
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You’re talking to a Canadian here. DC will be nice, probably the museums will not be too crowded. I usually get off at the Chinawown exit and walk to the mall instead of getting off at the Smithsonian exit, which may be a zoo.
Meanwhile in Russia
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-plot-us-planes-incendiary-devices-de3b8c0a?mod=hp_lead_pos12
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Russia sending IEDs shaped like dildos to blow up airplanes. Wow.
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Veritasium covered this talk today. Very interesting research to how much political bias influences us and how the smarter you are the worse it happens.
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I got the skin cream thing right, but I am an ML guy. I think the way the data is presented is more of a trick question honestly, not a real actual thing - I find it kinda stupid. Usually you see these things reported as positive or no effect, not positive or negative (with an unbelievable 0 as no effect)
Man that Veritasium video is garbage. Had to turn it off when he started going radical centrist about tribalism and shit. Give me a break
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That’s pretty interesting. The problem I see is that in the initial example, the face cream numbers are clear and unassailable while the gun control numbers could be caused by conflating variables. For instance there are 420ish “cities” in the gun control data. What were their gun laws before the hypothetical change, how big are they etc…
Also, he posits that being numerate and scientifically curious leads one to think fracking is extremely high risk even for garbage republicans. I don’t think you agree that fracking is extremely high risk.
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Democrats with high numerical literacy trust the scientific community (mostly) which have produced mountains of evidence about gun control and it’s effects. Of course they are going to initially think that any new data would support that by default, so goofballs showing people fake data to the contrary isn’t some gotcha, it’s just showing people don’t actually understand to re-revaluate data for themselves removing all learned context which is obvious. What are we even doing here?