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Jake Wertz@jakewertz.bsky.social |
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Sociology, Chicago, Madison, San Francisco. Doing research in a large suburban public school district. š”šŖ“ššššØāš«
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Jake Wertz
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I love Joe Biden. I voted for him. The morally superior thing to do, in a partisan representative democracy, is to vote for the nominee your party elected.
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Jake Wertz
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One of the best produced and most interesting things Iāve seen on Midwest native ecology. Worth a watch: youtu.be/fIewkv1sqJI?...
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Jake Wertz
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I have a dog-park friend who manages global call centers for AT&T. If you have a complaint, or need customer support, and press 2 for Spanish, youāre not speaking with a Spanish speaker in Los Angeles or New York or El Paso. Youāre getting Peru.
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Jake Wertz
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Why does anyone suspect they answer their own phones instead of contracting with a call center in South America or South Asia?
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Jake Wertz
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I wouldnāt mind it taking 3-4 days, but the price is a dealbreaker. I looked a lot into doing the Chicago-Emeryvillle (SF) route and it was about that price for a roomette with all the glamour/design of a public accommodation. That ended that dream.
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Jake Wertz
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I would absolutely love to take a train from Chicago to Mexico City.
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Jake Wertz
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Did anybody else catch the on-field ads at the Euro Cup for BYD, an EV maker who sells great cars at a third of the price of Tesla? Iād love to buy one but alas there is a bipartisan consensus on protecting Elon Muskās shitty nazi car brand
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Jake Wertz
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I use YouTube music/premium. It is kind of funny going into my āLibraryā tab and seeing all of the stuff that I had torrented and then uploaded to āmy musicā on Google Play back in college ~15 years ago. They kept it all there! That was a better streaming service (and it was free)
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geoffrey
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wow that kicks ass
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Jake Wertz
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Looks very interesting. Is there a preprint available?
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Laura Helmuth
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority rejects science, history and reality itself. Editorial from Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... š§Ŗ
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
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Quoting Trump spokespeople, the most dishonest human beings on planet earth, and taking them at their word on every subject is a grotesque practice that both undercuts and defines modern mainstream journalism
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Jake Wertz
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Hereās an opportunity for you to learn a little bit about hourly vs salary wages.
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Jake Wertz
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Iāll give him this, Trump has a creative strategy to defund the police.
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Pretending to understand Azure
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idk man i can guess
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Jake Wertz
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A Democrat with twelve years experience leading in White House policy, decades in Congress, and no concern for re-election or his post-presidency activities, is bound to be more capable of instituting bold yet wise changes in US policy than any president in our lifetime.
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Jake Wertz
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Iād bet dollars to donuts the words āI give you my word as a Bidenā were uttered at least once on each of those calls. And heās really never given any of us any reason not to trust him when he says that.
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Jake Wertz
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I wouldnāt be so sure that heās not her first choice for President. She wants to get good stuff done, and she has been there right alongside Biden as he has done a lot of things she wants. Itās unclear if anybody else (e.g. Bernie) would have accomplished as much, or could accomplish as much next.
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Jake Wertz
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Who are the great secondary school leaders of our day? Does anybody know? This collection of John McPheeās 1970s New Yorker profiles of the Deerfield headmaster is inspiring.
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Nick Fleisher
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The Republican convention is one week away and we don't know who the running mate will be. Normally that would dominate this NYT space.
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Jake Wertz
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Joementum is (sadly) taken. Iāll go with Joeās Back Better
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Jake Wertz
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Weāre about 15 miles south of Douglas but from what I gather the whole coast is like this!
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Jake Wertz
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Same spot, same time, same lake, same sun, couple days later, totally different sunset. How do they do it?
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Jake Wertz
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We gotta keep this patriotic spirit flowing into November, folks
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Jake Wertz
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this land was made for you and me šµ
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Jake Wertz
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Joe Biden should be attacking the New York Times at every opportunity and backing it with praise for heartland legacy publications. Damn their Yankee asses and give exclusive access to the Plain Dealer, the Journal-Sentinel, and the Free Press
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Jake Wertz
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Against who?
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Jake Wertz
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Yes we had an election to determine the nominee, millions of people voted, and he won in a landslide
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Jake Wertz
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Who does this guy think he is, Alex Kozinski?
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Jake Wertz
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Important thing for parents to understand about common core math: you may struggle with it yourself, because it contains considerably deeper standards of conceptual understanding and application of elementary mathematics that you never experienced.
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Jake Wertz
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My primary argument against switching is that we had a clear, transparent, and accessible process for choosing a candidate for 2024, and Joe Biden won the primary election. Any other maneuver is fundamentally corrupt and anti-democratic
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Jake Wertz
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Wouldnāt you at least go far as to say that Biden has been the best Democratic president sinceā¦ Johnson? Were Carter, Clinton, or Obama better? One could maybe make the case for Obama but thatās it.
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Jake Wertz
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Question shouldnāt be when we get our roads back, itās when we get our parks back. Prioritizing cars over peopleās recreation is how we got into this mess.
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Mark Joseph Stern
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it rightāin an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Jake Wertz
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If you donāt think newborns love their mothers, youāre either insane or you have never known a newborn and their mother
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Jake Wertz
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Itās something that Bidenās FTC and good state AGās are fighting against. I got several hundred dollars as part of this settlement. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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Jake Wertz
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If theyāre understaffed how come the image shows they just published four stories in the last 8 hours on the presidential campaign?
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Jake Wertz
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Kamala Harris didnāt do this. Donald Trump sure didnāt. Joe Biden did.
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Jake Wertz
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As insulting as it is to draw comparisons between a poor debate performance and the release of an audio tape boasting about sexual assault, this is the Access Hollywood moment in Joe Bidenās campaign. The smart people know our side succeeds best by sticking with our candidate through thick and thin.
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Jake Wertz
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This is actually in the Constitution. Voters decide. Joe Biden read the Constitution. Please do.
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Jake Wertz
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Theyāre confused as to why their upside-down French flag looks the same as all the other French flags.
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Jake Wertz
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Nobody is enjoying this vacation more than our dog.
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Jake Wertz
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Nina Simoneās Just Like Tom Thumbās Blues (Bob Dylan) Antonyās If It Be Your Will (Leonard Cohen) Dave Matthews Bandās Long Black Veil (Johnny Cash)
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Jake Wertz
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Trump isnāt mentioned in this article, but I donāt see how you can look at adolescents and families acting as though publicly recorded racist attacks are fair game and not see it as a downstream effect of his behavior as President.
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Jake Wertz
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This is Lake Michigan, about two and a half hours from Chicago. How itās not more crowded here I do not know!
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Jake Wertz
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Michigan, I owe you an apology. I was not familiar with your game.
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Jake Wertz
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This is terrific. Thanks for sharing
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Jake Wertz
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Heās very capable. Heās doing a great job as president. Unemployment is near historic lows, we are out of disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is fighting to expand our freedoms. I want four more years of this and I have no reason to suspect anybody else could do that better than he can
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Jake Wertz
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Do the voters get a say in choosing the President? We voted for Joe Biden to be our nominee.
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Gregory Hays
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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