jkf
1d ago
There are quite a few jobs that expose you to more risk than ICE agents face
And if you ask the HSE people responsible for those jobs what this risk of injury should be, they will say "zero", and do absolutely everything in their power to reduce it to that level in terms of procedures that they can identify/control. I strongly doubt that OH&S sees ICE much differently than other employers in this regard.
Considering that there are literally targeted hit attempts happening on ICE agents right now, I must say that the risk of being shot for an ICE field agent seems much higher than that of them dying of COVID, given that they trend young and healthy -- and yet...
jkf
3d ago
Either Cremieux thinks percentage of African ancestry is entirely unrelated to how African anyone looks (in which case, uh…)
Delicious horseshoe theory if Cremieux is indeed arguing "(observed) race is just a social construct, sweety"...
Unfortunately the right does not offer any solutions
The right totally offers solutions -- see that clip that was circulating of Charlie Kirk talking to somebody considering hormones; you just don't like the solution. (ie. talk therapy, find a way to be comfortable in your own body that doesn't involve intense, largely unstudied, lifelong pharmaceutical intake + extremely invasive surgeries, carry on with life)
The politicization is the reason that this hasn't been studied -- while there's no intrinsic reason such a study couldn't be done in an ethical way, you would struggle to get it by and IRB (due to politics), and even taking such a thing on would be a death sentence both career-wise and socially in the current campus/PMC political milieu.
Why are you blaming the right when the left has blocked all the paths (ed. other than the one that they chose, apparently for political reasons) to a scientific solution? "Burn it down and start over" seems like the only thing to be done in the current situation, and it's not the right that has brought us here.
jkf
5d ago
I can add the POV of an annoying agnostic (who's nevertheless been to various churches for various reasons) -- Unitarianism is a highly non-central example of a church.
Their services are weird and offputting even to non-Catholics. (IME)
jkf
5d ago
A provincial premier in BC was brought down (in part) a while ago because some shady builders in his neighbourhood built him a porch and then wouldn't send him a bill -- it was never clear whether or not there was actually anything in it for the builders, but I remember being like, "man, I could build a deck too -- is that really all it takes to get politicians on your side"?
jkf
7d ago
Yeah -- I'm kidding around a little bit on the shadowy kingpin part there, but now that you mention it I can't even think of a single person who does the "persuasion in enemy territory" thing from the left. Destiny as close as I can think of, and he:
- Does it on stream, so you can't shoot him
- Good thing too, because he's a really bad faith debater from what I've seen
jkf
7d ago
I take it that you live in some megopolis?
The Reddest of states still pulled like 20-30% for Harris, and I can assure you that lots of those people go out hunting like everyone else. (ie. not with stone tools)
jkf
7d ago
She was pretty much the definition of fringe at the time though? The amount of people undertaking an active terrorist campaign against The Man (tm) was surely << than the lizardmen, even in the seventies?
Uh -- did you find it funny?
Like, I'm all for funny jokes -- but isn't rule #1 of comedy that if you're gonna be edgy you do need to keep in mind that you also have to be funny?
Objectively speaking, that was not a funny joke.
jkf
7d ago
Just carpet-bomb the place -- make your $20M $200M and drop pallet loads of rice on chutes all over the place -- if people are literally getting machine gunned for food, they will figure it out if the odd bag breaks.
jkf
7d ago
Have the past 5 years not taught you that medical credentials are no guarantee against lying -- indeed they seem pretty well correlated when the lies are in service of a cause that the professional hodls dear? I thought you were all about Noticing stuff?
"What's the difference between God and a surgeon?"
jkf
7d ago
Uh, do they actually idealize themselves as Christian warriors?
I mean I'm pretty sure that the Hell's Angels draw more heavily on the Christian mythos than neo-paganism or whatnot?
"Christian warriors" may not be quite the right label though, I must admit...
jkf
7d ago
But the most likely problem's just the mainboard fan bearing.
Yeah -- did the, um, repair shop try replacing the fan at all? I could see just blowing it out on the first visit, but they cost like ten bucks -- just throw one in and see is what I'd do, but @striker gattsuru's test plan sounds good if you can make it buzz with the case off.
jkf
10d ago
Iterated prisoners dilemma absolutely involves knowing your opponent's strategy -- you need to figure it out first is all.
I suspect if you ask Nybbler he will be inclined to frame the American Left (collectively) as playing defectbot; personally I'm not sure that P.D. problems map well to national politics at all.
I think it's more that they literally shuffle around hunched over like zombies -- have you seen these people? It's pretty bad.
And no, I don't think they should beaten with improvised weapons, or even rounded up and jailed particularly (freedom ain't free!) -- but fent has certainly managed to noticeably degrade the public aesthetics of (checks notes) homeless drug addicts over the past several years, which is quite some feat!
jkf
11d ago
Musks's Tesla now doing transformers
Dammit, I was really hoping he was merging the car and robot product lines!
jkf
11d ago
Not sure where you're at, but historically I think this was specific to the Mohawk for some reason? Not sure if they're still at it, but they are famous for working on a lot of the original skyscrapers in NYC among other places.
jkf
11d ago
Utah isn't urban though -- hunting is probably ten minutes away from this guy's house.
Not sure that there's really comparable locations that have colleges in the UK, but I'd guess that a student living in Aberdeen or someplace would be able to get a stalking rifle?
jkf
12d ago
Ah sorry, I did -- like I said originally that number seems extraordinarily low despite given that there were plausibly (despite room for debate ofc) six qualifying incidents involving Trump alone!
jkf
12d ago
Enough evidence, when combined with his membership of the Republicans, to make the "most Westerners who want to shoot Donald Trump are SJWs" heuristic dubious? Yes.
Like I said, I think this is wrong -- you shoot the running right-wing Presidential candidate at a right-wing rally, you are doing left-wing violence unless (as with Hinkley) you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you... just wanted to shoot somebody famous, I guess? Prominent American Nazi Party connections, and Stormfront chat-logs about how Trump is a race-traitor would get you to "right-wing", but "general nutbar who picks a right-wing target" is not "centrist violence".
You've seen what that dataset looks like and how it's used -- the left-wing is not granting the same sort of charity to offenders of ambiguous personal politics who take on left-wing targets.
Anyways, my question was -- how many Trump assassination attempts were even in the data? You say there are only twelve incidents of left-wing violence left after your filter; you could just list them at this point?
jkf
12d ago
Thomas Crooks was not a left-winger, so that assassination attempt wasn't left-wing political violence.
I reject your premise -- you don't need to be a left-winger to do left-wing political violence. If you are trying to kill a (leading) right-wing political candidate, you are doing left-wing violence until proven otherwise. I'm mostly satisfied that Hinkley proved otherwise, although open to the possibility that he was bullshitting about trying to kill Carter -- it's a very unusual case though, and I can't think of any others offhand where somebody just wanted to kill somebody who was President.
Booth probably wouldn't have killed (checks notes) Seymour, and the two that you mention chose not to shoot at Biden.
Crazy though they may have been, they were left-wing and crazy.
jkf
12d ago
I would, again presumptively -- it's certainly possible that somebody might try to shoot a right wing candidate for not being right wing enough or something, but absent some compelling evidence I'd assume that shooting at a political candidate is in itself a pretty good sign that you are on the opposite side of the spectrum.
Yes -- but they run every workplace in the country, including ICE.
Yes -- and we made them (and everyone else) wear masks all the time a few short years ago. Now they want to wear masks to mitigate a larger risk, and you are telling them "no I don't like the aesthetics of govt agents in masks"? Get outta here.
The ambush attack at the ICE office a few weeks ago was not a murder suicide -- it was a targeted raid, and the the people doing it had a (fairly bad) plan for getting away with it.
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