jbroson
But pointing out there are wildly successful unions filled with hardworking people is "cherry picking"?
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?
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
What a WONDERFUL world you live in!
...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.
...we clearly don't live in the same world.
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:?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
" 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!
...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...
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.
And it was still better than 95% of films released that year or since.
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.
...ok
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!
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.