https://xkcd.com/303/

The 45 minute builds back in the 1990s .....

Still wanting to know when the research community will begin downvoting the foundational social science research papers and excluding them from new citations where that flawed research used what is now consider scientific flawed and inadmissible methodology - self-reported surveys, tiny sample size, outcome based survey questions, etc..

Can someone in the research area give insight what happens when a paper is retracted to that paper and to the papers which cite that paper and then the second generation citations for that paper?

If the original paper is now considered invalid, for example falsified research data or has invalid methodology (e.g., survey of a population where the participants are all know beforehand to prove the paper's hypothesis), what happens?

The Kinsey report for example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A decade of micro-features or no forward movement for HTML, JavaScript and HTTP.

The Mozilla Foundation could push for better web standards, better web programming languages and improvements so that developing for the web does not require a 5,000 file framework for a hello world application.

We have known since the 1960s that typeless variables introduce whole classes of programming errors that a more strongly typed language avoids at compile time. Yet, JavaScript and the layers on top of it such as TypeScript perpetuate it.

Strangely, no one connects the many claims that garbage collected languages "eliminate a whole class of programming errors" is good with the aforementioned "typed languages eliminate a whole class of programming errors" as good also.

- Preventing girls from having negative self opinions, anxiety and depression (refer articles on Facebook studies on the negative effects of social media)

- Boys getting any information contrary to the GDP increasing and population increasing - "chase -> date -> date -> consume to self-improve -> spend to impress -> marry -> take on large debts for housing -> have many children so that they become future taxpayers"

For the boys, it is any message that is not aligned with liberal politics or the business as usual noble self-sacrifice message from the right..

In both cases, it is about keeping well worn and longstanding voting blocs in the same place so that existing politicians have long term job stability.

Not left or right here and want to have a reasoned discussion; with those that knee-jerk "you are a "-ist"/ "-ism" discussion ending people excluded from the discussion. They are not open to any reasoned discussion and only seek to shut down any free discussion.
Hence, any "not keeping the status quo alive" message is labeled toxic and politically "far X" to shut down any discussion of even the smallest of governmental reforms.

Examine the news article

- Remove all the feelings and emotional appeals
- Highlight the facts
- TODO - See if getting one or more expert opinions outside of the store and its industry representatives would help
- TODO - A little Googling for laws or city ordinances regulating locking a customer in a store or preventing a customer who has committed no crime from leaving the store

> "results that feel confusing and overwhelming. Do we really need four distinct apps?"

Not the case here and not applying this to the article's author.

Including this for informational purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. In humans, learned helplessness is related to the concept of self-efficacy, the individual's belief in their innate ability to achieve goals.

Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from a real or perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation.[1]

The point is that the news reporters "conviently" included 30 years in timeline so that the USA is the largest polluter and, per the media playbook, China is not mentioned as the largest polluter.

Last 20 years, China is by far the largest polluter. https://www.carbonbrief.org/an....

"China’s CO2 output has more than tripled since 2000, overtaking the US to become the world’s largest annual emitter, responsible for around a quarter of the current yearly total."

The net point is that these environmental articles, pollution articles and green articles end up omitting more than 66 percent of the worlds population from doing anything while pushing for the US, EU, Canada, Aus, NZ, and Japan to do the heavy lifting and transfer money (GDP) to other countries.

The per-capita is a red-herring misdirection when the climate and pollution regulations + treaties are done at the country level.

It's agreeable to reduce pollution going forward, the always "looking back media angle" because they can find countries with deep pockets is not helping. It is giving more than 66% of the world's population a way to do nothing.

> "Gattaca" -- a film that features a eugenicist future in which people with ordinary DNA are relegated to menial jobs

See Brave New World from 1931 with the designing people to be menial workers from birth (actually in utero).

Not having much hope that this is going to be fully resolved soon, given the long history of CBO estimates on the economy and tax revenue, where they always seem to overestimate the tax revenue collected in the future so that Congress can spend more than their means.

By the end of the day, both parties agree on more spending and more spending and, now, a decade in, that not having a budget lets everyone spend more without having to hear questions about increases in budget from votors (both parties).

https://www.npr.org/transcript...

The fake market in crypto
September 19, 20227:10 PM ET
SYLVIE DOUGLIS, BYLINE: NPR.

  And I'm Paddy Hirsch. We were reading Forbes magazine recently, and a headline jumped out at us. It said more than half of all bitcoin trades are fake - half - 50%.

WONG: This is not a small thing. As many as 46 million Americans own bitcoin, which is the biggest and most popular crypto asset in the market today. The exchanges that deal in bitcoin claim that they trade $262 billion worth of bitcoin every day. If half of that volume is fake, it means a lot of people are in danger of being scammed. ...

A "boom" is where regular people, workers, corporations, and the larger society have improving income, a rising standard of living for people, more opportunities and overall better less dangerous working conditions.

Corporate profits going up with declining stagnant wages after inflation, less jobs, and less quality jobs is not a boom. /.. needs to look at the source and see that this is a company talking its own book and using a press release to sell the company's services.

"Alpine Macro was founded in October 2017 as an independent global investment research firm based in Montreal, Canada."
https://alpinemacro.com/about-...

Given the lack of any background connecting warming to fires and droughts and the many uses of "left", "right" and "far right" in the article, it falls into a political opinion piece and not reporting.

Example quote - "Brazil is still facing worsening droughts and fires fueled by warming"

No expansion on the use of "warming" just an acceptance and propagation of the implied causality.

A classic journalism 101 needs to be applied to this so that things affirmed need backup facts or information.

The perpetual pandering of "left" and anything which is not left is "far right" is a net negative for reporting and a net negative overall.

It promotes a divide that has enough people in the "If you don't 100% agree with me, you are a (totalitarian government form) and evil" mental block so that nothing will change, ensuring decay, gridlock and a diminished middle class.

Agree that Nintendo can keep producing quality games for kids.

There's also the media, politicians and advocacy nonprofits being disinterested in addressing these crimes given the perpetrator's demographic group being more favored in the media. Not just in the US but in the industrialized countries, under reported and when convicted they get overly lenient sentences.

https://journals.sagepub.com/d...

It’s a Slippery Slope”: Antecedents of Female-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse of Adolescents in Australian Educational Settings
Amanda L. Robertson and Danielle A. Harris
Volume 37, Issue 2
https://doi.org/10.1177/107906...

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Title: English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)
J. J. Jusserand - 1921 - https://www.gutenberg.org/cach...

Then again going back 750 years, men were subject to systemic much harsher punishment as men were hanged for stealing 4 pence and women needed to steal much more, 8 pence, to get hanged.

From Chapter III - "In a criminal lawsuit of the time of Edward I (reference 347) the judge explains from his bench that the law is this: if the thief has taken anything worth more than twelve pence, or if he has been condemned several times for little thefts, and the total may be worth twelve pence or more, he ought to be hanged: “The law wills that he shall be hanged by the neck.” Still, as the judge observes in the case of a woman who had stolen a carpet lying on a hedge, worth eightpence, the law is milder than in the days of Henry III, for then a theft of the value of fourpence would hang a man.348"

Henry III reigned 1216 to 1272 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Climate accords and treaties have been made per country and not per-capita.