Ben Withbroe

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@Matt_Bracken48 @SkyNews Bro you live in Florida

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@RockDocDoug @cmclark63 @RaminNasibov I mean, sure, but the Europeans that displaced them were also, by some standard, no more than a few hundred years old. It’s not like England or France had stable leadership leading up to the 16th century

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@RockDocDoug @cmclark63 @RaminNasibov Read what I actually wrote

No one claimed that there was one homogenous culture. But people have been in what is now the US for many thousands of years.

Are you saying that the specific geopolitical entities of 1492 had not been around long?

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@Xan1097 @RockDocDoug @cmclark63 @RaminNasibov Yeah I’m convinced that it’s much longer than 15k, but didn’t want the other person to start quibbling about that part of the argument.

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@RockDocDoug @cmclark63 @RaminNasibov You’re off by a couple orders of magnitude. The scholarly consensus is that humans were all over the Americas by around 15,000 years ago, and some more recent estimates put the first people well before that.

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@RightWingEgr @anshelsag @rdbellman @UmpScorecards What? Why would he do that? The methodology is publicly available on his site, and I didn’t see anything about framing. Did you just make this up?

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@Dastardlyb247 @unseriousally @willchamberlain Driving is objectively more dangerous. You’re more likely to be in a car crash than to be a victim of crime on the metro.

Do you also protect your family by never bringing them on the highway?

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@DukeNukem1996 You never addressed the “no one would stop him, because everyone has guns anyway” part

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@DukeNukem1996 @samsutliff Yes, it would have been much better if everyone was carrying a gun. Then people would have… done nothing, because there was nothing novel about this guy.

Or everyone would have started shooting everyone, because after the first shot there’s no way to tell who to shoot

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@tavernwave @dieworkwear The “traditionalist” argument that beauty is objective is so incoherent as to be totally worthless. “Ideal beauty is what the dominant style was just before I was born” is like “the ideal neighborhood is the one just before I moved here”… quite the coincidence.

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@StanManWithPlan @the_transit_guy What is “sq/mi”? Squares per mile?

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@greenboat @lawwolf78 @am_yers Is your argument that a Venezuelan immigrant who robs a Walmart in the US… can only be prosecuted in Venezuela? That they are immune from prosecution in the US?

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@HEADLINES_Etc @pnwsnorlax_ @asymmetricinfo “There are able-bodied people getting Medicaid… you can qualify if your income is low enough”

Yes. That’s literally what Medicaid is for. That’s the whole thing. There is no other thing. It’s for people who don’t make a lot of money, regardless of health status.

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@7Captain_Morgan @UmpScorecards No no that’s such a good point, my mistake

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@Nemtastic1 @Biscuithammer0 @EricM_Katz @besttrousers This isn’t “1 fraud attempt [against the entire SSA apparatus] for every 50,000 authentic ones”. It’s 1 detected fraudulent call to a call center for every 50,000 authentic ones. Presumably the (still vanishingly few) fraud attempts are by other means.

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@7Captain_Morgan @UmpScorecards As I said, the app zone is not the most accurate. And the TV zone is certainly not accurate

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@nineteen86d @UmpScorecards What happens *after* the call is irrelevant. This is change in expected runs, the only relevant information is the game state immediately prior to the pitch and immediately after the pitch.

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@7Captain_Morgan @UmpScorecards What happens *after* the call is irrelevant. This is change in expected runs, the only relevant information is the game state immediately prior to the pitch and immediately after the pitch.

(also, the app strike zone is not accurate, so only one of those was a miss)

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@PizzaBoiPiazza @UmpScorecards What happens *after* the call is irrelevant. This is change in expected runs, the only relevant information is the game state immediately prior to the pitch and immediately after the pitch.

[Ben Withbroe @dubsky_b]

@lankyrob6369 @Jomboy_ Has anyone ever suggested otherwise?