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I suspect that the cohort of 37 year old women who were born in 1995 is too small to be statistically significant.

A graph labeled 'Annual births per 1,000 women at three ages, by year of woman's birth' It has three lines 'Age 27' 'Age 32' and 'Age 37'. All three of them go from 1940 to 1995. The two older cohorts are rising, while the youngest is dropping.

Can you spot the probable error in this graph?
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I feel like, if there was one major takeaway from COVID, it's that we - as a society - agreed that it's okay for some people to suffer if it means the advancement of the economy as a whole.

900 people suffering purely financially seems pretty small beer for the greater good.

In more normal places, people with 'profressional stakes and fancy letters affixed to their name' about a topic are called 'experts'

You're surrounded by people who, at minimum, have examined some aspects of their life.

You don't have that guarantee with straight cis folk.

Amazing

How am I only finding out about this game now?

All these wasted years!

Yep, my work laptop is on 11, but I keep declining the upgrade on my personal one.

At this point, it's as much about just being dug in than anything. If they're pushing it this much, it must be bad for me.

I'd say so.

Fish feels appropriate when counting individual fish, if you don't care about species.

Also, unless things have changed DRAMATICALLY between when I was in high school and when he was, there's a zero percent chance that, if he's a effeminate gay boy, nobody ever told him 'what are you, a girl?' before.

you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

My Kingdom for a mayoral candidate who is willing to raise my taxes so the city can get back to actually providing needed services, rather than just being a police department in a trenchcoat.

"Just because AI is better than you at X, doesn't mean it's good at X" feels like the sort of thing that should get around more.

Write it in the skies!

Hmm, if only there were some way to distinguish 'effeminate boys from trans girls'.

I wonder if he's considered... asking the kids?

As enjoyable as it would have been to see everybody raking Tory through the mud for his many many failings as mayor, it's a risk I'm glad we don't need to deal with.

Now lets just find a progressive candidate willing to fight for the city to make it what it can be.

Eh, my phone can't lock me inside it if a malicious actor took remote control of it.

What do you do if it's raining or cold?

Abolish ICE (cars)?

Yeah, at this point I just generally assume that any car made in the last decade (or more) probably has enough tech that a malicious company could cut it off remotely if they absolutely wanted to.

Is there *ANYBODY* named Bradford who isn't a gigantic douchebag?

Asking for Toronto.

Masterclass of @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social here.

We're having this conversation in our culture. At our time.

And we know that what they did was wrong. So did people at the time.

And we know, in our time, that you are wrong to run justification for them.

They were thinking, feeling, humans, and their bodily autonomy was violated, repeatedly.

That's rape, even if you want to deny it for your own reasons.

You're the only one here victimising them.

You're essentially saying that because of when and where they were born, they should have just accepted being raped and used as objects - that because their society placed no worth on their feelings, that they mustn't have had any.

That is wrong.

Correct. And, as people knew that slavery was wrong even when it was happening, we can fairly judge those who kept enslaved people or supported the institution as terrible people.

This isn't difficult.

Wait until they learn what the average Republican voter thought of Obama.

Lots of people knew that slavery was wrong at the time.

You're welcome to be offended then.

But if you don't want people to think you're being antisemitic, then don't act antisemitic.

Just tear it down.

It's expensive. It's congested. It's useless.

Tear it down.

Cops, at least, have always treated Bellwoods as a bypass to get from Queen to Dundas. Back in the early naught-ies, I had one follow me across the park.