One of the single greatest problems with modern American society is the idea that there are at least two legitimate sides to every debate.

TIL, there is a quarto docstring parser plugin for python that will let you build documentation websites like {pkgdown} in R does

Any data science program without DAGs and causal inference is a failure. We don’t need more grads chasing spurious correlations in big data with zero business sense. Prove me wrong.

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To put this differently, the acceptability of any given action is fundamentally conditional on the availability of viable alternatives. It is incoherent to say in the absolute "X is never acceptable" if there could arise threats in which X could in fact be acceptable.

If you believe a threat is existential, than there are no unacceptable means of opposition. Once you start drawing lines and ruling certain methods unacceptable, you are implicitly saying you don't believe the threat is existential. You cannot be logically coherent and have it both ways.

"One count of obstruction and one count of making a false statement" is what the government charges you with when even they know they have no case.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Looking forward to the reports of Trump trying to dissolve congress and everyone just hoping someone tells him he doesn't have that power that will inevitably happen sometime in 2027.

Future historians will tell the tale of a society that had everything--freedom, a standard of living higher than any civilization in history, and access to a wide variety of goods--and decided to burn it all down to own the libs.

every time I am forced to explain an odds ratio to a non statistician I am reminded of why odds ratios are a fucking stupid thing to calculate. i will not be taking questions at this time

You just have to pick up the phone, and if it's a spam call, strongly encourage them to unalive themselves

It's kind of incredible how our limited inference framework is making it harder to refute conspiracies. We can make much more confident statements that there is x% chance of *no relationship* but we need to move outside the null hypothesis testing framework. Sometimes p values can kill...

I would be so stoked to get the country back from the evangelicals, tbh.

We, as a society, should cancel people who do "correlational mediation analysis." There's just no place in a civilized society for people like that.

Welp, spending my evening coding up a simulation to try and decide which energy plan to select as one does 😮‍💨

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

New life goal is to age more gracefully than most of the Trump administration

Plot twistier: But only when taken in conjuction with hydroxychloroquine

My condolences to all of the people discovering the doctrine of sovereign immunity for the first time this evening

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Sadly, you can't sue the pesident/government for defamation, but any news organization that passes this off as legitimate or parrots it like FOX did with the Dominion stuff could be sued for defamation.

The good news is that when the court's majority suddenly decides rule of law is worth having again, the hypocrisy will be so blinding that packing the fucking court will seem like a no-brainer.

My mom took Tylenol when she was pregnant, which led to me being a little bit too focused on statistics

Trying to choose an electricity provider and plan and I'm having flashbacks to trying to navigate the health insurance exchanges 😬

IMO, there should be mandatory field trips for high school students where they have to walk through an old cemetery and listen to how all of the children and infants buried there died from diseases that we now have vaccines for and that vaccines keep us from going back to that.

I'm sure that if there's a Democrat in the Whitehouse again SCOTUS will just magically find some reason why all the precedents they're spending Trump's term eviscerating should suddenly be valid again

A good reminder that voting with your wallet actually works

Final closing costs came out ~7K higher than the lender's original estimate and FML buying a house sucks. I just keep telling myself I'm only going to be broke for a year or two

In reality, despite the manner of his death, Kirk was a hate monger, an absolutely vicious misogynist, and a conspirator against American democracy. Let’s not sell tickets to his “spiritual journey.”

So, at present Pritzker is basically the only serious contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination. Basically no one else even comes close. A lot can happen in the next two years and some other folks could suddenly fine their backbone, but I'm not very optimistic about that.

I know math is hard for some people, but JFC. Convincing the low-propensity Trump voters to just stay home is probably a much easier path than getting them to vote for Democrats. The hard part is that Democrats have to be willing to do the things required to save Democracy from Trumpism.

The probability that Jeffries and Schumer go down in history as two of the worst and most ineffectual minority leaders in their respective chambers' history increases by the day

Douthat's whole shtick has always been being a psudo-intellectual joke, so it's not really surprising he has fucking terrible takes on this topic.

The idea of sacrificing basic principles of liberalism--equal protection under the law, reproductive freedom, civil rights, etc.--in order to appeal to socially regressive bigots and religious zealots should be deeply offensive to any Democrat with any principles at all.

Historically, the collapse of American political institutions has been a net positive for the country's long-run political development, with the caveat that it has also involved ignoring existing rules to force through sweeping reforms. So there's hope for the long-run, at least.

Not sure if he's a puppy or a dragon, TBH

Out of curiosity, has there ever been a case in U.S. history where military or former military personnel have been criminally charged for following illegal orders from the executive? Asking because I'm very skeptical there will ever be any actual accountability for this

I have reached the "appliances cost how much!?!" stage of buying a house 😳😭

Starting Trails in the Sky Chapter 1 today because a JRPG with 4.9 stars and that was considered marketable enough to actually get an english voice over is a thing I can't not play

Ugh, Microsoft is end-of-lifing Windows 10 a month from now and I'm going to have to update my gaming PCs to Windows 11 😮‍💨

I was wondering why I suddenly started seeing way less anti-AI content on here and apparently I made it onto two of the "AI Enthusiast" mass block lists like two or three weeks ago lol

"We recommend using Anaconda..." 🤡🤡🤡

Beyond just video games, there needs to be a very aggressive effort to tie price increases on pretty much anything to Trump and Republicans.

If Democrats want to continue to erode Trump's support with young men, they should be trumpeting about how his tarrifs are making their video games more expensive, I'm not even joking

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

I miss being able to just buy a thing and have it, I hate paying for subscriptions

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

The premise of the article is wrong. Nothing Kimmel said was inaccurate--he described the events that transpired over the past weekend with great accuracy.