NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
Here's Liberty and Justice For All: http://songs.justicechoir.org/LibertyForAll
The Justice Choir logo features a closed fist. The lyrics:
We are frightened; We are angry; We are rising; We are hopeful; We are peaceful; We are striving; Won't stop fighting; Won't stop marching; Won't stop dreaming; Wont stop loving and proclaiming and believing
Our voices are united louder than hate, We have gathered here, We've had all we can take The time has come, you will hear our call. We're fighting for liberty and justice for all.
It includes this note from the composer:
The recent demonstrations and marches taking place throughout the country led me to the phrase 'liberty and justice for all.' Many steadfastly recite this line in the Pledge of Allegiance, but those words ring hollow for many Americans who find their civil liberties under attack, and the scales of justice tipped in favor of the wealthy and powerful. Protests are a small portion of what we must do in order to work toward a nation that truly provides liberty and justice FOR ALL
This is clearly a protest song with no indication that the hate being protested against is authored by Satan. Copyright 2017, it's either about Trump or police, probably both.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
ABC yanked Bill Maher's show for saying that the 9/11 attackers weren't cowardly.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
In the Murthy v Missouri case the implied threat was "we'll utterly ruin your whole business model by repealing section 230" not "we'll fine you for violating this specific provision of broadcaster regulations."
And that was in the context of regular check-ins with the FBI and other federal agents to ensure content rules were satisfactory, were being enforced, and also "we found a guy with five followers breaking a rule, please enforce the rule on him."
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
Not that Loughner wasn't deranged and assigning him to a political category is a fool's errand, but there were six killed in the shooting.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
A prosecutions database won’t include unprosecutable, i.e. dead, perpetrators.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
I think Kirk would have disagreed that he ought to be murdered but wouldn’t want his murder to justify restrictions on gun rights.
The optimal number of murders is not zero. The cost of what we would have to do to implement a zero murder society would not be worth it.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
NICE in the UK
I would've thought Parliament had enough C.S. Lewis fans to avoid this name.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
You could make a state-funded lender of last resort for such cases.
If you're denied then the state advances the funds at the same cost that would have been charged to the insurance company. The loan becomes non-dischargeable and the state is able to garnish wages and seize assets should it become necessary.
They also assume the right to represent the patient to the insurance company and demand payment. Should the treatment have actually been approved according to the insurance policy, the insurer has some penalty big enough to incentivize them not to play denial games and to keep the lender solvent.
This could lead to interest rates being a function of insurer denial accuracy. If it's very likely the state will recover from insurers, interest rates could be very low. If insurers are exceptionally accurate and you're very unlikely to recover, then insurance rates could approach the same as any unsecured loan for a person of your creditworthiness.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Young boys also enjoy Bluey.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
I mean someone working on the site’s codebase, presumably with all the necessary credentials.
It makes for very short iteration times to run dev code locally connected to the prod database. That’s how we work on the front end code at Meta.
But I have no clue how people work on the code here.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Having gone through the permanent resident process for my wife, there were a lot of things that were potentially disqualifying that would have been protected activities for citizens. Being a member of the Communist party*, advocating for the overthrow of the American government, etc.
Does permanent resident status confer the right to participate in those activities that could have prevented you from getting that status in the first place?
* This came up and it seemed like not a big deal if the situation was "everyone has to participate in communist activities in China."
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Localhost:1881
Substack is just processing the Referrer header in the HTTP request that browsers will send when users click a link.
So, someone has links to your Substack on a locally hosted page. Maybe one of our own viewing a locally hosted version of The Motte?
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Most Americans seem to have broadly positive views of the Viet Cong, whose calling card was using innocent villagers as cover.
"The Vietname war was a mistake" is a common sentiment among Americans, but "the VC were good guys" is not.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
Huh. My expectation was that there was more to the story, not that literally nothing could be corroborated.
Typically the way these play out is the person is going to an appointment with USCIS, it turns out the person already has a deportation order or a felony or something in their past that disqualifies them, and ICE took the opportunity to pick them up and deport them.
Stories like these demonstrate misunderstanding of how these systems work. They are still lumbering bureacracies. There are no Judge Dredds that will unilaterally send you to CECOT. Even if you're not already a green card holder, and the USCIS civil servant conducting your interview decides he doesn't like your face and won't approve your application, it's not straight to deportation. A Notice To Appear is issued, which starts the ball rolling for an Order of Removal.
Even the expansions under Trump to for expedited removal wouldn't apply to the particulars of this "case."
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
That sounds like regular selective pressure. The communities that can maintain fertility will be the ones that dominate in the long run.
You can model the sexual revolution as a heritable fertility disease for which a small segment of the population was immune or had attenuated effects, even if the source of their resistance was cultural rather than biological.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
If religion is transmissible and religious individuals are more fertile than the irreligious then it seems inevitable that the secular will be simply outbred, no?
Winning “converts” to secularism is a small tactical victory if they go on to have fewer than two children.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
Why aren't these women celebrating the freedom of hiding their gender? I don't see any think pieces on how freeing it is to post PRs under a genderless username, or to shitpost on X as a genderless anon.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
I just watched the film. I couldn’t stop imagining how poorly received it would be with any other race combination.
A Bavarian beer hall gets set upon by Jewish vampires who menace the Germans with renditions of Hava Nagila.
A honky tonk besieged by a group of black vampires who blast hip hop and crip walk.
An English pub boarding itself up against Muslim vampires who are broadcasting a call to prayer and unfurling prayer rugs.
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
On one hand I believe that prayer is God allowing man the dignity to participate in His own divine will. God will grant your petitions insofar as they align with His eternal unchanging will.
On the other hand, as a Catholic, I believe that intercessory prayer is worthwhile.
I suppose to reconcile the two I could frame intercessory prayer as vibing with the saints together to be part of God’s will.
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
I’m reminded of the young men marching off to the Great War, excited at the prospect of winning glory, and finding a meat grinder.
There’s little glory in pushing the button. Maybe there is in creating the winning system behind the button, but it’s still of a different kind than a hoplite would have experienced.
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
Biden is in an irregular marriage.
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
A left group did put out those cringe ads which amounted to “vote for us or they’ll take away your porn”: https://nypost.com/2024/10/28/us-news/x-rated-dem-campaign-ad-claims-gop-wants-to-ban-porn-nationwide/
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
He gets a lot of credit for having been a political prisoner.
NewCharlesInCharge
6mo ago
If we get down the physics of it all the difference is that the latest gen nvidia chips can do more matrix calculations for a given amount of power.
Yet China is already at 3X the USA’s power generating capacity and grows by about a whole USA’s worth of capacity every 18 months.
And Chinese industrial policy is more nimble. If they decide to prioritize data centers they can just do that. In the USA private industry is squabbling over limited generating capacity and starting to plan for on site generation.
They campaigned on “saving democracy” but can’t bring themselves to defend the democratically enacted laws being enforced by Trump.
Something like “we may not like these laws, we may not like how the administration speaks about them, but that’s why we need to work to elect more Democrats and change the laws. But for now we need to respect the individuals tasked with enforcing these laws.”
That would be legitimizing something Trump does, and that’s not possible to do.
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