CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1d ago
At the end of the day 'The Law' is just a big pantomime that people believe in, like fiat currency. The theatre is enhanced with strange robes, wigs and funny words.
At the Nation State level, it is something to be used or discarded depending on how expedient it is. As part of the UN Security Council with veto powers, they can pretty much tell anyone to go pound sand over territoriality issues (assuming sanctions aren't in the wind).
This whole thing is a problem of their own making and seems to be a 'decolonisation' vanity project funded by the taxpayers.
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1d ago
They're clearly using whichever method is most politically expedient in the circumstances. They deserve the criticism, but I can't see the impact of all this. Labor is likely out at the next election anyway over immigration and other systemic failures.
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3d ago
The Reverse of the Medal. I will do a badly written synopsis later once I get into it.
Is anyone looking at making a Chat GPT5 analysis? I don't want to preempt anything, but the results seem underwhelming.
Some people seem to put a premium on its usability though ('it does what you tell it to do').
Edit: All sorts of memes and squabbling going on over at /r/singularity
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10d ago
I wonder what this means for men in their social experiences with other men.
Does it mean that with a flatter curve you don't know what sort of personality you're going to bump into? While women bump into 'another basic bae'?
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10d ago
Something is clearly missing from your life you really desire and I want you to satisfy it, just not in a way which I think will lead you to disaster.
Besides the lessons learnt, this is the biggest thing to take away. Addressing the core need that isn't being met (intimacy) and consciously addressing it in a healthy way.
The five novel sequence from The Thirteen-Gun Salute through the The Commodore is where I most like to get lost in though. One just flows into the the next.
The sequences are one off my favourite thing about the series. I really enjoyed The Mauritius Command > Desolation Island > Fortune of War > The Surgeon's Mate where it takes 4 novels for the protagonists to finally return to England for a debrief. I also like how where the novels begin and end is fairly inconsequential as the series covers most of a career over the Napoleonic wars and the War of 1812.
Even though the film could never live up to the novels, I have mixed feelings about a sequel. I think they still did a beautiful job, especially with the sound stage. I wish we could have had more of at least the same quality, but I'm afraid that any sequel moves would be a shameless cash grab at far lower quality.
I'd hope instead that as AI improves, film production costs will drop and it would become viable to make a film or tv series that can adequately portray naval life in the Age of Sail. It's historically been notoriously expensive to film things like this and I think it led to the end of the Hornblower TV Film series. (Which btw is up on YouTube)
My dream is to either have an updated streaming TV/Film series with a new cast, or complete AI generation with digital likenesses of Crowe and Bettany (which someone else wished for on The Motte a few weeks ago). There's so much material to mine in a 20 novel series, but I can see how it might not have mass appeal.
Edit:
To be fair to Maturin its clear he deals with chronic pain
I know. Others have said that Maturin has the most character development in the series and is perhaps the real lead character. His fallibility is why I like him. He is a leading physician and naturalist, invited to lecture at the Royal Society and salons in France. Perhaps the greatest intelligence agent of his Age.
And he is a simp for a very very particular type of woman, physically uncoordinated to the point where he would be drowned (or worse) many times over if he wasn't beloved by the crew and a drug addict. An idealist and despairing cynic with a deep deep hatred of authoritarianism. He is naive and ruthless all at once. Great character, and I have to sadly say that Paul Bettany didn't do him justice (probably for screenplay reasons).
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11d ago
Sloot and others have already covered it, but I thought I'd give you a youtube link to a Filipina who worked in 'tourism' and lays out the scam for you (warning NSFW language).
CertainlyWorse
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11d ago
So, what are you reading?
I’m finally on ‘The Far Side of the World’ – perhaps the most famous novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
Captain Jack Aubrey, expert sloth debaucher, knowingly recruits enough lunatics and mutineers to fill out the complement of the ‘Joyful’ Surprise, before pursuing an American cough ‘French’ Man of War around Cape Horn and into the Pacific.
And after spending nine novels vociferously proselytizing his hatred of alcohol abuse to anyone who will listen, Dr Stephen Maturin has now chewed, injected, snorted, smoked, enema’d, or otherwise ingested most drugs found anywhere in, on, or adjacent to, the entire Seven Seas.
Aware of his addiction to the laudanum from his own medicine chest (that somehow didn’t make it into the screenplay), junkie Maturin decides that the only sane course of action is to wean himself off with the aid of a new wonder drug; Cocaine.
And that’s before he tries to cover up a fellow officer’s cuckoldry.
Unhappily, Peter Weir somehow felt the need to rewrite the film version to appeal to a broader audience.
For shame.
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14d ago
Exactly. There's one for the Ford Capri I can't forget about.
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15d ago
Yes, you're right there. I've seen it myself.
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15d ago
It's as simple as giving a briefing and saying 'give extra attention here' in a daily briefing. It's not 'lets change everything'.
They should have said 'who is Epstein bunking with? Is that the right guy? Why don't we put him in with a known element rather than Bubba-three-kills?'
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15d ago
For politically high profile cases I would expect someone, somewhere inside or outside of the prison system would have had a quiet word and said 'this person is important, don't fuck this up'. For all of these unlikely cascading failures to happen? It's very suspicious.
What I'm also saying is that there should be logs kept as standard in western countries for high grade security systems and the whole 'whoopsies everything just happened to not work' doesn't fly. Even making allowance for podunk bad installations, operations and oversight.
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15d ago
I'm kind of the same. I don't effort post, but I enjoy being here and the people here.
I like that even the ones I disagree with are at least speaking my language.
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15d ago
I'm giving allowance for the fact that what's on the tin isn't always what is installed or maintained. My main point is that it is likely that failures in a 'just so' way of the electronic security systems is possible, but unlikely.
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15d ago
Without access to the specification, contracts, logs and maintenance records, there is no real way to know.
And I certainly don't know how jailhouse surveillance systems work.
Prisons use commercial grade CCTV systems with multiple redundancies (eg recording backup), alerts for camera or recorder failure, strict maintenance contracts for callout (within x hours; say within 24 hours) and more. Commercial grade Network Video Recorders are dedicated pieces of equipment that include NTP compatibility and high quality internal crystal oscillators for internal timekeeping. Clock fidelity should be tested during the commissioning and maintenance process. The dual recording servers can be setup on 12 hour (or even 13 hour) loops that overlap (eg Server A starts its recording loop at 00:00am and Server B starts its recording loop at 06:00am) preventing 'missing minutes'.
All that said, some systems and technicians are better than others.
tldr; the systems used are designed knowing that one of their major purposes is to provide post-incident forensics and serve as evidence in a court of law.
It's another unlikely coincidence in a string of coincidences.
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17d ago
Not that I'm against it, but where the hell did this come from?
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17d ago
She had it coming.
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17d ago
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19d ago
I missed that part. Commercial insurance coverage should be enough by a single party to cover this so I don't know why the judge went out of their way to punish the yellow light driver.
But the trial judge rejects this argument, and the appeals panel affirms.
I've said this before, but judges see a victim who needs compensation and look around for the nearest involved party with money. They then uses legalese as a backwards rationalisation for the award.
In this case the judge probably realised that neither party likely could afford to pay the 3 million alone, so decided to split it over the two of them.
I quite enjoy Eric Weinstein's commentary on Epstein and how Epstein is a window into similar constructs.
Weinstein can sometimes be insufferable and it was hard to get through his latest appearance on Diary of a CEO podcast. Steven Bartlett was really out of his depth as an interviewer and Weinstein constantly violated The Motte's 'Speak Plainly' rule, but there was a lot there about the 'construct that was Epstein' and non-pedophile related angles like influence over scientists (Hawking, Harvard Grads etc). It was also funny in the video to see Bartlett freak out when Weinstein talked about how certain interests might try to capture and control 'human terrain' (read:influencers).
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30d ago
People have talked about genetic evolution vs technology, but even social and culture adaptation may eventually be unable to keep up with the wire-heading. Or maybe it will. Maybe there will eventually be a hard hard law that prevents Ai partners.
Exactly. I expect his comment to be deleted or edited with random words after a period of time.
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