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hayden_horn

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  1. 14 hours ago, TahoeHorn said:

    I think they only plan to count non-citizens, with no distinction between illegal aliens and legal ones.  I don't know how they plan to treat a tourist who is in a hotel.  It doesn't seem to make sense to count them, but ...

    I wouldn't count tourists and I'd have separate categories for illegals and green card holders.

    ok. so you admit that counting non-citizens is agnostic as to legality of residence. and don't think about the tourist in the hotel. they don't give questionnaires to tourist checking in at a hotel, nor do they send follow up clerks to a hotel. they do count the homeless in shelters. they do it in one night, but i guarantee you the homeless are vastly undercounted.

    i worked on the census in 2010. it was an enlightening experience, for many reasons, but one i can highlight that relates directly to this thread is that the hispanic spanish-speaking population does not trust the government, and tend to not answer the questions when i showed up to the door. they don't like "white" as a race, even though the census considers hispanics whites and "hispanic" as an ethnicity. most would just answer "guatemalan" or whatever country of origin for race. that's when they would answer at all.

    given that anecdote, what effect do you think asking in a census about citizenship is going to have on the accuracy of the final numbers?

  2. man this whole thread is stupid.

    the school walkouts were related to school safety.

    this is classic whataboutism. this is a fairly weak tactic in order to try and catch people who support gun control and supported the rights of these students to protest and conflate into that a completly unrelated issue, in order to point and yell, "see?!? hypocrites!" that's it. that's all this is.

  3. On 3/27/2018 at 8:13 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

    Roseanne debuted in 1988 and the Connors had already been living in that house for a while. The plot point that they nearly lost their house during the housing crisis in the late 00's was paper thin.

    ok, i did not watch it, but they were always on very tenuous financial grounds, making hard decisions about this and that. they were not the best with money. it's entirely possible they took out a home equity loan to pay off some bill in the 00s and BAM slammed with the bubble bursting. that would be entirely within character and the luck they never seem to enjoy.

  4. i read an interesting article on business insider (yes, i know, i'm also amazed) about how they've gone overboard on the automation, and it's killing them:

    http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-robots-are-killing-it-2018-3

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    The robots are killing Tesla.

    In a rare win for humans over robots in the battle for labor efficiency, Wall Street analysts have laid down a compelling argument that over-automation is to blame for problems at the billionaire Elon Musk's electric-car company.

    That is to say, the very innovation and competitive advantage that Musk says he's bringing to the car industry — his nearly fully automated plant in Fremont, California — is the reason Tesla is unable to scale quickly.

    According to the Bernstein analysts Max Warburton and Toni Sacconaghi, it's the robots that can't pump out Tesla's highly anticipated Model 3s fast enough. The whole process is too ambitious, risky, and complicated.

    more at the link

  5. 8 minutes ago, Viper said:

    for myself he was struggling with school and we took him to a psychiatrist that specialized in ADHD diagnosis. 

    this is exactly why we did it for our boys. the difference at school is night and day.

    but i do know that the drug depresses their overall mid-day appetite, and it would not surprise me if that had a knock-on effect on growth curves. but our shit is all fucked because they were both premature births.

  6. 1 minute ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    I see this as a problem too, actually.  Its why we ought to be figuring out real solutions instead of the feel good bullshit that mostly gets thrown around these days.

    But we aren't allowed to have the conversation to figure out real solutions because neither side trusts the other to actually want to have that conversation.  2nd Amendment guys tend to think anyone who wants any regulation at all is out to take away everyone's guns so they don't want to give an inch, and people who want to talk about real gun reform think the 2nd Amendment guys are being assholes rather than just lacking in trust for the conversation actually being about reform and not confiscation.  That has to get fixed if you want to figure something out.  Until its fixed ain't a god damned thing changing about the conversation.

    However, if these mass shootings keep up, what will change is that eventually those 2nd Amendment guys are going to be left out of the conversation and they are going to get gun reform whether they like it or not, and its likely going to be worse than it could've been if they'd been part of the discussion to begin with.  The 2nd Amendment guys will be like the people who railed against gay marriage and would have no discussions about alternatives who ended up just being left out of the conversation.  When they realized it and tried to finally participate in the conversation about maybe having a civil union statute, it was too late and now they get to see married gays running around the country.

    exactly my point above. well said. i give you one "haha" emoji, because thanks doesn't make sense here. neither does haha but fuck it

  7. 20 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    18

    Old enough to fight in a war, old enough to vote, drink, drive, fuck,..........

    i tend to agree with this. it's also old enough to face prosecution as an adult. 

    which is sort of another tangential topic here. why do we prosecute minors as adults. how is that even legal? either the age means something or it doesn't.

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  8. 50 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I do not want to stop the sale of firearms or confiscate from responsible owners.  I think if you were more honest,  you'd admit you have a lazy, bullshit opinion to convince yourself and others that we need to just stop talking about gun control. 

     

     

    I tend to agree with this. And as I opined on the old site, gun advocates need to get in on this conversation or they may find themselves without a seat at the negotiating table in the future. 

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  9. 2 hours ago, PhillyD said:

    This might be a good place for dumbfucks like me.  I'd like to use this thread for tips on navigating the site.  Anyone know how to go to first unread post?

    it's the little icon next to the thread name. just to the left. it's a star if you've participated in the thread, and a dot if not

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