MotteInTheEye
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MotteInTheEye
15d ago
There are two purposes of the justice system, vengeance / recourse for victims and protection for wider society. Clancy’s ex husband clearly forgives her for the murder and has supported her innocence in this trial. He is the only surviving injured party, other than the grandparents of the child, who also seemingly support her.
You've conveniently swept the primary victims under the rug. The state prosecutor exists partly to pursue justice on behalf of those that can't seek it for themselves. By your logic if their parents had been dead and she and her husband had both decided to kill their kids, there would be no reason to pursue justice at all.
MotteInTheEye
30d ago
Strongly disagree that the Dune movies were faithful to the books. But to be fair, so much of the book was driven by Paul's internal conflict that making a movie which matched it thematically may be impossible. Still I would say that on the scale of faithfulness, if Lord of the Rings was an 8/10, Dune would be 6/10 at best. The elevation of Chani to a main character and the viewpoint shift that frames the Atreides as the next in a series of colonizers make the first movie almost unrecognizable, tonally, from the book.
MotteInTheEye
2mo ago
I'm not sure what the connection of the kitchen to the living room TV is, but I think this is wrong regardless, the man of the house never watches TV in the bedroom when his wife isn't in the bedroom based on my experience with modern American family archetypes. I think "on the smartphone on the toilet" is the modern replacement for "on the sofa with the game on".
MotteInTheEye
4mo ago
Yeah, combined with his remark about his own race it seems like he just assigns a special status to non-white people.
MotteInTheEye
4mo ago
There's no contradiction there at all, yes, prediction markets exist to incentivize making information public, but various people and organizations are going to want to keep certain information secret and will take measures to counterbalance that incentive.
MotteInTheEye
4mo ago
I think people are trying to make this into a more interesting story than it is. There are interesting discussions to have about insider trading and prediction markets, but this isn't one of them. Soldiers are supposed to keep secret military operations secret. Making trades on markets which exist primarily to broadcast information to the world is the opposite of that. No different than if he had posted "Hasta la vista from me and the boys from the 75th!" on Instagram or something.
MotteInTheEye
5mo ago
The Amadan part was the main section giving me strong AI vibes - if I'm wrong, mea culpa! My thanks was not sarcastic, I did enjoy it whatever the provenance.
MotteInTheEye
5mo ago
Funny post, tell Grok thank you for us.
MotteInTheEye
6mo ago
Microsoft doesn't have its own models, Copilot is a brand for its AI offerings, but the models are all licensed from other companies (primarily OpenAI).
MotteInTheEye
6mo ago
Interesting question. I'd say you are probably right but I also wonder how much of that is just because age can be talked about objectively whereas there's no shared way to quantity objectively how far "out of his league" she is.
MotteInTheEye
7mo ago
For all the Biblical allusions, I can't find the part where charity has to be earned through moral virtue.
Can't pass up a lob like that, 2nd Thessalonians 2:10: "If a man does not work, neither should he eat."
MotteInTheEye
8mo ago
That would be reasonable if she had just opened a door and got shot walking through but my understanding is that she was climbing through a window that her fellow protesters just broke. There's no ambiguity there about whether that was an authorized entrance.
MotteInTheEye
9mo ago
I see some American recipes online and it's just ingredient upon ingredient upon ingredient, to the point I go "but you can't taste the meat or the vegetable under all the flavouring!"
Yes, and? There's no law of nature that one thing ought to define the flavor of every dish. It's great to have dishes that highlight the flavor of one really great ingredient, like a seared ribeye or ahi tuna sashimi. It's also great that you can have dishes that layer many cheap ingredients into explosions of flavor, like Nashville style fried chicken, or chicken and sausage gumbo, or al pastor tacos.
MotteInTheEye
9mo ago
Even granting that you are correct, anything that's bad for the people running the business now but good for the business in the long run is meaningless for trying to form a coalition right now. "The business" in the sense you are using it doesn't have any agency and cannot accept deals or work around the incentives of the people currently running it.
MotteInTheEye
11mo ago
It's wild how many commenters seem to react to the idea of any negative feedback whatsoever to a working animal as if it was unthinkable. Dogs were bred to be conditioned to do the jobs that humans assigned them. Laying down on a comfortable bed for hours on end is very much a job that a dog can do, and that a dog can find satisfaction in when it knows it is doing its job well. A tiny stimulus from an e-collar as an occasional reminder is an incredibly normal dog training behavior, despite the efforts of radical positive-feedback-only advocates to dramatically shift the Overton window over the past two decades.
MotteInTheEye
11mo ago
Fair enough if you're complaining about free enterprise that you don't approve of, but it's rather different if the job in question is paid for by your own money taken at the proverbial gunpoint.
Why can't the flood of games be unlocked by people like FC who were already artists but will now be able to produce the passion projects that were stuck behind technical obstacles before?
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