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
4hr ago
I knew you or GeorgeEHale would have the correct opinion in this thread.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
As far as antibiotic stewardship, when China and India and Brazil and everybody else gets on board, maybe.
Nuking your microbiome for no reason with unnecessary antibiotics every time you have a sniffle is a bad thing for you personally even if the Chinese are doing it too.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
Last week mayor Lurie was proudly announcing major reductions in crime.
“Today, crime is down nearly 30% citywide and at its lowest point in decades. Car break-ins are at 22-year lows, and homicides are at 70-year lows. We are seeing net increases in police officers and sheriff’s deputies for the first time in a decade. We have a record low number of encampments on our streets, and overdose deaths are down 39% from January. We can keep San Francisco safe, and our new approach is beginning to deliver real results.
Anecdotally, the city is looking much better these days than a few years ago. It would be a shame if released criminals set back all this progress.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4d ago
Moisturize to keep them from becoming majorly problematic. Periodically file (or just manually pick) them down to keep them under control.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6d ago
It's actually the "bad research" that provides evidence for breastfeeding. Basic observational studies show massive gains from breastfeeding because women who breastfeed are higher IQ, higher conscientiousness, etc. and these studies are trotted out every time this question is litigated.
It's basically thanks to once in a generation studies like PROBIT that actually do an RCT where people would usually claim it's impossible to do one that we can look behind the curtain.
In either case it's besides the point. The emotional weakspot of breastfeeding is obvious in this context.
It's remarkable to keep harping on this despite the fact that the entire medical and scientific establishment which is eaten through with progressives is fully on board with breastfeeding and has study after study to ""support"" this position. Breastfeeding is the progressive position and only terminal contrarians disagree that it has major benefits.
At some point your beliefs have to bottom out in observable reality rather than what you wish your opponents would do. Progressives are not against breastfeeding. They are not pro formula. This should be obvious especially if you've ever spent time around progressive mothers rather than theory crafting what the outgroup would believe.
Happy to place a bet if you really think that the medical establishment is going to obviously do an about face on this question.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6d ago
I don't know what it's like in your country but this is simply not the general case in the US. Not to say that nobody has a contrary experience, but the entire medical establishment is pro-breastfeeding as a matter of policy and there's lactation consultants lurking behind every corner in the maternal wards.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6d ago
If it happened, the official recommendations from the AAP and the WHO would be ambivalent between breastfeeding and formula. Is that the recommendation? No? Then no, it hasn't happened.
If political correctness were to overtake it, it would have already happened.
If you've ever been in a maternity ward it's difficult to convey how hard the staff pushes for breastfeeding. In my deep blue area mothers who just had a C section and have a baby in the NICU are constantly pressured to breastfeed (despite the pain from the surgery site while holding the baby) and pump to provide milk to the baby. All the usual progressive suspects (WHO, APA) are pro-breastfeeding. We are very much in the "breast is best" era.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
There's a wealth of literature on this. A Belarusian RCT is perhaps the most rigorous. It found reductions in skin and digestive conditions, but these conditions were rare even in the formula group, and it found no effect on respiratory conditions.
They followed up with the kids at age 6.5 (Kramer 2010) and found no evidence of health benefits.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
Besides AWFLs being perhaps the most likely demographic to breastfeed, there's no convincing evidence for benefits of breastfeeding outside of a slight reduction in minor rashes or gastrointestinal upset in babies. Nobody has demonstrated long-run benefits for the child of any kind.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d ago
We used to have a guy obsessed with assabiyah. IIRC he has some other, uh, proclivities that eventually got him the boot.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d ago
Rex is unimpressed with BATCHED IT.
sarker
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10d ago
Despite the data center build out in Virginia, electricity prices there increased at half the national average, as this hilariously written axios piece reports.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10d ago
An 8 hour feeding window is completely standard for IF and may even be superior from a lean mass gains perspective to a 4 hour window.
sarker
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13d ago
I'm starting to think you're Coleman's descendant.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
14d ago
there's not really an event in the Olympics that has a pure test of static strength.
The clean and press is hella cool but if there's a clean in there it's not a test of static strength. And to be honest given the techniques they were using for the press it's not static strength either. Maybe someone could come up with some autistic ruleset for the press but who wants to see that? Just add a deadlift event and be done with it.
sarker
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15d ago
There's some places where people whose output is zero or near zero are quickly rooted out and fired (assembly lines?) but in many fields ZMP workers learn to camouflage themselves and fly under the radar from management's perspective.
Or, if you like, NMP and ZMP workers can have de facto "acceptable production".
sarker
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15d ago
Nature abhors a discontinuity. You already agreed that an employee can accomplish nothing. How can it be that producing zero is possible, producing X is possible, but it's impossible to produce x/1000?
Effort, productivity, hours worked, talent - all these things are continuous variables. It's trivially obvious that someone who has little talent, low productivity, and slacks off on the clock can produce arbitrarily less than someone with talent, drive, and focus.
sarker
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15d ago
It seems strange to believe that someone can have zero or negative marginal product, but not arbitrarily small positive marginal product.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
Personally, I don't believe it's possible for one person to produce 1000x the value of another.
It is actually much worse than even @TitaniumButterfly is suggesting. There are Zero Marginal Product workers, but there are also Negative Marginal Product workers, those who actually reduce a team's aggregate output after joining (one example would be Ignatius J. Reilly).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
16d ago
It's not missing the point, it's bringing up another separate point that bears on the argument.
It doesn't bear on the argument because it's got nothing to do with the argument. The argument is that CEOs are parasitizing comp that should be going to the barista, and the barista union will undo this injustice.
Trying to shoehorn in concerns about CEO performance is missing the point at best and quokkadom at worst ("wow, the union and I both think the CEO is overpaid, we must have a common cause! Comrades, what do you mean you don't care about the stock going up?")
Costco, for example, doesn't have this problem. Costco is well run, pays its people well, treats them well, and has had an excellent run of fairly compensated CEOs. Costco pays a total of $20mm including stock. Is Starbucks doing better than Costco? (No) Is Starbucks more complex than Costco? (No)
Okay, but Google, for example is (reasonably) well run, has vastly outperformed the S&P over the past five years, pays its employees pretty well, and people still bitch about the CEO comp. "Well, he screwed up when he laid off all th-" "but google employees don't get paid at top of ma-" no, this is a competitive business, nobody does everything right, the point is that the company is doing well and employees are paid fantastic amounts.
Why are Starbucks baristas and Google engineers alike complaining about this? It's because of leftism. Nothing to do with CEO performance.
CEO overpayment is an obvious and manifest injustice, so of course people are going to latch onto that. Saying well it's a big company with a lot of money sloshing around so stealing a few bucks is no big deal is the morality of the shoplifter and the lazy employee, not the profit maximizing shareholder or the diligent corporate steward.
Yeah, agreed, bad CEOs should get the boot. The mistake is to think this has anything to do with the amount of comp that the rank and file get.
Bad CEOs are bad for the rank and file because if your employer goes out of business it's bad news. That's about it. The other points you mention are much more relevant for investors than employees who stand to gain about tree-fiddy a week if the CEO takes a 50% paycut.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
16d ago
This is missing the point. Do you think anyone complaining about starbucks unionizing would be satisfied if starbucks stock instead grew at 10x the rate of the s&p500?
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