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Thomamelas posted:It seems to depend on who is doing the study. The typography people don't see much impact. The psych people do. The current thinking seems to be that the spacing the lettering in Comic Sans is more helpful than the letter design. Honestly it needs some cross disciplinary work. Some of the dyslexics I know swear by it, some don't care. One of the things that make this tricky is that dyslexia is a hodge podge of issues that all have similar results. That tends to be the reasoning the psych people dismiss the typography studies. And not being able to flag what about the font makes a difference is why the typography people dismiss the psych studies. also because psych studies have historically had big replication issues
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Azhais posted:https://twitter.com/DrChrisThompson/status/1472039474901049346?t=8rQnSJY0GKbULWu47qcDaw&s=19 Is this true? It's probably true.
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Dec 20, 2021 09:48
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lol like scrooge would have a change of heart
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Power Khan posted:Is this true? It's probably true. I think it’s harder to calculate than most of those posts suggest. It’s similar to “how much did Mr Darcy make” blog posts. The economy was different enough you can’t just apply inflation. Also, Cratchit was like, solidly stable, not a symbol of destitution. He has a mortgage and food. The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to see actual destitute people in the poorhouses, but that is more sad and depressing than the Cratchits so gets left out of most adaptations. Also lol yeah Scrooge actually having a change of heart is like Bezos suddenly allowing employees to leave weather emergency zones when the first warning sounds.
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Power Khan posted:Is this true? It's probably true. Nah https://reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/rkatjg/request_this_the_correct_calculation_for_inflation/
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Vitruvian Manic posted:Even if Avs is permabanned, I'm glad to see she's living her best twitter life. Avs has like 20 alts, she never went nowhere
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Beeswax posted:Nah
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FFT posted:Also the Consumer Price Index accounts for better TVs becoming cheaper as balancing out that the prices of everything actually required to live keep going up.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Yes? You say this like you think the CPI is being kept down by an equally-sized fragment labelled "flat screens" being compared to "food". Like, yes, TVs are cheaper, but they also take into account how often people purchase them.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Yes? You say this like you think the CPI is being kept down by an equally-sized fragment labelled "flat screens" being compared to "food". Like, yes, TVs are cheaper, but they also take into account how often people purchase them. http://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-inflation-measurement There's a lot in here but includes gems like: "housing prices (25% of the cpi) are not based on how much houses cost, but on a theoretical number of how much someone would pay to rent their own house, further adjusted by how much someone would pay to rent a smaller house" and "What if every consumer was a couponing expert" and "What if students could theoretically buy black and white textbooks that were half the price?" CPI has been a tremendous lie since Reagan, and gets worse every decade. The decrease in flat screen TV prices (or an increase in size, the BLS views these as equal) may not be a huge percentage of the calculation, but that hedonic substitution is priced into almost every aspect of the Index to keep it as low as possible.
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theflyingexecutive posted:http://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-inflation-measurement They also game it in ways like "price of beef" used to be a roast and is now ground beef, if I remember correctly. Essentially once something gains too much they just peg it to something similar but worse.
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Riven posted:Also lol yeah Scrooge actually having a change of heart is like Bezos suddenly allowing employees to leave weather emergency zones when the first warning sounds. Yeah well the point is that it literally took supernatural intervention, and even then they had to try three times for it to take.
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SimonSays posted:Yeah well the point is that it literally took supernatural intervention, and even then they had to try three times for it to take. And ultimately the only thing he cares about is totally self serving as well
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iwentdoodie posted:They also game it in ways like "price of beef" used to be a roast and is now ground beef, if I remember correctly. Hedonic substitution lets you go all the way down to chicken!
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Feliday Melody posted:https://twitter.com/NThranduil/status/1472552579645284358?t=NmJrlmOKMHmDtMR46eBHHQ&s=19 Thousands of years of linguistic and cultural development all leading up to that loving tweet, goddamn.
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Feliday Melody posted:https://twitter.com/NThranduil/status/1472552579645284358?t=NmJrlmOKMHmDtMR46eBHHQ&s=19 That reply is great but I can't help but notice "TERFmas" is proudly displayed in OP's tweet. Last I remember they considered that acronym a slur. Are these dumbasses trying to "reclaim" it or something?
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1stGear posted:Thousands of years of linguistic and cultural development all leading up to that loving tweet, goddamn. The pun is several years old but yeah it’s a good one
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Tunicate posted:also because psych studies have historically had big replication issues Lots of studies outside of psych fail to replicate too. The psych people are just the only ones who are honest about it.
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Riven posted:Also, Cratchit was like, solidly stable, not a symbol of destitution. He has a mortgage and food. The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to see actual destitute people in the poorhouses, but that is more sad and depressing than the Cratchits so gets left out of most adaptations. did you miss the part where they didnt have enough food to eat even at the biggest holiday of the year and his kid dies because he cant afford adequate treatment or is your definition of "solidly stable" "anyone who isn't currently gasping their last under a bridge"
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Also lol at a mortgage, one of the best indicators ever that you're actually in loving debt, being considered stable.
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Triarii posted:A bunch of the NFT game developers have realized that the environmental impact is bad PR, so they've gotten around it by hosting their own, private blockchain that they control. This has been the canonical answer to blockchain since the day it was invented. Just doll up an existing database solution with the word "blockchain" and sell that. The customer is happy to be using trendy buzzword technology, their actual data handling needs are met handily, done.
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Subjunctive posted:Screen…shot? screen's hot
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Stexils posted:did you miss the part where they didnt have enough food to eat even at the biggest holiday of the year and his kid dies because he cant afford adequate treatment or is your definition of "solidly stable" "anyone who isn't currently gasping their last under a bridge" this isn't from the text, this is commonly portrayed in the various adaptations of the text, most notably the disney version where mickey mouse is bob cratchit. in the text as dickens wrote them, the cratchits are poor but not destitute, we would consider them working poor. bob is underpaid but he still manages to put together a traditional goose dinner for his family. the spirit of christmas present then shows scrooge some variously extremely destitute people who are also celebrating christmas as they can afford it. film adaptations tend to condense these points and just make cratchit extremely poor. the purpose of the ghost of christmas present showing scrooge that poor people can have fun is to drive home to him that money doesn't matter if you don't have love of family and community on a traditional celebration day its common now to read a christmas carol as being about material conditions and wage/labor stuff but that wasn't really the point of it when it was written about changing victorian attitudes towards christmas celebrations, nearly two centuries ago. we just take all that stuff as a given now like we take santa claus being a big fat guy in a red suit (a creation of the 20th century american advertising industry on behalf of coca cola) where the book is really about how celebrating christmas is so cool it can even make rear end in a top hat misers chill out. its easier doing the ahistorical reading of the text by cherry picking what is more interesting to us today, which is the simple "gently caress landlords and gently caress your boss too" stuff. basically be very skeptical of anyone who isn't just telling jokes on twitter because the joke may be on you
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:this isn't from the text, this is commonly portrayed in the various adaptations of the text, most notably the disney version where mickey mouse is bob cratchit. in the text as dickens wrote them, the cratchits are poor but not destitute, we would consider them working poor. bob is underpaid but he still manages to put together a traditional goose dinner for his family. the spirit of christmas present then shows scrooge some variously extremely destitute people who are also celebrating christmas as they can afford it. film adaptations tend to condense these points and just make cratchit extremely poor. the purpose of the ghost of christmas present showing scrooge that poor people can have fun is to drive home to him that money doesn't matter if you don't have love of family and community on a traditional celebration day Sure, the fact that it was written the year Dickens visited a school for destitute children and published a pamphlet entitled "An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man's Child" is entirely coincidental. Its just supposed to be about if singing carols and eating figgy pudding is cool and good or nah.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:this isn't from the text, this is commonly portrayed in the various adaptations of the text, most notably the disney version where mickey mouse is bob cratchit. in the text as dickens wrote them, the cratchits are poor but not destitute, we would consider them working poor. bob is underpaid but he still manages to put together a traditional goose dinner for his family. the spirit of christmas present then shows scrooge some variously extremely destitute people who are also celebrating christmas as they can afford it. film adaptations tend to condense these points and just make cratchit extremely poor. the purpose of the ghost of christmas present showing scrooge that poor people can have fun is to drive home to him that money doesn't matter if you don't have love of family and community on a traditional celebration day Wall Street Journal Op-Ed gig paying you for this?
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SiKboy posted:Sure, the fact that it was written the year Dickens visited a school for destitute children and published a pamphlet entitled "An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man's Child" is entirely coincidental. Its just supposed to be about if singing carols and eating figgy pudding is cool and good or nah. Be very skeptical of dumbshit goons with no historical context, or the joke may be on you!!!
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SiKboy posted:Sure, the fact that it was written the year Dickens visited a school for destitute children and published a pamphlet entitled "An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man's Child" is entirely coincidental. Its just supposed to be about if singing carols and eating figgy pudding is cool and good or nah. this is an oddly oversized and defensive reaction to me pointing out the nuance of what the text actually says versus how the walt disney company cartoon tells the story. i get it, The Mouse must be defended at all costs
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I dunno, but this reminds me of how "The Jungle" was supposed to expose how lovely working conditions were in the 1900s, and instead all anyone allegedly took away from it was "Ugh, the meat we're buying and eating is unsanitary!"
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Now I'm imagining Scrooge reading a broadsheet with the headline "97% of poor households have goose and plum pudding for Christmas dinner"
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:I didn’t know about this and killed a nice 3 plug / 4 USB C port desktop power hub, just a few weeks ago. There was a loud pop, presumably the fuse, and now its dead.
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Read After Burning posted:I dunno, but this reminds me of how "The Jungle" was supposed to expose how lovely working conditions were in the 1900s, and instead all anyone allegedly took away from it was "Ugh, the meat we're buying and eating is unsanitary!" Two small parts of the issue was a combination of Socialist political parties in Germany deciding to back the Kaiser at the outset of WW1 and German immigrants in America and German Americans deciding to completely ditch their German identity during WW1. Really crippled the Socialist movement in both America and Europe.
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Splicer posted:In filthy euro land all plugs have a fuse built in and they're user replaceable. No they haven't.
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