NewCharlesInCharge

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

There is. All the statutes I’ve seen allow an aggressor to regain his right to self defense after he effects a retreat, though.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

The last season of Jack Ryan was laughably bad.

Standard Hollywood writing where supposedly brilliant characters make completely stupid decisions to advance the plot. Confusion on which countries are NATO members or border Russia. Spec ops dudes travel undetected from the Black Sea to west of Athens in a zodiac.

They’ve also murdered the character of Jack Ryan. He’s no longer a Catholic with a wife and kids, but a rather amoral man with no apparent interest in women beyond casual sex. Book Jack Ryan would end a fight if he found himself in one, but wouldn’t use violence as his first option, typically coming up with some trickery to avoid it. Show Jack Ryan shoots a lot of people as an expected consequence of his uncreative plans.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Are there state laws that exclude felons from running for President? There’s no such exclusion in the constitution, and I would think that states imposing extra qualifications would be unconstitutional.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Until quite recently emails between different domains would have been transmitted in plain text. It’s not persistently available like a website, but any hop between the servers could read the contents of emails.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Is publishing a website speech?

What if my website is merely a proxy to another site?

What if I inject a header that insults Congress into every HTTP response?

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Even assuming the accounting was illegal, why should I believe that Trump gave direction on how to record the payment in the books?

Most accounting systems will have an auto-suggest based on past expenses recorded against vendors. An accountant could have just thoughtlessly clicked legal expense as it popped up.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Even trans alone is a greater proportion than my remembered goths. The survey says 2% trans, 3% non-binary.

I think non-binary self-identification also entails gender ideology buy-in. There are no non-binary TERFs.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

I'd estimate that a very high percentage of parents of teenagers and college students, at least 90%, now know of actual gender non-conforming kids in their children's schools.

Two years ago schools weren't even open.

Reputable pollsters say that about 5% of young people identify as trans or nonbinary. That's far greater than I remember the dominant counter-culture in my high school, goths. At a school with about 1,800 kids, we had maybe 10 goths. Remembering that high school figure isn't as hard as you might think, they always sat together at the same lunch table. People also tended to ditch their goth aesthetics once they got to college.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago · Edited 2yr ago

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.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

I’m guessing this means writing a restraining order such that any member is covered.

Say some loon had a bone to pick with a daycare. Would every employee need their own restraining order, or could you write it so that new employees are automatically covered?

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

I forgot about that, around this time we also had Xi Jinping visit Seattle. He stayed in the Westin and the hotel towers were lit up red to honor him.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

While the USSR jammed the propaganda radio stations of the West, the West rarely jammed Radio Moscow. This included broadcasts that reached America.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

I've found that Chinese college students tend to be more familiar with Western history and philosophy than American college students.

They'll also tell you that strict Communism fails due to human nature.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Tangential, but there's been a massively successful anti-China propaganda effort in the United States since about 2014.

One piece of evidence: you use the abbreviation "CCP." That's not what they call themselves. In English, they say they're the Communist Part of China, or CPC.

You can also look back in newspaper archives and see the tone of coverage changing. Around 2014 the tone became increasingly negative, to the point where now it would be notable to see a news story on China display any positivity. Prior to then the dominant narrative was about wild economic growth, with a secondary narrative of "these foreigners are weird."

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Can you summarize the most salient points? I’m two minutes in and so far there’s nothing substantial.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

They already had a sidearm that was plenty sufficient for engaging unarmed children and senior citizens.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Seattle almost made the playoffs with Geno Smith

They did make the playoffs, losing against San Francisco on Wildcard Weekend.

Geno had a hell of a season.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

I think this means that if you are doing work that requires you to alternate between inside and outside, you will now need to funnel yourself back through the main entrance rather than go back in the door you came out of.

Though really they should just put card readers on every door. It's a safety issue the other direction as well. Imagine a teacher gets locked out and can't reach a child in distress, for any reason.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

I think the only shooter who kind of succeeded in any of their political goals was the Christchurch shooter. He was an accelerationist and chose his weapons to aid the cause of gun control.

That doesn't prevent mass shooters from writing manifestos and truly believing that they will be the spark that ignites the race war, the holy war, the revolution, or whatever.

Context

Culture War Roundup for the week of March 13, 2023

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

It’s because she watches The Handmaid’s Tale.

Context

Culture War Roundup for the week of March 13, 2023

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

In this scenario is HQ going to mail me an envelope stuffed with cash or do I have to fly to San Francisco and pick it up?

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

I was saying the Real Presence was perhaps the greatest distinction, not theological ignorance.

Agreed that not knowing what your religion actually promotes is very common.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Among other things, SVB pioneered extending loans to startups as part of their funding rounds.

Context

NewCharlesInCharge 2yr ago

Overvaluations were at least partially corrected last summer. Lots of startups have been unable to raise new funding rounds as a result.

Though I'd argue about the definition of "overvaluation." Is something overvalued if the market has access to practically free money and just needs to park it somewhere?

Context