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There's a big difference between ~60, ~100, and ~120 years old. Post 1920 you have electricity, post 1940 you have drywall, post 70s and 80s you have much better insulation, double glazed windows and less asbestos. Plenty of character in houses from the 40s-60s.

This is the only correct answer here

Well they've started doing those again, for different reasons...

You're right, I was wrong about this. The general point still stands, but not the specific one.

So screening isn't as helpful as you might expect. You only have a ~6-9 month window to catch aggressive cancers, but a ~5-10 year window to catch relatively benign ones

IIRC the US is a big outlier here, and it's been criticized as promoting excessive testing. Part of the problem with screening is you're much more likely to detect slow-growing, less deadly cancers (e.g. prostate cancer) than fast-growing, more deadly ones (e.g. colon cancer)

this is what peak posting looks like. you may not like it etc. but this is the platonic ideal of posting.

The sad thing is, if we drafted one from scratch today it'd probably be worse. There's probably not one amendment you'd get both parties to agree on.

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

For biblical literalists, "context" is an escape hatch so they don't have to take the bible literally

It's interesting how even this argument fails on its own merits. If the bible's statement is merely that individual believers treat immigrants nicely, that still precludes Johnson's actions! It's not nice to slander people on TV every day!

Things that appear in this thread:

- a fake railroad
- a type of police officer who can only make arrests in cemeteries
- changes to state law
- a police force whose sole task is to guard a playground
- a notable soul singer
- another fake railroad

to be kind of blunt, if the hardcore veteran activist organizer expertise that you bring results in "light a dumpster on fire, get mad that this is filmed" it's not really expertise anyone should respect, sorry. don't care how many little activism merit badges you have.

ICE cosplaying as operators versus "activists" cosplaying as revolutionaries is a straight shot of modernity

Served with ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ during Operation ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️. Attached to raid that captured ◼️◼️◼️◼️, designation MAILMAN. Engaged in ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️, resulting in ◼️◼️◼️◼️ among ◼️◼️◼️◼️. Actions cleared after review, promoted to GOOD BOY.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Screenshot of text: "Who is your favourite musician, Ratner (against whom there have been accusations of wrongdoing) asks Melania. She responds with “Michael Jackson” (against whom there have been accusations of wrongdoing), detailing how she met the late singer with her husband (against whom there have been accusations of wrongdoing). Perhaps this is Ratner’s vision for a modern American: a country of forgiveness."

Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.

Some of you know that about a decade ago, I hosted a weekly radio show about the Mountain Goats. It was rewarding, in part because the tMG catalog is much, much deeper than people tend to realize and in part because there's a wonderful community who steward that catalog's dustiest corners together.

The current official word is this is a “minor electric issue,” but I want to express my gratitude for the shot of momentary joy this post gave me.

Nah, it's not "what stuff do the parties talk about", it's "which is mommy vs which is daddy". Healthcare? Mommy issue. National security? Daddy issue. Taxes? Also Daddy issue. Education? Clear mommy issue

it seems like new york city has more and more mayors each and every year

<religion currently most influential in society> is actually the most opportunistic and oppressive religion that exists

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

This is true of so many issues. It's rarely worth arguing about the endpoints when we're decades away and the correct direction is the same regardless. It's the same way I feel about market socialism vs highly regulated capitalism.

yes I’m happy to clarify. when I do it it’s called discourse. when you do it it’s running off at the mouth all wild style and whatnot. these are just technical terms

two things are true:

in a remote setting, on a dark night, the deep sky is a truly profound experience that has influenced human philosophy, faith and religion for countless generations

and

that experience got absolutely rinsed by the first RCA 10 inch television

Something i've been thinking about: I feel like a lot of the coal country revitalization efforts were focused on specifically coal miners, because they need retraining for new jobs, but the vast majority of people in coal country are not former coal miners.