M O'Connell
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35. Biologically human. Engineer. Woodworker. Successful fixer of things.
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Yell at your vacuum cleaner to get your dogs to stop barking at it. Apparently it helps your dogs realize that you are dominant over the vacuum so they stop trying to protect you from it. Sounds like BS, but I literally did it once and it was never a problem again.“What’s Something Your Family Raised You Doing That You Later Learnt Was Really Weird?” (45 Answers)
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You’re part of only the less than 1% that serve in the military. Usually told in speeches at basic training and academy graduations. That number is true if you look at currently serving vs. total population. But if you consider everyone alive who HAS served in that number, it’s around 7%. If you consider the number of kids who will eventually serve, it’s over 10%. Then if you factor in the number who would choose to but aren’t eligible, the number that would have but couldn’t in the past due to discrimination, it’s probably much higher than that. But the 1% number gets spouted a lot so veterans get to feel extra special. (US based statistics only).Bella1904 reply
“Tons of people heard Kitty Genovese being killed but nobody called 911” Yeah, because 911 didn’t exist in 1964.Brainsonastick reply
The number of “border encounters”. It gets touted by the media all the time and people treat it like a measure of illegal border crossings but it’s not. For one thing, if you drop enforcement to zero, border encounters go to zero too while crossings go up. Similarly, if you have more effective enforcement, the number of encounters goes up. For another, researchers found that about half of all border encounters were with people who had attempted to cross before and were sent back. So it’s reflective of the number of tries more than the number of people. Then there’s the fact that it counts asylum seekers, who are crossing entirely legally. In fact, the recent spike in border crossings is largely due to a spike in asylum seekers. But people treat it like the number itself means something, especially the change in it, but it’s a measure of a combination of things and you can’t draw conclusions about any one of them from that number alone. M O'Connell • is following a person
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