The Illusion of Moral Decline. The thesis of this article is "that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion". In other words, the world may seem like it's going to hell in a handbasket, but it's really not. The authors concluded this by doing keyword-term searches of the Roper Center for Public Opinion iPoll Database, and manually searched the databases of the General Social Survey, Pew Research Center, Gallup, the American National Election
Studies, the World Values Survey, the European Social Survey and the European Values Survey. Their conclusion is that people have always thought that things were getting worse. But that doesn't mean it isn't.
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Investing in the stock market won't get you rich. It'll just help you preserve wealth. To be rich, other than inheriting it, you need to be a business owner of some kind. Even Warren Buffett evolved from just being a shrewd investor, to owning a company that purchased businesses.
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Tina Kotek wants to turn good farmland into chip fabs. And local farmers are protesting. I don't see why Hillsboro has to be the site of chip fabs. There must be other places in the area in which chip fabs could be built without ruining the rural bucolic feel of Hillsboro, and turning it into an industrial sprawl.
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What are the safest cities in America? According to WalletHub, Salem and Vancouver, WA are OK. But not Portland, OR. Portland, ME is OK, though. Spokane, WA isn't too bad, but stay away from Seattle and Tacoma.
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Who would'a thought? Bias found when drug manufacturers fund clinical trials. No surprises. Think about the biases associated with the COVID-19 vax.
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How I animate 3Blue1Brown. Wow, this is a great peek into how Grant Sanderson created his masterpiece math animation software. I didn't realize it was written in good old Python.
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Think you're always right? You may be wrong. It's always good to leave yourself some wiggle room, because you never know. If someone who ordinarily is a good thinker but supports ideas you don't agree with, try to understand what made that person think so differently.
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