ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
1mo ago
The board could say whatever it wanted, but it can only regulate the things that the State delegates to them. For example this Act (pdf) does not give them any power to regulate radio broadcasts. Heck, they can't even set their own fees: It's fixed at $100 in section 36, and would require legislation to change.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Thanks.
Yup, that's pretty much as described. "Shouts at" is a bit of a stretch, but that's just a nitpick.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I invite you to see the footage for yourself.
Link?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I was going to comment the same thing.
There's a bit of a blurry line if a licensed therapist also offers unregulated life coaching services (as should be their right, but I don't know if professional licensing boards share my opinion), but at minimum they should have a different line item on their bills if they're flipflopping between professional and unconstrained services.
That categorization doesn't just affect the new law. It also affects insurance eligibility, protections on patient confidentiality, answers on various government forms, etc. ("Have you ever been treated by a medical practitioner for a mental health problem?" "No, but I did have a crisis of faith and talked to a priest over the course of several months. It's completely different.")
ulyssessword
1mo ago
"...moral duty to resist them" can definitely stretch to treason. I don't think the recent attacks on the convoy or facility count (they're regular crime instead), but scale it up by 100x and it would.
It could also mean something as milquetoast as refusing to volunteer information and help, which is completely protected conduct.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
There are no shortage of other immoral groups it's morally obligatory to resist as well, of course.
Why didn't you choose one of those to compare to? Choosing one with an obvious parallel then ignoring it so hard you can't recognize it when prompted is an odd choice, to say the least.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
What is the connection between ICE officers and Fugitive Slave Act enforcers, that it's appropriate to compare their moral legitimacy? Why not any other immoral group, like payday loan lenders, patent trolls, or NIMBYs?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
...and your stated reason slave officers were immoral is because they were doing their jobs, and their jobs are bad. Drawing the parallel that you believe ICE officers are immoral because they are doing their jobs, and their jobs are bad is the most obvious reading IMO.
I can't see how you could miss that. In fact, I can't see what else it could possibly be, so I'll ask directly: What is the connection between ICE officers and Fugitive Slave Act enforcers, that it's appropriate to compare their moral legitimacy?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I remember Netstack's top level comment how the vibe shift even affected his parents.
And that wasn't about how great she is. It's about how great other people find her (and yes, how she brought the vibe shift). There were a couple real examples downthread from that, but the overall sentiment in that thread is still negative.
I think you're presenting a fringe opinion (on the motte, not in the States as a whole) as a consensus, or at least a major fraction. The threads I saw were overall negative on Harris, though some comments did contain more equivocation than I remembered.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I distinctly remember posters here telling me how great she is.
I found it! Perhaps the only comment on the entire Motte that is unequivocably pro-Harris. Oh wait, I found one more, and a third that might count.
I suppose the plural is valid, but I expected a lot more than that when I skimmed through the entirety of those two threads.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
In response, someone in the red tribe claimed that “the Obama administrations lawsuit in Ohio is meant to prevent active duty servicemen from being allowed to vote early”.
I couldn't find that in your link, either as a direct quote or a more general sentiment. Could you point to it more directly?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
It's not surprising, it's appalling. The asymmetry is worth pointing out for that reason. And if it causes people to lose trust in the system? Tough shit, become trustworthy if you want to be trusted.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
The crucial mistake of the J6 protestors is that they were all incredibly stupid. The BLM rioters at least had the sense to operate primarily at night, conceal their identities, and choose locations that weren't guaranteed to be under God-level surveillance.
Organized, premeditated crime that takes active countermeasures against police actions is worse than unplanned or spontaneous crime, and yet I've seen it trotted out again and again as a defense of leftwing riots. It's not like you can cancel out a murder by also obstructing police, tampering with the crime scene, and conspiring to hide the shooters. That's just three extra crimes.
Do you know what functional states do when faced with (effective, organized) criminal opposition? They take it down. If regular policework isn't enough, then start creating specialized departments for it. Maybe it shouldn't be called the "Organized Crime" department since that name's already taken, but where are the police organizations dedicated to deliberate, organized criminal leftwing riots?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
actually knowing how the mechanics work is a game-breaking superpower
See The Power of Ten for an exploration of that. TL;DR of every book in the series: The MC is a gamer dropped into a (real) world that runs on that game's logic. By using their (relatively modest) starting boost and (absurdly OP) mechanical knowledge, they grow powerful, save the world, and ascend to immortality.
I'm not sure about recommending that series based on its merits, but it absolutely 100% demonstrates that point.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I really enjoyed my Agape Ring run of DS2.
In short, you run a particular sequence at the start of the game, get the Agape Ring early on, and permanently lock your progression at the lowest tier of matchmaking (<40k souls collected).
I found it much better than new game+ for a good challenge.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I don't agree with this mistake/conflict categorization, but if you are going to use it, what I'm saying that conflict theorists don't seem particularly interested in understanding what freedom of speech was supposed to be either.
(emphasis added)
I think you're confused here.
Mistake theorists believe that everyone shares the same goals, and free speech is a useful tool for finding the best solutions. They are interested in free speech because of that.
Conflict theorists believe that various groups want to promote their own interests to the exclusion of others, and free speech is giving weapons to the enemy. They are not interested in free speech because of that.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Did I breach an obligation to A by these actions?
That doesn't depend on either freedom of speech or Open Ideas.
That sounds like a non-answer, but it helps narrow your opinion down a lot: Your idea of Freedom of Speech and Open Ideas is constrained to a narrow field (everywhere except interpersonal relationships?). I've seen it linked to fully-general ideas of tolerance and non-judgment before, which do apply to things as simple as friendships.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Let's try a (maximally cynical) example out for size.
It is the year 2003, and you have been selected to lead Operation Get Iraqi Oil. Do you nuke the country into a glassy plain? I suspect that would make it harder to get Iraqi oil than staging an invasion and military occupation, but I'm curious what you think.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I'm with you. Sometimes people might just be actively working to corrupt your data, and the ease and proportion of fraudsters matters. It took a lot of effort to create the hoax, and I suspect that a large fraction of her source material is genuine and mostly-accurate (accounting for sensationalism). Given that she wasn't looking for super-rare niche events, that suggests that most of her stories were true.
If they wanted to show she was spreading fake news, then it would have been much more effective if they found organic false stories instead. Heck, it would've been much more effective (but very dishonest) if they didn't advertise how much work it took to create one fake story.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
- Create an ultraprogressive story out of thin air (furry teachers spreading it to children, IIRC)
- Pitch the story to LibsOfTikTok as if it was a real example of leftwing overreach.
- Wait for the lie to be amplified and spread.
- Expose that LibsOfTikTok spread a lie, and therefore is not up to journalistic standards.
- Ignore the fact that they helped create that lie, but still claim journalistic standards.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
The longer the gay acronym, the leftier it is. "LGBT" is table stakes at a score of 4, "LGBTQ" is a bit more progressive and scores 5, and the CBC uses "2SLGBTQIA+" for a score of 10, with bonus indigenous points for putting two-spirited people first. "LGB" is downright rightwing at 3 points.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
Were any of those assault victims targeted for their work, or was it simply because the perpetrators didn't want to get arrested? The July 4 ambush, the recent convoy attack, and the firebombing in LA all involve the perpetrators seeking out ICE and attacking them. The traffic-stops-turned-fights later in the linked article feel like a more typical story of assault on an officer.
Protecting your identity protects you from people who want to track you down and kill you. It won't help you against people who would rather not go to jail right now. I don't think those two categories of assaults are evenly split between ICE and regular police officers.
Do you know if there are a couple hundred examples of people going out of their way to attack police officers in that 79k, or are they ~all done by people fighting whoever happens to be right in front of them?
ulyssessword
2mo ago
Police officers are, I imagine, more likely to be targeted for their work than ICE agents are, and police officers do not wear masks.
I've heard of two recent attacks on ICE, for a group of 6500 agents. There are about 850k police officers in the US, and I suppose there might have been 260 attacks on police officers that I haven't heard of in the same period, but that seems really high.
Even aside from those numbers, I'd suspect that ICE gets all the generic "fuck the police" in addition to the ICE-specific hate.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
I'm told by reputable posters he's been a couple months from Bidening out for almost a decade.
link?
I wouldn't call it a pure medical board anymore, regardless of what its name is. If you know of any medical and telecommunication boards, let me know, and I'll say everything they do is either medicine or telecommunications. Otherwise I'll chalk it up as an absurd hypothetical.
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