Saw a “Guster is for lovers” bumper sticker in the wild today, and it briefly transported me back to a world where 9/11 never happened.

I’m dead 🤣🤣🤣💀

Do you want to use causal graphs to improve your research but never know where to start? In a series of papers, we used the same data and research question—one where we are pretty darn sure we know the real causal effect is that there isn’t one—to compare graph drawing methods.

The pandemic should have led to universal health care, paid sick leave, upgraded ventilation in millions of buildings, massive investment in preventive healthcare and ongoing vaccination campaigns. Instead we got $1200 and the impending criminalization of masking.

But I need my emotional support tabs!

it is my most dearly held belief that to become an american all you need to do is stand with both feet on our soil and say truthfully “i wish to be an american”. my second most dearly held belief is that anyone opposed to this is fundamentally unamerican

For what it's worth, in neither academia nor industry is there any incentive to be critical. There's a creepy creepy cult of positivity. It's sold as pluralism, or being pedagogical, or 'not being toxic.' But it's just politics. Institutionalized corruption trading in fake facts.

my therapist gave me this and said, "that's you"

In my mid-forties, I’ve now been paying attention long enough to be able to feel the compounding effect of 2% national GDP growth. All aspects of material culture are better than when I was a kid: - Everyone has an Internet-connected computer / camera in their pocket - Medicine

“MetPax, Paxformin, or Metlovid” (unoriginal names) As soon as you test positive: Paxlovid 10d+ Metformin 14d+ (D1: 500mg, D2-D5: 1000mg, D6-D14: 1500mg) Why isn't this a thing yet? The data clearly supports its effectiveness *Governments, do not call it "MetPax and Relax"

I’m a former AWS employee: most of the hot takes on Amazon's new strict return-to-office policy are wrong. Anyone who’s been paying attention saw this coming years ago. And ultimately, it comes down to taxes and economics. Here's their plan: Phase 1: layoff over 30k people.

Please reply with your favorite neuroplasticity facts/examples *****with a source!*****

Every now and then I look at the way sidewalks are slightly pitched for drainage, and I remember there are thousands of little details like this hidden in plain sight - incalculable love and effort that past generations put into improving life that we now benefit from

I’ll vote for more trains every time, but it kills me that the Link was clearly obsolete the day it was designed. And here we are.

Why are you running three car trains after a Seattle Mariners game, Sound Transit - 🚆 🚈 🚍 ?

This is like watching an Orson Welles interview. Delightful Katt Williams ! youtu.be/8oRRZiRQxTs?si…