ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2hr ago
This is usually called a "pre-prosecution diversion" program or PPD. For a well-known (fictional) example, this is what happened to Saul in Better Call Saul that led to his law license being suspended for a year
ChickenOverlord
20hr ago
Roadside Picnic
I have to wonder how many of the developers of various clones/knockoffs of the Stalker video games are aware of the franchise's origins.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Would you consider Salazar's Portugal to be fascist? Because it committed no mass murders, the only significant civilian deaths his regime caused were in various conflicts to maintain control of Portuguese colonies in Africa etc. And it doesn't seem like his track record there is any worse than the other European colonial powers. And certainly far better than literally every communist regime ever.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Also even if we assume it true that all men are created equal, there's no reason to assume that they remain forever equal.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Children insisting upon receiving the full rights and privileges of adults would be a congruent third leg but at least so far almost nobody seems dumb enough to push for that.
We did have that one guy (I think his username was something to do with baseball?) who wouldn't ever talk about anything other than child emancipation. I think his arguments were retarded, but really his biggest flaw is that he was unwilling to talk about literally any other topic, it was always the same points rehashed over and over and over.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
Also the worst times for jews have been in all white societies.
What does Purim celebrate again?
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
Oswald? Or one of the grassy knoll guys?
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Why is that necessary to avoid?
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Yes, actually; if they get taken seriously maybe more [women] will show up to compete, which has downstream positive social effects in the long term.
That's a load-bearing "maybe" you have there. The same/similar arguments have been made about all sorts of things with poor female representation like STEM and video games. Tons of money and effort have been poured into these outreach efforts (and a lot of outright discrimination against men too) with nothing much to show for it.
Wake me up when an outreach program for more female coal miners gets some serious attention from the mainstream media.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
I was born in the USA, my parents were, and so were all my grandparents (my grandpa grew up speaking both English and French, but he was born in Massachusetts). For great-grandparents I'm not sure, I know at least one was born in Quebec and at least two were born in the USA. So at least 9? FWIW, I also largely agree with Teddy.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Just because I'm curious about your worldview, how would you rate my "American-ness"? I have a Scots-Irish Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa (and their son) who immigrated to the US in the 1820s or so. But on my mom's side, I have a ton of French Canadian blood that mostly immigrated to the US about 100 years ago.
Bonus points, my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great aunt was one of Joseph Smith's wives, but somehow I managed to not have any polygamists in my direct lineage despite them all being early converts.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
I dislike Islam as much as the next Christian, but Islam doesn't exclusively spread by conquest. For example its spread to Indonesia (the largest Islamic country in the world) was largely done through trade and evangelism.
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
It's like they have a competent team who builds stuff, and then hands it off to the enshittification team who fails (for instance) eliminate the remaining XP-era dialog boxes and fucks around with misfeatures and generally bogging things down.
My favorite is that with the newer settings you can only have a single instance of settings open at a time. From my old help desk and sysadmin days, it was a very regular occurrence for me to have both network settings and printers opened at the same time.
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
It's not that I've never had issues with Linux that would have been solved by using Windows, but all those issues stem from people making software for Windows rather than Linux, not some inherent issue of Linux itself.
I love Linux, but hard disagree here. FlatPak (or snaps or apparmor or whatever) have fixed the worst of these issues, but Linux made it needlessly hard for non-technical users to install software that wasn't part of your distro's repositories for years. There's even a video of Linus talking to a conference full of distro maintainers about how obnoxious an issue it is.
On Windows, for better or for worse, you can usually just download an executable and run it.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
C#/.NET is rock solid, that's about the only one I'd give them credit for.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
When my French Canadian grandpa would visit France, the French there would insist that he speak English rather than his filthy degenerate Quebecois French.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
In Czech, for loanword verbs at least, they usually just slap -ovat on the end and call it a day. My favorite is "surfovat". Sometimes they'll change the spelling and sometimes not, and it's not even consistently done for some words. I've seen both skateboard and skejtbord used interchangeably.
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
He was well known in the movie industry and by film nerds and by the sorts of people who actually pay attention to movie credits (guilty as charged), but he wasn't really well known amongst the general public.
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
Ted Lieu slapped my ass and asked me to lick honey off of his toes. Pam Bondi is free to use this post as evidence of his disgusting crimes.
This is a pretty universal phenomenon, sadly. When "A Rape on Campus" was published, being the autistic chud I am, I immediately questioned it on the basis of a single detail (though the whole thing had tons of issues): the claim that the gang rape took place on a bed of broken glass. My autistic chud mind immediately thought "I can believe that there are violently rapist fraternities out there that do gang rapes without a second thought or anyone objecting, though it strains credulity. I cannot believe that these violent rapist frat bros would put their twig and berries anywhere close to shards of broken glass, especially not unclothed and while performing vigorous thrusting actions".
Unfortunately until it was exposed as a a hoax, I had several female friends and acquaintances get viscerally angry with me over questioning it. Most of my guy friends seemed to intuitively understand it was bullshit, though only a fraction actually voiced this (even when not around the ladies).
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
But wasn't the entire population fitting into these categories in the last 200,000 years?
Arguably no, they just liked fucking like rabbits and didn't care about the consequences. We'll likely start selecting for people who actually like having kids, breeding fetishists, etc.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
It reminds me of how the Hollywood studio system had grown stagnant in the 70's and 80's, which allowed up and comers like Spielberg, Lucas, and Cameron to innovate and eventually take over the studio system themselves. Only now, 40 years later, it's still a lot of those same up and comers from the 70's clinging to power and not letting up and comers displace them. I think there are similar trends in politics and activism.
From the more rightwingish side of things, a lot of people from the Nixon era (including Henry Kissinger) were still power players in the Republican party and various GOP administrations all the way up until the 2010s, and even if they hadn't aged out they were effectively forced out by Trump and the MAGA movement.
I have little doubt that there are similar dynamics on the progressive protest everything activist side of things.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
And they can get bets from Nevadans and other people in places where betting is legal while not having to comply with a huge chunk of Nevada's gaming laws
ChickenOverlord
27d ago
Oh I agree it's a legitimate topic for debate with plenty of room for changes in the law outside of "I really want to fuck 15 year olds and you should just let me", and the OP isn't being a blatant troll, but my default assumption when I see a top level post like this is that it's to get responses to share elsewhere about how we're a bunch of evil creeps etc.
As the person who said such a thing in a recent thread with @HereAndGone2 that definitely isn't my position. I don't want women to go back to working in coal mines, I just want consistency from feminists who largely seem to only push for greater female representation in cushy white collar jobs. Or, alternatively, an admission from feminists that there are actually fundamental differences between men and women, and each are better suited for different jobs and roles in life. I am not claiming that men are superior to women when I claim they are fundamentally different, though that tends to be be the kneejerk assumption feminists make when I say such a thing. I do believe that when women attempt to live like men and assume male roles in life, they generally end up effectively becoming inferior males. But I believe the same is true of men who assume female roles.
It's mildly refreshing to see a trade organization appear to be consistent about gender equality, though I believe the real motives behind their statement are not so high-minded. I am also extremely doubtful that there will be any significant follow-through in terms of hiring trends (i.e. discrimination against men), outreach programs, etc. like we've seen for women in STEM. Most construction jobs require significant physical strength that most women are lacking, and it's far harder to paper over those differences than it is in less physical fields.
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