Fantastic article. I grew up in Trump town in central PA (dead factory, 95%+ white, etc), left for ten years for college, grad school and whatnot. I recently moved back to reconnect here while I figure out what I want to be when I grow up (haha).

Great article and certainly an emotionally healthy read after the past 36 hrs.

Not to be a contrarian, but a fetus is not a kid or a person. Period.

A fetus =/= an infant

“But would you have thought Congress was the hero if it shut down the government?”

As someone who grew up a non-Yinzer in an awful Black’n’Gold-tinted, trashy white people infested, central-PA hicktown, I learned a long time ago to recognize the condescending “Bless Your Heart”-esque nature of Stillersfans generously informing everybody that they don’t even need to brag about all their effing rings…

Looks like PA

They will need to change this next year for sure. What is to stop a team from intentionally sending a guy across early on every important field goal, purposefully making sure they get a piece of the ball but also absolutely wrecking the kicker’s legs? They will get the 5-yard offsides, sure, but the other team not…

I’ve been hanging around PSU waaaay too long, and I’ve never for a second gotten the impression that grad students are somehow higher on the ladder than undergrads. I’ve never seen this anywhere really. Grad students are the perpetual bottom-feeders of the university system, since they aren’t even paying customers. …

Ummm... all the students at PSU have access to these lawyers - one of the names on this list represented me for my (minor) legal troubles while at PSU.

Well, I sure weren’t no fancy ol football player, but when this PSU alum ran afoul of the law in Happy Valley, I made the call to my main man, Tony “Naked Tony” DeBoef. Great lawyer. Called Naked Tony because he always ran the 5ks in naught but a tiny pair of shorts.

Sorry to have to correct you, but Foles’ transcendent year was under Kelly. Not saying he can’t do well with Reid - I’m an Eagles fan and will always think highly of Reid’s handling of QBs - but he was middling in limited action in his rookie year after Reid drafted him.

And you’re also just now moving the goalposts. NONE of your originals posts in this thread mention the word “title” once.

And how is the title poor? They present data backing up the claim, tho I would argue “terrible” is probably dramatizing things a bit.

Ummm.... shit products succeed all the time because of marketing, buddy. Think of bottled water (less pure than most municipalities), multivitamins (zero evidence of any health benefits unless you have a scurvy issue) or whey protein.

What is meaningful in the article is that they (1) had a hypothesis, and (2) collected data regarding that hypothesis, and finally (3) decided whether the data did or did not support the hypothesis (in this case, yes it did - they rejected the null hypothesis of “there is no difference in customer experience for uber…

As a PSU alumnus (and State College local), I was about to call you mean names for disparaging Happy Valley. And then I remembered that, less than 36 hrs ago, 1000s of drunk morons tore down light poles, set fires and tried to flip cop cars over because..... football game.

It is only wrong because technically, it’s not “never”. This does happen rarely, and it is largely condemned (think Nixon’s enemy list).

You are flat-out wrong. The Hep-C cure, like the majority of commercial drug products in the US, was principally developed using US Gov Grants (in the case of Hep-C, this was from the National Institute of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs).

I had the same thought at first as well, but I think you misunderstand/ignored his methodology. He ignored the words themselves and focused on 14 near-identical phrases that were used in precisely the same order (thus the 14!=87m) Now, granted, those phrases may well lend themselves to some sort of natural order…