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Apparently I have to put my age in this now? 25.

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[jcrewguy]

In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”

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[laughingcatwrites]

If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.

This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:

If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!

[vaspider]

The Studios: *speak*

Botanists and other Tree Experts:

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[imawitchywitch]

My mom said when she used to go to business meetings at GM in Detroit in the 1980’s, they would close the sidewalks to “repave” them whenever the unions were preparing to strike, making it more difficult or impossible for them to protest outside. This is a thing, this has been happening for decades. They know what they’re doing.

[msaprildaniels]

The bosses hate you and think of you with contempt, and they will lie to your face while they make your life harder.

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[writefinch]

The Stanford Prison Experiment was good and most of the criticisms you see are completely facile. I'm sorry you learned it from a single paragraph description in social studies class along with Milgram's shock experiments as a supposed proof that most people turn evil in bad circumstances but that's not what the study is about. Every psych major who chuckles about how the participants were coached and it was all White Men and they went into the study knowing exactly what they were going to find is the reason contemporary experimental psychology is just barely-replicable p-hacking.

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[corbinite]

Something about the way (t)radfems say "effeminate males" instead of feminine men gives me the fucking heebie jeebies. It's not like effeminate is necessarily a slur but you can tell a lot about an ideology from which other camps it borrows its jargon from. And in this case it's from trads and conversion therapists

[earhartsease]

effeminate is so oldskool - we were being called that in the 70s for being (not even deliberately) gnc and it was absolutely a slur - happy when we see it sometimes reclaimed, but terfs can eat our shit and hair ofc

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[tigerstripes1227]

This, as it says, was the republican platform in 1956. How WAS THE RIGHT RADICALIZED??!!

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[thydungeonguy]

The English word "dove" rhymes with

move

prove

[thydungeonguy]

Somehow this poll has upset more people than the chips/crisps/fries poll

[vaspider]

no :C

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[painted-bees]

A quick, sloppy little comic about Magritte

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[supreme-leader-stoat]

Nothing makes me want to call math fake as much as the Monty Hall problem. Not even 0.999999... equaling 1. Yes I understand the proof yes it technically makes sense but I just hate the Monty Hall problem so, so much.

[such-justice-wow]

Is that the game show one with the doors?

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Correct. The basic scenario is that there is a car behind one door and a goat behind two doors, and you don't know which is which but the game show host does. If you pick the door with the car, you win the car. The host let's you pick a door, then opens one of the two doors you didn't pick, revealing a goat. The host then offers you one last chance to switch your pick from your original door to the other remaining closed door.

The Monty Hall problem states that you should always switch your pick, and that by doing so you will double your chances of winning the car.

Which, intuitively, that's nonsense. Your choice has no actual impact on the reality of the situation. You're guessing blindly the same as before, it's just now that you have a one-in-two chance of guessing the right door instead of a one-in-three chance.

EXCEPT

During your first round of choosing, you had a 1/3 chance of guessing the car vs a 2/3 chance of guessing a goat, if you were only allowed that one guess. But once it's narrowed down to two doors, one with a goat and one with a car, you're now guaranteed to get the exact opposite outcome of what your original guess would have been if you switch. So if you stick with your first choice, you still have a 1/3 chance of getting the car and 2/3 chance of getting a goat. But if you switch, then suddenly that becomes a 1/3 chance of getting a goat, and a 2/3 chance of getting the car.

It's bullshit and I hate it so much.

[such-justice-wow]

I understand it but i hate it, like the maths is right but logically it just doesn't click

[supreme-leader-stoat]

See, you understand my pain.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

#why doesn’t choosing the same door you already chose have the same effect? that’s what I want to know#like does math not agree with the sage advice of ya authors that not choosing is also a choice?

The trick to it is that you're technically playing two games in a row, and the second one is the only one that you actually have to win.

In the first game, you have two chances to lose (picking a goat) and once chance to win (picking a car). Worse-than-even odds. But the important thing is, you don't actually get a prize for winning this first game. It's just set-up for the second one.

In the second game, sticking with your door is basically saying "I think I made a lucky guess in the first game, I'm sticking with that decision." Switching doors is saying "I don't think I got lucky in the first round, so I'm going to change my decision." You are gambling on whether you won or lost the first game, and what wins or loses you the prize is guessing correctly whether you were lucky in the first game. And because the odds of the first game were worse-than-even, guessing that you lost the first game is the safer bet, because you probably weren't lucky.

The really painful part of it is that our brains want to interpret it all as one game, where you've basically got 50/50 odds no matter what you do. That's what our every instinct is screaming at us should be happening, because the physical endgame is two closed doors, only one of them with something we want behind it, which has been there from the start. But it isn't one game with 50/50 odds. It's two games in a trenchcoat, and their combined odds are skewed.

[thefoolsbitch]

“You are gambling on whether you won or lost the first game” is in fact the only time the Monty Hall problem has ever made even a shadow of sense to me, and I think you should get an honorary PhD in math or maybe philosophy for writing it down.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

That's actually very flattering, especially considering how long I've wrestled with this thing, thank you.

[go-drink-the-kool-aid-deactivat]

Ok but lets be honest id be happier with a goat

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[tinsnip]

OH

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[petrow1tch]

Nothing worse than antiwar people saying "everyone should put down the weapons" fully knowing that it won't happen and those who hold those weapons in defense would be dead without them

[petrow1tch]

like yeah, dude, war is bad, we should all frolic around in a meadow and shit, but you see, there is this one guy throwing bombs at my head and threatening to kill my entire family, and I'm afraid the power of your bellybutton friendship gem won't help, Steven

[petrow1tch]

dude I'm fucking frustrated. some people think on a level so theoretical that it leans into fantasy fiction, while I'm here sitting with insomnia becoming religious in hopes that next missile or drone won't hit my apartment because I saw what it did to a whole fucking house. it was a hole in the ground. just a crater, you know. imagine a farm house in a country side, and now imagine a crater 5 meters deep 20 meters wide. nothing left except one bent spoon and photos of a family that used to live there that people put on the side of the road as some resemblance of a grave, because there weren't even any fucking bodies left. People get torn apart when they get hit by a blast wave from a few meters away, you know. Can you "theoretically" imagine what happens with a direct hit?

[petrow1tch]

I wish everyone could put down the weapons and be like "friendship, peace and whatever else", but sometimes you want to live, and for that you need to kill whoever wants to kill you, and for that you need a Weapon.

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Anonymous asked:

detroit style?? explain? :0

mommybard answered:

So new york style is that long flat and foldable style. Chicago is deep dish. St.Louis is a thin af cracker like crust. Neopolitan is the classy fancy style that costs too much for a fucking pizza.

Detroit has a thick, bread like crust and its cooked in a square shape. The myth around it goes that it was cooked in that shape because the person to first make it used a part from an auto manufacturer to make it. The outer crust is more like a baked cheese crunch from the cheese cooking against the walls of the pan. There’s debate on whether the cheese or the sauce goes on first, I’m all for either. I just really love the breadyness of it

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[identitty-dickruption]

there’s no shame in needing to pause a physical activity to go get a glass of water. yes, this includes fucking

[identitty-dickruption]

actually. happy disability pride month to any of my fellow disabled people who fuck different. who need to take sex slowly. who need to use an inhaler during sex. who need a wrist massage before or after sex. you’re epic, and you deserve to have your body rocked this disability pride month

[blackbird-brewster]

Hell yes! This is such an important reminder that no matter how you need to make yourself comfortable while fucking, you're amazing!

Accessibility doesn't start and stop in public spaces.