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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"?
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?
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 selective enforcement of law to discriminate against black and brown people, I guess "racism is over" because it makes you uncomfortable
So because something is declining...that means it doesn't exist.
What a WONDERFUL world you live in!
"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 piece that some dude thought the black and brown guys at the car club were "scary" so he reported them.
"Are there some people who might have complained for dumb reasons?"
"dumb reasons"?
I think the term you should be looking for is "bigoted" reasons.
"The world isn't angry, nor is it racist, nor is it violent"
...we clearly don't live in the same world.
"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 entire family and most of my friends growing up are the people you claim I'm bigoted against...
"If you're going to make a statement that sweeping, you really should back it up with credible sources."
The fact that farmers are generally far more conservative and republican than the median voter or average American isn't exactly some shocking new insight.
You seem to have never spent much time around these folks or have done much research on them if this comes as a surprise to you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/03/why-y...
Are these just bigoted facts "out of the coasts" too:?
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 something.
Given our history as a country that seems INCREDIBLY foolish.
"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 because they are "scary" is just genuinely concerned about law and order and the imperative that all minor violations of local codes must always be enforced?
Color me skeptical.
Calling the cops on scary black people for minor infractions of ticky-tack laws is how Eric Garner and many others have ended up killed at the hands of law enforcement.
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 decades and then complain, protest, and threaten legal action against those very airports because the planes are too loud.
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, BEFORE he was even convicted of crimes she had nothing at all to do with. That's the worst thing this person ever did?
Usually I'm not a "cancel culture" critic but this is just insane.
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 anecdote but not sure how well it translates across the US, where polling shows farmers are overwhelmingly Republican who tend also tend to hate immigration legal or not.
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 track physics position at Princeton Physics dept he would probably fail. The field has changed too much although with months of prep he'd be able to catch up, the same as L & S could for SWE interviews.
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 fail the bar exam but no one would claim that the average Yale JD couldn't get hired as a Big Law associate or judicial clerk.
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.
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 a fairly long period of pain and discomfort.
It's EXPONENTIALLY easier to gain the weight than it is to lose it. You can lose the weight through diet alone but that's itself incredibly difficult especially with a life of bad habits.
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't rocket science guys, I don't know why people insist on conjuring up phantoms to argue with.
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 than how hard the work is.
I'm really not sure at all why you want to turn this into a political argument.
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. Plenty of restaurants or other small businesses basically run off owners and family giving dozens of hours of labor every week "for free"
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 logical models, and memorize things, which are the skills tested by the IQ test?"
See, now I'm confused because for all your effusive (and IMO misplaced)praise of the IQ test you don't seem to grasp how the scores work.
A 125 on the test is in the top ~5% or so of all test takers.
In no world is that a "middling" score. It's not far from two standard deviations above the mean, but below what many would say is "genius" level and below the Mensa cutoff for whatever that's worth.
It's a really great score, nowhere even close to middling!
" 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 if not at the top of the distribution."
...He did take an IQ test and this did not happen.
You're just basically admitting here that no amount of evidence will ever cause you to rethink your worship of the IQ test.
so...ok then!
I have a theory that the slavish obedience many people have for the IQ test as THE ONE test of intelligence is because these people once did well on the IQ test so OF COURSE it proves how smart you are...
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.
Merely the idea that intelligence can be measured by a single test with a single output seems quite crazy to me.
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 95% of films released that year or since.
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 elsewhere if they don't teach the kids enough Ayn Rand and Michelle Malkin!
None of these conservatives seemed to give a shit 15 years ago when rural PUBLIC schools like mine were teaching anti-science creationism, or historical revisionism in the Lost Cause/Civil War apologia. Many were shrieking their heads off if their kids weren't taught such utter bullshit.
A beautifully written personal narrative and your only thought it "Hah! I'm smarter than this guy!"
...ok
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 truly die soon and there's nothing you can do about it.
The unknown is one of the most terrifying things known to mankind. Death is the ultimate unknown. Why else would so many religions involve either an afterlife or reincarnation? Because believing we will turn to dust and cease to exist is incredibly tough to grapple with!
So yeah, good luck on dying as the valiant hero bravely staring down the long sleep!
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 author claims. When I thought I was dying I had regrets that in my late twenties I didn't have a family and kids.
Luckily I recovered and have been healthy for 4-5 years since. I'm still not married and don't have kids. Why did I think it was so important when I thought I was dying?
Hard to say but I think because I was terrified of dying, the unknown, and wanted some piece of me to live on into the future. Now that I'm not in that position I realize that I actually don't want kids at least at this point in my life.
And me having kids or not isn't going to change the fact that after I die, hopefully many years from now, I will be completely forgotten in 100 years, probably less. Maybe an old photograph on my grandkids wall. That's true of 99.9% of us.
Your "deathbed perspective" is important but the hackneyed old idea that it's THE true insight into what's important in life is oversold, IMO.
When you think you're dying it terrifies you, I don't care who you are, I've seen enough people go through it that the "I'm not afraid of death" braggadocio is horseshit in almost every case. Your views on life when you're terrified of the unknown are important, sure, but not THE most important, or best insight into what life is.