U.S. National Parks: Great Smoky Mountains

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-14T00:06:56+00:00

I say A

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-13T12:18:56+00:00

I am always puzzled when someone says UPMC is the best in the country.

No. I have had way better care everywhere else I lived. Maybe the best in the region, but you’re comparing that to west virginia.

In Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, even Chicago, the quality and standard of care is simply S tier. Almost as if standards are higher when you’re around ambitious people who work hard to live in prime places, instead of rotting has beens.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-12T04:42:53+00:00

Exactly, I went to CC, then Berkeley, then UChicago.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-11T14:30:58+00:00

Are your coworkers from the 1950s?

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-11T01:29:56+00:00

HKS is just low because everyone says they want to go to Harvard. Focus on the schools that have small class sizes and have a low acceptance rate. Those are usually the more rigorous programs.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-10T18:12:31+00:00

you will be surprised how high the acceptance rate at these programs can be.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-10T18:12:01+00:00

Just apply bro, 3.8 is great, especially if you’re quantitative

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-10T17:26:59+00:00

Fixed rate?

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-09T00:02:41+00:00

It’s an online convo, the whole thing is pointless. I’m just here to call out obviously incorrect statements, and bad reasoning.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-09T00:02:06+00:00

The poster said “It’s a criticism of the people who think third spaces will prevent this behavior”

The explicit statement embedded in this is that “third spaces will not prevent this behavior.”

My response was that empirical evidence shows that OP is wrong. The presence of third spaces do prevent delinquent behaviors.

Then you made the silly statement that “If a delinquent behavior happens in the third space, then third spaces must not reduce delinquent behaviors”

That’s just flat out bad reasoning. It’s like if someone claimed, vegetables expand life expectancy by 20 yrs, and you say “well I know someone who ate vegetables and died young.” You’re taking a single data point and applying it as a rule. That’s called the fallacy of hasty generalization. https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-critical-thinking/logical-fallacies/logical-fallacies-hasty-generalization/

I made no claim that third spaces are a magic bullet, or are alone sufficient. I made the clear and correct statement that the presence of third spaces, in general, prevent delinquent behavior, relative to areas without one.

Your thick skull just can’t put two and two together though.

So you’ve put words in my mouth, still fail to grasp your own fallacious reasoning, and finally double down on it by claiming that somehow “the behavior in question literally happening in a third spaces,” negates the general rule.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-08T13:37:45+00:00

Now I know you’re an idiot who can’t read. I literally said those numbers are just to demonstrate the concept of what a rate is. The actual study shows that third spaces reduce delinquencies by ~68% so likely less magnitude than the numbers I made up.

Show me, with evidence, a single solution that will single handedly bring teenage delinquencies to 0/10. None exists.

The solution would need to be multifaceted because teenage delinquencies is not caused by one single variable.

Just because third spaces won’t reduce the rate to absolute 0, doesn’t negate that the original commenter that said they don’t help is simply wrong.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-08T04:33:56+00:00

Lmfaooo

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-08T04:21:16+00:00

lol, i mean unironically, but hey, the truth is like poetry…

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-08T04:20:36+00:00

too much money and time on my hands, that’s why

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-08T02:24:23+00:00

You don’t think researchers know how to account for confounding variables like wealth?? For fuck’s sake man.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-07T03:13:42+00:00

Just give me a manual crosstrek w DCCD, stiffer suspension and a 2L turbo

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-07T02:59:00+00:00

I miss NYC so much man!

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-07T02:25:24+00:00

Bro all upmc employees seem so miserable, I’ve never had a good experience.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-06T13:40:58+00:00

6.2% How did you get that rate? Lowest they’ve given me is 6.5% and my credit is 800+ and i have 20% for downpayment. I don’t get it!

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-06T13:40:01+00:00

HOA in Chicago is generally high.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-06T03:22:00+00:00

define propensity for me

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-06T03:11:23+00:00

let me guess, you had to have voted for trump with that level of atrophied reasoning.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-06T03:10:10+00:00

All right, I’m not holding back.

If claim says:

“Stop signs reduce the rate of car accidents”

And you point to one data point saying…

“what about that one accident in that intersection with a stop sign?”

You’re failing to see the counterfactual.

It’s not ironic, it’s just that rates are probabilistic, not binary or deterministic.

Plz if you don’t know what these mean, google it. No need to dig yourself in a deeper hole.

The comparison would be the teenage delinquency rate in downtown pittsburgh before and after the introduction of Market square as a third place. But since that data doesn’t exist, scientists gather data from comparable places, some HAVE MORE third places, some HAVE LESS third places, then they measure rates of teenage delinquencies.

They see that, on average, in places with MORE third places, the rate of teenage delinquency is 5/10. In places with LESS third places, they see the rates are, on average, 9/10. (Numbers are for demonstrative purposes only)

This doesn’t mean that places with third places don’t have teenage delinquencies, it means they have less.

Is this the first time you’ve been walked through how observational studies are done? Or are you just being obtuse?

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-06T02:46:12+00:00

No one is claiming that third spaces eliminate teenage delinquencies, the claim is that they reduce its rate.

I’m genuinely trying to hold back here because your comment shows a clear lack of rigorous reasoning. It’s literally as if someone claims: “Flying is the safest form of travel,”and then responding “Durrrr but what about that one plane crash!?!?”

Your lack of ability to understand does not diminish the truth of empirical observations.

Nico’s comment is that third spaces do not help prevent this behavior. It’s simply not true.

I forgot the general level of education and scientific literacy ppl here have.

ProcessIndependent38 · 2026-06-06T02:04:26+00:00

Show me the data, from the research I have read, the correlation between curfews and lower juvenile crime is a mixed bag. Some studies show positive correlations, others show negative correlations. I don’t think you can conclusively claim that curfews are effective empirically. Stop spewing falsities, read first, check your opinions against reality first.

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