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    1. Managers can start to change organizational norms by pointing out the positive things that employees’ outside activities bring to the workplace.

      This is a part that I can really agree with as the employees should be allowed to have other interests and responsibilities apart from their jobs. The personal activities could enable individuals to gain some new skills and experiences that could make them productive workers. Managers should realize that having life outside work is good and should not be taken as lacking commitment

    2. Is it beneficial to weave ideal-worker expectations into a company culture? Is it necessary, at an individual level, to meet those expectations?

      In my opinion, this parts brings up an interesting issue concerning workplace cultures and employees expectations. In many firms, employees are made to believe that they have to prioritize work in order to succeed, but in my opinion firms needs to provide a better working environment where workers can juggle between their work and personal obligations.

    3. By operating in this way, organizations pressure employees to become what sociologists have called ideal workers: people totally dedicated to their jobs and always on call.

      I think this passage is the highlight of how the workplaces expects employees to make their career top priority in life. Such expectations like this may lead to stress and difficulty in balancing life and career. In my opinion it should be possible for people to have successful careers without making any compromises in their personal lives.

    4. measuring actual results rather than hours invested.

      I agree with this idea because I feel like employees should be evaluated based on the quality of work and not based on how many hours they put in. In serving, doing a good job is based on your customer service and completing your responsibilities, not how long you are working. This connects with performance management because results are important to better evaluate employees.

    5. by failing to openly challenge the ideal-worker culture, passers allow that culture to persist

      I had not thought about the idea that not being open about personal commitments can actually cause an unhealthy workplace. When we stay closed off instead of talking, managers assume everyone is happy. This connects with communication because employees need to be able to communicate concerns if they want things to change and improve.

    6. For accepters, treating work as the be-all and end-all may be fulfilling when the job is going well, but it leads to fragility in the long term.

      This stood out to me because putting all of your time and effort into work can affect multiple things in your life. When someone loses their job, it affects them because they didn't make time for anything else outside of work. Having a balance is very important for long-term happiness.

    7. people typically rely on one of three strategies: accepting and conforming to the demands of a high-pressure workplace; passing as ideal workers by quietly finding ways around the norm; or revealing their other commitments

      I found this interesting because employees respond to workplace pressure in a few different ways. Some accept it, some hide their personal lives, and some are open about everything. This made me think about how workplace expectations can affect different employees depending on their situation.

    8. people totally dedicated to their jobs and always on call.

      This connects to the idea of organizational culture since employees can feel a bit pressured to follow some expectations of their workforce. I think it can be unfair at times when employees are expected to be available outside of their available hours. I like the idea of having a personal life without feeling like they are doing something wrong.

    9. Furthermore, people who buy in to the ideal-worker culture find it difficult to understand those who do not. As a result, accepters can become the main drivers of organizational pressure for round-the-clock availability

      Workplaces that reward time logged instead of real results force employees to sacrifice their outside lives

    10. In our research we found that people typically rely on one of three strategies: accepting and conforming to the demands of a high-pressure workplace; passing as ideal workers by quietly finding ways around the norm; or revealing their other commitments and their unwillingness to abandon them.

      In a lot of companies, bosses judge people by how long they sit at their desks rather than how well they do their jobs

    11. Is it beneficial to weave ideal-worker expectations into a company culture? Is it necessary, at an individual level, to meet those expectations?

      I think every worker is different and most shouldn't be held to typical standards.

    12. Other policy changes can be made even more easily. One employee we interviewed remarked that her current boss differed from her old one because he believed late nights were a sign that she was working inefficiently, and he discouraged them.

      This suggests working long hours makes the employee work poorly.

    13. Minimize time-based rewards. Employees who choose a passing strategy do so in part because it’s common to evaluate how much people work (or seem to), rather than the quality of their output.

      Prizes/awards are given to employees based on how long they have been there rather than how good they are.

    1. Elegy in Translation

      Right before the poem begins, Meg Day looks to be communicating with someone off screen and then takes a moment to put on hearing implants.

      Following this, Day appears to fingerspell the title of the poem.

      This sets up the structure of the poem by establishing Day will be using ASL as part of the poem's reading.

    2. Or oil; grease from a fox with the gallof a hare, bear fat melted in hot piss, peach kernels fried in hog lard & tucked along the cavum for a cure; a sharp stickeven, a jagged rock;

      With further research I found that these are some folk remedies people used to "cure" deafness.

    3. I was trying to wave to you but you wouldn’t wave back —The Be Good Tanyas

      The quote is excluded from the original video. What does this add to the poem?

    1. you look beyond short term fixes in favor of long term solutions; you make wise decisions despite ambiguity; you use data to inform your intuition

      You are smart when you make decisions and use data to do so.

    2. you are vulnerable in search for the truth; you are willing to risk failure, or challenge the status quo, in the pursuit of excellence

      You are willing to take risks to succeed.

    3. you welcome new ideas; you are passionate and persistent in pursuit of more innovative solutions; you value artistic expression

      you have an easy time coming up with decisions and welcome new ones.

    4. you recognize your biases and work to counteract them; you try to ensure everyone at Netflix can do their best work, whatever their culture, identity or background.

      You try to be fair and do the best you can

    5. you learn rapidly and eagerly; you are more interested in other people’s ideas than your own; you’re humble about what you don’t yet know

      You like to learn fast and like to listen to ideas of others

    6. After a decision is made, we expect everyone, including the people who argued for a different approach, to disagree and commit

      I think this is an important part of teamwork. In the workforce, people should be able to express their own opinions and then come together to make a final decision. This shows that disagreements do not always have to create conflict if employees can respect each other.

    7. giving their teams the context and clarity needed to make good decisions instead of trying to control everything themselves

      I like this idea because I feel like employees should be trusted to make decisions. Employees understanding their responsibilities helps with faster problem-solving and allows them to feel more confident. This connects to employee empowerment when workers are given more responsibility and freedom.

    8. you willingly receive and give feedback; you are open about what’s working and what needs to improve

      I agree that communication and feedback are important in a workplace. When serving, feedback helps us improve what we, as employees, are doing well and what can be improved. It is easier to improve at a job when management communicates clearly instead of waiting for something to go wrong.

    9. It’s why we model ourselves on a professional sports team, not a family.

      This stood out to me because I feel like most workplaces try to make employees feel like family. Netflix focuses on performance more than anything. This makes me wonder if employees get more motivated by this or if it creates extra pressure.

    10. people who are great at what they do, and even better at working together.

      I think this shows that netflix appreciates teamwork and individual skills. Employees need to be able to communicate and work well alongside others. This connects with what we learned about employees' attitudes and behaviors and how it can affect the success of a company.

    1. life operating system

      Ankor is an app. When I read 'faith-aligned life OS' I don't know what that really means? To me an OS is the software on my computer. Day 1, we're trying to build an app.

    1. Recently, a librarian posted an ­­­image to the Storytime Underground Facebook page sharing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) book display she created in her teen space, partly inspired by a BLM list created by a Hennepin County (MN) librarian. Several librarians commended the effort and posted about similar displays.

      That librarian is a good person

    1. in an adolescent touch, the entropic heat death of the universe

      And so will the language my poems were written in.<br/> Then the spinning planet where all this happened will die

      The heat death was only hinted at, as far as I understand.

      Campos could probably have gotten the meaning across without foreseeing the end of mankind. With the whole text declaring itself a stream of consciousness, he might reluctantly have had to embrace the cliche of his mind to stay faithful to the concept.

      If anything in the poem felt adolescent to me, it was this confession of fascination by femininity:

      (Oh, my comforters, who don’t exist and so may comfort,<br/> Whether Greek goddess, conceived as a statue that springs alive,<br/> Or Roman matron, impossibly noble and ominous,<br/> Or Princess of the troubadours, so blushing and so gentle,<br/> Or eighteenth-century marchioness, so décolletée and cool,<br/> Or famous courtesan back in our parents’ time,

    1. I argue that neutrality has a precise and essential meaning: We do not deny access to library services and resources. We do not seek to silence people on the basis of their backgrounds or beliefs.

      Good point

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    1. Will continue to make things like poems and to live under things like signs,

      In what broader sense will they make things like poems and live under things like signs? What will their poems and signs be?

    1. function

      Why couldn't you start out with this equation and then describe the transformations according to this equation. Now I have constants all over the place that were c, but are now a and my notes suck.

    2. By allowing for compositions of root functions and rational functions, we can create other algebraic functions. For example, f⁡(x)=4−x2 is an algebraic function.

      This is out of order

    3. Use the graph to determine the value of p that maximizes revenue. Find the maximum revenue.

      I kind of need that information in order to sketch the graph...?

    4. develop models

      although one can develop those equations, functions, graphs, and other mathematical tools in the field on the spot, mostly they are available by computer to compute with. I prefer to learn how to stand on my own two feet in the field like what is expected of me when I travel to other locations than where my primary hired workplace is.

    5. point

      I might say that if there is more than one point to choose from, you wouldn't usually use this equation unless you were trying to get the equation of the line in slope-intercept form, but the point-slope equation for the line will depend on your choice of points, and the slope-intercept form of the line won't.

    1. independent studies have implicated the caudate in goal-directed action selection (Grahn et al., 2008), and the insula in error awareness (Klein et al., 2013) and decision-making (Uddin et al., 2017). Unexpected omissions in reward, which produce negative prediction errors, were associated with stronger responses in the caudate. Unexpected rewards, which produce positive prediction errors, were associated with stronger responses in the insula. Heightened prediction error responses normalised following weight restoration. However, stronger prediction error signalling in the caudate during the acute phase of AN was associated with worse treatment outcomes

      The brain regions responsible for goal-directed actions (caudate) and decision-making/error awareness (insula) show heightened responses to unexpected reward omissions and unexpected rewards, respectively, in individuals with acute anorexia nervosa (AN).

  2. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. The Selfish Gene. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1188207750. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Selfish_Gene&oldid=1188207750 (visited on 2023-12-08).

      This source discusses the selfish gene, which was a book that came out in the 70s by author Richard Dawkins that discusses genetics and their inherent selfishness to have the best of them survive. Dawkins also believes this is connected to the altruism that humans display.

    1. 12.2.2. Chain letters# When physical mail was dominant in the 1900s, one type of mail that spread around the US was a chain letter [l7]. Chain letters were letters that instructed the recipient to make their own copies of the letter and send them to people they knew. Some letters gave the reason for people to make copies might be as part of a pyramid scheme [l8] where you were supposed to send money to the people you got the letter from, but then the people you send the letter to would give you money. Other letters gave the reason for people to make copies that if they made copies, good things would happen to them, and if not bad things would, like this:

      Learning about the origins of chain mail is very interesting. I remember as a kid people used to spam a lot of chain mail on popular social media sites such as Snapchat. I never thought about its origins, and it's fascinating to see how it dates back all the way to the 1900s.

    1. __________________________________________________________________

      The best way for me to overcome anxiety is to practice speaking to yourself and trying not to speak to fast.

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      The only times i get nervous is if i don't know what im saying or if i need to use the restroom.

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      All my instructors prefer through email. But if you stay after class that is okay aswell.

    4. __________________________________________________________________

      You have to email the instructor to schedule an in-person meeting or zoom appointment.

    5. __________________________________________________________________

      I would like to stop by and ask her about what the final assignment or exam will be for this class.

    6. __________________________________________________________________

      To make sure my phone is away and to be able to focus and see whatever is being taught clearly.

    7. __________________________________________________________________

      I keep myself motivated by making sure i don't fall behind in the class and reminding myself what im doing this for.

    8. __________________________________________________________________

      I think proper planning is a big one for me since i want to be correct about what i say. And I will also practice speaking to make sure I can say everything with confidence.

    9. __________________________________________________________________

      I would ask for their opinion on my goals for the future, and seek help picking out my classes.

    10. __________________________________________________________________

      I would write down my question ahead of time, review my notes, and make sure I understand what I am confused about. keep my questions short and clear.

    11. __________________________________________________________________

      If I had a question for this instructor I would probably ask him in person since ive seen a lot of other students talk to him after class and he seems fine with it. So, I think talking to him in person would be most appropriate.

    12. __________________________________________________________________

      No I'm not hesitant to speak up in this class. I just understand what he is saying since he makes sure we understand before proceeding.

    13. __________________________________________________________________

      The professor I have least spoken too is My history teacher and reason why I don't speak to him a lot is because he teaches the material really well and gives us a lot of examples. The only times I have really spoken to him is to make sure when we are taking our exams.

    14. __________________________________________________________________

      Participating in class is important because it helps students understand the material better, improve their communication skills, and build confidence. it also allows students to ask questions, share ideas and learn from others.

    1. These questions have become more pressing as advances in genetic editing technology have made resurrection science increasingly feasible.

      The untold consequences for tampering with nature will come back to bite us if we aren't considerate and meticulous.

    2. the thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial last seen on the island of Tasmania in the 1930s; and the heath hen, a wild chicken once prevalent in New England that went extinct in the 1930s.

      Suggestion: What about the Dodo?

    3. More broadly, some conservationists warn that de-extinction will divert resources and attention from efforts to protect living animals while potentially making the threat to endangered species seem less vital.

      If we have the power to resurrect a species, does the practice of conservation become irrelavent?

    4. warn that, though the rapidity of environmental decline seems dire, resurrecting animals would mark a dangerous intensification of human intrusion in the natural

      "-world, one that could have unforeseen, long-lasting effects." - Oppossitions reason

    5. Supporters argue that humans, who for most of their history have failed to serve as mindful custodians of the natural world, have a moral responsibility to right some of their wrongs through de-extinction.

      Supporters reason

    6. "Faced with these emergencies, the urgency to do something to save these species seems like a good ethical argument for action," journalist M. R. O'Connor wrote in her book Resurrection Science in 2015.

      Biased Source

    7. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which works to protect wild habitats and endangered animals around the world, about 900 species have gone extinct in just the past 500 years.

      Supporting Evidence for first reason. Rapid deforestation and Climate Change

    8. If humans cannot coexist with living species, they ask, how will they provide sufficient habitat and protection for resurrected animals?

      My Opinion- Does humanity not owe these creatures to continue existing after the careless destruction of its population due to our intervention.

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    1. Although the electrons cancel and the metal atoms are balanced, the total charge on the left side of Equation 6.2.7 (+4) does not equal the charge on the right side (+8). Because the reaction is carried out in the presence of aqueous acid, we can add H⁡A+ as necessary to either side of the equation to balance the charge. By the same token, if the reaction were carried out in the presence of aqueous base, we could balance the charge by adding OHA− as necessary to either side of the equation to balance the charges.

      Another topic that I found difficult is to balance the charges for redox reactions. It is clear to me that electrons should cancel out and the atoms should balance out too; however, I find it difficult to know how many ions, either H⁺ or OH⁻, are needed to be added so that the charges are balanced on both sides.

    1. idation state is a useful tool for keeping track of electron transfers. It is most commonly used in dealing with metals and especially with transition metals. Unlike metals from the first two columns of the periodic table, such as sodium or magnesium, transition metals can often transfer different numbers of electrons, leading to different metal ions (e.g., sodium is generally found as NaA+ and magnesium is almost always MgA2+, but manganese could be MnA2+, MnA3+, and so on, as far as MnA7+). Oxidation state is a number assigned to an element in a compound according to some rules. This number enables us to describe oxidation-reduction reactions, and balancing redox chemical reactions. When a covalent bond forms between two atoms with different electronegativities the shared electrons in the bond lie closer to the more electronegative atom:

      One topic I found difficult to grasp was oxidation states in transition metals and why some of them could exist in more than one oxidation state. Oxidation states are important in recording the transfer of electrons; however, I have not been able to comprehend how it is possible to know which oxidation state a particular transition metal exists in a compound.

    1. These disagreements are not evidence that governance has failed. They are precisely why governance is necessary.

      Relates to the wicked problem argument

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    1. It is safe to say my upbringing has inspired me to go into this community in the future.

      This shows that the author is slightly part of the community already, this can lead to being biased. But I am sure having lots of family in the space, they understand what solutions the group is looking for.

    1. ned probability of involvement in military hostilities” (Brecher and Wilkenfeld 1997a). The experiences of actors who meet that definition appear under the umbrella of an international crisis.

      test dc.identifier

    1. cápsula glomerular → túbulo contorneado proximal → asa de la nefrona → túbulo contorneado distal → conducto colector → conducto papilar → cáliz menor → cáliz mayor → pelvis renal → uréter → vejiga urinaria → uretra.

      Orden del liquido Riñon

    1. Might the central banks indeed be central to all this? Yes.

      A future chapter of TMftF mentions John Keynes. The central banks are indeed central to all of this because of Keynesian economics. John Keynes' emphasized the importance of government's intervention in the economy to deal with unemployment and to prevent inflation. The central banks' tools of trade for this are monetary policy and fiscal policy which are arguably the building blocks of the economy as we know it. They are used by the central banks and the federal reserve to influence demand and thus maintain stability.

    1. To determine which architectural components contributed to OGM performance, we performed extensive ablation experiments using IHD phenotype prediction (Figure 2d)

      These experiments are quite useful. It seems the biggest benefit of OGM is the sparsity it induces, given the huge delta in the generic nn, and small ones for the GO annotations. One complementary ablation that would be very informative here is ablating the activation functions. This could stress test some of the epistasis claims.

    2. Across all ancestry groups, they outperformed the PRS-CSx baselines that are constructed from the PanUKBB summary statistics, which were based on the entire UKB population without hold-out data for internal evaluation (see Methods)

      I am curious why a directly comparable linear model was not added as a baseline, e.g. penalized logistic regression on the same genotype data, and the same test-train split. The quality of these PGS scores is going to be impacted by things like LD structure, and sample size in the populations they are obtained from, potentially making them a weak baseline.

    3. Performance of OGM-based and alternative PGS with sex and genetic PCs 1-3 as covariates.

      It would be helpful to specify that the AUROC values are the transfer dataset (AoU) performance, right now this is hard to infer from the caption.

    1. Nice paper! The case for making protonation state an explicit design variable in binder design is clear, and screening the full library without structure-prediction filtering makes the result easy to trust. A few suggestions: I’d like to see Proton-PottsMPNN compared directly with the Baker lab’s approach (doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.29.678932). The unmodified seeds show that the redesign adds pH dependence, but not how much the protonation tokens add beyond histidine-biased ProteinMPNN. Grouping folds by PDB entry allows near-identical proteins on both sides of a split. I think clustering by sequence identity (or structural similarity) would give a more conservative estimate. All designs switch at pH 5.8 or below, which better matches endosomal pH than the tumor microenvironment mentioned in the introduction. I’d love to see whether your tool can make designs that switch at a higher pH! Counter-screen pH. The HSA and CD98 counter-screen was run at pH 5.0. A counter-screen at pH 4.0 would strengthen the pH 4.0-only designs, which are the most exposed to non-specific binding.

      Minor figure tweaks: Figure 1b says pH 7.0, but Figure 1c uses pH 7.4. The axes in Figures 1c and 3c are unlabeled.

    1. The strong dependence of the motility on prey availability, rather than prey density, hints at possible competition between predators. Cells may be vying to occupy the same bacterial hotspots (see Movie S6 and Fig. S8).

      This is a really cool interaction. The cell that gets pushed off does not just wander away. It takes a long loop and comes back to the same patch from the other side, and the two swap again. I would love to know how often this happens, or whether this movie is the one time you caught it.

      The patch is interesting too. The cultures carry their own bacteria, and Figure S2 looks like a mix of sizes and shapes rather than one cell type. Is that hotspot a thicker patch of the same bacteria, or could it be a different bug?

      While a cell is feeding, the anterior flagellum is attached and the posterior one beats in the groove, so I would not expect two cells to share one spot without those flagella crossing. Figure 6 puts neighboring Jakoba about a body length apart. Do they ever get closer than that, drop their flagella, and clump, or does the spacing stay?

      Very cool work!

    1. we let AO = AB This makes the angle at B equal to 45o. Which means that DB = DC. This must mean that, by substitution, AD + DC = AB Now, the distance AD + DC can be redrawn as any number of sub-distances, as above. Here we divide the distance into four sub-distances, taking us from A to C in 4 steps. This new path, drawn by the sub-distances, is equivalent in length to AD + DC, as can be seen by any cursory analysis. It is nearer the path of the arc AC, but it retains the original distance of AD + DC. If we divide the distance into eight sub-distances instead of four, we approach the path of the arc AC even nearer; but, again, we retain the original distance of AD + DC. If we take this process to its limit, we take our path to the path of the arc AC. This must mean that the length of the arc AC is equal to the distance AD + DC. By substitution, this means that arcAC = AB Since 8 such arcs make up the circle, the circumference of the circle is 8AB. Since AB = AO, and AO is the radius, we have found that C = 8r

      It must be remembered that AO, AB, DB, DC are vectors (velocities), NOT distances!

    1. For example, a model trained on images in which every man is wearing glasses might be convinced that wearing glasses is a strong signal that someone is a man. While this example might seem obvious, it can be difficult to know in advance if training data consists of poor examples for the task, or if it is unrepresentative.

      This example made me think about how easily technology can learn something incorrect if the information used to train it is limited. Wearing glasses has nothing to do with being a man or a woman, but the system might make that assumption. I believe this shows why we should not always trust the answers provided by artificial intelligence. It also makes me wonder how many other incorrect assumptions these systems might make without us noticing. In my opinion, the people who develop these technologies have a responsibility to use diverse information and carefully check the results.

    2. What may be less obvious is that they can be significantly less reliable for some groups than others – and that these differences may not necessarily be driven by intuitive or obvious factors. In general, it is important that these models be trained on data that captures the diversity of the situations they will encounter in real-world contexts, as much as that is possible. If the model will be called upon to operate on multiple ages, races and other qualities, for example, it is important that the model be trained on a similarly diverse training

      I think this is an important issue because technology should work fairly for everyone, regardless of their race, age, or gender. It concerns me that some people may receive less accurate results simply because the technology was not trained with enough diversity. I believe this could create unfair situations, especially when these systems are used to make important decisions about people. It also makes me wonder who is responsible when AI makes mistakes that affect certain groups more than others. In my opinion, companies should test their systems with people from different backgrounds before making them available to the public.

    1. the performance of the deep network models are not as good as that was seen in the case of single-step forecasting. However, notwithstanding the above limitation of the models for the multi-step forecasting

      conclution for the expeiment, relevant

    2. the models performed quite well for the smallest window size of 3. The predictions for the window size 7 were also good for all the models. However, the results for the other window sizes varied irregularly and did not perform as well.

      th window size affect in the performance of the predictions of the ai models

    3. One unique aspect of these models can be observed in the forecasting graphs (refer Appendix A): all the models failed to predict the sudden increases in the prices to the actual extent

      AI can’t predict sudden events using only past prices

    4. However, as we increase the window sizes, the predictions of all the models go further away from the true values increasing the error rate.

      the models cant predict very acurate when we increase the time or data

    5. TABLE 1. Indian stock price data: 10 companies. The period is fixed for all the stocks: 1 January 2002 to 15 January 2019 (over 17 years)

      Large dataset, but not from the us market

    1. reply to u/ropeynick at https://reddit.com/r/TypewriterRepair/comments/1xk6tkj/olympia_sg3_right_margin_stop/

      The right margin on the Olympia SG3 is a known thing:<br /> - https://typewriter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?pid=27528#p27528<br /> - https://typewriter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=3521

      They say roughly what my experience is with both of my Olympia SG3 right margins: - If you're typing characters, the line lock will engage and require you to hit the margin release to continue. - If you're tabbing, spacing, or using the carriage release you'll blow right through the margin and can keep typing.

      The number of spaces from bell to margin will differ based on the pitch of the machine as will the number of spaces one would need to space past the margin before the line lock disengages and allows you to type in the margin again.

      It was a change in design of how a right margin stop worked in late typewriter manufacture.

    1. Predictions were most sensitive to the date of the root of the tree, which changed absolute dates of162 appearance of traits but not their relative chronology.

      It seems that alternative parameters for inferring the tree itself might be important. Relatedly, does the uncertainty distribution across the tree relate to your reconstruction and prediction outcomes?

    1. “The picture we have shows a...” “We can see a...” “Our scene takes place in a...” “Based on my observation...” “The two historical contexts ar

      important ⭐️

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