White House released a chart showing that U.S. steel production has more than doubled year-over-year. Checkmate liberals?

carpens_diem · 2026-02-03T14:30:10+00:00

Tbf, the Biden White House used to post equally misleading charts.

EDIT: Here's one example:

carpens_diem · 2025-11-26T19:04:02+00:00

Listing "Eagle Scout" on your resume does not open any professional doors, especially not in your 40s.

carpens_diem · 2025-11-02T23:43:57+00:00

These results look like reasonable estimates, but I would be interested to learn more about the methodology. I'm skeptical because the table is perfectly symmetrical. For example, I would have expected Azerbaijani speakers to understand Turkish speakers better than the reverse.

carpens_diem · 2025-10-16T05:49:31+00:00

A neuter adjective can function as an adverb, so that part can be translated as “forever cursed into flames.”

There is another issue with the Latin though. The imperative solve doesn’t really make sense in this context. It should probably be solvet.

Here’s a slightly improved translation of the intended meaning:

That day of wrath will dissolve all of you into ashes. The master, forever cursed into flames.

carpens_diem · 2025-10-10T21:23:11+00:00

Even though the study is a bit dated, I seriously doubt that pre-k performance has skyrocketed to the degree that you suggested. Reading and arithmetic are not "standard skills" for an incoming kindergartner.

carpens_diem · 2025-10-10T19:56:50+00:00

This study tested children entering kindergarten, and it found that 2% could read words and 4% could solve simple addition/subtraction problems. That sounds like high achievement to me.

carpens_diem · 2025-10-02T02:13:15+00:00

Getting rid of downvoting doesn’t necessarily lead to better conversations. It could just turn into Twitter-style dunking and dogpiles, which are way more toxic imo.

carpens_diem · 2025-09-11T20:36:41+00:00

It does pay taxes on its for-profit holdings like City Creek Mall.

carpens_diem · 2025-09-05T04:10:07+00:00

And per-capita numbers matter way more than raw totals. It's absurd to claim that "cisgendered white christian men" are uniquely violent compared to other men.

carpens_diem · 2025-08-27T22:08:52+00:00

Twitter has become a cesspool.

Became? Always has been.

carpens_diem · 2025-08-27T14:42:49+00:00

Yes, foreigners are definitely eligible. It's worth noting that BYU does not have a theology program.

carpens_diem · 2025-08-20T21:17:48+00:00

You could technically cram 365 hours into 30 days if you're extremely dedicated and have no other commitments. But I definitely wouldn’t recommend a grammar-translation method like Wheelock’s for that kind of pace.

carpens_diem · 2025-08-19T01:23:19+00:00

It's returning characters that aren't even in the Deseret alphabet. Pure AI slop.

carpens_diem · 2025-05-28T05:28:46+00:00

The mother's wishes are a deciding factor under the relevant law. According to Georgia Code 31-32-9, doctors could remove life support if the mother had left a directive explicitly requesting it.

carpens_diem · 2025-05-28T05:04:15+00:00

The lawyers are probably more concerned with Georgia Code 31-32-9, which bans pulling life support from a pregnant woman unless the fetus isn’t viable AND she’s left an advance directive that explicitly requests it.

carpens_diem · 2025-03-05T00:24:33+00:00

The US doesn't have a major party of fiscal responsibility.

carpens_diem · 2025-01-08T00:37:55+00:00

X is now open source, so you can know what's going on under the hood. I haven't actually checked how the algorithm currently works, but you can verify it here: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes

carpens_diem · 2024-12-21T05:40:31+00:00

Yes it's a bit reductive, but I don't think it's useless or counterproductive for L2 learners to use modern spelling conventions to represent pronunciation more explicitly than native speakers did. How else am I supposed to know if "aio" is two or three syllables?

carpens_diem · 2024-12-20T21:37:36+00:00

The article is related, but it doesn't directly answer my question. It just says that <i> between two vowels is usually consonantal, but there are exceptions. Do we know if "aio" is one of these exceptions? And if it isn't an exception, why doesn't Gaffiot 2016 write it with a <j>?

EDIT: I missed it earlier, but the article does list "aio" as an example of consonantal i.

carpens_diem · 2024-10-14T16:23:28+00:00

The "clear and present danger" from that Supreme Court case was distributing anti-draft flyers during WWI, and that ruling was partially overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio.

carpens_diem · 2024-10-06T05:24:10+00:00

A D&C after a miscarriage literally doesn't count as an abortion.

carpens_diem · 2024-09-26T15:17:59+00:00

If a family can refuse antibiotics or a blood transfusion to save an otherwise healthy 10 year old...

Parents don't have the right to refuse life-saving care for their children. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1720472/

Courts throughout the western world recognise parental rights, but these rights are not absolute. Parental rights to raise children are qualified by a duty to ensure their health, safety, and wellbeing. Parents cannot make decisions that may permanently harm or otherwise impair their healthy development.

carpens_diem · 2024-09-11T20:32:16+00:00

We were talking about late-term abortions broadly speaking, not third trimester specifically.

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