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TheDisreputableDog posted:So, like a re-allocation of less than 1%. From a useful program to one that provably does not work, for ideological reasons.
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Fried Chicken posted:The problem with saying we lost in failing to achieve our strategic goals is that there weren't any real strategic goals in attacking Iraq. Like even the nominal ones of "hinder access to resources by extremist groups" were undone by the fact we want to war, not by anything done to us. It was pretty much just "gently caress it, let's fight", not "war is the continuation of politics by other means". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHol7WW2A8g
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Pohl posted:Edit: the median is a good measurement when the numbers aren't skewed. The numbers are skewed, however. The median is a better measure of central tendency (than the average) specifically when the numbers are skewed.
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Pohl posted:Most of the people I worked with in the past made less than $30K a year. Sure, the median income is higher, but that was a few people making a lot of money while the rest of us made jack poo poo. Though you misunderstand how a median works, it is worth noting that the population median is probably just not all that all that applicable to most people. Even if the median income is $52k or whatever, if you happen to be a young service worker in the restaurant industry living in Boise, the number of your peers earning more than the median income is likely limited. On the other hand, if you're a mid-to-late career financial services professional in San Francisco, you may not know a ton of people earning under the median income.
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All of this nonsense makes me think that the federal government should just take over school lunch programs. Rather than handing out grants with guidelines that some local yokels will inevitably gently caress up (or direct towards favored contractors), just send a federal DOE bureaucrat to each school who has full control over purchasing and preparation of breakfasts and lunches. Since the wingnuts are already convinced Michelle Obama is personally spitting in their kids' lunches, what's the harm in actually taking away local control?
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Star Man posted:I don't think Cheney gave a poo poo where there was a war, just as long as there was one. I really think that he just wanted to kill as many people as he could. I'm pretty sure he just wanted to make himself and his buddies some money.
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