TheBranca18

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by TheBranca18 7y ago
So wait, based on what I'm reading in this post, a saner opinion is getting into a debate about the definition of the words sexual assault on a mailing list? I understand people thinking there is a right way and a wrong way to express
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
It's increasingly clear that I have less in common with many on Hacker News when these types of responses are considered valuable. > sounds like you dont know who gavin is then This is directly from Wikipedia. > McInnes was a lea
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
I've found over the years as I get to be more and more of an irascible old man, that my viewpoints don't align with much as far as popularity goes. And that's okay. Frankly the power in YouTube for me was to look back at semi
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
To add context here, I responded to someone who said the current Hong Kong situation illustrates the importance of the second amendment. Which I think truly was a myopic, insipid comment. As far as your contention that they haven't wip
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
Korea and Vietnam were decades ago, the United States annihilated Iraq. Surprised you didn't mention Afghanistan. Modern technology would make any potential secession in the United States almost impossible. You are also applying Americ
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
You mean the first amendment right? The US military machine would decimate any civilians wielding weapons if they were so inclined. They wouldn't even have to use troops, they could do so with drones.
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
It's not hatred to ask people that are hoarding almost all the wealth in a country to spend more in taxes. That's just a progressive tax system. There isn't anything controversial about it even if not everyone thinks it'
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
>Honestly, I was just trying to be silly ;) But you don't really expect us to watch your 20 min video do you? I don't care if you watch it or not, but if you're going to comment on it and discredit it, it makes you look si
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
So I post a video in response to someone using anecdotal evidence as a counterpoint to Amazon treating their workers poorly. Included in the video are testimonials from actual Amazon workers and your response is to dismiss the video because
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
You are remembering correctly. But it also pointed out that Amazon sets the standard in the industry and just because they're not the worst doesn't mean they shouldn't get better.
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
The media absolutely pushes an agenda, they are paid to do so. Not many would question that. The difference is, reporting on these things is their job and Amazon is treating their employees like trash. You have to be purposefully ignorant t
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
I'm not really following your analogy. A video game isn't a car, a car is a means of transportation that depending on your situation, is a requirement in order to get goods and retain employment. A video game is a hobby for most p
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
Your entire premise is fallacious. It's responding to someone complaining about an injustice by saying there are starving children in Africa. Your situation sounds awful and if you are that miserable I would be happy to help with anyon
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
More worthy is hard to measure. Newspapers have to follow a process in order to publish, including gathering sources, reporting, etc. A Facebook post has none of that.
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
This is why governmental bodies need to rely on experts in various fields. There is no way we should require our politicians to know everything about everything, but they should be smart enough to recognize what they don't know and bec
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
>Violent crime doesn't happen on the internet. The only thing to prevent is fraud. I couldn't disagree more with these statements. Human and sex trafficking occur through the net, hell you can hire hitmen! Then there's the
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
I would agree with you but think your examples are poor. Rogan generally lets his guests just talk about what they want to talk about without questioning them. Ben Shapiro sounds like he knows what he's talking about, but tends to pick
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
It's authoritarian that American web sites can't do the bare minimum to comply with privacy laws in the EU? I worked on some GDPR integration, on a publishing site no less (considering most of the time I noticed publishing sites b
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
I feel like you're offering a false choice. The point of the tariffs is to punish China for a trade deficit and make companies produce things more in the United States according to this administration. Companies aren't changing th
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
What is winning the war mean in this case? Because the producers in the US, such as soy bean farmers, are not winning anything. Consumers and producers generally don't seem to win trade wars. Especially when tariffs come into play.
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
If this is the issue, the electoral college doesn't solve this. Because what happens is the campaigning for the general election is usually dictated by swing state status and when the caucus or primary takes place in the election calen
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by TheBranca18 7y ago
The fact that the word literally means itself and its opposite based on use for emphasis is another good example of this.
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by TheBranca18 8y ago
My favorite story about Ice Poseidon was when he and his friends were at a Denny's talking shit about black people and a person comes up to them and calls them out to fight outside for being racist. They backed down so fast. That'
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by TheBranca18 10y ago
That's quite a jump you made there: a port of a game that came out in 2011. I don't really think getting Skyrim is a big deal. If you were around for the Wii U launch, they got a ton of third party ports. Comically a game like Mas
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by TheBranca18 10y ago
Does such a setting actually exist? I cannot find any information about that. There hasn't been any other source for this post either.
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by TheBranca18 10y ago
They aren't mutually exclusive. Stopping texting while driving and stopping smoking can both be done. It's just completely irrelevant really.
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by TheBranca18 10y ago
It doesn't. Not sure of the official name but Appeal to Worse fallacies are some of the worst I've come across. The smoking example is pretty much one of the worst ones considering what we're talking about anyway. Smoking has
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by TheBranca18 11y ago
The article was well-written and gave me the feeling that I traipsed all over the various subjects' lives. As someone who has done his fair share of what I feel to be innocuous trolling, I'm glad I've grown up.
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by TheBranca18 11y ago
If one of the comments at the end of the article is to be believed, the author left out a ton of possibly relevant information. The information includes the type of school it is (a school for kids with disciplinary issues) and the girl invo
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by TheBranca18 11y ago
As someone who just spent some time figuring out why Australians were getting errors on the site I work for, I fully support standardizing automatic updates. Since the site is running a two year old version of PHP, it looks like I either ha

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