CompassRed

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[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I respectfully disagree. Its thesis is simply that you can have a better life if you stay alive. The "proof" is simply all the changes the artist went through in order to find a better life. The changes aren't supposed to be a recipe on how to make your life better - I don't think the artist is telling people to divorce their spouses. There isn't anything "just be happy" about getting a divorce.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the US, I think red pepper could get confused with chili peppers, but maybe that's just me.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

I shot my shot with my bartender. Nine years later and we are married with a kid. Someone's it works. Oftentimes it doesn't. Be grateful for all the times it doesn't work because that's just one more crappy relationship you don't have to put up with.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

That's not true. There isn't anything special about jury nullification. If it happens, it happens and that's the end of the trial. If the jury is hung because some of the jury members wish to nullify and others don't, then it will lead to a mistrial simply because the jury cannot come to a unanimous decision - not because of jury nullification. Of course, any verdict can be appealed as usual, but there's no guarantee the appeal will be granted - even in the case of jury nullification.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

No. I'm just wrong, lol

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

~~I think that means alcohol poisoning~~

It actually means tuberculosis

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

In Arizona, the RCV proposition didn't pass because it was bundled with open primaries. The bill was mainly about requiring open primaries with only a small mention of requiring ranked choice voting at the end. I would bet a lot of people here didn't even know ranked choice voting was on their ballot.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago

When I was a kid, I literally walked 43 miles from my home one day. Took 15 hours. I just had my parents pick me up when I got to the pizza place - no big deal.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Okay. That's a very convincing analogy. Thanks for the thought out response. Forgive me for being rude.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

~~That is not how Hispanic is used in the dataset. Just read the methodology for crying out loud.~~

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

Not unless someone methodologically captures all the accounts through interviews and surveys and turns it into one.

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

I agree that anecdotes aren't worthless, but for different reasons. There's actually a saying that goes, "the plural of anecdote isn't data." Anecdotes are just stories. They aren't data points and they aren't peer reviewed. If you want to turn anecdotes into data, you have to do the proper interviews and surveys to actually build a dataset and then get the peer review, but at that point we aren't talking about anecdotes anymore.

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