jkf
3d ago
Naturally loquacious writers :: LLMs
are as
homely girls :: MTFs
modernity, amirite?
jkf
4d ago
It's not the cell companies that are (mostly) doing this -- y'know those apps that ask permission for your location data with the disclaimer that they might share it with (meaning sell it to) third parties?
They do that -- it's a common & easy monetization strategy.
Technically you can 'opt out', but the app won't usually work if you refuse it access to your location; I guess you can put a fuzzer on it if you want, but hardly anyone does.
jkf
5d ago
If your parents are over 60, they are presumably no longer expected to be taking a hand in managing your online activities? (if not, better not tell them about The Motte!)
I'd think that this level of technical incompetence would be a pretty big outlier for anyone much younger than that (ie. current parents of young children) -- anyone I know born after 1970ish can certainly find and navigate parental controls if they have to.
jkf
5d ago
Bunker fuel seems to be something like $500/MT -- so 6 tonnes saved per day is ~$3k I guess?
Not nothing, but the NPV might be a bit tough; not sure how much these sails cost?
jkf
6d ago
The left just won another majority.
Small comfort lies in that it was not in fact a majority -- nobody else is keen to force an election at the moment, and Carney is vulnerable on way too many fronts to easily juggle.
Unless he's a lot more competent than he looks, I give him 18 months.
We're probably still fucked (2019 was our "let's roll" moment, and we... did not roll) but there's still faint hope.
jkf
6d ago
"This is the abuse conciliatory encouragement department -- arguments is across the hall"
jkf
10d ago
I doubt the same is true of the Mauritius.
I mean, if push comes to shove something like "y'know all those planes full of bombs we have sitting on the island we're leasing from you? the neat thing about bombs is that you can drop them absolutely anywhere!" seems like it would be a lot more effective on the Mauritanians than the Brits?
jkf
10d ago
Parent commenter seems to mean "lawyer brained" as "treats the law as a totem or religion, sacred and inviolable, the font from which all good springs"
So, bad lawyer-brained?
jkf
10d ago
Killing people just because they ask you to has always been kind of fraught though -- particularly doing it exchange for filthy lucre.
jkf
11d ago
Fair. If I had to come up with the no-gay-guy-would-wear-this setup, it'd probably involve an emphasis on frumpy and especially too-large clothing, but that's neither actionable nor useful advice for anyone in the real world.
Don't tell the President!
jkf
11d ago
Not a bot, am reading -- just haven't seen anything much to argue with so far.
jkf
11d ago
"Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart."
I'm pretty sure the "glazing over the truth" sense is comfortably pre-bukkake -- quite a nice motto for the coming Jihad to boot.
jkf
11d ago
I mean I'm more sympathetic to the latter for sure -- but "thou shalt not kill" has a little more weight of history behind it than "two weeks to flatten the curve" or whatever.
In my heart-of-hearts it's probably that it smells like a sales-job, as much as anything -- and I hate those.
jkf
11d ago
You might argue the paramedic consents by virtue of their job, which is true, but their time is also finite and could be better spent on a QALY-basis helping alive people.
And the Swiss presumably have better things to do than killing people?
Also the person who finds you might be a family member, friend, or random innocent, none of whom contented to this or are paid to deal with it, which is just pure negative utility.
Perhaps this encourages the suicidal people to rethink their course of action?
In an case, life and death are both messy -- and I'm not a utilitarian.
jkf
12d ago
At Pegasos we philosophically believe that no one should be prevented from a VAD with us
The tipoff that these people know that what they are doing is not quite right (or at least that they are running against thousands of years of ongoing overwhelming consensus, and run a strong risk of hanging from a tree themselves if the public at large were to start paying attention) is that they will never call a spade a spade -- "VAD", "MAID", whatever other cutesy acronyms they might generate, the fact is it's suicide (at best) -- why not call it that?
jkf
12d ago
It's pretty much a given that somebody is going to have to deal with each and every one of our corpses at one point, unless (maybe) we get buried in an avalanche and churned into a glacier while on some sort of Hock submarine ride expedition; even then, you can't really say whether somebody might come across your mummified corpse 30,000 years from now.
It doesn't strike me as obvious that paying a Swiss person to murder you and deal with your corpse afterwards is less harmful than a paramedic finding you poisoned in the tub or something -- in fact the sterility of it all is a big part of the problem for me.
jkf
12d ago
People were getting their accounts slapped with some regularity though -- not sure whether anyone got a site-wide perma, but there were a lot of site-wide temp bans being eaten due to drive-by report-to-admins of tranny stuff. That makes meaningful discussion of these issues difficult even if it weren't the case that admins were warming up to kick the sub itself. (which I doubt they would have thought twice about if it came to their attention)
jkf
12d ago
Framers do the same thing setting trusses, when nobody's looking -- it's pretty safe actually, and when you think about it there's not really a useful place to anchor a harness at this stage of construction.
jkf
13d ago
In case anyone doubted my judgment
I did, so good job on the radar calibration.
I do have a question though -- I thought you guys were operating more on the "Mission fucking Accomplished" paradigm for ban evasion? IIRC darwin was doing the same thing for some time in a very obvious way, eventually admitted to it, and still has an active account?
So, like -- who cares? The post in question seemed OK; why are you banning based on (admittedly well-calibrated) vibes at all?
jkf
13d ago
You want more weird German puns? This is how you get more weird German puns...
jkf
13d ago
I'll refer to my earlier reply to the (limited) meat of s_m_h's OP, trimmed to remove the commentary on the quality of his writing:
from the perspective of an actual Canadian who knows a couple of elderly & sickish people who did choose assisted suicide I can say this:
While I'm in favour of people being "allowed" to do more or less anything they want (direct and deliberate harm to others aside), in practice the whole thing feels... not good, in the pit of my stomach -- mostly I don't like the "assisted" part all that much, nor the moral preening that seems to go along with it. Could be that people just don't know how to do this thing correctly yet, but I'm not sure that's all there is too it.
The motte is a cancer riddled 96 year-old in constant pain, marking the minutes and waiting for the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death -- the IRL bailey (IME) often seems to be rather different from that.
You are partying in the motte at the moment; the bailey (which based on the Canadian experience is not a long drive from there) seems rather different, and much more concerning.
I will say though that the cases I've been personally near to feel roughly as uncomfortable as those around the people I've known who offed themselves -- which is pretty uncomfortable, and made worse by the institutional sanction that seems to border on celebration surrounding it.
It's a very Boomer thing somehow, to duck out once the waters get a rough. I won't say that anyone's wrong to do it, but I don't think it should be sanctioned. Both of the people mentioned above could have easily put a bullet in their own head if they wanted it that bad.
Army stuff I guess?
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