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ProfessorPeregrine

@ ProfessorPeregrine @reddthat.com

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  • Kentucky woman who ordered abortion meds charged with fetal homicide, police say

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  • Women get unwanted pregnancies by not being educated or misinformed about how sex works, so sure, educate everyone in Sex Ed . But women get unwanted pregnancies in lots of ways that Sex Ed won't stop, including failed contraception and rape. And there are a large number of reasons to have medical abortions available including ectopic or other high risk pregnancies. Hence the poster relying to you saying both is fine, but "just" Sex Ed is a terrible idea.

  • I think there's an imposter amongus

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  • It's not stupid. Anyone reading needs to know where a statement or conclusion comes from in case they need to check and see how that conclusion was reached in the first place.

  • Latitudes

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  • Ha, while funny it still doesn't work. If we use an interval scale with zero degrees Lat defined as 16 degrees Celsius, how many times hotter is zero degrees Lat than-1 degrees Lat? If you are using "temperature comfort" as your underlying property,, zero had to be the university defined "lack of all comfort" which I don't think you will find. Subjective comfort is notoriously difficult to make into ratio scale. Pain measurement is a well- known example.

  • Latitudes

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  • This is an example I use when I teach data types. It happens because the scale (F or C) is an "interval" scale. Its zero is not based on the absence of the property it is measuring, so you can't apply a multiplicative transform to it like, "double".

    It is like lining up by height, calling the shortest person the standard and measure height of everyone else from that. So, the next tallest might be 2 cm, the next 4cm. But clearly the person we are calling 4cm is not twice the height of the person we called 2 cm.

  • X’s new location labels unmask users. Insiders say the idea was rejected for years.

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  • Truly you are a connoisseur...

  • Man who threw sandwich at US federal agent found not guilty of assault

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  • Point for "gripping hand" reference

  • What's a movie quote that gives you goosebumps?

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  • Also brilliant....😀

  • What's a movie quote that gives you goosebumps?

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  • Not a movie, but the series Cosmos.

    "We are a way for the universe to know itself." -Carl Sagan

  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • Historical sword-making, modern metallurgy, practical stats and experimental design. How to structure a business in a not-dumb way that treats employees as people.

  • Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?

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  • Democrats leave White House with no deal

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  • Majority in House but 60 votes in Senate are needed to avoid a filibuster, which will require some Democrats.

  • Uh oh lol

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  • Expansion red-shifts light.

  • Donald Trump’s assault on US nuclear watchdog raises safety concerns | Staff ‘forced out’ and independence curtailed at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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  • That you Scotty?

  • relevant post

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  • Heh, that would have been perfect.

  • relevant post

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  • Yeah, no one "flashes a Mensa card" unless they are a jerk. We joined many years ago when we lived in Iowa for the social aspect. The parties are a lot of fun and the people are all fascinating. Not all people you want to spend time with, but fascinating. We let our memberships lapse when we moved back to Colorado.

    Nearly universally, Mensans recognized that IQ is only measure of how well you do on an IQ test (which, as you may know, was never intended as a test for the upper end, only to find students who needed intervention) or the other allowed tests.

    There were materially successful people and not, socially adept and not. People we learned to avoid and people who became friends. Cringe and connection.

    I suppose it is like any other social club where you have something in common with the additional kicker that people were not holding back in conversation. You had the chance to rapidly be humbled in that case if you went on at length about some favorite topic only to find out the person you were talking to was an expert in it.

    Plus there were cool speakers and field trips. "Dumb things smart people do" was one of our favorites.

  • What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?

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  • City of heroes is still available for free and is a lot of fun. Pre-WOW but the graphics are decent. A great community too.

  • Does Lemmy like nuclear engineers?

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  • I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes...)

  • Wait, that game is still playable online?

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  • Florida set to become second state to ban fluoride in public water

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  • Some public water naturally has flouride in it without adding it. IIRC it was high flouride well water in Colorado that revealed its benefits You can also use flouride rinses or just not rinse after brushing. This doesn't help kids though, which as I understand it are the primary beneficiaries of flouride in waterr.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming 2 Georgia election workers, a judge says

    www.npr.org /2023/08/30/1196802338/rudy-giuliani-defamation-georgia-election-workers
  • Star Citizen @lemmy.ml
    ProfessorPeregrine @reddthat.com

    Inside Star Citizen: First Rate Resonate

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Ad firm plans to use people’s data in a maneuver to sink data privacy bill

    www.politico.com /news/2023/08/18/ad-giant-data-regulation-bill-00111849
  • Connect for Lemmy App @lemmy.ca
    ProfessorPeregrine @reddthat.com

    is there a way to set the default sort order across all comments?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Judge Chutkan says Trump’s right to free speech in January 6 case is ‘not absolute’

    www.cnn.com /2023/08/11/politics/trump-protective-order-chutkan-hearing/index.html