NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
24d ago
Lewis in heaven, looking down at mukbang, disappointed that his imagination was so limited.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Humans are weird enough that I’m near certain that some are gender dysphoric. But this is likely a stable, rare number. Growth in trans identifying youth appears to be a misfit thing, like the goths of my generation.
Some of the goth thing seemed to me to be an embracing of and celebration of misfit status. They dialed their weirdness up to eleven so no one could possibly mistake them for a normie.
It would be so very strange to see even a news story about goths being bullied in middle school. People would have a few reactions:
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That’s so unfortunate.
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It’s probably not happening because they are goth.
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If it is, why don’t they just dress normally?
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
I think you may be typical-minding. Countless people on Maury have denied fathering a child for absurd reasons like “we only had sex one time.”
There’s plenty of people sleepwalking through life seemingly without ever making an informed decision. “I didn’t know I couldn’t orgasm after removing my penis” sounds absurd but I would be more surprised if it didn’t happen.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Who are the cool kids after say, 30 years old? Writers at the NYT, Hollywood folks, tech titans. Almost universally liberals, almost universally wouldn't desire to be surrounded by deplorables.
The analogy is about group dynamics, not specifically mapping political group A to high school clique Y.
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
As far as I can tell the environmental movement wants us to repent for our sins of overindulgence by dramatically scaling back our consumption. Whether or not a proposed regulation actually helps the environment is of little relevance. For an example, see plastic bag bans.
It doesn't matter that the "reusable" bags mandated for sale are far more carbon intensive and contain far more plastics than the flimsy plastic bags they've been mandated to replace. It doesn't matter if you know that none of the trash in your region is transported by barge. The true aim of the ban is to curb the sin of consuming disposable plastics. If an environmentalist were looking at a spreadsheet of plastic bag consumption before and after a ban, and they saw a 5% drop, they'd count it as a win, regardless of the fact that post-ban bags are about 30 grams and pre-ban are 5 grams. On a materials basis you'd break even when you reduced consumption to 16% of what it once was.
Google for plastic bag ban effectiveness and all you'll see supporters pointing to are bag counts: www.google.com/search?q=plastic+bag+ban+effectiveness
None are claiming a drop in consumption large enough to offset the extra materials.
They seem completely uninterested in fixes that enable current levels of consumption to continue while mitigating or eliminating environmental impacts.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
Inside of Facebook we had a group for free speech advocates. Zuck, defending the company's censorship, had no idea about the origins of "fire in a crowded theater" and so used it as part of his defense. It took employees to point out that that example comes from a controversial and overruled SCOTUS decision.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Here's the DoJ press release on Hale-Cusanelli's conviction:
New Jersey Man Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Actions Related to Capitol Breach
Defendant, an Army Reservist, Used Tactical Hand Signals and Commands as He and Other Rioters Entered the Building
WASHINGTON – An Army reservist from New Jersey was sentenced today to 48 months in prison on felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His and others’ actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, 32, of Colts Neck, New Jersey, was sentenced in the District of Columbia.
According to the government’s evidence, Hale-Cusanelli drove to Washington on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021. He joined a mob of rioters that illegally breached a police line attempting to secure the Capitol grounds. He commanded others in the mob to “advance” on the Capitol, a command he continued once inside. Hale-Cusanelli was among the first rioters to enter the Capitol Building, moving inside shortly after the breach that took place at 2:12 p.m. at the Senate Wing Door. He made harassing and derogatory statements toward Capitol Police officers, saying that a “revolution” was coming. He remained in the building for approximately 40 minutes. Days after the incident, Hale-Cusanelli told a friend that being in the Capitol was “exhilarating,” he was hoping for a “civil war,” and that the “tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
At the time of the Capitol breach, Hale-Cusanelli was enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves. Hale-Cusanelli worked as a contractor at a naval weapons station, where he had a “secret” security clearance, and has since been barred from the facility.
Hale-Cusanelli was arrested on Jan. 15, 2021. He was found guilty by a jury on May 27, 2022, of a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, and four related misdemeanors: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building. At sentencing today, the Court found that Hale-Cusanelli obstructed justice during the trial, when he made certain statements under oath, and applied an enhancement to the sentence. Following his prison term, Hale-Cusanelli will be placed on three years of supervised release. He also must pay $2,000 in restitution.
The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.
The case was investigated by the Northeast Field Office of the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the FBI’s Newark and Washington Field Offices. Valuable assistance was provided by the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Capitol Police.
In the 20 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 870 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including over 265 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The investigation remains ongoing.
Four years prison, plus three years supervised release, which could convert to more prison if release conditions are violated.
I'm kind of ambivalent on the prison term. It seems like a lot given none of the charges were for violence. I also can't find exactly what constituted his obstruction of justice enhancement, everything I can find just said it was for statements made under oath. I don't know how much of the sentence can be attributed to the obstruction of justice.
However, I also think rioting, occupying, etc. are corrosive to government. We can't let mobs effectively veto things that they disagree with. That will lead to mob vetoes on every controversial issue. Punishment needs to be high enough to effectively deter that behavior.
But I still see that we're not evenly applying this principle. Left-wing mobs invade Congress and hound legislators and the worst that seems to happen is they get removed. Months on end of assaults on the federal courthouse in Portland weren't taken this seriously.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Having skimmed the Colorado ballot decision, it looks like the strongest evidence on offer of Trump encouraging violence is using the word “fight.”
If that’s not an isolated demand for rigor, I don’t know what is. Is there a single federal politician who hasn’t promised to fight or encouraged supporters to fight?
NewCharlesInCharge
7mo ago
I've been conditioned to be very suspicious of such accusations and entertain contexts in which the raw allegations could be benign.
Sharing a bed: booking a two bed hotel room might raise suspicion.
Sent a undies / fake tattoos photo: having some racy photos of one another could be used as evidence of a real relationship.
Showering together: maybe this happened in a context where a trafficker offered his shower for them to use together.
"How far are you willing to go": that's a benign question on its own.
The point I'm most curious about is the advantage in presenting as a couple. Is that typical of child trafficking customers? Is it the only way to plausibly have a second person around for backup?
There's also no indication that any sex or even unwanted touching took place.
NewCharlesInCharge
8mo ago
South Carolina offered free rides to voters to get their IDs, all of 22 people took advantage: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nikki-haley-s-south-carolina-to-give-rides-to-22-voters-to-get-photo-ids
North Carolina's current iteration of Voter ID includes providing IDs to voters for free.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
I think I would be putting my career at risk if I made loud enough anti-gender-ideology in public schools statements. And my career has nothing to do with public schools.
Catholic schools were supposed to be my escape hatch for my kids, but apparently not even they are safe from this nonsense.
NewCharlesInCharge
11mo ago
The EEOC has gotten many companies to agree to settlements merely for disparate impact: https://www.google.com/search?q=disparate+impact+eeoc+settlement
Here's one example: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/dollar-general-pay-6-million-settle-eeoc-class-race-discrimination-suit
CHICAGO - Major retail chain Dollar General will pay $6 million and furnish other relief to settle a class race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Dollar General, the largest small-box discount retailer in the United States, violated federal law by denying employment to African Americans at a significantly higher rate than white applicants for failing the company's broad criminal background check.
Employment screens that have a disparate impact on the basis of race violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, unless an employer can show the screen is job-related and is a business necessity. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago (EEOC v. Dolgencorp LLC d/b/a Dollar General, Civil Action No. 13 C 4307), after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through its conciliation process.
The three-year consent decree settling the suit, signed by U.S. District Court Judge Andrea Wood, requires that Dollar General pay $6 million into a settlement fund which will be distributed through a claims process at the direction of the EEOC to African Americans who lost their chance at employment at the company between 2004 and 2019. If Dollar General chooses to use a criminal background check during the term of the decree, the retailer must hire a criminology consultant to develop a new criminal background check based on several factors including the time since conviction, the number of offenses, the nature and gravity of the offense(s), and the risk of recidivism. Once the consultant provides a recommendation, the decree enjoins Dollar General from using any other criminal background check for its hiring process.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
The only scenario where you'd be justified at shooting through a door is if the other party is also threatening you with some ranged weapon like a gun, or they're threatening someone else on the other side of the door.
Doubtful that this is what has happened, but I've also been trained by the media to doubt the early reports on these kinds of stories. Jacob Blake was just trying to drive away. Rittenhouse gunned down people merely protesting.
It could be that Yarl carried for defense, saw the old man answered the door with a gun in hand, and drew on him.
Or, old man saw Yarl going for his phone to figure out where his brothers really are, and thought he was going for a weapon.
I don't want to outlaw anything. Bans and especially criminal penalties seem like a terrible way to fix this.
What about the "stick a needle in your eye socket and twiddle it around" lobotomies that were being widely performed in the middle of the last century as a remedy to behavioral issues? These actually aren't banned, they just fell out of favor. But if some charismatic M.D. started to convince folks that it was a useful intervention, should we just let him scrape at the frontal lobes of the mentally disturbed?
We think of those lobotomies as a horror today, but a lot of those patients self-reported that their well-being improved as a result of their lobotomies.
Of course, a lot of patients ended up in a condition where self-reporting wasn't even possible.
NewCharlesInCharge
7mo ago
In Washington we had a judge rule that magazines aren’t firearms and so aren’t subject to Bruen.
Every time I see this kind of behavior I wonder if the judges reflect on the intended purpose of the second amendment and proceed to ignore the constitution anyway. A refreshing of the tree of liberty would surely swamp any possible deaths averted from magazine restrictions and assault weapons bans.
NewCharlesInCharge
8mo ago
I think it’s the opposite, religious folks see the parallels between wokeism and other faiths more readily.
We’d all be better off if wokeism were treated as religion and thus unable to proselytize via authority figures in schools and workplaces.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I'm certain that some of the people rioting at the Capitol were part of the "75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me."
I'm not at all certain that this tweet was some dog whistle meant to praise those specific people. Trump's not known for subtlety. He'd already made a video telling the rioters he loves them.
If this is your standard, then a politician will never be able to praise their voters if some of those voters includes people who participated in a political riot. Given the summer of 2020 and the Capitol riots, that's practically everyone.
We have no idea how many people wanted him banned that way.
All of the Twitter Files stories have highlighted the little dissent they found. I can't see an incentive for misrepresenting that. What would change if instead of one person dissenting it was 10% of the company?
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
My first instinct was to check Wikipedia to see if the blue-footed booby is in danger. No sign on the article that a rename is afoot.
The penduline tit also appears to be safe, for now.
Though given that donglegate actually happened, I would think names such as these would scare off more people than names of human beings, especially innocuous names with no negative connotations of their own like Anna or Lewis.
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
Surely the terra itself isn’t sacred?
The religious Jews would not agree.
"The Lord had said to Abram, 'Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.'" (Genesis 12:1-7 NIV)
"On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.'" (Genesis 15:18-21 NIV)
"'So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.'" (Exodus 3:8 NIV)
"The Lord said to Moses, 'Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries...’" (Numbers 34:1-12 NIV)
"See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them." (Deuteronomy 1:8 NIV)
"'Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.'" (Joshua 1:2-6 NIV)
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
Do the authors not remember the Birthers? If this was our standard, then there would certainly be county-level officials that would declare they haven't seen Obama's long form birth certificate and strike him from the ballots accordingly.
Similarly county-level officials could say Biden's "antifa is an idea" is providing aid to enemies of the United States and strike him as well.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
For me part of it is the special treatment based on identity category.
If I, a straight man, gave a talk on my favorite Playboy centerfolds, there's a very good chance I'd become unhireable in my industry. Even if it was a joke PowerPoint I delivered privately to a few friends and it happened to get leaked.
If you're a nonbinary queer activist, you can be much more risque, completely in the open, and be celebrated for it.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Potential confounds abound and no one is going to be able to conduct an RCT for this.
Anecdotally a lot of men report “porn brain” interfering with their ability to have normal relationships with women. Having decided to be done with porn about a year ago, I do notice a difference. But there’s a also a finding-religion confound in my case.
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
In my tech career I've always treated monitors that have lost signal with the same priority as the monitored value exceeding some critical bounds. The idea being that without signal, the monitored value very well could be in a critical state, and loss of signal itself could be caused by some greater issue.
I have no military experience. Does the military not do something similar? For example, a lost camera feed must be treated as an attack until proven otherwise.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I wonder what would have happened if the racists in the story were part of an out-group rather than an in-group.
If you've spent any time around academia, even as an undergrad, you'd know that these institutions and the people that they are composed of are absolutely desperate for diversity. In their hierarchy Mohamed is better than Christopher, but Fatima would be even better. It doesn't pass the sniff test that not only would these institutions harbor an anti-Arab bias, but some would write down racist statements and send them to the applicant.
Imagine instead that the applicant was seeking a job in the oil industry, or with a defense contractor. Would the thread still be up?
A key difference between these situations is that there's no corroborating evidence for Cassidy's claim. It's not the case that the Presidential limo was seen suddenly swerving on camera, and Cassidy's claim is an explanation for what happened.
In the case of the Bidens, we have the email where Hunter is to hold 10% for "the big guy" and Bobulinski is explaining who the big guy is. We also, as far as I know, have no alternative theory on who "the big guy" is. Who else is in Hunter's orbit is a good candidate for "the big guy?"
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