jbroson

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by jbroson 6y ago
SO OP gets to claim based on his anecdotal experience that unions are awful and full of lazy people. But pointing out there are wildly successful unions filled with hardworking people is "cherry picking"?
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by jbroson 6y ago
Amazon's actions have absolutely nothing to do with this. US Senators should not be threatening retaliation against a company because of tweets that piss them off. Why is this only bad when Trump or a Republican does it?
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by jbroson 6y ago
The article literally has people saying they complained to the police because the black and brown men are "scary" And here you are claiming there's NOTHING AT ALL wrong with that. Sure let's just ignore decades of select
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by jbroson 6y ago
So because something is declining...that means it doesn't exist. What a WONDERFUL world you live in!
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by jbroson 6y ago
"Talk about a strawman" ...YOU are the one who claimed everyone that was complaining had a legitimate complaint about law and order and enforcement of local codes. I mean it's literally in the first few paragraphs of the piec
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by jbroson 6y ago
"The world isn't angry, nor is it racist, nor is it violent" ...we clearly don't live in the same world.
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by jbroson 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/03/why-y...
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by jbroson 6y ago
"When you say it's an "educated" guess, educated how? It only seems to reflect the usual bigotry that comes out of the coasts." I lived first 28 years of my life in the rural south and now live in the midwest. My en
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by jbroson 6y ago
It sounds like you are just angry at the mere mention of race. Like we should just go through life pretending like race plays absolutely no factor in any law, human interaction, or bias unless someone says the "n" word or somethin
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by jbroson 6y ago
"Sounds to me like those legitimate criticisms are exactly what the "insane Weaver residents" are complaining about." Really, the white dude who complained to the cops to do something about the black and latino car club
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by jbroson 6y ago
I don't know what this is about human nature but it's infuriating. As someone involved in private aviation and small airports I can't tell you how many times people move in right next to an airport that has been there for dec
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by jbroson 6y ago
I think the idea that we should cancel people because of what their parents or partners did is incredibly wrongheaded. Is there even a shred of evidence this person did anything illegal, immoral or unethical themselves? they hired their dad
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by jbroson 6y ago
My somewhat educated guess is that these farmers in the PNW don't share the same politics as farmers in the rural south or midwest. That and Republicans have grown way more hostile to immigration since 2010, so it's an interesting
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by jbroson 6y ago
If this is the standard that "they couldn't get hired TODAY" I'm sure that's not a very interesting fact worth discussing. I mean if we reanimated Big Al Einstein today and he had a blind interview for a tenure trac
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by jbroson 6y ago
What? You honestly think the Stanford PhDs who created Google couldn't get hired as basic SWEs? Seriously? I mean if true that says a lot more about the SWE interviews than it does about Stanford PhDs. I mean there are Yale JDs that fa
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by jbroson 6y ago
I guess it depends on the person. I hate swimming more than running. I love lifting weights but hated it for the first long while. Walking, sure but I never considered that exercise, again depends on the person.
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by jbroson 6y ago
There's not really an "easy" answer which it seems a lot of people trying to get healthy want. Exercising sucks. Eventually you get good enough at it that you start to enjoy it-- I LOVE running now--but it's not without
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by jbroson 6y ago
The proximate cause of the failing farm was that it's impossible to turn a profit! They had a family member willing to do the hard work! "hard work" had absolutely nothing to do with this particular farm failing. This isn&#x2
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by jbroson 6y ago
The article is about the "death of my family's farm". Not about whatever you think policy problems are. If you read the article, the fact that it's impossible to turn a profit in a small family farm is more important tha
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by jbroson 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the fact that it's impossible to turn a profit in any of the "family" small scale dairy farms is a little more important than how hard the work is. And hard back-breaking work is not unique to farming. Pl
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by jbroson 6y ago
The desperate grasping of straws trying to explain away Feynman's unimpressive IQ score is pretty entertaining here. " I say again: do you really think that Feynman had a middling ability to remember patterns, deduce and track log
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by jbroson 6y ago
" I have zero doubt that if a representative sample of the population took a scientifically controlled IQ test (and everyone participated honestly, to the fullest extent of their abilities) that Feynman would have placed near the top i
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by jbroson 6y ago
Feynman had an IQ of 125 which is just moderately above average, and if we were admitting people into top PhD programs based on IQ he likely would have never become a physicist of his stature. IQ is a deeply flawed measure of intelligence.
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by jbroson 6y ago
I think much of the hate towards Prometheus was unwarranted and overblown although it was flawed. You could easily point to plot holes and dumb decisions by characters in Star Wars or any other classic sci fi. And it was still better than 9
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by jbroson 6y ago
It's amazing how conservatives write love letters about the "free market" but despise absolutely anyone in this "free market" who do not follow conservative orthodoxy. It's a PRIVATE SCHOOL! Send your kids else
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by jbroson 6y ago
A beautifully written personal narrative and your only thought it "Hah! I'm smarter than this guy!" ...ok
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by jbroson 6y ago
Yeah, this seems nice to say but much harder to actually do. As someone who has been quite close to death and recovered, I can say with 100% certainty you truly have no idea what that bone-chilling terror is to know that you could well and
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by jbroson 6y ago
What is "overanalysis" in this piece? It seemed a fairly straightforward if slightly controversial position to me. I'm not even a philosophy major. And as someone who has been near death before I tend to agree with what the a