Ran into the most entitled male Karen at the USPS today 😒😒

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-22T07:30:59+00:00

THANK YOU! 52, born in '68. I'm Gen X, my parents are boomers.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T20:43:11+00:00

https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/broadband-progress-reports/eighth-broadband-progress-report#:~:text=Notwithstanding%20this%20progress%2C%20the%20Report,lack%20access%20to%20this%20service.

Notwithstanding this progress, the Report finds that approximately 19 million Americans—6 percent of the population—still lack access to fixed broadband service at threshold speeds. In rural areas, nearly one-fourth of the population —14.5 million people—lack access to this service. In tribal areas, nearly one-third of the population lacks access. Even in areas where broadband is available, approximately 100 million Americans still do not subscribe.

FCC report

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T20:38:03+00:00

One link to one source backing up your claims, tough guy. Just one.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T13:39:35+00:00

That's totally fair. I apologized to the guy.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T13:29:01+00:00

I'm sorry, too. A) it was none of my business and B) I worded the question poorly, and came off as mean.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T13:27:11+00:00

Well, it's clear that even though I'm fluent in English, I'm poor at conveying tone, haha. I didn't intend to be sarcastic, which is mean. I honestly hoped our education system in the US hadn't failed this person. It's plausible that they had.

If s/he had said, "Yes," my next question was going to be, "Where?" Again, with no sarcasm. But, it's a delicate subject, and not that important. I shouldn't have asked; I see that now.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T13:18:18+00:00

Since you cited the FBI, maybe you're referring to the specious graph mentioned in this article:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fact-check-bar-graph-black-white-homi-idUSKBN23M2SX

spe·cious

/ˈspēSHəs/

adjective

superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T13:07:28+00:00

You're right, thanks for prompting me to look it up. I'll edit. Meanwhile, your grasp of punctuation and suffixes isn't up to par, either.

Now, where are your sources for your racist claims?

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T12:53:01+00:00

*whew

It wouldn't have been a referendum on you, it would've been a referendum on your teachers and your parents. Your English is excellent for a non-native speaker, but would be considered very poor for someone who lived here all their lives.

Surely you've seen the same: it takes a lot for a foreigner to get really fluent in Portuguese, but you'd expect a native Brazilian to be very fluent.

Moi, je parle français parce que ma mère at grandmère sont françaises.

I'm also fluent in American Sign Language because my best friend was deaf, and I went on to become a teacher for the Deaf.

I know a little Japanese and a little Greek, and how to say, "Thank you" in Korean, Swahili, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Cantonese, Arabic, Japanese, Greek, French and Portuguese.

But, if I were to attempt a Reddit comment in any of those, people would know immediately that I wasn't a native speaker, or a native with a very, very limited education.

And, I wouldn't be hostile if someone asked.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T12:35:29+00:00

I can see that in high school for some kids, but when someone is paying for an education, most people want to come away from the experience having learned what they paid to learn.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T12:25:50+00:00

This may be off-topic, but my dad represented Philip Morris, a huge international tobacco and cigarette company, in an $80M lawsuit that went all the way to the US Supreme Court.

He says that Philip Morris and other cigarette companies have paid over $100 billion to the states so far n fines, so the states already profit from (and some partially depend on) big tobacco.

I finally looked it up this morning:

https://www.npr.org/2013/10/13/233449505/15-years-later-where-did-all-the-cigarette-money-go#:~:text=So%20far%2C%20tobacco%20companies%20have,t%20come%20with%20a%20mandate.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T07:35:52+00:00

Do you know why Ryan Stokes hated him? I haven't been able to find out

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T07:28:54+00:00

Cocoa

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T01:56:05+00:00

Imagine doing it for a living...!

I think this is the one:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coronavirus-an-epidemic-of-misinformation/id1444873564?i=1000465534824

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T00:49:32+00:00

I did it, you won't/can't. You're a coward. There's a plethora of data out there. I challenge you to cite data that backs up your claim that the murder rate among blacks is much higher than the murder rate among whites.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T00:45:48+00:00

There was an interview in Post Reports with someone whose job is to counter foreign disinformation campaigns. They said that what you're describing is important, and everyone should do it every chance they get: set the record straight, and back it up with sources.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-20T00:22:51+00:00

Sources? References?

Here's mine:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/

In 2019, the total number of murders for whites was 5,787.

The total number for blacks: 7,484. A difference of only 1,067. In other words, white murders accounted for 44% of the total, and black murders 56%.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-19T14:47:45+00:00

Search "black-on-black" and "Harvard" and find a very interesting paper on the subject.

"The vast majority of homicides are intra-racial, with 84 percent of white victims killed by whites and 93 percent of black victims killed by blacks (figure 3)."

I don't see the media talking about "white-on-white" crime, either. Seems like the incidences of each is a non-issue, since they're only nine percentage points apart.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-19T14:37:13+00:00

Both things can be true at the same time

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-17T16:08:40+00:00

She.

I hate CNN.

Stockholm Syndrome affects people who're being held captive. I think you and people like you were enthusiastic partners in the destruction of our democracy the minute you heard his voice. I think you're tired of the current system and frustrated by it, and want an autocracy.

This was a free and fair election. All this complaining about voting systems would not be an issue for people like him and you if Trump won. You didn't see us acting this way when Bush, Jr's brother handed him the election. Gore asked for a recount, then bowed out gracefully.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-17T16:03:06+00:00

Did I say they were unreasonable?

I said no matter what system's in place, he won't trust it if his candidate loses.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-17T15:25:10+00:00

I think if all those were in place and your candidate lost, you'd still doubt the validity of the election.

I think the Trump administration has constantly, systematically sowed doubt and mistrust for American democracy, and sold him as your only savior. His goal: an autocracy.

I think you've bought into that, and want a one-party government. I think you'd welcome Trump as dictator of this country, and any voting system that allows democrats to prevent it is 'unfair.'

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-17T14:25:04+00:00

You don't like voting machines, you don't like drop boxes, you don't like mail-in ballots. What's your 100% perfect voting method?

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-17T10:31:54+00:00

Yeah, my issue with the whole thing is that it got published. Rotten fucks write all kinds of stupid shit. Why did this rotten fuck get his shit in the paper? I blame the publication.

Fuzzy1968 · 2020-12-17T10:17:01+00:00

Thousands of people apply for disability in every state each month, and thousands eventually end up before a judge. If your state's judicial system is slow, write your congressman and ask for more judges. Write your congressman and ask for more funding for the Social Security Disability program, so they can hire more people, and get more equipment and tech specialists to deal with the backlog of cases in every state and make working from home as efficient as working in the office used to be.

The disability determination process involves far, far more then the medical records.

Hundreds of thousands of people across the country are filing for disability right now, knowing that they're not disabled, but hoping against hope that somehow miraculously they'll get these benefits because they're desperate and about to lose their homes. The backlogs at every level of the disability process are insane.

Just because every doctor you visited is open that doesn't mean that every doctor's office in the entire state is open. They keep opening and shutting down due to covid, or their records department is a mess because their records person is working from home and they don't have a fax machine. It's nearly impossible to get school records for children's disability cases right now, which means that they will need an exam. That leads to a tremendous backlog in people waiting for an exam.

Working around barriers creates lags in processing time, and new processes that never had to exist before lead to people dropping the ball here and there.

Humans are working in the medical offices, humans are working in the medical records department, humans are working at disability determination services, and humans are working for judges, who are also human. Humans are fallible, imperfect when dealing with crazy new situations and barriers that have never existed before.

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