So, I've got to start with a "I'm thin and I didn't do anything to get thin, but I'm also a man so it's good but not that great" disclaimer, because I'm pretty sure I don't really have any understanding of how people feel about this, and so sorry in advance.

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FUCK YOU AND YOUR GRAVY THIS ISN'T TROLLING YOU REALLY ARE WRONG AND YOU SUCK AND YOU'RE SOME KIND OF POULTRY PRIVILEGE ASSHOLE NOT EVERYONE GOT TO GET ACCLIMATED TO DISGUSTING-ASS WHITE GRAVY GROWING UP.

Well, not Loughner. Have you seen that motherfucker's youtube videos?

Good, because it's not a fucking function of white male privilege as much as it's a function of statistics:

This is clearly a gun! Don't you know that black people are always armed?

I'm not a huge uber/lyft booster, but this ticked me off too. It's either just the urge to link to another article, or it's a very simple misunderstanding of how those services work, combined with the assumption that, because they're not the entrenched taxi service, they're clearly dangerous and shady. And that's just…

So... someone imitating a regulation cab is a sign that we should be terrified of lyft/uber/etc.?

"...like a creamsicle with a tooth stuck in it"

Yes. Let's do boners together1

Hypothesis testing in economics isn't the same thing as testing a hypothesis through trials. In a classic statistical hypothesis test, you look at your result and compare the probability of that result to the range of statistically probable results. That's a lot harder when you don't have control groups, and you only…

And again, that's why, rather than give them a general use paid vacation, I'd rather we make more affordable those things that children need.

Yeah, but y'know, eyes are perfectly objective and one's experiences and reactions are universal across humanity.

Wait... where's the outrage?

But the people who have children without resources/planning aren't going to be made better parents by paid leave.

The difference is in the methods. A medical researcher can run a control group. Macroeconomists can't, so what we're left trying to do is construct an experiment backwards, looking at the results of the experiment and then formulating a hypothesis. And because we only have the data and no way to re-run the experiment,…

And that's precisely not the choice that you have about where your tax dollars go. I'd choose that too.

If you're a potential parent and you have to plan for your unpaid leave and save accordingly, you're demonstrating that you're invested in having a child. If you make it easier to have children, people who otherwise would not have a kid will, and I'm arguing (without any evidence, obviously) that those people are less…

That's why the social sciences aren't, y'know, Science.

Also... is it possible that they have a different relationship to boobs than we do, and that they don't have the same feeling about this that we would were it to happen here?