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ToaKraka
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3hr ago
Are you taller than 5′9″, or shorter than 5′9″?
You forgot about the people who are exactly 5′9″.
the opening
Last time you did this, didn't somebody point out that whether someone is interested in a book's opening paragraphs is related to whether that person is interested in the book's summary? It doesn't make sense to solicit opinions on the opening paragraphs from people who never would have picked up the book in the first place.
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Autistic people I know are vastly more likely to make the opposite error: to become so self-effacing romantically and sexually that they never express romantic or sexual interest in anyone, and end up loveshy.
In general, sexual harassment is caused by:
(1) A person believes incorrect things about dating in general (“women secretly like it when you crudely compliment them”) or about this situation in specific (“that person is so into me that they want me to hit on them even though I’m their boss”).
(2) A person knows they’re coercing someone else into sex or a relationship, or knows that they’re making someone uncomfortable, and is doing that on purpose because they want to.
Now, you might assume that #1 is a thing autistic people do, because it involves misunderstanding social situations. It is mostly not. Autistic people like following clearly laid out rules for social interaction. “My illegible social intuition says I can override the clearly laid out rules for this social interaction and it’ll be fine” is an allistic social problem.
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4hr ago
I'm not sure where to post this, but another death knell for Old Reddit officially has been rung.
In the next few months, we'll further limit access [to Old Reddit] for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users). This change does not impact logged-in mods, who can continue to access Old Reddit without any recent usage requirement. This helps keep Old Reddit available for the people who rely on it while reducing automated abuse.
That is, if you create a new Reddit account, then you will not have the option to use Old Reddit, even when logged in.
ToaKraka
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4hr ago
In the same vein, we have this comedy skit.
[Two Philadelphia police officers] were traveling… in a marked patrol car when they observed Appellant standing on the sidewalk with the handle of a firearm “printing through his T-shirt”. Officer Heeney stopped the car and Officer Moore asked Appellant “if he had a permit to carry”. Appellant responded, “Carry what?” Officer Moore replied, “What’s in the front?” Appellant began to reach in his left pocket and stated, “My keys.” Officer Moore asked again, “No, what’s in the front?” Appellant said, “I don’t want no trouble, I’m sorry, officer.” Officer Moore questioned Appellant, “Do you have a permit or not?” Appellant replied, “I’m not carrying anything.” Officer Moore exited the vehicle, and Appellant began to walk away and put his left arm in front of his body. Officer Moore commanded Appellant not to run, approached him, and grabbed a firearm out of Appellant’s front waistband. Officer Moore again asked Appellant if he had a permit to carry. Appellant told Officer Moore that he had it in his vehicle, and that it was not on his person. Officer Moore conducted a National Crime Information Center (“NCIC”) search and learned that Appellant did not have a license to carry a firearm. Officer Moore arrested Appellant and charged Appellant with Firearms Not to be Carried Without a License and Carrying Firearms on Public Streets in Philadelphia.
Officer Moore testified that he has been a police officer for seven years on the same assignment in the 22nd District, he has made over 150 arrests, he has made at least five firearms arrests in a two-block span of the area where he arrested Appellant, he has made a few dozen arrests in the same area, and the area is violent with numerous shootings and has a police car assigned there around the clock due to gun violence. Officer Moore further testified that since he has been a Philadelphia police officer he has encountered “more than 50, maybe more than 100” individuals who have lawfully carried firearms and has “never had somebody that lawfully carried a gun tell me that he wasn’t carrying anything when I asked them if they had a permit when I could clearly see he had a gun”. Officer Moore explained that he has encountered “at least 20” people who have said that they’re not carrying anything when they are clearly carrying a firearm “and they all ended in arrests” because they did not have a license to carry.
Under state precedent (concurrences: 1 2), following federal precedent, the mere presence of a concealed gun does not give rise to reasonable suspicion that a law is being broken. If upon seeing the gun the officer had immediately performed an investigative detention, then the evidence would have been suppressed. However, in this case the officer started with a "mere encounter", and the man's blatant lies in response to the officer's questions, in addition to the man's abortive flight and the officer's personal knowledge of the area's high crime rate, then gave rise to reasonable suspicion under which the officer could conduct an "investigative detention" (telling the man to stop and pulling the gun out of the man's waistband).
(I wanted to post this in the next Friday Fun Thread. But it's too relevant to this culture-war-thread top-level post for me to post it there. Alas…)
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5hr ago
Not knowing how to read the original text, is "Jewish" there explicit or just implied?
Google Translate translates the Hebrew text between the first two commas, "לְלַמֶּדְךָ שֶׁכׇּל הַמְאַבֵּד נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל", as "to teach you that whoever destroys a single soul from Israel"—so, explicit.
This also indicates that the English translation on the linked page uses bold text for literal translation from the original Hebrew and nonbold text for explanatory notes that otherwise would require a zillion square brackets:
[The court tells the witnesses:] Therefore, Adam [the first man] was created alone, to teach you that [with regard to] anyone who destroys one soul from the Jewish people, [i.e., kills one Jew,] the verse ascribes him [blame] as if he destroyed an entire world[, as Adam was one person, from whom the population of an entire world came forth].
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11hr ago
Associated Press:
Cornell rape allegations lead to renewed scrutiny of laws on intoxication and consent
Under state law [1 2], rape charges generally need to involve force or a clear refusal of sex, unless the victim is physically helpless due to being unconscious, or mentally incapacitated due to being drugged without their consent.
Those limitations have led to something nicknamed the “voluntary intoxication loophole”. Prosecutors can’t easily bring charges against someone who engaged in sex with someone who voluntarily became intoxicated to the point where their ability to say “yes” or “no” to sex was compromised.
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten cited that law as he defended his office’s initial decision not to file criminal charges against any of the men sued by a woman who says she was the victim of a gang rape at Cornell in 2024.
Van Houten said that in her sworn statement to campus police in 2024, the woman didn’t allege that she became intoxicated against her will, or was physically forced into sex or was unconscious when it happened.
“That’s victim blaming, straight up,” in state law, said Stefan Turkheimer, vice president of public policy for RAINN, the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the U.S. “It prevents a lot of cases from coming forward, where prosecutors are reluctant to try to push forward on a case where the person is incapacitated due to voluntary intoxication.”
[Infographic: States (plus DC) where an intoxicated victim is considered mentally incapacitated for purposes of rape only if she became intoxicated without her consent]
| Status | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 19 | Including NY |
| No | 26 | |
| Not defined in law | 6 | GA, MA, MT, NE, NM, NV |
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1d ago
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1d ago
Please remember that these pie-in-the-sky proposals would require a bunch of programming to actually implement. The administrator has not been doing much work on the site lately, and has explicitly said that the current codebase is a "dead end".
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1d ago
To be fair, you can't expect every 4chan denizen to be familiar with every 4chan meme. I've been browsing 4chan (including /tv/) for a fair amount of time (the oldest files in my folder of unsorted images date from 2015), and though I found your comment funny I didn't realize that it had a basis other than absurdism.
Court documents:
2025-06-26: Judge (1) summarizes underlying facts, and (2) dismisses claims for defective manufacture and negligent misrepresentation, but (3) refuses to dismiss claims for defective design and failure to warn, plus punitive damages
Before he reached the intersection of Card Sound Road, McGee had activated the Vehicle’s Autopilot, including the Traffic Aware Cruise Control (“TACC”), which among other things, restricts the Vehicle’s speed to 45 miles per hour when the Vehicle is not operating on a highway or limited access roadway. However, McGee subsequently manually engaged the Vehicle’s accelerator, increasing the Vehicle’s speed to 62 miles per hour and temporarily disengaging the TACC speed restrictions while leaving certain Autopilot features operational. The Parties dispute which specific Autopilot features remained active once McGee pressed the accelerator. Most notably, the Parties disagree whether Autopilot’s longitudinal control function and the automatic emergency brake function were deactivated in the moments leading up to the collision.
2025-08-01: Jury instructions
Plaintiffs claim that punitive damages should be awarded against Tesla based on its development of Autopilot and its response to its knowledge of accidents occurring while Autopilot was in use. Punitive damages are warranted against Tesla if you find by clear and convincing evidence that Tesla was guilty of intentional misconduct or gross negligence, which was a substantial cause of damage to Plaintiffs. Under those circumstances you may, in your discretion, award punitive damages against Tesla. If clear and convincing evidence does not show such conduct by Tesla, punitive damages are not warranted against Tesla.
2025-08-01, later: Jury finds Tesla 33 percent liable for 129 M$ of injury (i. e., imposes 43 M$ of compensatory damages), and imposes an additional 200 M$ of punitive damages
2026-02-20: Judge refuses to overturn jury verdict
After a careful review of the parties’ respective arguments, the Court finds that the Motion must be denied. The grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of trial and in their briefings on summary judgment—arguments that were already considered and rejected. Furthermore, Tesla does not present additional arguments or controlling law that persuades this Court to alter its earlier decisions or the jury verdict. Therefore, because the Court finds that the evidence admitted at trial more than supports the jury verdict and does not find that it committed any error affecting Tesla’s substantive rights, the interest of justice does not require the grant of a new trial or judgment in Tesla’s favor on either Count I, Count II, or the jury verdict regarding punitive damages.
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2d ago
Your link is broken because you wrote the formatting backward.
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2d ago
I've been subscribed to this author for many years on fanfiction.net (probably as a result of reading the Arithmancer series, though it's been so long since then that I can't remember), though I haven't actually read any of his work in a while. It was only upon reading this new short story, and noticing that fanfiction.net now allows advertisers to insert random links all over the page, that I checked the author's profile and realized that he had moved to ArchiveOfOurOwn.org.
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2d ago
It's not about enforcing a preconceived framework from the top down. It's about ensuring internal consistency, so that people can understand each other easily.
The ideal grammar Nazi hates "illogical languagisms" without regard to whether they are old or newfangled.
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2d ago
I can't say that I'm the biggest Pokémon fan. I have vague memories of watching a few third-generation anime episodes on television as a child, I caught all the Shadow Pokémon in Pokémon XD, and I've watched a fair number of gameplay videos (speedrun and competitive) on YouTube. That's the extent of my experience with the canon—enough that I probably could give correct labels to images of all the Pokémon from generations 1–3, but not many past those. I've read very little fanfiction for it, and none of that fanfiction interested me enough that I bothered to download it. The first four chapters of When I Win the World Ends do not spark much interest in me either.
(In fact, I'm not even the biggest Madoka Magica fan. IIRC, prior to reading Fargo DX, my knowledge of the magical-girl genre consisted of Sailor Nothing, Sailor Moon season 1, and scattered 4chan webms of Pretty Cure battles, in that order. It wasn't until after reading Fargo DX that I even bothered to watch Madoka Magica.)
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3d ago
"Physical discomfort" is not "harm significant enough to warrant assault charges".
Magic-school time-loop litRPG progression slop: Serpent's Coil. Twist: The protagonist of the story is, not the primary looper, but just a secondary looper who can be erased by the primary looper if he ceases to be useful.
Mildly interesting Harry Potter short story: The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Asking the Right Question
Potions is presumably based on medieval alchemy more than anything else. Slughorn's antidote lesson is even called "almost alchemical". Why shouldn't it look like it?
Besides which, the other thing that comes up a lot in fanon is tables of ingredient interactions. With the hundreds, perhaps thousands of ingredients used in various potions, those could fill whole volumes like the logarithm tables of the 1600s. But worse is having to keep track of all the interactions within a potion that might have dozens of ingredients. (Hermione's antidote in that same lesson had 52.)
But the thing is, that's not really how real-world chemistry works. In chemistry, you make one (or a few) intermediate products at each step (such as Syrup of Adoneta here), and you only have to keep track of interactions with those intermediate products, which themselves may fall into a few broad categories. That problem is still fiendishly complex (ask any pre-med student who's taken Organic Chemistry), but much more tractable, as it scales linearly rather than quadratically.
Even fics that go all-in on Snape mentoring Harry to become a potions master rarely give a reason for the brewing steps, rather seemingly pulling names of ingredients and interactions out of thin air. They rarely even address the question of why the Half-Blood Prince's canonical potions modifications work. Treating potions like real-world chemical synthesis could go a long way to resolving those questions.
TL;DR, if I had more free time and a degree in chemistry, it would be eminently possible to create a potions-centric canon rewrite every bit as rigorous and innovative as the Arithmancer-Verse was for arithmancy. But since I don't have either of those things, let this one-shot stand as a taste of what's possible.
Mildly entertaining magical-girl novella: An Uneasy Stalemate
The Bane known as Decay has watched his fellows getting slaughtered, and decided he wants no part in their fate. When he's ordered to cross the rift to Earth himself, he's willing to do anything to survive. There may be no chance of victory, but, with a little effort and a few acts very much against his nature, it might just be possible not to lose.
This is a short story, mostly following the POV of the very confused and slightly traumatised magical girls as they try to figure out what to do with their rather atypical enemy.
Mildly entertaining grimdark Madoka Magica fanfiction: Fargo DX
In the frostbitten American Midwest, ragged Magical Girls vie for territory to survive the unforgiving landscape. One such girl is Sloan Redfearn, who wastes away in no man's land after being betrayed by her best friend. Only one goal keeps her alive: Revenge.
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3d ago
Literally all of that information is on the statistics websites, which let you compare prospective new phones to your current phone. See the link in my previous comment.
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3d ago
I don't claim to have investigated this topic in the slightest, but my impression is that hazing is considered bad because the details of the process are known beforehand only to the existing members: the victims don't know whether the hazing is humiliating or harmful, and therefore cannot consent properly. This goes double in sports and military situations where there's no expectation of hazing at all so the victims never consented even to humiliation, and triple in military situations where the victim was drafted and never had the opportunity to consent at all.
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3d ago
I fail to see how throwing a gun away counts as directly menacing or endangering anyone nearby, especially with modern safety mechanisms that prevent the gun from going off when it hits the ground. (It appears that Pennsylvania does not have a specific law against "brandishing".)
At the supermarket, fruits, vegetables, and sometimes even packaged goods frequently have undergone enough rough handling that you'll want to skip one item in favor of another that nominally is the same. At the department store, vague labeling standards frequently mean that one clothing brand's sizing or fit does not match another's.
But none of that applies to phones. It is highly unlikely that they will be damaged in shipping. And the statistics sites give objective measurements in inches or centimeters, not just vague "small, medium, or large" labels.
If I have one complaint about my new Samsung A17 5G, it is that its vibration is noticeably weaker/quieter than that of my old Samsung A32 5G, forcing me to switch my text-message notifications from vibration to noise so that I don't miss them. But I never would have noticed that difference even if I had checked out the A17 5G in the store.
In the story du jour, the victims "had visible injuries consistent with being physically assaulted", and the text of the state's "hazing ban" criminalizes only "acts which endanger the physical health or safety of a student", without reference to humiliation. I believe past stories also have involved injury or death.
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3d ago
I think outrage normally occurs only when the behavior is harmful, not just humiliating.
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3d ago
Possibly relevant: Hundreds of LLM-generated pull requests in the repository for Duolicious
I am not much of a programmer, so I don't know whether these are good or bad.
This comment seems relevant.
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