Crime is down overall. Way down. And undocumented immigrants aren’t committing crimes anywhere near the rate of U.S. citizens anyway.
Because facts matter despite what propaganda machines tell you.
“Trump's anecdotal accounts do not acknowledge the fact that U.S. citizens commit crimes at higher rates than undocumented immigrants.”
No, migrants are not driving a surge in violent crime as Trump claims -
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/migrants-driving-surge-violent-crime/story?id=108761192
I refuse to mourn a man who condemned America to another generation without universal healthcare. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68681088
Science can be really fun.
Baseball fans will delight in a new preprint from
@kordinglab, entitled "Bayesball: Bayesian Integration in Professional Baseball Batters", in which the authors look at the launch angles of over a million contacted MLB pitches.
Your grandfather receives a call late at night from a person pretending to be you. The caller says that you are in jail or have been kidnapped and that they need money urgently to get you out of trouble. Perhaps they then bring on a fake police officer or kidnapper to heighten the tension. The...
⭐ Do Trigger Warnings Do More Harm Than Good? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-translator/202307/do-trigger-warnings-do-more-harm-than-good
"As it currently stands, trigger warnings do not seem to impact most people’s emotional responses to content. They do not reduce the likelihood that people will avoid content, and in some cases, may increase it. And they increase people’s distress (anticipatory anxiety) before viewing the content."
📌 https://rknight.me/links/do-trigger-warnings-do-more-harm-than-good/
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