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12hr ago
I am referring to witches who overwhelm the moderators with low-quality posting and thereby indirectly force the moderators to increase and dilute their own ranks (assuming that the moderators are the true defining core of the community), not witches who are racist.
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14hr ago
growth
t. wants the site to be flooded by seven zillion witches
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20hr ago
Does it really exist, though?
4chan's /soc/ board is chock-full of invitations for messaging (both group and one-on-one) on Discord, Telegram, and Kik.
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21hr ago
To be fair, "online" in this graph does not differentiate between dating apps and non-dating-app online locations (such as forums and chatrooms). It would be funny if someone were to take a closer look and discover that everybody has switched from Tinder to Discord for romance.
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They don’t want to be part of Denmark now
But how can Greenland make noises about independence with a straight face when its economy would collapse without the huge subsidies that Denmark sends to it? That's what confuses me about this topic. Does self-determination even make sense for a territory that is not self-sufficient?
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2d ago
Copy-pasting large chunks of text should not be considered "detailed commentary".
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2d ago
"Left-wing extremists" have been bombing electrical grids recently (Associated Press, Reuters). Presumably they've put more thought into this topic than the denizens of this forum have.
You're forgetting article 3.
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
So that provision of the Sixth Amendment applies only to crimes that were committed in the US.
For offenses against federal laws not committed within any state, Congress has the sole power to prescribe the place of trial; such an offense is not local and may be tried at such place as Congress may designate.
And, if Congress chooses to criminalize activity that occurs outside the US (which it has done for the crimes alleged in this indictment), there is no requirement for the jury to be composed of locals.
Foreign terrorist organizations, terrorist persons and groups
(b) Jurisdiction
There is jurisdiction over an offense under this section if—
(1) the prohibited drug activity or the terrorist offense is in violation of the criminal laws of the United States;
(2) the offense, the prohibited drug activity, or the terrorist offense occurs in or affects interstate or foreign commerce;
(3) an offender provides anything of pecuniary value for a terrorist offense that causes or is designed to cause death or serious bodily injury to a national of the United States while that national is outside the United States, or substantial damage to the property of a legal entity organized under the laws of the United States (including any of its States, districts, commonwealths, territories, or possessions) while that property is outside of the United States;
(4) the offense or the prohibited drug activity occurs in whole or in part outside of the United States (including on the high seas), and a perpetrator of the offense or the prohibited drug activity is a national of the United States or a legal entity organized under the laws of the United States (including any of its States, districts, commonwealths, territories, or possessions); or
(5) after the conduct required for the offense occurs an offender is brought into or found in the United States, even if the conduct required for the offense occurs outside the United States.
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3d ago
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Federal (advanced search, collection "United States Court Opinions", court type "Appellate", sort results by date)
Et cetera.
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3d ago
See also The Financier and its sequel The Titan.
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4d ago
insider trading is a victimless crime. Markets run on asymmetrical information. Stock prices bounce around because investors are always doing their best to use their own superior information for personal gain. So-called insider information is just one kind of asymmetry, and not a particularly insidious one.
What's more, insider trading tends to make markets more efficient. Here's the Washington Post last year, taking a page from George Mason economist Henry Mannes' book:
Markets work best when goods are priced accurately, which in the context of stocks means that firms' stock prices should accurately reflect their strengths and weaknesses. If a firm is involved in a giant Enron-style scam, the price should be correspondingly lower. But, of course, until the Enron fiasco was unearthed, its stock price decidedly did not reflect that it was cooking the books. That wouldn't have happened if insider trading had been legal. The many Enron insiders who knew what was going on would have sold their shares, the price would have corrected itself and disaster might have been averted.
Associated Press, Reuters: In the ongoing civil war in Yemen, the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council has declared independence as "South Arabia" and announced plans to hold a secession referendum two years from now. See the former country of South Yemen, which existed from 1967 to 1990.
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4d ago
I wonder why chicken tendies have not achieved as much popularity in the fast-food sphere.
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4d ago
US doctors do make good money, but most specialties are making way less than the numbers bandied about in this thread.
| Occupation | 2024 median pay (k$/a) |
|---|---|
| Audiologist | 92 |
| Chiropractor | 79 |
| Dentist | 179 |
| Optometrist | 135 |
| Pharmacist | 137 |
| Physical therapist | 101 |
| Physician or surgeon | Off the chart* |
| Podiatrist | 153 |
| Veterinarian | 126 |
*More than 239. The occupation page gives per-specialty mean (not median) numbers ranging from 222 to 451.
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4d ago
How many of those surprise blowjob stories involve a three-year-old and an 18-month-old?
I definitely have seen a nonzero number of erotic stories featuring toddlers and babies on AO3. But I've never actually read any of those stories since I'm not into that topic, so I can't tell you the details of their plots.
I am not sure what to make of your fixation on "no physical harm".
I only mention it to point out that this particular case is not a fistula gorefest. I do not deny the possibility of psychological harm (though, again, I am skeptical of it), and do not glorify child molestation.
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4d ago
I'm saying the story isn't funny.
I'm not saying that the story itself is funny. I'm saying that the similarity of this story to a hentai plot is funny. I don't recall reading any hentai manga with this specific plot*, but I definitely have read both hentai manga and ArchiveOfOurOwn erotic stories (example of the latter) that use the victim's obliviousness to trick her into giving a blowjob. And, again, no physical harm was done here.
*I do not seek out loli stories while filtering recent uploads on Exhentai, so it's very possible that I missed some.
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4d ago
cute and funny [child-molester] stories
I resent this characterization. I do not glorify child molestation*, find the enjoyability of loli hentai inversely proportional to the realism of the girls' depictions**, and definitely am not a pedophile or a child molester.
What was "hilarious" about it?
I already explained that here.
*I find it hard to believe that the behavior depicted in this particular case would inflict any permanent psychological harm on the children involved, but I haven't done any research on this topic and do not have a strong, evidence-based opinion on it.
**Skinny = unrealistic = titillating, chubby = realistic = not titillating.
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4d ago
That's as good an excuse as any to end the whole series, then.
I originally started it because I had a bunch of free time at work, court websites seemed like a browsing target that the IT people wouldn't be able to complain about1,2, and the funny and interesting opinions that I found were a good karma farm3. After retiring, I continued it out of habit and for more karma. But I'm not going to post expurgated summaries just to satisfy some whiners.
1Especially because I actually found opinions directly relevant to my civil-engineering job every few months or so.
2My coworkers never got censured for browsing stock-market and news websites on their own work computers. But better safe than sorry.
3Though of course this website does not actually list a user's total karma anywhere, so perhaps the concept of "karma farming" is not applicable.
This comment may be more applicable to state-government employees than to federal-government employees.
@anti_dan
Employees of my state government definitely have low wages in comparison to private industry. Resignations for higher-paying non-government jobs were continual during my time there. I saw multiple highly-regarded employees, including one person who was widely considered a shoo-in for future director of my entire department, leave for private industry.
@greyenlightenment @Amadan
Pension is 1/100 of salary per year of tenure for federal workers (based on contributions of 4.4 percent of salary—Amadan's figure of 6 percent appears to be incorrect), but 1/60 of salary per year of tenure (two-thirds higher than federal government) for employees of my state government (based on contributions of 7.5 percent of salary).
They definitely have stable employment. I am ignorant of the details of the health-insurance situation.
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