benmmurphy
1mo ago
right wing housing theorem of theory sounds a bit like high housing prices suppress TFR and this leads to an increase in immigration in order to maintain high housing prices. not sure if the data is consistent with that. i guess left wing housing theory of everything wouldn't include immigration but include inequality and some other left wing focused issues.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
Someone could make a crazy work of fiction out of Garmin's life. This whole Calliope story in the Sandman (https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-sandman-episode-calliope-ending-explained) along with the scientology connection where his parents were apparently second in charge in the UK. They could have Garmin making a pact with the aliens to commit rape against women in order to spread an alien virus in exchange for his fame.
benmmurphy
6mo ago
That reference to running is weird as well because pacesetters are actually doing part of the work that a runner would otherwise do (https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/drafting-runners-research/). Though, I'm not sure having access to faster male pacesetters is that useful. I'm sure you could always find some female pacesetters to run at the same speed as a male for part of the race. But I guess the problem is they wouldn't be able to run as far at that pace and you are not able to continuously swap them out. My theory of pacesetters for faster times is they run part of the race at a desired pace and they take the lead in order to take some of the work away from other runners then they fall off at some point because they are not able to maintain that pace while doing the extra work for the whole race.
benmmurphy
1yr ago
I guess there are few mainstream politicians that believe in free speech as a principal. Most of them believe in free speech when restrictions on speech are used against them but happy to put forward restrictions on speech when they think it benefits themselves. Conservatives might look like they support free speech at the moment but its because they are the ones that mostly being screwed.
benmmurphy
1yr ago
Isn’t this just mainstream consensus thought or something even broader like people. There is always going to be a popular consensus I’m not sure if it’s possible to defeat.
benmmurphy
1yr ago
sorry, i edited my post so you replied to the pre-edited version so it looks a bit odd. i think the original petitioners made the appeal but i'm not sure if they are addressing just the 14th amendment issue or the 1st amendment issue as well. i've seen in some media reports that trump wants to challenge the 1st amendment issue.
benmmurphy
1yr ago
there is a big difference between messing about on a different continent and messing about next door.
benmmurphy
2yr ago
sarah is just GPT. KEKW. the funny thing is probably everyone in your timeline i just some kind of AI but just more realistic so just go with the flow.
benmmurphy
2yr ago
kiwifarms has also now been removed from the internet archive according to keffals (https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1567259373671522307)
benmmurphy
1mo ago
I suspect most countries now have some form of anti-trust legislation. Wikipedia has some details on the price fixing page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing However, there may have been periods of time where countries had strong unions but no anti-cartel legislation. I think Australia only cracked down on price fixing after 1974.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
I wonder if @campfire would be interested in doing a breakdown of the destiny lawsuit drama similar to the Daniel Green - Naomi King scandal. Another youtuber pxie (https://substack.com/home/post/p-155256128) has brought a lawsuit (https://www.givesendgo.com/suedestiny) against youtuber Destiny (https://youtube.com/watch?v=c5Jwhx3ZggE) over sharing explicit videos to a third party without consent.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
they need to get their people into the agencies controlling what the money is being spent on instead of using the OMB. short term they should be able to do something similar to impoundment from within the agency, however in the long run according to laws congress has passed they need to spend the money. but then they can just use their 'discretion' to spend the money in ways that are very objectionable. for example lots of agencies spent money on DEI commissars and that was completely legal. i'm sure trump and elon are not lacking in imagination.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
You can probably do this if you are producing. If you aren't producing and also not playing the game then things might be difficult unless you are working in a dysfunctional organization.
benmmurphy
10mo ago
are wide ranging parole conditions that look to violate 1st amendment rights unconstitutional? i found united states vs chaker which the ACLU/Cato/EFF joined but the court dodged the constitutional question. https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-chaker-2
benmmurphy
11mo ago
When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse
benmmurphy
2yr ago
being in the top 10% of players who have played > 1 game is not necessarily that good. it could still mean you are performing poorly compared to top humans.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
If independent means they are effectively run as a faction of the Democratic party are they really independent? It sounds like the US has some agencies where for the electorate it doesn't matter if they vote in the opposition party the agency will still be run by the Democratic party.
benmmurphy
1yr ago
the BBC were reporting about how Trump was breaking norms with his conviction. like he was the one that was acting rather than the one being acted upon.
benmmurphy
1yr ago
I guess he will get a gold coffin, nationwide protests and calls to defund the ATF.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
its crazy that Amazon is getting the blame. i think the primary agent responsible here is Alex. but if there is a third party to blame I think the schools should bear a little. the tax payer shells out good money to fund the school system and i feel like they are not doing a good job in instilling proper values into young children. the state has a lot of control over kids. they should really be propagandising them to not do this kind of shit. it could even be the state is doing the opposite and propagandising them into hating society which i don't think is very productive.
benmmurphy
6mo ago
It's also kind of insane that the Rotherham crimes were able to occur because there is a lot of red-tape you have to deal with if you have contact with children in the UK. Apparently, some of the men involved had criminal convictions which should have automatically barred them from having regular contact with children who are not their own. So not only were the police ignoring accusations of sexual assault but they were also ignoring crimes where the prosecution should be very straight forward. Also, people in positions of authority who deal with children are meant to be trained to notice signs of abuse and I believe there also mandatory reporting requirements. So the people who covered this up or ignored it not only fucked up their jobs but it is likely they committed some kind of criminal act as well.
benmmurphy
9mo ago
hasn't Trump built a bridge across the aisle. he is campaigning with Tulsi Gabbard and RFK. similarly, the Democrats have support from anti-Trump Republicans.
I don't even understand why something like clownstrike is necessary in 2024. It should be possible for the OS to be locked down to the point where it's not necessary to have an anti-virus running. And if you need some other security system because you are worried about zero day exploit from nation state threats then you should really consider your threat model because the clownstrike system is effectively a malware distribution platform. I guess its fine if you trust clownstrike and the US government but its a far from ideal situation. Clownstrike seems to have a very nice relationship with the US security state. For example they were brought in to do the hacking investigation by the DNC and provided attribution to Russia.
OS vendors should really expose some kind of interface that allows security vendors to perform these deep inspections 'safely'. I think linux has EBPF which I think some vendors have been using for providing file system monitoring and network monitoring.
Also, the SOC2/etc compliance mandates a lot of this stuff. We run most of our software on Fargate ECS where the compute is completely managed by AWS. I've been using this as an excuse as to why we can't run file monitoring and other garbage on our systems that use Fargate. I also suspect why these managed docker/managed kurbernetes systems are popular because potentially you can avoid some of the tickbox security work. We also run all of our containers with a read-only rootfilesystem so I don't even understand the threats that a file system monitoring system would be trying to remediate in our situation. Technically some kernel exploit could allow the root filesystem to be modified even if its read only or AWS employees could fuck with us but I suspect in these cases the file system monitoring could also be trivially bypassed.
benmmurphy
1yr ago
There is a nice culture war troll angle with some parts of the Rust programming language community being associated with leftist political drama. Rust is a popular safe language that solves most memory safety issues and some thread safety issues. I can see someone authoring a bait piece about taking my 'freedumb' to use C++ from my cold dead hands and forcing me to use communist Rust.
Photos remind me of the Capitol from the hunger games.
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