ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
18hr ago
It's not a metaphor. You can "race mix" but the opposite operation does not exist.
The inverse operation is ethnic cleansing, it even matches the metaphor. It's unpopular enough that it doesn't happen practically ever, but it's not a hard physical law like entropy.
Stepping away from race, it isn't irreversible for culture either. Spend a few generations sending all the nerds to the Bay Area, the creatives to Hollywood, and the performers to Broadway, and you can create local concentrations of cultural traits that are far outside the national average. It may not be ethnogenesis, but it's certainly the creation of something.
ulyssessword
2d ago
I think they're talking in a technical sense, as a repeat of two weeks ago.
ulyssessword
4d ago
I think we both agree that the victim would have been privileged to use lethal force, but assuming he did not, do we only charge the perpetrator with simple assault since we know, with hindsight, that the victim wasn't in any danger?
There's a specific carveout for guns, but otherwise yes. If it had been a prop knife, an inflatable sledgehammer, or other imitation non-gun weapon, then it would be a simple assault and nothing more.
ulyssessword
5d ago
(FYI, it's spelled ulyssessword, with the second double-s)
suppose you have the same Hayes attack except instead of it ending with Gannon being shot, they roll around for a while and Gannon is either stopped or withdraws, and Hayes doesn't suffer any injuries.
That's an unreasonable level of foresight to base your actions on. Suppose that Gannon grabbed his skull and smashed it into the curb. Could Hayes have legally stopped it beforehand?
I'm actually okay with a light sentence if Gannon withdraws early. The court can know (with the benefit of hindsight) that it wasn't a serious attack, and treat it accordingly.
Hayes didn't have that hindsight. How is he supposed to tell the difference between your scenario and mine? I asked downthread if Hayes should have waited until he was dead or unconscious before defending himself, and I'll ask again here.
As another scenario, imagine that this shooting went the same until 4:27, but the officer fumbled his draw and the axe-wielder calmly stopped and explained that he had recovered a murder weapon (right here in his hand!) and urgently wanted help at the nearby crime scene.
There wouldn't have been a crime at all, and yet it was still a good shoot. Since I have no problem with (extremely stupid) non-crime justifying lethal force, you can guess what my stance on minor crime justifying it is.
If we say that punching and tackling are threats that warrant the use of lethal force, we are saying that they cause the same kind of apprehension that being shot at or threatened with a knife does.
Yes, depending a bit on the specifics. Gannon meets the threshold.
The logical conclusion, then, is that the criminal penalties for punching or tackling someone without causing injury should be similar to those that involve shooting at someone or threatening someone with a knife or gun without injury.
As I said above, the court has hindsight. It can know the attacker's state of mind based on the actions they took afterwards. If they took a couple swings then left, they weren't serious about the attack and can justly receive a minor punishment.
Simple assaults are among the most common cases prosecuted in the US, and if every case...
Aggravated assault make up about 25% of all assaults. The victim has access to some evidence that can distinguish between a ending-at-purely-simple assault and a soon-to-be-aggravated assault, but that baseline 25% makes me awfully apprehensive. Getting tackled and beaten on would very easily be enough evidence to tip me over to the "aggravated" side.
ulyssessword
6d ago
ulyssessword
6d ago
I can appreciate that the risk of being tackled, or punched, or kicked, or whatever is greater than the general public appreciates. But can you tell me with a straight face that it's comparable to being shot or stabbed?
The mere threat of being shot or stabbed is enough to permit self defense, you don't have to wait until you're bleeding out to fight back. He actually was tackled, not just threatened with bodily contact.
Actually tackling someone is at least as threatening as aggressively brandishing a knife or gun, and both might justify lethal self defense. If Gannon had been shot as he was approaching, then I'd be a lot more sympathetic to your argument.
ulyssessword
6d ago
And it's still not to the level where one can take claims that an objective person would have been in reasonable apprehension of death or serious bodily harm at face value.
Well then, call me unreasonable.
What is that level? Would Hayes have to be dead before he had a "reasonable apprehension of death or serious bodily harm", or merely unconscious? I don't see much room for escalation after rushing across the street, tackling someone to the ground, and continuing to fight with them.
Why not let a jury decide?
because it's bare-faced lawfare to charge people with a crime despite them acting good. Also, because there shouldn't be a reasonable chance of conviction.
Locally, there's a (possibly apocryphal) story of a man charged with unsafe storage of a firearm. Thieves broke into his house when he was away on vacation, stole his guns, and proceeded to commit crimes with them. The police thought that he did not secure the guns well enough to prevent access (obviously, since they weren't secure enough to prevent the criminals from accessing them), and charged him with unsafe storage.
He had to go to court to argue that a locked, properly installed safe is appropriate for storage, and jackhammering it out of the basement before bringing it to a welding shop to open could defeat reasonable precautions.
Do you support the (possibly hypothetical) police that saw a hole in the concrete slab, but decided to charge him anyways? Why not let a jury decide?
ulyssessword
7d ago
I'll take the propaganda every day.
I absolutely, unequivocally would not. I'd take stories of shamble-men when there are bandits or bears over targeted story selection (and novel definitions) about an unbiased algorithm.
One will lead to you avoiding a dangerous forest. The other will lead to you degrading the justice system.
ulyssessword
11d ago
If you're willing to pay $300/month for a license, Autodesk Inventor is pretty good (I use it at work). If you aren't, then Autodesk Fusion 360 is the next best, and it's terrible (I use it at home). Why is the distance constraint categorized with the lines and circles instead of the parallels and coincidents? Why is "horizontal or vertical" one button? Why do you have to reset your fillets to radius zero to select new edges? Why can't you make coils out of arbitrary shapes? Why do they have so many greyed-out options clogging up the menus (okay, I know that one: the free version is an ad for the paid version)?
ulyssessword
11d ago
Eh, bankruptcy is (in expectation) priced into the transactions.
In an efficient market, that's true. Is that even legal right now? I know that college admissions have changed over time (and between jurisdictions) between unmeritocratic discrimination being illegal and required.
I would not be the slightest bit surprised if charging previously-illegal immigrants the real cost of a loan (or just denying them) was blocked by anti-discrimination laws.
ulyssessword
11d ago
I had to see how she did the data collection on important metrics like "came in fluffer",
At least you know how that data was displayed, unlike the poor Mottizen you responded to.
ulyssessword
13d ago
I wonder if you could get around their censorship by citing Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
(Emphasis added)
It would probably be about as effective as just fucking accusing your teacher of a war crime.
ulyssessword
14d ago
Journalists are basically rehashing press releases and are doing little actual reporting.
An all-too common story:
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Journalist: "[Source] said [claim]"
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Me: and??? Were they correct?
If you're lucky, you'll get "...but [Source 2] said [claim 2]", but any analysis beyond that is rare.
ulyssessword
17d ago
That reminds me back when my class was fourteen and having debates on 'how to solve unemployment?' and one notion we got was "all the married women should stop working, that would then free up jobs for men".
Oh to be 14 again, when I didn't know the difference between the unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate.
ulyssessword
18d ago
If they could replace ads with a proof-of-work miner, I'd be glad to spend a cent (or even two!) on most web pages I visit. It's tons more than typical ads, too.
ulyssessword
20d ago
Wait a second. Doesn't Bitcoin have a record of every transaction ever? Couldn't you just look at the blockchain to see when you got your coins?
ulyssessword
20d ago
Measuring, maybe, but that's hardly all the legislature does.
I didn't set the standards we're discussing here. The claim upthread is "All political action is violence." If you didn't agree with that, then it would've been nice to know earlier. I don't have any reason to debate the fact that some political action is violence.
ulyssessword
20d ago
Nah. I can recognize the difference between organizing and directing people to assault others, and measuring environmental contaminants. The first one is closer to violence, if it was unclear to you.
As a practical issue, I often see "X is violence" paired with the (sometimes unstated) claim that "X can be resisted with violence". I'll admit to some motivated reasoning as my opposition to murdering parliamentarians bleeds through, but I still think there's a difference between being one step removed from fighting in a gang war and being a dozen steps removed from issuing a fine for corporate noncompliance.
ulyssessword
21d ago
You could try libtcod (python 3), which I found on /r/roguelikedev. It sounds like it matches what you're doing.
ulyssessword
21d ago
All [...] is violence
This is such a bizarre argument, particularly for one I've seen repeated again and again in different variations with negligible pushback. When they say "This movie may contain scenes of violence", they aren't talking about a parliamentary committee crafting legislation. When the FBI gathers events for inclusion in their "violent crime" statistics, they don't count voter fraud. People with a commitment to "nonviolence" have no problem voting, and they aren't regarded as hypocrites for doing so.
People have no problem with recognizing violence (or the lack of it) when they see it, but this novel expansive definition of violence keeps popping up.
... or at least the threat of violence. We've put a nice facade over it
A facade, and a wall, and armor plating, and a maze beyond that. Stalin had a facade of nonviolence as he was genociding Ukrainians, but we (practically) have the real thing. People don't think about the "facade" because there are genuine, strong social barriers to using (normally-defined) violence.
...I figured I'd pierce the facade and instead of people giving up violence for petty thing got more "Fine, I'm OK killing you".
One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens.
- Issuing a parking ticket and murdering someone are both X
- You should treat all X consistently
- Therefore...?
Bitcoin went up 500x in the last ten years. Are you worried about getting taxed on 100% of its value instead of (the right and proper) 99.8%, or am I missing something about how it works?
ulyssessword
21d ago
Frankly, MAGA has a lot more in common with fascism than being right-wing nationalist.
Taking Eco's definition, I would argue that MAGA checks about half the boxes.
That's nothing special, so does Social Justice:
- The rejection of modernism
- The cult of action for action's sake
- Disagreement is treason
- Obsession with a plot
- cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak."
- Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
- Selective populism
- Newspeak
Either those summaries are too broad to be useful, or some traits of Fascism have become broadly entrenched in our society, regardless of what we call the groups that embody them.
ulyssessword
23d ago
No significant amount of aid. The claim I've heard is that there's enough to serve as a fig leaf and no more. By any fair assessment it's an anti-Israel activist project instead of a direct humanitarian one.
ulyssessword
24d ago
I probably could've told the difference between nitroglycerine and nitromethane when I was 10, but it's not that big of a mistake to make.
How does that fit into a wider context? I see 7/7 Democrat wins. Were there just seven meaningful races? Were they expected to go D regardless of the current trends? Anything special about any of those races?
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