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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 peo…

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…

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. …

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 lite…

"The world isn't angry, nor is it racist, nor is it violent" ...we clearly don't live in the same world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/03/why-y...

"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…

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…

"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 someth…

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 n…

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 il…

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…

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 …

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…

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 exercis…

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…

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 wi…

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…

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-br…

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 …

" 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 a…

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 …

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…

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 PRIVA…