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My daughter Tess is ten. Since September a classmate named Madison Kreider has made her cry on about four school days out of five. My wife's response has been to call Madison "a little monster," email the teacher twice, and tell Tess that none of it is true. I understand the impulse. But "none of it is true" is a confident claim about seven separate propositions, and nobody in my house had evaluated any of them.
View discussion (16)My tenants oppose the rent increase under their current beliefs and cognitive limitations. An adequately informed version of each tenant would have a considerably richer view of the situation.
View discussion (18)My grandmother keeps outperforming every mortality assumption I enter. Each additional year delays distribution, draws from principal, and forces me to reopen the spreadsheet.
View discussion (25)My wife calls it spending our child’s college fund on a prostitute. This omits the nonzero probability that refusing would cause 10³⁸ future beings to suffer.
View discussion (19)After a great deal of thought, we are announcing the end of support for Dad, effective March 31. Throughout this post, "we" means me.
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She's back at the lunch table. She cut her bangs herself over the weekend, so row one no longer applies.
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