Spyke

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Well actually...

I was never vocal about it but used to be somewhat a "not all men" type of person in my early 20s. At least in my head.

Then I got diagnosed with autism. Turns out I just don't understand most other men.

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Software Terminology

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I've literally never heard anyone call it A.P.P. (and I mean that literally literally, not figuratively literally)

Is this a specific cultural thing? A generational thing? Geography based slang? Why would anyone do this.

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Ben Shapiro's sister

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Some actress with boobs. I know her from White Lotus. No idea on the ending wokeness part because I don't follow the lives of celebrities outside of checking IMDB to see what else they've been in.

Edit: I tried to look into it a bit. Something about the fact that a conventionally attractive young woman with nice breasts is gaining popularity means it's an end to all the body positivity and other wokeness? Idk, I'm not doing more than 5 minutes of looking into it

I also saw that her grandma has seen her nude scenes and said "she has the best tits in Hollywood" and that's just hilarious

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Priorities

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I appreciate the effort to improve the methodology. But the numbers feel too big to be grasped easily, compared to the original.

Maybe the time frame can be changed? If we bump it to "1 person will be shot to death this year" it would make it a room full of 7080 people and 58 are trans

Edit: full data set rescaled

7080 - total

566 - no insurance

750 - poverty

1487 - illiterate

1635 - mentally ill

1 - gun death per year

58 - trans

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Well would you look at that, it sure does.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

Recent empirical studies have established the minimum set of specific goods and services that are necessary for people to achieve decent-living standards (DLS), including nutritious food, modern housing, healthcare, education, electricity, clean-cooking stoves, sanitation systems, clothing, washing machines, refrigeration, heating/cooling, computers, mobile phones, internet, transit, etc. This basket of goods and services has been developed through an extensive literature (e.g., Rao and Min, 2017, Rao et al., 2019) and is summarized in Table 1, following Millward-Hopkins (2022).