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The biggest difference between Thanksgiving 2020 and Thanksgiving 2021: 20 million people on unemployment benefits then vs. 2 million on unemployment today. - White House Chief of Staff

Let me see if I can tell you why this sucks.

In hit 1999 PC game "Roller Coaster Tycoon", your Park Happiness rating is actually an average, based on the number of happy vs unhappy guests in your park.

As a result, if you drop unhappy park guests into a lake and let them drown, your Park Happiness goes up.

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It's time for some more delightfully dark and moody puzzle-platforming with Lost in Shadow! I've climbed up a fair bit of the tower -- 40 floors -- but I'm only at 40.8% completion, so I have lots of climbing left to do to be reunited with my body!

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Always do your best. Your best will change from day to day.

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(CN religion) God just isn't done making me quite yet redd.it/r0saeb

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What does anti-bias training have to do with audio engineering? 

What does anti-bias training have to do with audio engineering?

One time, a film maker called me up because she wanted to use a hubub of voices as a music statement but it wasn't coming off. I listened to the audio and knew just the thing! A resonant 70s style low pass filter would keep the timbres but jettison the words. I ran her vocal recording through my synthesiser and proudly returned with the improved audio.

She listened. "This does sound a lot better," she said, "but you've completely prioritised the men's voices and removed the women."

Cis normativity aside, she was right. My process had made altos much softer and pretty much nuked sopranos. I had to go back and organise each audio sample by vocal range and run the filter multiple times. It was time consuming, but the result was much nicer.

She noticed this because she knew what it was to be silenced according to vocal range - something that has gradually faded from my mind as its no longer a regular occurrence for me. If I'd been working with a fellow tenor or a bass, we might never have noticed. The audio would have been worse and the while project subtly effected by unconscious bias.

Instead, when the film was released, a reviewer praised the sound in that section.

Unconscious bias isn't just unfair, it makes *your* work worse.

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getting way more unapologetically into kin stuff because it’s absolutely harmless but pisses off a lot of really annoying people really fast

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folks let's all sit down and have a nice "rap" about the REAL block chain: the chain we use to lock the factory doors when we're on strike!

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duolingo is a company whose whole existence hinges on multilingualism and even they can't properly handle RTL/LTR mixing

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the existence of allosaurus suggests the existence of acesaurus

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