ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
19d ago
No. There isn't a crime rate minimum for opening an adult bookstore.
Uploading your driver's license is a government-mandated risk to your privacy, while going to the bad side of town is just an unfortunate coincidence.
How does someone that blatant stay employed long enough to reach your house?
Doorbell cameras are in 1/4 houses, and let's say half report it. That means she could get away with it 8ish times, or about one full day of normal deliveries. How unlucky do you have to be to be in the first eight(ish) thefts of her career? Alternatively, how bad can the companies be that they let her keep her job after getting caught?
ulyssessword
20d ago
The usual progression for small organizations is:
- Some minor punishment
- Blacklist them, revoke their membership, ban them from the premises, etc.
- Commit to calling the cops if they return.
Any organization can (theoretically) do #2 on a whim and #3 if needed.
ulyssessword
21d ago
Have twin studies been ignoring that factor?
Yes, routinely separating people from their family and other support structures is slightly insane.
ulyssessword
21d ago
Can you be more specific?
How would social status vary more among fraternal twins than identical twins? Are there family dynamics that push fraternal twins apart (on whatever stats you use) while pulling identical twins together? Do fraternal and identical twins live in different climates?
ulyssessword
21d ago
Isn't the whole point of martial arts (at least some technical ones, like BJJ) to make this possible?
Same with sports, and yet regional U16 boys teams routinely beat world-class women's teams in hockey and soccer (at least).
Being better than every woman in the world at a physical activity isn't too outlandish for a man, and I'd bet that being better than every woman in a given city isn't uncommon among dedicated amateurs.
ulyssessword
23d ago
ulyssessword
24d ago
I've never seen a minivan on a jobsite here (working on new-built commercial/industrial buildings). It's all either pickup trucks or full-sized vans.
ulyssessword
24d ago
By my reading, only "officially", while the "true" agreement is for a simultaneous ceasefire as described in the previous sentence.
ulyssessword
26d ago
I thought it was a good effort at introducing something that may not have otherwise been discussed
I mentioned it downthread, but I literally don't know what the point was. Since you saw something interesting here, could you explain it?
ulyssessword
28d ago
Optimistically, we think that engaging with people you disagree with is worth your time,
Dang, my optimism was misplaced here. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be engaging with, as "the alt-right is bad" isn't a very interesting thesis.
ulyssessword
29d ago
"even if someone gives fully informed consent...they have the right to [revoke it]"
Heading off on a bit of a tangent, I've seen arguments like that a few times. They never quite sit right with me, or at least they feel incomplete.
When I see that argument, I imagine a hierarchy of agreements: at the bottom are mundane ones that anyone can agree to. In the middle are serious agreements that are restricted to adults of sound mind (legal contracts, etc.) because children can't fathom the consequences of signing. At the top are super serious ones that no living human could be expected to follow through on (e.g. that take on the violinist) because adults can't fathom the consequences of signing.
With that in mind, the fully-consenting-violinist arguments says that (by analogy) motherhood is a superhuman commitment that no adult should be held to, regardless of any indications they might make otherwise.
ulyssessword
29d ago
One can just say that parents should have...
Is your "should" borne out as a matter of fact? I don't think so.
You can argue that the asymmetry is unjust, but that's not the same as stating the asymmetry doesn't exist.
ulyssessword
30d ago
But the hallmark of authoritarianism is to expand the definition of "undesirable" to include your political opponents -
What's it a hallmark of when the definition of "undesirable" excludes literal criminals, classified based on their criminality (not as an incidental feature like MLK)?
I agree with your concern over the lack of process (are those people actually illegal immigrants? Are we sure?), but the intended targets are appropriate targets for persecution.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
You're just parroting the progressive line that more choices equal more freedom.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
The point of the turn signal is to signal, it's pointless to do when nobody's around so if you're completely certain, there is no need. It's hard to be completely certain however, so lean on doing it all the time to build habit.
A common story element among those with poor awareness: "I was driving along, then this car comes out of nowhere and..." No, aliens didn't teleport a car next to you. The car drove to that location and you weren't paying enough attention to note blind entry points and/or track their approach. (also, you didn't realize that the story would cast you in a negative light).
Signalling 100% of the time is the way to go, for exactly the reasons you laid out.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
well, my eyebrows rise.
How many of them?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
How would you compare something like content aware fill to inpainting or other AI image techniques?
Content aware fill is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, and therefore "not-LLM-like" to the public. Inpainting is part of Stable Diffusion and other AI models, and is therefore "LLM-like" to the public (diffusion models are practically LLMs, as long as you ignore what those initials stand for).
As far as I can tell, those two are technically identical, but the AntiAI side will treat them differently because one costs 1000x as much as the other.
For another complication, how about the Samsung fake moon tool, which is entirely constrained to the camera?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I don't know about that. I removed Reddit from my bookmarks toolbar, and my use dropped off a cliff. Sometimes a 10-second barrier is enough to stop an impulsive decision.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I thought the facehugger got you before you could finish typing your username.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Maybe it's just a skill issue, but I didn't get the joke.
How would you go from their comment (as written) to "it was self deprecating to link the really religious to the socially retarded" (as they explained downthread.)?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Probably because she thinks that's the stronger argument?
Generally, pro-abortion arguments are for at-will abortion, not for medically-required ones. Many ostensible bans on abortion contain exceptions for the health of the mother (and for some crimes committed against them), but those laws aren't what the activists are trying to promote.
I think brawnze is pointing out...That's how I read it anyway.
I read it as fullhearted participation. From the post (emphasis added):
When I meet someone with conservative leanings I have to determine what that guy's specific deal is, because there always is one. Redneck? Really religious? Too-clever-by-half contrarian? Socially retarded?
followed by a clarification that their judgment is deliberately rooted in bad standards.
It's usually difficult to distinguish people who are unserious jokers from those who have foreign (for lack of a better term) values that I'd like to learn about. At least unless they identify themselves.
Okay? So ban porn advertising on any site that targets children. I'm pretty sure that law isn't even necessary because websites have a lot more control over their ads than stores have over their neighborhood.
If a city council sorted their areas by crime rate and excluded adult bookstores from the bottom X%, then I'm pretty sure the (prospective) store owners would have a good case the restrictions are illegal. If the city pulled all its cops and banned private security from them, it would be a slam-dunk case.
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