justinmeade.bsky.social
I am an Actuary, Nebraskan, and transplant Kansas Citian. On any given day you may find me obsessing over football, spaceflight, urbanism, architecture, music, politics, or whatever happens to be trending.
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It's a thousand times better than the NFL rules and I'm pretty confident that view would poll over 90%. In a sport in which a drive can easily take 10+ minutes, the only remotely fair alternative is to play another full quarter. This way is fair and gets to a resolution relatively quickly.
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Lol, what? I've never met someone who isn't? What's not to love about thus?
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Looks like you have it all figured out. Fortunately everyone agrees on who sucks a person. Nice, easy, objective standard. Glad we got that worked out.
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Who makes that decision and how? You're advocating for a platform to make it a practice of arbitrarily banning users that they personally don't agree with. Aside from the obvious risk of that going totally sideways, I don't see how they practically and consistently make those determinations.
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Of course they have the right. One could argue they have the moral imperative even. My point is that it is a very difficult policy to enforce, both practically and from a fairness standpoint.
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Your thoughtful input on this topic is noted.
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Isn't it? How do you fairly apply a policy of pre-emptively banning anyone who hasn't violated your TOS but is unpleasant or harmful elsewhere on the internet? It seems to me to be much more fair and straightforward to simply enforce your TOS and determine bans accordingly.
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It's been a loooong December and it's an absolute certainty next year is going to be worse than the last.
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As an Actuary, I can relate...
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That's right. It's good right now. Followed very quickly by scary and bad.
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Am I misunderstanding something? Sounds like they're changing plans from fossil fuels to a clean, renewable energy source?
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Beautiful city.
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🙏 First stadium built specifically for any professional women's sports team of any kind.
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Yep. Such unique songwriting.
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They're excellent.
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Looks like a very impactful project if it happens. Also, I appreciate the liberties taken with the surrounding lots in these renderings.
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I'm not the picture of health now but if I had this in my home I would feel compelled to increase my life insurance coverage.
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@jasonkander.bsky.social is here
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I'm not confident my walls are going to hold.
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Why? Ukraine has been launching attacks inside Russia for months. It's absurd to take the position that we should support our allies against brutal imperialist aggression only if they agree to lose. "Nuclear powers get to whatever they want" is not serious foreign policy.
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The Power Broker.
It's fantastic.
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I would much rather they adopt an advertising model and keep it free.
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Elon is a fascist who seems to be rapidly losing his grasp on reality, but the only way one can reasonably claim SpaceX and Tesla are frauds is by knowing nothing of any depth about them. It's pure Twitter brain nonsense.
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Absolutely! He plays several shows there (8 this year) every year.
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Seems like differences in rates and sources of immigration could be a factor here. As is usually the case, it's be prudent to avoid jumping to a single assumed explanation.
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Thanks for doing this. Nice to see all the familiar faces moving over.
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Hi
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Part of how it works is that it can induce a sort of childlike vulnerability to new ideas for a period, which immediately made me wonder...what if a megalomaniacal oligarch took ketamine every day and immersed himself in right wing propaganda? Guess we'll never know.
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Been really enjoying a Vieux Carre lately.
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Generally you want your 3 point field goal percentage to be higher than the number of turnovers. Classic rule of thumb. Wooden, I think.
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*accept. And here we have a prime example of what my main group chat has come to refer to as Meade's Law, which is, in summary, that any time intends to criticize or mock the intelligence of another online, he is almost guaranteed to totally undermine it with an embarassing typo.
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This is true but I think misses the bigger takeaway. We shouldn't give up on anyone that wants to be under the tent but we also shouldn't be hyper-fixated on issues affecting a tiny sliver of the population to the extent that it takes away from messaging on the things that affect everyone.
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My gut is it was mostly inflation. But just about any explanation relies upon an electorate that is depressingly misinformed.