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Meanwhile, the AI will be handing out false positives to TERFs and hilarity ensues. I see no downside here.

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It’s like claiming that you can identify homosexuality through facial recognition. There’s no such thing as a “trans face”. It’s just a silly idea.

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Not all mosquitoes bite humans. If you exterminated the biting ones, the non-biting ones would just fill that same ecological niche.

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Nobody wants to exterminate all mosquitoes. Just the ones that bite humans.

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The non-biting variety are called “blind mosquitoes” or “midges”. Their females don’t suck blood.

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Would make for a great tool if it allowed to get the same info but explained in a more casual manner.

There’s a simple English Wikipedia.

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I need something clarified by someone who doesn’t go to a chiropractor and never has.

Why would somebody who’s never been to a chiropractor be the best person to ask whether or not it’s bullshit? If this is how you find out if something is true, you’re gonna be in for a rude awakening, and probably sooner than later.

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There are countless such anecdotes, but rarely anything scientifically reproducible.

These are called coincidences. If you take the baby to the chiropractor and the baby suddenly gets well, of course you’re going to talk about it! That doesn’t mean that the chiropractor had anything to do with it. What’s the chiropractor’s success/failure ratio?

Also, the idea of a “baby chiropractor” squicks me out. Maybe this one only lightly touched the baby, but I’ve heard horror stories about them harming babies. People think “Oh, the worst that can happen is that nothing changes.” No, the chiropractor can make things worse.

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it’s bullshit, but it’s bullshit that works for some people.

It’s also bullshit that can harm people.

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it’s not scientifically reproducible, that’s how.

Look up Cognitive Behavior Therapy. It’s a type of therapy that has some solid science behind it.

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It just never occurred to me that it might be bullshit until somebody pointed me to some skeptical articles about it.

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Being free from confirmation bias doesn’t make you an expert, though. Their opinion could be influenced based on something they heard or all kinds of other things that have no bearing on whether or not it’s true.

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That’s why I like to use treatments that are backed up by science. Don’t take risks without a good reason.

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Polls are funny.

87 percent of Trump supporters don’t want him to end his campaign while 8 percent do.

So, there are people saying “Yeah, I support him, but I think he should drop out.”

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Because of course everybody has an Apple Watch.

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If I can’t afford to tip, then I can’t afford to get delivery.

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There’s always one in the comment section. And today, it’s you!

Thanks for doing your part.

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I want prison sentences for white-collar, corporate crime.

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You can’t vote “against Trump”. We’d have a better democracy if we could. I would love to have a vote of no confidence on the ballot.

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I’ve been doing this for decades.

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Even if I were to buy that argument, it’s only relevant if you live in a swing state.

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Getting 5% is also important because it qualifies the party to get millions of dollars in federal grant money.

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I’m a member of the Green Party.

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Doing things the hard way doesn’t make you smarter.

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