[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

it's not even the craziest thing he said. why is he even on the ballot?

[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

yep. why are they opposing fact checking in the first place? no one should be able to lie unchecked to dupe voters

[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

the content of Vance's lies are really really scary. not to mention his damned non answer

[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago

you're totally right on this. I'm surprised walz didn't say more than "that was fact checked and found to be false". explain that abortions don't happen after live birth! call out the lies.

vance did a total 180 on many things while looking directly at the camera. he's a sociopath. he scares me... he's smart and doesn't care about anything other than personal gain.

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Tallies:

Vance: * 7 False / mostly false. * 1 half true * 0 true/mostly true

Walz: * 2 False * 5 true

[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

upvoted cause I want people to see this not cause I agree

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[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

yep. the fact that it's still a close race blows my mind

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[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

check where your retirement and savings are invested. buy a low cost index fund (fidelity and vanguard have great ones).

do not invest in any funds that have high fees. (there are plenty of good funds with fees around 0.1%)

I split my savings between:

  • total domestic stock index
  • total international stock index
  • cash/money market/bonds
  • a small amount in a sector fund with higher growth potential (e. g. tech) or risky investments
[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

if they'll cheat with you, they'll cheat on you

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[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

we just respond appropriately:

  • thoughts and prayers
  • NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT GENDER ISSUES
  • thoughts and prayers
[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago

iwriting reviews is time consuming, unpaid, and doesn't help the reviewers career. so it takes a while because reviewers are already busy and don't prioritize writing reviews too much.

quality of the reviews is questionable. 10% of the reviews are through and provide valuable feedback. the remaining 90% are cursory "yeah this is interesting, publish it" or "not interesting/outside scope".

very very few reviews find and report scientific errors

[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 115 points 4 months ago

academic journals now only provide a service to authors. they used to distribute... but the articles are available free on the arxiv, pubmed, authors websites, etc. the peer review and typesetting journals do is a joke and no author will pay for that.

the value journals have now is mainly to the author, because the prestige of getting accepted by the journal helps with the authors career. publishers figured out that authors will pay for this, so here we are ... 🙄

[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

so back in the day we needed publishers for distribution. now with the Internet, distribution is easy. but prices only went up

associate editors and referees are unpaid volunteers. typesetting is also mainly done by the authors. but prices are high because the publisher wants to profit.

there are quite a few high quality journals that are fairly priced and published by non profit publishers. these are the only journals authors should publish in ....

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