Jane the Actuary
@JanetheActuary
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I'm an actuary, retirement contributor at and Catholic channel blogger. I try not to get into fruitless arguments, but, eh, it's twitter.
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I admit that I'm not clear on what the alternative to the "disproportionate violence" is supposed to be. Should the Israeli army allow a few Gazans to make it into the Israeli villages to murder residents, out of "fairness"?
A bottomless well of ignorance. That's the only way to describe US media's coverage of Israel. Bottomless well.
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@ReadGearhead
@sarahbeth345
I’ll buy that. Next question:
Why hasn’t there been wide promotion of Vitamin D?
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@stillgray
Very pragmatic advice. But should the US be participating in an event in which athletes are at such risk?
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I now understand why people don’t run for office. I was personally attached by a half dozen parents, teachers, and students at the
@District214
board meeting public comment. I am shaking as I type this.
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@EITC_Official
Worst line: “you should be the one to decide what changes you want to make to your body.” Result: girls identifying as “non-binary” because they have a perfectly normal dislike of getting periods. And, well, it’s just generally bad to see your body as medically customizable.
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@AGHamilton29
My kid's school district,
@District214
, takes the approach that curriculum is exempt from FOIA, so it 100% depends on parents finding out from their kids.
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@SeanTrende
Wasn't the point of "flatten the curve" to buy us time to build up capacity in terms of healthcare, equipment, PPE, and the like? What happened to that objective?
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@SethAMandel
So much of what I’ve seen seems to boil down to “I don’t like the way he looks.”
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@davidfrum
It was a huge mistake for the CDC to have started out with “masks are useless.” It produced skepticism among those inclined towards it anyway that the new mandates are about control and power rather than health.
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@bethanyshondark
This sounds like the same old dispute between insurers and providers that takes place repeatedly & generates full-page newspaper ads with each side trying to get the public on their side. (Or like disputes between cable channels and providers: "call Comcast now to keep Big10 TV")
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Twitter friends, my dad passed away during the night. He was 82 years old. Prayers for my family appreciated.
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Here is the Jane The Actuary decree on titles: if you are in Germany and have a doctorate, you have grounds for expecting to be referred to by "Dr." in everyday life. In the US, you should expect to be given that title only in the context of academia, e.g., by students or ---
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I admit - I'm still in shock, that Illinois has actually had the chutzpah to ask for a pension bailout, that is. .
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@McCormackJohn
Funny how now they claim it was an intentional stunt to embarrass Youngkin -- but only after they got caught.
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@piersmorgan
@benshapiro
I'm thinking there's no such thing as an "LGBT community." Looks like, there's an LGB community and there's a T community, but their interests are not the same.
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@HashtagGriswold
Given the circumstances he describes, he really should have been voting absentee in Georgia, no?
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@JBPritzker
calls pension reform a "fantasy." The true fantasy is his vision that gambling, pot, and his proposed tax hike will fix what ails the state.
@McQuearyKristen
@John_Kass
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@CardinalBCupich
@MundeleinSem
@USCCB
FYI: it’s not just about Youth Protection. It’s about justice with respect to past perpetrators, and about violations of vows even with adults.
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This is when I am glad my kids are almost out of the school system and when I contemplate packing up and leaving the state.
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The funny thing is, I have no strong opinion on what Congress should do about pot, but, whatever they do, it shouldn't be to keep a law on the books that they themselves wish to be unenforced.
On the merits, pot is an issue that should be decided, like alcohol policy, by states. But it's bad governance and a dangerous precedent for the DOJ to instruct prosecutors to ignore the law. Congress should repeal existing law & return the issue to the states.
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Update: my response to the personal attacks last night at the
@District214
board meeting. .
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Update from
@District214
: we now know that the teachers' union gave at least $8,000 to the incumbent slate, and the support personnel union (whose contract was under negotiation) gave at least $3,000. But, sure, there's no conflict of interest! .
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@benshapiro
Here in Illinois, two unrelated people may go boating together. Three, even if father and sons? Nope! .
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I have no strong opinion on what federal law should be re: pot. But one way or the other, Congress should vote, and be on record.
@KevinNR
@seanmdav
@AceofSpadesHQ
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Let's be honest: Illinois politicians, as a whole, have not earned the trust they need to implement a graduated income tax that's not just "fair" but also appropriate and reasonable. .
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@JohnMTillman
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Folks,
@chicagosmayor
says she wants "to have the conversation about what is driving the pension cost." Guess what? I'm here. I've got more excel tables than you can shake a stick at. Let's talk. .
@John_Kass
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So . . . A week ago I filed a FOIA with my local high school district hoping to get some info on disparities in prevalence of boys vs. girls in various classes. To my surprise, they track participation in extracurriculars in the same way. Here's a sample of some of these counts!
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@BenBradleyTV
@CTULocal1
It’s not just about hypocrisy but it’s highly unlikely that she’s being truthful when she claims that “multiple” students’ parents reported deaths in less than two weeks. The probability of that happening is exceedingly slim!
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@KimStrassel
The funny thing is, if she had said, "it was a house party with dozens and dozens of kids," it would be very believable that people would be saying, "went to all kinds of parties; nothing stands out." But this is a specific and small guest list.
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@ConceptualJames
The website says early puberty is before age 8 (girls) or 9 (boys) and has an incidence of 1 in 5,000 to 10,000. Certainly does seem unlikely that these are the parents the company is targeting.
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Update: parents who stayed tell me that this attack (of 25 people in total) was organized by a teacher, and the Board President applauded them for it.
@District214
, this is the world's worst civics lesson.
I now understand why people don’t run for office. I was personally attached by a half dozen parents, teachers, and students at the
@District214
board meeting public comment. I am shaking as I type this.
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The
@John_Kass
endorsement: "Bauer knows how to read a budget. She’s well-known on Twitter as
@JanetheActuary
. I respect her." .
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"Ironically, more than 10,000 apartment units in San Francisco reportedly sit vacant. That's another result of the city's . . . ordinances: Landlords are afraid to rent their apartments to strangers. B/c tenants are granted special "rights," it's difficult to evict them."
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@AOC
@AyannaPressley
@IlhanMN
To call what she did "questioning" Abrams is an abuse of the English language.
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Twitter may have plenty of issues, but I'm learning to make liberal use of the "mute" feature at the moment. I might be hated, but I don't stress when I don't have to read the haters.
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@xxclusionary
“Because the student has previously registered an objection to the content, we can now mandate he speak the required words” wouldn’t fly in any other circumstances.
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@michaelbd
As a parent who has been dutifully paying my kid's tuition, this is an insult to everyone who's diligently avoided loans. Where's my $50,000?
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"The people of Illinois give voice to their sovereign authority through the Illinois Constitution" - one wonders just how the IL Supreme Court managed to write that part of their pension reform strike-down with a straight face. .
@John_Kass
@McQuearyKristen
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So, yes, if Ms. Biden were to present a paper at a scholarly conference, and the news media were to report on this, it would be appropriate in this context to write, "Dr. Biden's research showed that . . . " but it is not appropriate to write, next year, "First Lady Dr. Biden ---
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And, yes, this is in reference to the WSJ commentary, though it didn't make its pitch clearly enough. (Plus, I'm really not a fan of handing out a "doctorate" without a dissertation.)
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@Suzy4242
@neontaster
The answer is both/and. The overrunning of the Capitol was wrong. The riots were wrong. At the same time, the overrunning of the Capitol can partially be explained by the media and governments' responses to the riots over the summer, and of course by the rioters themselves.
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@reporterporter
“Men can’t get pregnant” is no more transphobic than “biologically, a child cannot have two fathers” is homophobic.
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colleagues, or, in the larger media, in the context of your role as a professor or a researcher, if applicable. Outside of these contexts, the usual titles of Mr./Ms./Mrs. are just as appropriate for you as for the rest of us.
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@ijbailey
@asymmetricinfo
But decisions about conviction or acquittal shouldn’t be based the “message,” right?
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Have you read my piece in today's Tribune yet? . I am increasingly irritated that the state reports, day after day, regionwide metrics on new diagnoses, hospitalizations, etc. But there's no information on their progress on contact tracing.
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Yup, Illinois has indeed counted its chickens before they've hatched. Ugh.
@John_Kass
@McQuearyKristen
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Ugh. I suppose Biden never tried to contort himself into claiming he was "personally opposed" to abortion; Catholic voters were simply told to shut up and stop caring about abortion as an issue.
"As both a congressman and attorney general, Xavier Becerra fought for rabidly pro-abortion and anti-free speech policies."
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@mattyglesias
Do you understand that people who identify as pro-life believe that a) that which is growing in the uterus is a human being and as such ought not be killed and b) that to be killed is worse than to be fatherless? This is basic, isn’t it?
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Hey, twitter, I'm currently drafting a follow-up article on the Illinois constitution. Should I just cut to the chase and title it "Beating a Dead Horse Into the Ground: More Historical Context on Illinois Pensions Than any Reader is Remotely Likely To Be Interested In"?
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@DanProft
Would love to hear from the administration (hey - there’s a board meeting on Thursday!)
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Fun fact: the Illinois Arts Council, which will have $50 million in grants to dole out, is chaired by Mike Madigan's wife. .
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@MattWalshBlog
Simpler than that: if every girl demanded to be able to use a private changing room due to the lack of privacy in the locker rooms, they'd have to rethink their policies pretty quickly because of the disruption.
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Yes, I'm still angry about Illinois' request for pension bailout money. .
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@JohnBerman
@TheRickWilson
75 year olds were babies when the war ended. Not the best example of self-service.
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@mattyglesias
Other countries have the Abitur, the Bac, and the A levels (or whatever they’re called these days), which are far more determinative or college attendance than the SAT.
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@neontaster
@jonathanchait
Ah, remember the days when it was bad to say "All Lives Matter" because it minimized the concern about the particular topic at hand?
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@DavidAFrench
If just seeing the "birth name" causes the child trauma, this is not fixable with some hormones.
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@emilykmay
Is he in a crib? If so, the alternate explanation is that you have forgotten to turn the baby monitor on.
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@PTBwrites
@afa_cwa
The comments are, well, par for the course: “no parent of a small child should ever travel.” Know your place, breeder!
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I wasn't planning on yet another rant on Illinois pensions, but the report about Illinois' lack of funding for adult day services/group homes for the intellectually disabled really *&^!ed me off.
@McQuearyKristen
@John_Kass
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@MrJoshPerry
@rorycooper
@FCPSSupt
Bad news? From the union’s point of view, permanent virtual school would be *good* news!
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How does a pension plan go from 97% to 30% funded in less than 20 years? .
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@HashtagGriswold
Black Panther is the first superhero movie with a black lead that twentysomethings whose moviegoing memory starts with Marvel can remember.
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@brycecovert
But we've never had paid leave, nor state-funded childcare, so the lack of these things can't explain *falling* fertility.
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@EsotericCD
Because they went to Europe in college and fell in love with their train systems.
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If there's one thing we have all now learned, it's this: when the government announces a "temporary" closure, treat it as indefinitely closed, regardless of the reopening date they specify.
SoS announces Driver Services facilities will remain closed for in-person service until January 4
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@Andrefor40th
The problem with this op-ed is that it is premised on the idea that "if only we care enough, we will find a way to solve the problem." In fact, "caring" is not sufficient to find the money, balance the budget, avoid burdening future Chicagoans with debt.
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@DanProft
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
@chicagosmayor
One suspects she’s using the claim of “elevating minority journalists” when her motive is every bit as much getting (expected) friendlier interviewers.
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Folks,
@chicagosmayor
says she wants "to have the conversation about what is driving the pension cost." Guess what? I'm here. I've got more excel tables than you can shake a stick at. Let's talk. .
@StatehouseChick
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@AGHamilton29
Incidentally, the site is very popular with tourists, and not as a neo-Nazi destination but as a means of commemorating the Allied defeat of the Nazis.
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@KyleHooten2
@pegobry
Don’t know if that’s better or worse than the response I just got: “sorry, but we have no records on achievement disparities whatsoever because we never keep anything.”
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@AG_Conservative
You know, it's all well and good that her staffers (now) recognize that providing "economic security" for those "unwilling to work" is something that's not going to fly with the American public. But it's appalling that it ever even made it into a draft.
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@ABC
Is it too much to ask for the news networks to call him out when he uses 10 years of taxes for 6 years of benefits (eg, the free childcare), leaving someone else to hike taxes or run deficits later?
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I stayed up way too late compiling the D214 Illinois Report Card data, so please read it so that it will have been worthwhile. (Spoiler: scores are down even after a year back in school.) .
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After spending all day doomscrolling, I find myself wishing I had asked my dad, while I still could, how he felt about the fall of Saigon as it was happening.
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@pafournier
@davidzweig
@TheAtlantic
The article says these are people who are hospitalized for entirely unrelated reasons, no?
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@RussFinkelstein
@KFILE
You miss his point. In the US, soccer is a “second tier” sport; that’s not so elsewhere.
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Boy who killed his parents and asks the court for mercy because he's an orphan, Illinois public pension edition. .
@McQuearyKristen
@John_Kass
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Update: more prayers requested. Dad is less responsive than before and likely headed to hospice, and Mom isn’t able to understand it.
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Folks, exactly what percent of the Illinois operating budget can we spend on pensions before we acknowledge it's not sustainable? .
@StatehouseChick
@John_Kass
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