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   Tiffany Li (tiffanycli@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 12:58:19 JST Tiffany Li

   I know we’re supposed to become more conservative as we age, but I’ve become quite radical. For example, I believe government should exist and should help people.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 12:59:01 JST Rich Felker

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     @tiffanycli That trope is fake anyway. It's based on innumeracy/not understanding statistics, sampling, baselines, etc.

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 12:59:50 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     @tiffanycli
     Promoting “the general welfare” is literally in our founding document.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 13:01:03 JST Rich Felker

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     • Rob Landley

     @landley @tiffanycli Are you sure there's even good evidence that they did. There's a lot of survivorship bias and different baselines.

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 13:01:04 JST Rob Landley

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     @tiffanycli Boomers became more conservative as they aged. They also spent 50 years breathing massive quantities of tetraethyl-lead exhaust fumes.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 16:55:13 JST Rich Felker

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     • Rob Landley

     @landley @tiffanycli That's the thing though. People interpret (IMO rightly because the statement is made in terms of individual members not the collective group) "became" as a pointwise change not an aggregate.

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 16:55:14 JST Rob Landley

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @tiffanycli Oh sure. Multiple causes at work here, and "became" is collective not individual.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 17:15:20 JST Rich Felker

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     • Rob Landley

     @landley @tiffanycli Oh yeah there are definitely many individual cases.

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 17:15:21 JST Rob Landley

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @tiffanycli I've watched multiple individual boomers ossify into a loon. Didn't used to be crazy, became crazy.