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We should similarly expect a higher number of cases of multiple bullet wounds, as in the case of their being shot due to crossfire fighting.
Why? Being hit by one stray bullet is pretty rotten luck. Two or more seems much less likely.
Note that any Palestinian child shot or grazed by a bullet is going to be sent to the hospital
With Gaza's limited resources, during a war? Maybe, but I don't think this is a safe assumption.
You also have to account for the possiblity that a) at least some of the doctors are lying, and b) the worst cases may have been sent to American doctors either for propaganda purposes or because of their better skills.
Note that one of the X-rays shows a bullet that seems to have entered at a path nearly perpendicular to the top of the skull, implying either that the child was shot while lying down, likely by a stray bullet while lying in bed, or perhaps even by a bullet fired up into the air and coming back down, a phenomenon associated with the Arabic tradition of celebratory gunfire. Another shows a bullet that seems to have entered through a downward path about 45 degrees below parallel, which is hard to explain with a sniper shooting at a distance, and again more consistent with a bullet shot into the air and coming back down.
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1mo ago
Real estate has appreciated over the recent past, but YIMBYs would argue it's just because local governments restrict good land use
I don't think so. Upzoning increases land value, because you can build more valuable structures on land zoned for higher density. The main reason housing has appreciated is a combination of high-skilled workers centralizing in a relative handful of cities, and falling interest rates driving up asset prices. When your asset purchases are highly leveraged (e.g. ten to one on a mortgage with 10% down), this can be extremely lucrative.
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1mo ago
The idea is that since drug dealers are disproportionately black, they must have some special expertise that will give them an edge in legal cannabis sales.
Of course, most drug dealers' comparative advantage is in willingness to risk prison and engage in violence to defend their turf, neither of which are particularly useful in sales of legal products.
Surprising no one who gave it five minutes of thought in advance, neither black nor Latino people have, in fact dominated legal cannabis retailing.
Either she didn't get the memo, or she's alluding to some sort of program that privileges black-owned (i.e. mostly white-owned with black figureheads) cannabis businesses.
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1mo ago
For reference male/female height is 1 SD
It's around 2 SD.
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1mo ago
I'm not sure. I was thinking of the more ideological think tanks, like Heritage and the EPI.
Apparently Rand does get government funding, though I'm not sure whether it's contracting for specific research or open-ended grants.
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1mo ago
I was recently thinking that many university departments are essentially left-wing think tanks. They have explicitly activist aims, produce low-quality research with conclusions that are at least directionally predetermined, and only hire people with certain ideologies. The main difference is that they're funded, or at least subsidized, by taxpayers.
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1mo ago
Unions are hugely privileged under US labor law. There's no need to organize in secret, because employers aren't allowed to fire workers for trying to unionize. I believe that what you're describing would be an unprotected strike, and that employers could legally fire workers for it.
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1mo ago
For me, every month is Sober October. My parents were both problem drinkers, so having negative role models helped, I guess, but really I've just never liked alcohol. It's always tasted like paint thinner to me. I'm told it's an acquired taste, but why intentionally cultivate a bad habit?
I've never tried any other drugs, and I quit soda, with or without sugar, over 20 years ago and haven't really missed it.
I don't know what else is left. Reddit, I guess?
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1mo ago
more growth -> higher salaries ->
higher consumptionsmore investment -> more growth
Increased consumption is a consequence, not a cause, of growth. It's investment that drives growth.
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1mo ago
You can't quit eating food, but you can quit eating some foods and replace them with others. And some foods are much easier to overeat than others.
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1mo ago
I wonder if there's a vicious cycle here, where low intelligence or conscientiousness makes people more prone to overeating initially, and obesity leads to further cognitive decline.
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1mo ago
or that some behavior was so beyond the pale that the best response is to let the guilty walk free to disincentivise similar misconduct in the future.
The exclusionary rule is a mistake, IMO, and not actually mandated by the Constitution. If you want to deter misconduct by police, then punish them personally for it. Letting a person who was clearly guilty go free because the evidence was obtained illegally hurts the Innocent people the 4th Amendment was intended to protect.
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1mo ago
The Statista graph you linked doesn't show positive selection on educational attainment. The fact that the small minority of women with graduate degrees have slightly higher TFR than women with associate's or bachelor's degrees does not make up for the fact that they have lower fertility than the majority of women who have no college degree. It's still clearly the case that the majority of children are being born to women with below-average educational attainment.
I have a genetic defect that puts me at extremely high risk for developing a fatal neurodegenerative disease in my 50s or 60s. Recent evidence suggests that reducing neuroinflammation might help delay or even prevent onset, and there's also evidence that a diet high in soluble fiber can reduce systemic and neuroinflammation through increasing production of butyrate and reducing production of lipopolysaccharides by gut bacteria.
Which is to say, I've been trying to eat more legumes, but legumes are kind of a pain to cook. I want to live, but I'm also lazy. Purely by chance, a package of ZENB spaghetti, which is made of yellow peas and nothing else, caught my eye at 7-Eleven, and I decided to try it out. With the caveat that I have eaten very little pasta in the past 20 years, and pasta enthusiasts may disagree, it doesn't taste much different from wheat pasta to me. Pasta's mostly just a vehicle for sauce anyway, right?
The more people buy it, the more likely they stay in business, and the less effort it takes for me to do everything I can to keep my brain from eating itself, so I'm pimping it out here. If you like pasta, but wish it had more protein, fiber, and potassium, with fewer empty calories and/or no gluten, try ZENB pasta! Your Italian grandmother will hate it, but you might not!
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2mo ago
I think you're overthinking this. It's just people who know precisely jack-all about optimal tax theory seeing people's net worth increasing in a tax-deferred manner, having their retinas contort themselves into dollar signs, and dreaming of can be, unburdened by even the most rudimentary understanding of economics.
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2mo ago
Japan through behemoths like Nintendo & Sony have dominated gaming since day 1
Well, not day one. The first big hit was Pong, from Atari, which despite its name was an American company.
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3mo ago
Are you familiar with the PoliSci 101 arguments against campaigning on sensible economic policy?
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3mo ago
We're all out of ideas. We've tried restricting supply, we've tried subsidizing demand, and nothing works!
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3mo ago
I met a girl at a party. She laughed at my stupid jokes and said I looked like an actor, and she didn't even qualify "actor" with "character."
So obviously she's ignoring the message I sent her. Why are women like this?
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4mo ago
Once again, rawdogging the Internet pays off!
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4mo ago
I think the Giant blurb implies that you should skip it, even if it doesn't explicitly say so. Maybe an accidental omission?
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4mo ago
No offense taken. I'm assuming that you were just misled by my youthful figure.
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4mo ago
Which is something I get is a technical limitation of the system
I don't think so. The space requirements to add additional burnable bush and bombable wall sprites would have been negligible. But this would have trivialized the game's "puzzles," which consisted entirely of pushing every block, bombing every wall, and burning every bush. If the movable parts are labeled, there's nothing left.
Later games added more elaborate puzzles with multiple moving parts that could be solved without brute force, allowing them to label the moving parts without trivializing the game. I think that this probably could have been done on the NES with a 128 KB ROM, but I'm not sure.
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4mo ago
To be clear, I did play the original Zelda a couple of years after it was released, and I liked it, but I was also eight years old and mildly autistic, so I didn't mind wasting hours systematically trying to burn every bush and bomb every exposed rock surface on the overworld. But in retrospect, that's just really bad design and not much fun compared to games that came out just a few years later.
I think that there was probably intended to be a social aspect to the exploration, where friends would get together, divvy up areas to search, and then share findings with each other. And we did do that a little, but not really systematically. But I lived in a semi-rural area and didn't have many friends who owned the game.
I assumed the "pen" was short for "penis."
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