jkf
11hr ago
It do be that way -- what if everyone is innately straight, and some butterfly stimulus turns the odd one gay?
jkf
11hr ago
The first is that the introduction of technology makes a lot of things that used to be the domain of trained professionals increasingly accessible to the general public. Take land surveying. Anyone of average intelligence can pull a deed from the courthouse, buy pro-grade survey equipment, and locate a pin, which is probably enough to do the trick if you're trying to see where you can put up a fence on your own property. But the field is deceptively complicated, and when the same guy decides to go into business for himself as a surveyor with no more training than basic YouTube tutorials, he's asking for trouble.
This seems fine? So long as that person is not allowed to claim to be a licensed land surveyor who's surveys will be accepted by, like, the Land Titles Office (much less the neighbours) -- consumers can probably decide for themselves whether such a survey is of value to them? (hint: the only time anybody is likely to get something surveyed it's because some government agency (or maybe the neighbours) is forcing them to; if that agency won't accept the results the survey is worth zero dollars
jkf
11hr ago
I mean it's pretty antagonistic, but his points seem valid enough -- it's not so much "you suck" as "what makes you think you're so great". Which seems like a pretty valid thing to ask somebody who's proposing some radical shit on thin rationale?
If you guys really want a forum of witches, tone-policing the antiwitchers when they make mild criticism of the witches would be a good first step.
jkf
21hr ago
HOW could that NOT have an effect?
The obvious answer is that 120ppm is really not very much -- CO2 is essentially a trace gas in the atmosphere. Would adding 120ppm of neon to the atmosphere have noticeable effects? Maybe it would, IDK -- but it's not obvious one way or the other.
jkf
2d ago
They do it yearly around here -- property values have about doubled since 2020, and I can assure you that municipal budgets have not. It's more like 'create a (bloated) budget and divide by total assessed values; everyone pays that percentage' than 'multiply assessed values by X% and bloat the budget to match'.
Either you live in a very unusual place, or are suffering under a very common misconception of how property taxes work:
https://www.mpac.ca/en/UnderstandingYourAssessment/PropertyAssessmentandPropertyTaxes
jkf
2d ago
The rise in property taxes has nothing to do with the rise in property values, and everything to do with bloated & useless municipal governments spending beyond their means. If more boomers understood this, maybe we would have less cities run like Toronto and Vancouver.
jkf
3d ago
It's not true (but often said) that the Canadian national identity consists entirely of 'don't be American'. This is however a major component, so I think your scheme would mostly fail due to lack of interest. We can visit whenever we'd like; why buy the cow when the milk is free only like a dollar a gallon?
You could probably convince some gunnuts to go gay over it, but that's probably not what OC is after.
I want to be wearing goggles that won't shatter into my face like sunglasses
Riiight: Just things everyone knew in the 90s
Face it, you've been fed a bag of shit since the day you were born by these safetyists -- retvrn to the 90s, you will not regret it. (nobody worried about people ramming you from behind then either, but everyone also knew that the uphill skier/boarder is the one at fault)
jkf
5d ago
Am very white, can work up to a tan such that I can indeed spend all day outside without any accessories and not burn. Some SPF-15 for the first couple of weeks and it's all good. I honestly can't imagine living in such fear that one feels one needs a bunch of crap to safely go outside four months of the year.
jkf
5d ago
Especially Australian safetyists -- their COVID response was intensely dumb, why should one believe them on their longstanding crusades against similarly low-risk 'threats'?
jkf
5d ago
No, he's right -- I also ski very fast and have been doing so since well before helmets were a thing -- I used to ski more in places with a lot of hard things (ie. rocks), where helmets might have been a good idea -- but falling on snow is not a problem that needs solving with a helmet. I ski hard and still fall from time to time -- used to be much more, I was quite silly when younger; I've fallen a lot in my life, and taken some long rides too. No helmets, no concussions.
I do also think that the modern prevalence of helmets has contributed to collision risk -- depending on design it may or may not be peripheral vision related (you know you don't strictly need to wear goggles to ski either, right?) -- but hearing and general situational awareness seem to be much more of a problem now than in the past; ie. I can ski up right next to (helmeted) people on a cat track and they don't notice me until I'm several yards ahead of them. It's like they are skiing in a bubble.
Anyways you are neglecting the 'feels good man' factor -- I am very sad that people growing up in the last 10-ish years will not experience a nice spring day in a sweater and sunglasses with the wind in their hair out of manufactured fear; this is what they've taken from you.
jkf
14d ago
It has the great advantage of being interesting though -- "long 'high quality' screeds on boring topics" vs "interesting and often insightful off-the-cuff remarks on hot CW issues" is an easy choice for me, personally.
jkf
14d ago
Our overall traffic is down, but I think we lost high-quality users and shitposters in about the same proportion.
Probably true, but when you have a group of high-quality users that would fit on a school bus vs an infinite tide of shitposters (who seem to be more inclined to set up alts and get even more shitposty when banned, rather than just saying "fuck those guys" and carrying on with life) this is not a sustainable state of affairs.
jkf
17d ago
(see how Tata is closing down their old labour intensive steel furnace and replacing it with a more efficient highly automated furnace that's going to pump out a lot more steel with a lot fewer workers)
I thought the steel plant was profitable and produced very good (ie. difficult to replace) steel but was being shut down for burning coal and is being 'replaced' with an electric one that will use mindboggling amounts of a scarce resource while producing inferior steel to the existing plant?
jkf
17d ago
Off the top of my head -- Peterson himself of course is also facing legal reprisals.
jkf
17d ago
Remember years back when Peterson said that x new law means everyone will get arrested if they misgender someone in class or w/e, and then no one was ever prosecuted ever for anything? At some point, you have to notice that the meteor keeps not coming, despite Dear Leader's repeated predictions that it's due any day now.
As of this moment Peterson is on the hook for a $5000 fine and losing his medical license -- what a dum-dum, he was sooooo off base.
jkf
18d ago
In the case where the woman was drunk enough to make decisions she might regret later, but not comatose or whatever you are trying to conflate the (much more common!) situation with by "can't count to ten" or whatnot, the person she is hurting is the man. A rape charge for something she agreed to at the time is pretty harmful.
Why is it the man who's responsible for evaluating the woman's level of agency in her current state? Aren't people supposed to do this for themselves?
(Please don't motte & bailey this anymore; nobody thinks it's ok to have sex with someone who's literally losing consciousness -- I am talking about intoxication well below this state. If you want to continue in that direction, you need to very clearly specify what level of intoxication you think makes it categorically no longer OK to have sex)
jkf
18d ago
In most other situations "I made a bad decision because I had too much to drink" does not carry much legal weight. Assuming the women in your scenarios do in fact consent "in the moment", how can you invalidate this consent without also invalidating (for example) a woman's decision to go driving while in such a state?
ie. 'drunk woman decides to drive and crashes into a pole' --> prosecute her (I think?); but 'drunk woman decides to sleep with some gross nerd' --> prosecute him (?!)
Your framework seems to be denying women significant agency; seems a bit patriarchal to me.
jkf
19d ago
Today it's mostly around nailing people to trees and poking them with spears -- other times I probably don't think about them as much as I should.
jkf
19d ago
Most of the parties in question pulled snap Covid elections to cement their mandate (despite the dEadLY pANdemIC going on at the time) -- the timing in Canada anyways was such that a hypothetical politician with some shred of understanding about inflation could have hung in there with a Sweden-level response and reaped the rewards of a strong dollar (vs the US, always a political win) and low inflation.
You're right that most of these people probably believed in what they were doing, but the fact that the consequences were eminently predictible and they did it anyways leads me to believe (or hope at least) that some politicians might notice the correlation between "not believing stupid things" and long term electoral success/legacy. Politicians who go from 'strong minority govt' to 'scrabbling to maintain second place' are not generally treated kindly by the history books.
Bobby at least would be banished to the Kennedy kids' table at every Thanksgiving from here to eternity...
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