Bran_son

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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The US incarcerates more people than China, despite China having more than four times as many people Homicide and incarceration rates per 100k people: homicide | incarceration | incarceration/homicide USA 6.4
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by Bran_son 3y ago
A lot of conflating of "hitting on/asking out for a date or coffee" with ogling and stalking and not taking no for an answer. Also: > I asked in a general thread once, “Okay, when is a good time for me to approach you to t
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Unfortunately it does, and nobody likes them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Tra... They're called investor-state dispute settlements, and they let corporations sue governments for loss
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The abstract idea of a 'pointer' is a piece of information to the location of some other information. It is not even an analogy - it is literally the same thing, differing only in implementation details.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Mass shooters largely reflect the (male) population: https://reason.com/volokh/2021/03/24/mass-shooters-by-race-a... That said, mass shootings are a small part of all homicide, so they give the wrong imp
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by Bran_son 3y ago
To back up the parents claim: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal world
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by Bran_son 3y ago
That is the purpose of DEI bureaucracy - to purge the ranks of defectors. Then they can manufacture studies justifying DEI goals unopposed. See a torrent of studies and articles proving you are the source of all suffering, justifying any an
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Software Patents – Obstacles to Software Development(gnu.org)
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Except that states aren't 100% competent enough to produce all the legal framework and military support that the USG provides. So? That support is guaranteed to them by the constitution, and is the justification for federal taxes.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The income that the feds tax is generated in the states. There is no meaningful distinction between a 15% federal and 15% state tax, and a 30% state tax that is then divided 50/50 between state and federal governments.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The FBI crime statistics I cited [0] show that whites have one of the lowest per-capita homicide rates. Specifically, the white+Hispanic [1] homicide rate is 1.16 per 100k, while the Black rate is 7.98. So which data are you referring to? B
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The media seemed extremely motivated to point out race for George Floyd and other anecdotal cases. It seems only fair to then also look at race when it comes to statistics. Otherwise, one is effectively lying by cherry-picking which cases t
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by Bran_son 3y ago
If you can find per-capita homicide rates disaggregated by race in other countries, that would be most welcome.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
I don't like such financial circumvention of constitutional limits on the federal government. Especially since those funds are extracted from the states in the first place. That said, this zoning bill seems constitutional, per https
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The amount of money required to trigger even these small effects is enormous. In "The Economic Consequences of Family Policies," published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives in 2017, researchers found "one extra per
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Bigotry turns into a feedback loop that finishes in violence Completely agreed. So long as I get to define what is bigotry, and what is valid grievance.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Conveniently, everyone across the political aisle from you speaks in bad faith.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Idk if the irish law goes further Had you read the thread you would know that it does. It contains excerpts from the law, showing that mere possession of material that is "likely to incite hatred" is illegal. That's an i
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by Bran_son 3y ago
"No liberal filter" becomes "they want me and those I care about dead". It's so convenient when the only media that pass your purity test don't raise any uncomfortable points, or report on issues you'd rat
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by Bran_son 3y ago
When the summary of a new law is comprised entirely of saying it bans things that are already illegal (such as harassment [1]), that's a good sign they're lying through omission. In this case, the law makes it a 1st class misdemea
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> You also have to think about what they want you to think. That's a wildly exaggerated interpretation of rainytuesday's post. I interpreted it as calling out the one-sided purity test applied to which media one may engage with
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by Bran_son 3y ago
'Bizarre' in what way? Are you alleging the hate-speech laws mentioned aren't real?
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The data is public, available from the Irish government at https://www.gov.ie/en/consultation/c3d5e9-hate-speech-public... I don't know their methodology, but you can double check their results yourself. If 3
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Free speech is not under attack in Ireland Please be specific. Which parts of the claim "The Irish government is proceeding with legislation to outlaw so-called “hate speech” – even after the vast majority of respondents to their
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Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and globally(twitter.com)
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found e
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> "I must connect to the internet once" problem is a very fair tradeoff Very fair. All Google requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water. A token of submission to its will.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
As usual, security is used as an excuse to lock down more than is necessary. To prevent the supply chain attack you mention, the boot lock just has to be tamper evident, such as showing a "Bootloader unlocked" message during boot.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Fletcher’s last argument is empirical, rather than theoretical [..] he makes a list of the nations in the world that have had the most remarkable economic growth, including the UK, US, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and China. He then di
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> “The intention is commendable, but a lot of the questions I felt uncomfortable asking,” says another producer. Take a good look - this is all the resistance they can muster against formalized "positive" discrimination (i.e. r

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