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Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
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5hr ago
were you to consider confrontation unfortunate, perhaps you may have waited to extract your child after the goblin had ambled off to carry out her fiendish acts of greed. This, however, I do not see as a just act. For if you were already in the process of removing said noble heir fit would be most proper for another to await the tying of their steed until the completion of your deed, prior to encroachment on your space.
Ah, but in this case I was actually loading, not unloading, my heir. I did see that the boomer's daughter was sitting in the passenger seat as I reached my car, but the driver was nowhere in sight and the daughter was locked in (airpods in and phone on), so I figured I was good to go. Certainly if the car was about to leave I'd wait for them, especially because then I could just open the door as much as I liked.
Dear Emily Poast,
As I got out of my car after loading my kid into the car seat, I was accosted from behind by a boomer who accused me of scratching her car, parked next to mine. Now, I did indeed have my door touching her car, since the spot is pretty tight and even my small car's door couldn't open to the first door check before it touched the car next to it, and it was basically impossible to get into the back seat with an infant while preventing the door from opening too much.
As it turned out there was no scratch on her car but we discoursed for a few minutes on the acceptability of touching other cars with your car door in the parking lot. In my view this is perfectly acceptable, and especially in parking lots with narrow spots if you have an SUV you shouldn't expect your car to be untouchable, though of course slamming doors into cars is unacceptable. Her view was that contact is never acceptable and she informed me that she raised two kids without ever touching another car with her door.
Seeing that we had reached an impasse, I informed her that I disagreed and drove off. My wife doesn't believe I did anything wrong, but she herself would never touch another car with her door.
What do you think, Emily? Is it acceptable to touch another car with your car door?
— Well-formed
sarker
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7hr ago
Canadian English.
You are telling me that in Canada "East Asian" refers to South Asians? Can you provide an example?
UK natives have a few names but "Indians" is not one of them.
Why would UK natives be called Indians?
sarker
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8hr ago
I'm confused about whether you are talking about US or UK English. I know that in the UK "Asian" means "South Asian" but I've never seen "East Asian" refer to South Asians in any dialect.
sarker
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8hr ago
India and Bangladesh are unambiguously South Asia.
sarker
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1d ago
Beware good china and cutlery that can't go in the dishwasher. Heaven preserve us from such "gimmes".
Jewellery can be a pleasant way to store value in a way that's more visual than a stock certificate.
Jewelry is generally quite a terrible store of value. Frequently you can only get scrap value back when you try to resell it.
sarker
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1d ago
The simple point I'm trying to make is that unless the phosphate levels have been measured during past algal blooms and found to be normal, we can't conclude that currently elevated phosphate levels represent any change at all. It's a mistake to reach for a unique explanation for this particular algal bloom unless we're sure that the conditions that led to this one are not the same as the conditions that have been leading to algal blooms for a hundred years.
CNN is reporting elevated phosphate levels in the pool; it seems a reasonable inference that these levels are elevated versus the water that's being pumped into the pool
"Fertilizer has been running off the grass and elevating phosphate levels, and causing algal blooms, since 1922" appears to be fully consistent with all the facts. Of course, I have not checked if previous phosphate readings were normal.
it seems logical to me that the phosphate is being added by the vandals.
This assumes that there has never been elevated phosphate in the pool previously. Is that the case?
sarker
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2d ago
The phosphate levels are elevated compared to what? To ordinary water, or to this pool that's had algae issues for apparently a hundred years?
those explanations really ought to account for the observable evidence.
You don't have to posit a novel explanation when the phenomenon in question is not novel.
sarker
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2d ago
Why do we need a conspiracy here? Hasn't there been algae in this pool all the time?
“The nanobubbler technology has successfully destroyed the algae bloom that has plagued every pool reopening since 1922—most infamously the Obama-era pool reopening, which resulted in massive algae clumps taking over the pool’s surface following years of construction that cost taxpayers millions upon millions, only for the pool to become broken and disgusting days later,” a spokesperson said.
Also, I assume the national mall is covered in security cameras. Surely they would have caught someone dumping bags of fertilizer in there if that was what happened?
sarker
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2d ago
Does the US enforce jurisdiction over citizen tax evaders?
sarker
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3d ago
The German Tourist doesn’t pay US taxes.
They pay sales taxes, of course. Oh, you mean income taxes? Well, 40% of American households pay $0 in income tax.
The undocumented migrant isn’t paying taxes on their savings account in Mexico.
Maybe, but they are in fact required to do so, and I don't think your view would change if they did (or if they didn't have a savings account).
sarker
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3d ago
The Ptolemids seem like the closest parallel. They managed about 300 years before the Romans knocked them over and IIRC kept it, ah, in the family, so to speak.
sarker
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3d ago
Is London such a shithole that you run the risk of being robbed during a craigslist meet?
sarker
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4d ago
I'm not so post-modern to think everyone's idea of a good time has equal value.
TIL de gustibus non disputandum est is a postmodern sentiment.
Nevertheless it remains narcissistic to view his refusal to hang out with you through the lens of how it affects you.
Of course not. I will happily take them up on their offer of a quiet cocktail another night. If he asked me to game with him some night, or do a quick DnD campaign I would even though it's not my highest preference for an evening.
In all likelihood, he will never ask you to do this, though.
sarker
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4d ago
So if I’m in Mexico, what’s the “coolest” experience I can have on a given day with very little extra effort?
I knew a guy like this. He basically viewed doing "quirky" and "interesting" stuff like this as a way to present an interesting facade so that he'd have stuff to talk about with other people. Kind of like the guys who buy a Rolex as a "conversation starter". He was (and, I assume, still is) a total schmuck.
Anyway, point is that not everyone shares your view of what a good time is, and it's narcissistic to view this as some kind of personal sleight.
sarker
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5d ago
I would strongly encourage you to read this post about how Australia's laws unintentionally drove one of our posters to attempting suicide. This stuff has real consequences.
I'm sorry this happened to him but the guy sounds like a real piece of work and if I found out my buddy wrote and collected books about kids raping each other I'd never talk to him again and I surely would make sure he's never left alone with any kids. This stuff is totally fucked up and I'm pretty sure the vast, vast majority would agree with me on this whereas most people don't care about GTA.
Whether or not this requires criminal penalties is debatable, but not everything that is unacceptable should be illegal.
sarker
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5d ago
DnD didn't make people satanists, nor did Doom. Grand Theft Auto did not product a wave of, well, grand theft auto. Porn is blamed for lots of nasty new sexual behaviours - mostly choking - but the direct evidential link seems weak and not in the direction that is given (it's a girl-desired thing not a guy-desired thing).
Perhaps it's my viewpoint from 2026, but, none of these seem as shocking or disgusting as sexualized depictions of children. It seems obviously false that there is no media you can consume habitually that has an effect on your behavior or beliefs. Ultimately that boils down to an argument against the existence of culture.
you think 10% of Japan and many, many teenage boys who like goth loli should be literally locked in a mental home.
Japan seems like a profoundly ill society, so I'm pretty comfortable biting that bullet.
In practice, many people privately consider these arguments hackneyed and their force has been dropping through the last century
Indeed, but most people still see consuming this stuff as disgusting and at the very least indicating people who shouldn't be alone with children, even if they don't think it should be literally illegal.
sarker
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5d ago
That's an argument against production, not consumption. In any case, it's easy enough to come up with harms from consumption of fictionalized sexualized children (see other responses in this thread).
sarker
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5d ago
It's pretty normal to ban distribution or possession to prevent production - look at ivory.
I'm not familiar with countries that ban possession of ivory, although its sale is often illegal.
There's also cases of goods whose possession is legal but production and distribution is not (for example, Portuguese drug policy).
Interest in the Benin Bronzes declined considerably as it became known that they were essentially made by the worst slavers in Africa
I mean, surely people always knew that those people were slavers? It's not exactly a secret what they were up to.
The bronzes are very prominently displayed in the British Museum and Nigeria apparently wants them back. They seem fairly popular though not at an all time high of popularity. Of course, the Benin bronzes were only indirectly enabled by slaving, so it's not really the same as your other examples.
consumption of actual torture porn or gore stuff is both rare and heavily frowned upon even when that doesn't affect production.
Indeed, but the consumption of fictional sexualized depiction of minors is heavily frowned upon by the general public even though it's been normalized in certain toaster fucker parts of the internet.
Neither argument applies to fiction, though.
Sure, but there's other arguments that apply to fiction. Such as:
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People who produce or consume fictional disgusting material may have something wrong with them and belong in an institution rather than among a community of like minded people
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People who produce or consume fictional disgusting material may eventually move on to producing or consuming real disgusting material
Etc.
sarker
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5d ago
That's an argument for banning production, not distribution or possession.
sarker
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5d ago
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
sarker
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5d ago
So, you are presumably okay with people possessing and distributing actual CSAM?
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6d ago
Specifically, college educated womens' voting patterns (in the U.S.) vs. those of non-college educated women.
Surely you are smart enough to realize that these groups are not the same but for the college degree, or, to put it simply, that correlation does not imply causation?
I encourage you to see what Caplan writes on this in The Case Against Education. You can even feed the EPUB into your favorite LLM if you don't want to read it.
This is a fairly popular place, so you'll be waiting until closing time to find three adjacent spots.
I did indeed park before she did and with no car in the spot she later parked in, but both cars were in the middle of their respective spots, so I can't fault her for parking in an open space.
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