data scientist here

Have you found those that wish to hear what which nearly no one else does?

If the pen is mightier, Indy, then the touchscreen keyboard is our elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Obviously it’s not going so well. Be happy we’ve some blasters and expertise laying around. It’s good peace of mind.

Star Wars. They were part of the rebel alliance and traitors to the empire. But, the cops couldn’t hit anything until one of them broke out a shotgun loaded with heat-seeking shot and fired it point blank. Don’t judge too harshly. They can’t see a thing in those helmets.

Most relevant today seems to be the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

It’s a pop culture reference.

The system is ridiculously complex. But, input and output is easily predicted. When you point out complexity but don’t explain the relevance, you’ve harmed the community discourse to feed your ego.

You’re still bashing that straw man you made.

Look up. You made a mistake. And, if it wasn’t you I’d simply block.

Now, there’s a good idea. But, I think you’d be surprised at the results. They’re not stupid. They’re evil.

automated objective scoring

You didn’t read my post. You’re strawmanning. Not your style.

Give that test to everyone. It’s just basic reading comprehension with a simple logic question and a simple math question. Even just that would disenfranchise the vast majority of American voters.

My point wasn’t that a test is a good thing. It’s an incredibly horrible idea.

My point is that the vast majority of Americans know less of their history than their immigrants. And, the vast majority of Americans are now in favor of repeating one mistake or the other because they don’t know their history.

My evidence is that my suggestion above is predominantly upvoted.

In order to vote, I think American voters should have to pass the same history test that immigrants need to in order to gain citizenship.

edit: This sits at +11 because Americans don’t know their history. We already did it to African Americans and it went extremely poorly. That’s the point: Pick up a book.

But, muh’ capitalism!

If it doesn’t work then we’ve killed all these socialists and communist for nothing.

(Do I need a /s here? Is it obvious? Should be obvious.)

My first job in high school I asked what my title was. I was a mail clerk.

The owner of the company, as a joke, had business cards printed up for me that read: Deputy to the Assistant Vice President of Mailroom Operations.

I felt kinda special until he also printed some for his dog and started handing them out to any visitor that pet him.

Not only am I black, I’ve a handful of degrees and a PhD, a couple of firearms, and lots of money I took from your retirement and donated to others like me with far less education. Neolibs are more afraid than MAGA.

It’s definitely not elliptic. IMO it’s more parabolic than hyperbolic. /p

Enjoy your scraps, doggo. I’ll sit at the table.

It’s not the word that makes it unpleasant, white moderate.

Fuck. I’m being a self-centered American, again. I’ll do better in the future. Thanks for the help.

Not if it’s enforced strictly enough that private equity stays away entirely, see above.

naivete

It’s not slavery. It’s slavery with extra steps. Bravo.

I can’t find the actual charges anywhere.

But, I found a similar case. A security guard failed to act during the Parkland event. A Florida court acquitted him.

I expect this Texas officer to also be acquitted. However, there’s a lot of differences between these cases. My guess that he’ll be acquitted is mostly based on my perceptions that Texas is as fucked up as Florida, the facts don’t matter, and the outcome is predetermined because such strongly favors the state.