ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1d ago
how do they verify that the users are women?
You have to send in a photo of your driver's license, which made the leaks all the most awful/embarrassing/hilarious because of how atrociously ugly a lot of the users were. Here's a competitive ranking site someone made with the leaked photos: https://teaspill.games/
The bottom 50 on the leaderboards are uhhh, something
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Should a defendant's distrust of the police be held against him in court?
Yes, absolutely. Even if you distrust the police, there is no way to have a stable society where criminals can destroy evidence of a crime (or a suspected crime) with little to no repercussions. My wife and I watch bodycam videos all the time, and I'd say about 70%+ of the time when a suspect flees (on foot or in a car putting other people's lives in danger) the cop will ask why they ran and the answer is "I was scared" or "I don't trust cops" or something to that effect. Law enforcement cannot function, or needs far more officers using far more physical force to function, if people are not required to obey their lawful orders. Being scared is no excuse.
Also the fear of cops killing you or seriously harming you are unreasonable fears not backed by reality. Only about 10 to 20 unarmed black men are killed by cops each year in the US (and being unarmed doesn't necessarily mean it was an unjustified killing, though conversely the fact a suspect was armed doesn't inherently mean the killing is justified).
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Hey now, he also has to cast the tie breaking vote in the senate once every few months
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
I've long had an idea bouncing around my head of creating a Citizens United quiz full of all kinds of tough questions to try and get people to realize the full implications of what they're asking for when they want it overturned. Some if the questions I've thought of:
Current politician John Smith recently wrote memoirs. Knopf projects that the memoirs will likely be unprofitable to publish, but they think it will help John Smith's reelection chances if they publish it anyway and eat the loss. Is it campaign spending if they choose to publish it? Should they be required to do a profitability analysis before publishing any books about active politicians? I have several variations in mind, like if John Smith is now a retired politician, or he's dead but a current candidate is seen as the bearer of his legacy, or if the book is projected to actually be profitable, or if it's a tell-all by his daughter about he molested her, etc.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for governor of California. AMC owns the syndication rights to several of his movies, do they have to stop airing his films within a certain number of days before the election? My favorite variations: If AMC decides to start showingTerminator 2 and Total Recall twice as much as they had before, is that campaign spending in Arnold's favor? If they decide to start showing nothing but Junior and End of Days is that campaign spending against him?
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
I want my politicians moral, I want them virtuous
And I want a billion dollars and world peace. A single moral and virtuous politician isn't an impossible ask, but trying for more than one is a pretty unreasonable expectation. The entire career selects for fraudsters and sociopaths, and it did so as much back in ancient Rome and Han era China and medieval Baghdad as it does in present day America
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
Even if the norms seem paper thin or hypocritical
That means letting your enemies possess a superweapon
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Not at all. Is my labor of wearing the panties not equal to the labor of the attractive 18 year old female wearing the panties? If not, why not? That's the part Marxists seem to have a lot of trouble explaining, at least without throwing the labor theory of value out the window.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Sure, the labor theory of value in particular, and why my (a pretty average looking guy in his 30's) labor of wearing a pair of panties doesn't seem to generate nearly as much value as an attractive 18 year old doing the same. And especially explain how the higher value given to the attractive 18 year old's panties (for equal labor!) appears to be constant even in non-capitalist economies. Also explain how the 18 year old merely claiming to have worn them seems to create more value than if I actually wear them, which seems to create negative value for most.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Darwin came back before and famously crashed out (and refused to respond to a bunch of questions) over J.K. Rowling: https://www.themotte.org/@guesswho
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
In 1944, before the actual, everyone-can-agree-they're-fascist fascist states of Italy and Germany had been defeated, George Orwell wrote an article highlighting how the term had devolved into an insult and lost any useful, shared, descriptive meaning of any actual political system: https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.
Yet underneath all this mess there does lie a kind of buried meaning. To begin with, it is clear that there are very great differences, some of them easy to point out and not easy to explain away, between the régimes called Fascist and those called democratic. Secondly, if ‘Fascist’ means ‘in sympathy with Hitler’, some of the accusations I have listed above are obviously very much more justified than others. Thirdly, even the people who recklessly fling the word ‘Fascist’ in every direction attach at any rate an emotional significance to it. By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.
But Fascism is also a political and economic system. Why, then, cannot we have a clear and generally accepted definition of it? Alas! we shall not get one — not yet, anyway. To say why would take too long, but basically it is because it is impossible to define Fascism satisfactorily without making admissions which neither the Fascists themselves, nor the Conservatives, nor Socialists of any colour, are willing to make. All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Back when SBF was in the news for massive fraud etc. I made some random comment about him having a Jew-fro. My sister was quite offended by this and said it was a rude thing to say, even though I first learned the term from a Jewish friend in high school who rocked a pretty awesome Jew-fro (unlike SBF's nasty greasy rat's nest).
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
9 times out of 10 I assume it is "woman owned" because the owner gave 51% of ownership to his wife specifically for the purpose of gaming such contracts. My brother-in-law works at a factory where the owner did just that, and I have similar plans if I start a business.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Some groups are so proud they'll even adopt exonyms their enemies created
4chan has wholeheartedly adopted "chud" and even taken the wojak variation originally designed to mock them and made it their own, it's beautiful to see.
Personally, I don't believe it's possible for one person to produce 1000x the value of another.
I have numerous coworkers that produce negative net value, so it's possible to have one person produce infinitely (or undefined, or NaN, or whatever) more value than another.
But someone like Jim Keller absolutely provides 1000x more revenue to his employers than, say, an offshore code monkey in Mumbai writing JavaScript.
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
airlines are a cutthroat awful industry to be in with 3% net income margins (5% operating) which can be seen by them constantly getting bailed out
One of my favorite jokes:
What's the easiest way to become a millionaire?
Start out as a billionaire and buy an airline
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but when I lived in the Czech Republic their TP felt like sandpaper. American TP, even the cheaper stuff, is consistently nicer. Only the super cheap one ply stuff used in public restrooms in the US is comparable in awfulness to what I experienced of European TP.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
I might be pulling a mathcel move (so somone correct me if I'm wrong) here but it looks like Bluesky's decline has slightly accelerated in the last week: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth?t=7d
Compare the last 7 days to the last 4 weeks. I would expect the figures for the last 7 days to be roughly 1/4 of the figures for the last 4 weeks, but in most categories it appears to be almost half.
No idea if this has anything to do with the CEO waffles nonsense or if it's for completely unrelated reason. Bluesky was already in decline anyway
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
and look at a 4channer
There are a decent amount of anons here, actually. /pol/ is where I go for a fun roll in the mud (and to add to my edgy meme collection), this place is where I go when I want some actual substance and intellectual stimulation.
ChickenOverlord
20d ago
All good bro, thanks for all you do to run this place!
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
I mean Somalia is especially terrible, but none of their closest neighbors (nor subsaharan Africa as a whole) are doing particularly great either, so I'm not sure that argument holds much water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_McDonald%27s_restaurants
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
The low pay and terrible work conditions
Wouldn't less competition for such jobs lead to better pay and work conditions?
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
I think Westwood, Blizzard, Maxis and id Software held out the longest.
At least for id, I think it's in large part because Carmack is both a workaholic and a genius, so even as he was buying Ferraris and starting space companies he never stopped grinding away. He never really let himself rest on his laurels. Rage is probably the worst game they ever put out (prior to Carmack's departure), and it was half decent.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
Battlefield 6 actually looks like it's going to be a smash hit, based on how many people were playing the open beta a month ago. It basically feels like BF3 and BF4 again, instead of whatever crap they've been doing with the series in the last few years.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
Thanks! I'll probably wait for the buyout then
I was under the impression that agricultural use (misuse?) was one of the biggest sources of antibiotic-resistant strains
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