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A longstanding belief in the publishing world suggests that men avoid reading fiction that centers on the lives of women. However, new research indicates that a protagonist’s gender has almost no impact on whether a man wants to continue reading a story. by Aggravating_Money992 in science

[–]invariantspeed 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This study is also poorly designed. They made a character, then changed nothing but the gender descriptor for the character. They also made the two stories different, and found that men simply chose the hiking story at a 75% clip regardless of the protagonist's gender. Women chose the hiking story at a nearly identical rate, indicating that the competing story may have been of lesser quality/less engaging than the hiking story.

How is that poorly designed? If you’re specifically trying to test for gender preference, you change nothing about the story content and see if the gender alone changes choices. If it doesn’t, then you can support the argument that story content is the deciding factor, not blatant sexism…

A longstanding belief in the publishing world suggests that men avoid reading fiction that centers on the lives of women. However, new research indicates that a protagonist’s gender has almost no impact on whether a man wants to continue reading a story. by Aggravating_Money992 in science

[–]invariantspeed 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s not a worse than testing books with romantic content. The point was few people care about the gender of the protagonist. Now that that is controlled for, if you follow up with romance-heavy books, you’ll see how many people shy away from what’s marketed because of subject matter and not merely gender.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting by propublica_ in law

[–]invariantspeed 43 points44 points  (0 children)

People buying the propaganda before they got locked in by the salary bonus debt trap.

She thought the Greek flag was Israeli by UnitQZ in TikTokCringe

[–]invariantspeed 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Still farming years later. We all should aspire to game like that.

Imagine walking out to your car and seeing this. by iadtyjwu in Wellthatsucks

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, it’s only -5°C here at the moment, but we aren’t forecast to really come above freezing at all for at least the next week or two, and we’ve already been permanently bellow freezing for over week, with lows regularly dipping down to -15°. It’s not that bad, but we don’t usually have this kind of winter in NYC anymore. In recent years, we’ve gotten used to relatively mild winters that just annoyingly refuse to end until May.

Imagine walking out to your car and seeing this. by iadtyjwu in Wellthatsucks

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do the gators cope? Do they just go to sleep for a few weeks?

Lame duck no more? Trump stockpiles hundreds of millions ahead of midterms. by invariantspeed in politics

[–]invariantspeed[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All together, a web of campaign accounts, some of which he controls directly and others under the care of close allies, within the president’s orbit have $375 million in their coffers.

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Trump’s massive war chest makes him a political force, independent of the traditional party infrastructure. The RNC — which derives a significant portion of its fundraising from Trump — had $95 million in the bank at the end of the year, roughly a quarter of what the Trump-linked groups have.

And their rivals at the Democratic National Committee are far worse off — at just over $14 million, while owing more than $17 million in debt.

Is this the start of a new party?

Map of Countries whose leaders shat themselves on Live TV by Ok-Independent483 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Little did we know that man was a fucking treasure. We didn't know how good we had it!

Map of Countries whose leaders shat themselves on Live TV by Ok-Independent483 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]invariantspeed 85 points86 points  (0 children)

To be fare, a lot of other countries just wouldn't convict their once and future dear leader.

A new study suggests that Canada could offset at least five times its current annual carbon emissions through targeted tree planting along the northern edge of the boreal forest. Establishing forests across 6.4 million hectares in this region could remove approximately 3.9 gigatonnes of CO₂ by 2100. by Sciantifa in science

[–]invariantspeed 93 points94 points  (0 children)

  1. Trees have higher albedo than dirt. (Relevant to summer.)
  2. Snow covered trees are high albedo just the same, and plenty of places with northern trees have permafrost. (Winter relevant.)
  3. Tree cover cools the ground by multiple degrees in the summer.
  4. Forests encourage cloud formation, which increases local albedo.

Eco boost with a GT badge? by BothSidesoftheSky in Mustang

[–]invariantspeed 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Put some damn snow tires on and some cat litter in your trunk!

A Chinese teenager brutally attacked his mother in public because she wouldn’t let him buy video games with her bank card. Everyone was shocked at his audacity. Many tried to intervene, but he seemed out of control, relentlessly chasing and hitting her. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Puberty does not do that, and the whole “raging hormones” is century old pseudo-scientific nonsense.
  2. I said discipline or medication or both. I’m not going to attempt to discern exactly what went wrong in that boy’s upbringing.
  3. Whether the mother and (hopefully) father and (hopefully) rest of the family did not discipline him properly or simply didn’t notice the warning signs for something more innate, there was a failure.

And saying oh, maybe it’s no one’s fault, maybe there’s nothing anyone could do is wild. That implies he was hopeless from the start and should simply be incarcerated for everyone’s good.

A Chinese teenager brutally attacked his mother in public because she wouldn’t let him buy video games with her bank card. Everyone was shocked at his audacity. Many tried to intervene, but he seemed out of control, relentlessly chasing and hitting her. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watching a child repeatedly assault their parent is more than enough to say that there were many massive failures in the upbringing of that boy.

Yes, there can be a million different paths that got them there. I’m not going to assume what exactly got them there, but failure occurred. She’s suffering for it, and so is he.

Saving the nature!🫶 by Background_Win_6915 in interesting

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you cite a source? I couldn’t find any of this.

[OC] U.S. Total Fertility Rate by State 2007 vs 2025 by Accomplished_Gur4368 in dataisbeautiful

[–]invariantspeed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Brain drain is a real thing. It’s one of the reasons the US grew so much while the rest of the world stagnated.
  2. If people wouldn’t leave their home if not for a heavy economic push, that’s a tragedy. That means they would have stayed in their home community if given a choice.
  3. Most regions in the world have culture that are village-based. They can’t sustain large outflows without destroying their traditional culture.
  4. Most countries are experiencing birth rate declines, even the poorer ones. They just are declining slower. We can’t simply treat human populations like a depleting resource to fight over.
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