TIRM
3mo ago
what evidence is there that it rises to the severity of "an issue?"
None at all, obviously. Was this a serious request for "evidence" of common speech terms being applicable?
TIRM
3mo ago
They did not find him in a vacant house. The home owner had security cameras and says he didn't see anyone entering the house the day of the murder. The murderers first saw Arbery on a public street. In a town that's majority black. They assumed Arbery must be a burglar and murdered him.
Some people discussing this years ago added a lot of fictional information to the situation that would justify killing a burglar in self defense. But resisting that urge and sticking to what actually occurred makes this unjustifiable murder. As confirmed by criminal trials.
TIRM
3mo ago
Talk security theater. A blanket defeats that sort of razor fencing. But I suppose they have motion sensors, cameras and a neighborhood armed security team.
TIRM
4mo ago
1 day worth of American driving deaths is around 120 people. I think a "disaster" should be something larger than a couple days of typical accepted fatalities.
But of course this is subjective and neither I nor netstack can provide a definitive answer.
TIRM
5mo ago
Yes, his list is his own writing.
I mean:
I'm not going to read an AI-generated post. But I did ask an AI to summarize it in a few sentences, so I get the gist.
[who] "a cabal of CIA and military leaders," ... would choose to install as their puppet
I would guess it would be a Pinochet situation. The cabal would rule and select one of their own to be the figurehead†. "Let's loop in Kamala" wouldn't cross their minds. Some public facing cabal member would be the new official leader. A Smedley Butler for 2025.
†Mild academic Pinochet of course seized control and his co-conspirators lived in fear of his wrath and never got the chance to co-rule with him. But I think Americans could pull off a ruling council that doesn't degenerate into helicopter rides and torture camps.
TIRM
5mo ago
Congress has enormous taxation and spending powers. Federal courts recognize this obvious fact.
TIRM
6mo ago
infinity low-wage legal immigration
Nah, just continuing the status quo of limited skilled immigration. And an unrelated decrease in border crossings, which I appreciate.
continued funding for Ukraine and Israel
Hell yeah.
continue the Trump corporate tax cuts
Hell yeah, but even more this time.
increased military spending to counter threats from China and Iran
We need to be able to defend ourselves. I don’t like deficit spending, but at least this has a purpose.
and Trumpian shitposts
I like internet drama. I'm looking forward to my cup overflowing soon. He mean tweeted away the Patriot Act. May he mean tweet away many other things I dislike.
TIRM
6mo ago
I've already been very clear that I'm talking about amount of shared alleles.
No you haven't. You're strictly wrong about genetics.
TIRM
6mo ago
In contrast the English have about 88% genetic similarity with Southern Chinese
This is so obviously and enormously untrue. Orders of magnitude off from a justifiable statement. Can we start defining our terms for what counts as related or genetic closeness? People here must be using very idiosyncratic understandings of these terms in order for their posts to make any sense.
Thank you for quantitatively stating this unlike other poster's baffling and wrong subjective statements about genetic similarity. The lowest outliers of estimating the genetic similarity of humans and mice are in the mid to high 80%s. I strongly suspect that Englishmen and Asians are more closely related than humans and rodents. In what manner do you mean 88% genetic similarity? How did you type any number other than 99.9%?
TIRM
6mo ago
To be very excessively fair, they weren't unbanked, they just had business accounts closed. They still had access to regular personal banking. And Operation Choke Point equally targeted individuals selling porn and other vices. This wasn't anti-conservative but rather anti-whatever-Obama-and-his-staffers-and-Dem-appointees-didn't-personally-like. Which doesn't ease my libertarian heart.
TIRM
6mo ago
After their dark ages and galactic collapse, I don't suppose they know the "actual" date.
TIRM
6mo ago
Agreed. But it would be a very rapid escalation in this case. I wouldn't throw away my router as step one. But it would be on death row unless this immediately stopped.
TIRM
7mo ago
Nah. I'm rock solid correct. Some people are just terrible at judging risks. Europeans on bicycles especially.
TIRM
8mo ago
I was never much concerned with this kind of argument. Make a reasonable attempt to determine outcomes. That does not involve perfect knowledge or unbounded computational problems. Using a small bit of thought and your best understanding of the situation, you can make a reasonable approximation.
TIRM
8mo ago
I'm not advocating for it. But some people would. I'm saying Starlink and satellite internet aren't that and don't need my tax dollars.
TIRM
9mo ago
"You shouldn't get to have a decision on AI development unless you have young children"
Okay. I'm a father. Full steam ahead I say. I graciously donate my "I'm straight and have functioning sperm" vote to Sam Altman.
TIRM
9mo ago
why skinny people find it just as hard to gain weight
But no. Lift according to a good program and track your macros. You'll put on weight. It will happen.
TIRM
9mo ago
Split keyboard. I think holding my hands close together like on a regular keyboard was hurting my upper back.
TIRM
9mo ago
I have a carseat and a booster in the back of a midsized sedan. It looks to me like I could fit 3 boosters back there. But I understand reaching your hands between the click the belts would not be easy.
The Nissan Altima is a mid-size sedan with 54.5 inches of rear hip room
With the Accord, you get 55 inches of rear hip room
The Camry has 54.6 inches of rear hip room
They're the only group with significant outgroup bias. And they outnumber black Americans. Naively I would expect most donaters to be them.
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