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Month: June 2020

Total 5 Posts

Police Violence Data

Because I’m a curious guy, and happen to have extra time right now, I decided to look into the numbers behind the issue of police violence. The BLM movement says the problem with cops killing black people is really bad and I wanted to see just how bad it is.

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COVID Analysis Errors

Here’s another long post about COVID-19. Yes, I know it’s longer than a tweet but this is important so I hope you keep reading. There are a lot of numbers being used to show you how fast the disease is spreading and how horrible it is. I’m not disagreeing that

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Masks

I’m going to say something that’s likely to upset a lot of people. I don’t wear a mask. I also don’t own any hand sanitizer, don’t wipe down my shopping carts, haven’t stayed “safer at home” and since I have a beard, I touch my face all the time. In

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An American Tradition

This is going to be a long one with lots of words. It also might cause you to question some of your firmly-held beliefs. Hopefully you’ll read through to the end. If you don’t agree, that’s cool. This isn’t one of those “I’ll unfriend you if you don’t agree with

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Personal Accountability

I believe in personal accountability. If something happens to me, good or bad, it is the direct result of a decision that I made. While some things might appear to be out of my control, if I look back far enough, I’ll find a point where I made a decision

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