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elfenix

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  1. so what the BLS actually does is attempt to count the total employment (~163,400,000 people) every month. so the revisions may be large in terms of the chagne but they're actually pretty small in terms of the actual counting. it'd be like a silo where there's grain going out at the bottom and coming in at the top and trying to determine, each month, how many grains are in there. with (usually) relatively small inputs and outputs that can only rarely be directly observed and the observations for which are often unreliable (if the firm doesn't pick up the phone is that because everyone is at lunch or because it shuttered?)
  2. i'm glad that NBC decided to plaster a banner all over this in order to hide whatever it is. unless this camera is above the second floor of the house (which, since it looks like someone's front door, it definitely isn't) the thing going past is small and on the ground. it's just some critter. it's not a person, it's not 3 feet tall, it's probably a cat or possum or gray fox. edit: someone carrying in bags, there's an SUV parked right there and the bags pass in front of the wheel.
  3. Jaime twisting the knife
  4. Probably a Fox News producer made the original post that the right-wing outrage machine started getting outraged about.
  5. Kinda related: Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system — it's just as effective as seismometers | Live Science https://share.google/CaWbRmaRTgAayUFot
  6. Saw that earlier and meant to post it. Media guaranteed may help attract an oem. Would be nice if super formula would use Indy engines again, then there'd be more cars to spread r&d around.
  7. It never once worked the way that Mr. Madison thought it would. It should have been trashed when we we started directly electing senators. It wouldn't be much of a problem if states weren't mostly winner take all and if we had far more representatives in the house. But it's been winner take all in pretty much all states ever since political partisans realized how much of an advantage it would give their party in the early 1800s. It's really kind of incredible to think about how naive the Framers were about factionality. Even as they descended into factionality.
  8. Keep in mind that Corea has to hit certain metrics (mostly plate appearances)) for those to be vested options for the next few years. Otherwise they're team options.
  9. Representatives picking their constituents instead of the other way around.
  10. you're the helobius of the food board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool's_Gold_Loaf
  11. peas and carrots?
  12. Excuse me but I'm not driving a tesla
  13. Obviously there wasn't a lot of thought paid to whether having a bunch of 19-year-olds be responsible agents of the state for $5 per inspection was a good idea.
  14. Never has there been more succinct or accurate representation of American farmers:
  15. Gonna wait for helobius to weigh in
  16. Trying to figure out how we could trade our farm system when most of it is on the major league roster right now
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