NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
3d ago
My Chinese wife told me they publicly executed drug dealers at her school in the 90s.
NewCharlesInCharge
3d ago
I used to find this position compelling: executions should be public and not medicalized. If we are empowering the state to take the lives of prisoners then we should be confronted with the bloody consequences of granting it such power.
I no longer find that compelling. It's not a matter of taste, it's that I don't believe that the people would actually respond with any kind of sober solemnity about the state taking a life. Throughout history public executions haven't been solemn, they've been spectacle.
Probably the right path is to make them public in the same way that court records are public. They're kind of hard to get if you don't know what you're looking for, but if you care enough to make sure the state is performing its duties properly, then you can view all of the executions. Political leaders ought not celebrate or shy away from the executions, but treat them as justice served.
NewCharlesInCharge
9d ago
Well this made me go look something up.
Cornell stopped considering SAT scores for applicants seeking to start in Fall 2021. Last year they went to some hybrid policy.
NewCharlesInCharge
10d ago
I think there is a phenomenon online in which Grey Tribe people get harassed by leftist extremists to the point of becoming extremists themselves, of demonstratively placing themselves in the opposite camp. I worry that we are witnessing a similar downturn here as what happened with Jordan Peterson.
As someone who had a very minor failed attempt to get the media to accurately report on something, I get it.
This institution which you've relied on for so much exposes itself to you, personally, to be not at all trustworthy. You know there's no good reason for them to misreport, no national security implications, it's at most tribal allegiances and likely social pressure exerted among the journalists themselves. I suppose this is especially true if the subject of their misreporting is yourself and your political opinions, which you have perfect knowledge of.
You then no longer have this bedrock of information about the world to rely on. The implausible becomes plausible. At best you greatly narrow what you consider to be "knowledge" and regard almost everything else as practically unknowable, you'd have to go investigate for yourself if you want to really know anything.
You then do investigate some things for yourself and find out that the media has been greatly misrepresenting or lying about things, especially things of a political valence, and this sets you up to regard as plausible a great deal of things you found previously implausible.
And then if you're not very careful you'll soon be ready to believe a lot of stuff that doesn't actually check out.
NewCharlesInCharge
18d ago
While the elections are nominally non-partisan, I just open the candidate's website and usually can quickly discern their party alignment. If the front page doesn't make it clear from language about equity or law and order, it's easy enough to find out who's endorsed them.
I don't recall ever lacking a conservative option, but until about 2018 I would have voted for the liberals.
NewCharlesInCharge
18d ago
And the Supreme Court that overturned them. And they never punish those Supreme Court justices. The last justice to lose a reelection bid was Richard B Sanders in 2010, and he was replaced by Charlie Wiggins. Sanders was conservative, Wiggins a liberal. Wiggins was on the majority opinion in the court's 9-0 decision that held that the death penalty was unconstitutional becuase of disparate racial impact.
The voters don't punish overturning initiatives, so the Court is free to reason to achieve its desired outcomes.
NewCharlesInCharge
18d ago
Courts have been making the definition of seizure or detention very expansive. I know of a couple cases in my home state of Washington.
In State v Sum they ruled that an officer waking a man sleeping in a vehicle, asking for identification, and saying he was investigating a stolen vehicle, constituted seizure. They vacated Sum's conviction for giving a false name subsequent to the seizure. They also added a racial component to the law's hypothetical reasonable observer, "an objective observer is aware that implicit, institutional, and unconscious biases."
The Washington State Supreme Court ruled in State v Meredith, relying on the racial dimension introduced by Sum, that officers asking for proof of payment from someone on a bus constituted a seizure, and that the officers lacked cause for the seizure. The decision vacated his conviction for giving a false name subsequent to the seizure. The lead opinion stated that fare enforcement has a “known, racially disproportionate impact” and later said its holding served “to mitigate the known, racially disproportionate impact of such fare enforcement practices."
In both of these cases the stakes were low. Meredith had already served the 58 day sentence that was vacated. The details of Sum's sentence aren't available, but it was also already served. Both were misdemeanors.
In both cases advocacy orgs like the ACLU pursued the cases on behalf of the defendants. Funnily enough the region's transit orgs filed amici briefs in favor of Meredith.
In both cases we had men who were already making net negative contributions to society, and who had their stupidity amplified by well funded organizations to make it even more difficult to rein in the behaviors of men like themselves. The defendants don't even have to show up for the apellate court hearings. I had ChatGPT try to find evidence that they did attend, and it was unable to find any.
NewCharlesInCharge
21d ago
Both potential belligerent superpowers are implicated. And the most likely scenario isn’t intentional release, but accidental.
If it was 1993 and the US and Russia were collaborating on getting control of the Russian nuclear arsenal and jointly accidentally set one off, they’re not going to war over it.
NewCharlesInCharge
24d ago
Given the timing I wonder how much of this spike due to PPP fraud.
NewCharlesInCharge
24d ago
Same. I can't recall seeing one with Codex and 5.6-Sol.
NewCharlesInCharge
25d ago
I am skeptical of this data that purports to demonstrate much lower adoption than in China, Americans are probably lying more due to widespread negativity on AI, but in any case AI isn't currently doing most of their jobs
Approximately every Chinese grandma plugs her grandkids into AI generated scenes. A good amount of American grandmas still are befuddled by smartphones.
Placenta?
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