jkf
9mo ago
Anyways, you know what else is not normal? Following 12 yo girls around the park taping them with your camera in order to report them to the police.
Even allowing your hypothesis that the girls are l.h.c. (likely) and had the weapons to impress their friends (rather than fend off rapists) -- how about just, like -- leave them alone?
I guess the current parlance would be "don't be a Karen" (particularly when you're in somebody else's country) -- but I prefer good old MYOB for pithyness and broad applicability to all of life's struggles.
jkf
9mo ago
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/003/125/092/9a1.jpg
"Bulgarian man" in the same sense as the "Swedish men" who are always doing grenade attacks and such.
(or the "Welsh man" involved in the actual knife violence in Southport for that matter)
jkf
9mo ago
Now that I think about it, I think Scott is also screwing with the rules of the PD scenario -- lots of things about it break down when the prisoners are allowed to communicate with each other.
jkf
9mo ago
eh, I still don't really buy it -- Scott is just handing Bob an idiot ball here. The correct response to the excuses is "yeah, be that as it may I said I was playing tit-for-tat and that's what I'll keep doing. If you want us to enter a defect-defect spiral that's your call".
jkf
9mo ago
Define "new"? I personally tend to drive pretty old things, but my spouse has had a 2015 and 2022 that I've never had to outsource anything on.
jkf
9mo ago
"First do no harm," my guy -- "not that effective" is a very different from "may have killed my wife/kid".
Then there's the fact that Russia and China adopted mRNA vaccines several years after the West.
Russia and China didn't adopt MRNA vaccines in any serious way at all, unless I'm missing something?
Why wouldn't they take their perfect opportunity to screw over the West by boosting claims that mRNA vaccines cause novel harm
Who says they aren't?
jkf
9mo ago
Defect:cooperate pays the best (for the defector), or else there wouldn't really be much of a dilemma, would there?
jkf
9mo ago
Even if she's (probably) lying, Alice likely isn't stupid enough to pull the same trick on the next turn, so in the short-term, Bob's best bet is to hit cooperate on the next turn too.
If Bob thinks Alice is more likely to cooperate immediately after her defection, isn't his short term best bet to also defect immediately since there's less risk of accidentally aligning his defection with one of Alice's random ones and ending up at defect-defect?
jkf
9mo ago
If there was a concerted effort at any point in time, it would have to have been a pan-national cover up of frankly astonishing proportions.
What do you think the consequences would be, if the populations of the countries that were forced to take this stuff (and strongly encouraged to give it to their children) were to find out that it was even somewhat harmful?
Rivers of blood my man -- this is not a game.
And if that is not worth covering up (on an individual prospiracy type basis; not overarching organization is needed because the incentives are the same everywhere), I don't know what would be.
jkf
10mo ago
Naturally loquacious writers :: LLMs
are as
homely girls :: MTFs
modernity, amirite?
jkf
10mo 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
10mo 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
10mo 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
10mo 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
10mo ago
"This is the abuse conciliatory encouragement department -- arguments is across the hall"
jkf
10mo 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
10mo 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
10mo ago
Killing people just because they ask you to has always been kind of fraught though -- particularly doing it exchange for filthy lucre.
jkf
10mo 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!
This is a hand axe; I suppose a modern equivalent would be just an ax head, with no handle? Not a commonly seen tool.
'hand axe' is not an idiomatic usage for small axe/hatchet anywhere that I'm aware of, and I'd be unsurprised if whoever wrote that wikipedia page is not a native speaker.
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