I can see how that would happen. I know my own kids fed off my ex's and my moods when they were toddlers and early school aged. Stress is poison externally and internally.
If you bring this up, you'll IMMEDIATELY be swarmed with people sneering "disposable diapers are a LUXURY and you're just being a spoiled brat." On the contrary, having the resources to store, organize, and wash cloth diapers is the REAL luxury. How is someone supposed to do that if they're living in a fucking van?
Maybe think of it this way- moving a single individual up a fifth of a standard deviation probably isn't very significant to anyone. But moving millions of children living in poverty up the same amount would be huge. The big question is whether this difference will hold up with larger and larger sample sizes.
I tend to see things from a position of enlightened self-interest. It does not help me that other people suffer and do without in a country where there is enough for all. Webster's Dictionary defines "enlightened self-interest" as: "behavior based on awareness that what is in the public interest is eventually in the interest of all individuals and groups." In business that is translated as "doing well by doing good." It is NOT "come up with some bogus feel-good reason that ignorant people will believe for why we need to screw them some more."My self-interested perspective is that the whole point of government, of politics, is achieving the critical mass necessary to implement resource distribution for the purposes outlined in the Preamble to the US Constitution. To wit: 1. Create and maintain infrastructure that provides the means for all to procure enough food, clothing, and shelter throughout one's lifetime for oneself and one's family.2. Provide the necessary means to defend against illness and disease, including environmental effects on health and well-being, equivalent to those measures promoted for war defense.3. Ensure the means to an education for every generation, one that teaches citizens how to think, why to think, and not just what to think, and one that teaches how to perform the skills necessary to sustain our Declaration's “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in the 21st Century.I wish we all could hear the call to Be American, regardless of religious persuasion or political ideology, all of us working to form our more perfect union. The truth is, we humans are increasingly immersed in pathogenicity, in our air, in our words, in our actions, in our hearts. Too many of us depend on denial, deception, deflection, bargaining, magic, enmity, contempt, when we could depend on truth, facts, reality, science, accord, consideration, compassion. This doesn't demand altruism. I'd happily settle for enlightened self-interest as motivation to continue the "Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" that we all should share as Americans
The standard deviation for the individuals is different from the standard deviation for the average (often called "standard error" of the mean, to have a different word for it). For example, standard deviation for adult male height might be 2 inches (I'm not going to look it up) meaning that if 5'11" is average, 68% of men will be from 5'9" to 6'1" and 95% will be from 5'7" to 6'3" but, if that average is based on measuring a million guys, the standard error is only .002 inch (standard deviation divided by square root of sample size), meaning that we are quite sure that average is close to correct, and a different population which was 1/4 standard deviation off, say average height 5'10.5" would be significantly different: that .5 inch is 250 times the standard error so there is little probability the difference between the samples is just due to random fluctuations from one group of a million to another group, rather the difference even though slight reflects a genuine difference between the populations from which the samples are drawn.
Critics of unrestricted cash aid often warn that families will waste or abuse it.There you go projecting again. Just because that's what YOU'D do doesn't mean that actually needy people would. The amount of cheating on various welfare programs could probably be paid for by collecting a reasonable tax amount from just one rich fuckwad (lookin' at you, Jeff B)
No you didn't, but that's OK. No one expects you to do anything but seek the last word.
I can see how that would happen. I know my own kids fed off my ex's and my moods when they were toddlers and early school aged. Stress is poison externally and internally.
Me, too, which is why I not-entirely-jokingly included him.
Phil Hartman and Maura Tierney. Rogan was the least talented cast member of that show.
A sick child will do that to you.
If you bring this up, you'll IMMEDIATELY be swarmed with people sneering "disposable diapers are a LUXURY and you're just being a spoiled brat." On the contrary, having the resources to store, organize, and wash cloth diapers is the REAL luxury. How is someone supposed to do that if they're living in a fucking van?
No joke, The Little Match Girl was absolutely one of the things that radicalized me as a kid.
Maybe think of it this way- moving a single individual up a fifth of a standard deviation probably isn't very significant to anyone. But moving millions of children living in poverty up the same amount would be huge. The big question is whether this difference will hold up with larger and larger sample sizes.
Should we call him m&m dick?
And steak! They buy those things every time they go to the grocery store, doncha know ::rolleyes::
I tend to see things from a position of enlightened self-interest. It does not help me that other people suffer and do without in a country where there is enough for all. Webster's Dictionary defines "enlightened self-interest" as: "behavior based on awareness that what is in the public interest is eventually in the interest of all individuals and groups." In business that is translated as "doing well by doing good." It is NOT "come up with some bogus feel-good reason that ignorant people will believe for why we need to screw them some more."My self-interested perspective is that the whole point of government, of politics, is achieving the critical mass necessary to implement resource distribution for the purposes outlined in the Preamble to the US Constitution. To wit: 1. Create and maintain infrastructure that provides the means for all to procure enough food, clothing, and shelter throughout one's lifetime for oneself and one's family.2. Provide the necessary means to defend against illness and disease, including environmental effects on health and well-being, equivalent to those measures promoted for war defense.3. Ensure the means to an education for every generation, one that teaches citizens how to think, why to think, and not just what to think, and one that teaches how to perform the skills necessary to sustain our Declaration's “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in the 21st Century.I wish we all could hear the call to Be American, regardless of religious persuasion or political ideology, all of us working to form our more perfect union. The truth is, we humans are increasingly immersed in pathogenicity, in our air, in our words, in our actions, in our hearts. Too many of us depend on denial, deception, deflection, bargaining, magic, enmity, contempt, when we could depend on truth, facts, reality, science, accord, consideration, compassion. This doesn't demand altruism. I'd happily settle for enlightened self-interest as motivation to continue the "Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" that we all should share as Americans
The standard deviation for the individuals is different from the standard deviation for the average (often called "standard error" of the mean, to have a different word for it). For example, standard deviation for adult male height might be 2 inches (I'm not going to look it up) meaning that if 5'11" is average, 68% of men will be from 5'9" to 6'1" and 95% will be from 5'7" to 6'3" but, if that average is based on measuring a million guys, the standard error is only .002 inch (standard deviation divided by square root of sample size), meaning that we are quite sure that average is close to correct, and a different population which was 1/4 standard deviation off, say average height 5'10.5" would be significantly different: that .5 inch is 250 times the standard error so there is little probability the difference between the samples is just due to random fluctuations from one group of a million to another group, rather the difference even though slight reflects a genuine difference between the populations from which the samples are drawn.
Critics of unrestricted cash aid often warn that families will waste or abuse it.There you go projecting again. Just because that's what YOU'D do doesn't mean that actually needy people would. The amount of cheating on various welfare programs could probably be paid for by collecting a reasonable tax amount from just one rich fuckwad (lookin' at you, Jeff B)
Wow. Whowudathunkit? Giving babies food improves their growth and development.
Another excellent post, Robyn. Thanks!
You know the "Republican" POV. Those kids are like stray animals - you feed them, they'll just keep coming back.