Jack Mitcham, Ph.D.

There's no cost if they try and fail. I don't understand what their fear is.

I've spent thr last like half hour trying to understand the definition, and I can't figure it out. It just sounds circular to me, and no paper I've found explains it clearly.

It all sounds like vibes. You experience things because you're you, and you're conscious, therefore you experience things.

If you're interested in an autobiography for yourself to read, I'd recommend Rebel Queen by Susan Polgar.

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Right, we've known how to make nuclear weapons coming up on a century soon.

Do they bother to define what they mean by consciousness in a rigorous way? I can't get past the paywall.

It's the "is a hot dog a sandwich" argument writ large.

I was going to say the same thing. It's a running gag in all of her videos.

I'm sorry, but anybody with the access to know this for sure would be incapable of providing evidence without being thrown in jail.

If the generals say thay special forces are needed to achieve goals, I'll believe them, since they're perhaps the only ones in a position to know.

you don’t solve the issue by eliminating the immigrants, you solve it by eliminating the racists

Have you, by any chance, read Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social?

Strange that you're switching to states, rather than cities.

Boston hasn't had a Republican mayor since the 1920s, if we're comparing cities.

Do you have a source for NYC being one of the most left-wing places in the entire USA? They tend to elect slightly left-of-center politicians, with occasionally Republicans thrown in.

Why Do We Celebrate Thanksgiving on the Fourth Thursday in November? As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 28, 2024, it might seem like a well-established rule that Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November. But did you know that t...

It looks like George Washington kind of randomly picked a Thursday as a day of public thanksgiving. Other presidents picked other random days, and when they eventually codified it as a holiday, they decided to mirror what Washington did.

library.law.unc.edu/2024/11/the-...

The direction the toilet flushes has nothing to do with the Coriolis effect.

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Does family mean literally nothing to you?

You might as well have asked "what's the difference between a nanny and a parent."

The people you work sith probably make more than 40k per year.

Or one of you gets a job working evening shift. My mother worked nights. There are countless nurses, waitresses, and security guards that work evenings and nights.

It's extremely common. My family was not some rare case.

In other words, a couple making 80k that needs to outsource childcare is going with the cheapest option, not the median.

Please reread what I said, because you're not making any sense.

I said that using the median cost is wildly inappropriate, because it's currently a luxury item. If a couple making 80k needs to outsource child care, they're not picking the median option. The median is for rich people.

How is this a response to what I just said?

Whether or not outsourced childcare should be a luxury is not relevant to the fact thst it currently is a luxury, and taking the median cost of a luxury item and applying it to people that don't use it doesn't make sense.

Lists are meant to be clickbait ad farms. You make more money by having a ridiculous top pick.

I disagree that a minimum standard should include outsourced childcare for every child in the country.

Outsourced childcare should be a last resort if a parent can't stay at home, or the parents can't do shift work, or extended family isn't available.

I know this is just anecdotal, but I've known dozens of people with kids that make 80k per year or less, and none of them paid for childcare beyond a rare babysitter.

They use a combination of public school and grandparents for child care. Or they do shift work so one parent is always home.

Also, the median family likely doesn't have childcare. He took the median cost of childcare and used that, as if everybody has it.

It would be like using the median cost of yacht maintenance and applying it to thr median household.

It's endlessly frustrating when people claim they asked Gemini or ChatGPT and post a screenshot of Google's AI summary of search results, as if it's remotely the same thing.

It's a wonder Wicked wasn't received in the same way as Pooh: Blood and Honey

This article is 6 years old. Is there some more recent data?