Adderbox76

I think these are just the ones who get caught and that there are hundreds more

“I think” is the operative statement there. What you think is pointless. Facts are what matter. And without evidence that it IS the majority doing it, automatically lumping them all into that group makes us no better than them in terms of their rhetoric and divisiveness.

Every damn side needs to stop painting the other with broad strokes and then complaining when they do it back. It’s not helpful. Questions that are worded like this are not helpful.

Great. Then you shouldn’t have any problem coming up with three examples for us all.

The main problem is that some, sometimes most, of immigrants don’t want to assimilate. They are creating ghettos, don’t respect local laws.

Generalisations like this are the very reason it’s a polarising issue. Opinions like yours generally derive from “observation” and “gut feeling”. Which by definition is completely anecdotal and harmful when it begins to be applied to millions of people all at once.

Betsy from insert town here sees an immigrant couple down the street in her home-town keeping to themselves and not really wanting to take part in the community. She’s talking on the phone to nosy-nessie the town busybody who says “oh…you know…my aunt said the same thing about her insert culture neighbours.” And then all of a sudden, that’s just “how those people are”…all of them…everywhere.

Maybe this couple is just a little embarrassed about their english skills and want to strengthen them more before going into public everywhere, which comes across as shy. Maybe they’re just private…who knows. But suddenly…“it’s just how (those people) are”, becomes the anecdotal “truth”.

It’s wrong, it’s dangerous, and the fact that you don’t even grasp the irony of your own comment is telling in a lot of ways.

Yep. Welcome to the hell that is corporate capitalism.

In a word. Lobbyists.

Ha ha. No no. I’m pretty good. No problems with the old downstairs plumbing. But it’s not just for toilets. It’s for bathtub sinks clogged with hair. Kitchen sinks, etc… It’s just handy to have around the house. I even used it once to blow the dust out of my dryer vent.

The issue as I see it is that knowledge in any subject is protean. It changes. So if you wait to long to go back, what you learned before would be completely useless and you’d effectively have to start from the beginning.

Heck, the things I was taught in my Archaeology Degree from 2001 are at best, incomplete, and in some cases, now completely refuted. If I had left and decided to go back even ten years later, the technology that was suddenly in use alone would force me to start all over again.

It’s essentially a handheld air cannon. The kit comes with a handle and a suction that covers the toilet hole or whatever. You press down and yeah…it’s basically a air-gun shot to the clog.

And yeah. It works great. Not always on the first blast. But I’ve never had it fail me.

This little bad boy here has changed my life.

https://www.isicanadainc.com/product/one-second-plumber/

An A.I taking a job doesn’t automatically create a new one in some kind of 1:1 ratio. That’s the entire point of A.I.

You’re (incredibly naive) example of the crane is frankly stupid because a Crane still needs to be operated. Cranes didn’t replace jobs any more than hammers did. Cranes were just a new tool to use in an existing job, Hence Crane Operators.

Now let’s turn your stupid example into a good example. Let’s say autonomous A.I. controlled cranes become a thing, and 100 crane operators lose their jobs. Now (in your brain) a new job has been created “monitoring” the A.I output (whatever you seem to think that means) but because of the efficiency of A.I. it only takes a team of three to monitor all 100 cranes.

What are the other 97 going to do…in your “simple example”?

Maybe put more than two seconds of thought into an analogy before opening your mouth.

The first four letters.

I’ve accepted my fate.

I have zero problem with competitive gaming. I have zero problem with huge money making tournaments where teams win lots of money and have managers, etc…

But come up with a different name than “sport”. Because it’s not a sport. Just because you put an “E” in front of it doesn’t make it a sport by any definition of the word.

Chess tournament…not a sport. Spelling Bee…not a sport. Highschool Debate Team…not a sport. Bingo…not a sport.

Be competitive. Have fun. Make some money. But for fuck’s sake, you’re not a “sport” any more than any of the other things I listed are.

Edit: I forgot to add probably the most obvious Analogy…Poker Tournaments. Because every time I say “not a sport”, someone rears up their head to say “well actually, esports involves a lot of concentration and sitting for extended periods of time, which is tiring and exertion…so it’s just like any other sport”.

To which I say, first: Shut up, nerd. And second, Poker tournaments involve the same amount of concentration and exertion and no one is calling that a fucking sport.

Sure she has a chance. I don’t think we’ll really know how good of a chance until a little further down the road. But as a non-american, I’m optimistic.

Could she screw it up with a bad running mate. Of course. That’s politics and voters are fickle weirdos at the best of times. Hell, we’re living in a age where half the voters of your country are wearing maxi-pads on the side of their heads and have pledged their allegiance to a diaper wearing 34 time felon with dementia. Fickle weirdos is the nice way of putting it.

When you’re dealing with curve-balls of that magnitude, not even Nate Silver could predict her chances this early on.

No one at any point said not to be attracted to that person. But that doesn’t mean people (men or women) should be drooling rutting animals about it.

In the adult world that (most of us) should have left behind after our bar-hopping twenties, finding someone attractive can be done without eye-fucking them like a creep.

It’s not a choice they are making

It is if they’re friggin’ adults. Despite the media, we’re not supposed to be just led around by our penis’; unable to avoid being distracted by bewbs.

That’s a cop out that guys use as an excuse to not evolve.

This is generally how “folksy wisdom” keeps getting passed down generation to generation until it ends up in a farmer’s almanac.

It sounds reasonable, and so gets taken for true even though it has no (that I’m aware) actual scientific evidence to back it up.

It’s a causation fallacy. ie) correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Just because two things are statistically correlated, doesn’t mean that one causes the other.

It’s like if I were to say “Hey, The midwest has higher instances of heart disease. Therefore moving to the the midwest will give you heart disease.” It’s not true.

The two things are correlated, certainly, in that the mid-west folks probably for the most part has a much fattier diet, and are less likely to engage in healthier eating habits. But just the simple act of being in the midwest isn’t a cause of heart disease.

Correlation does not equal Causation. Print it on a card and keep it in your pocket please. People not grasping that concept and passing off folksy anecdotes as “wisdom” has been the cause of too much suffering.

ale taught monkeys about money, and yup, they traded money for sex. From archive of NYT article:

That was a fascinating read! Thanks!

On top of what everyone else has already said, I’d add that (for some reason) when it comes to Kevin Costner, movie-goers have long long memories about his “ego” projects like Waterworld and The Postman.

Costner went through a phase where he felt that he was big enough to direct, star, and write huge epic films because he was the “only one that could do them right”. And that flopped his career…hard.

He went on from there to do a lot of smaller stuff that was really well regarded. But now he comes back with this, basically another ego-project, because he’s convinced that Yellowstone has given him all of that old cred back. (It hasn’t)

Dude is just Neil Breen with a budget, and people are rightfully still skeptical of any so-called epic that is written, directed, and starring him.

In short, Costner’s epic movies have all pretty much been laughably bad with the exception of “Dances with Wolves”. And Pepperidge Farms remembers that kind of thing.

Came into the thread specifically for it and am appalled at how far down I had to scroll to find mention of it.

Such a great film that got sadly overshadowed by being released the same year as The Matrix.