ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
8mo ago
You don't think that the conditions on reserves are the responsibility of the Federal government, or you don't think that they were bad, or what?
How familiar are you with Canadian history?
ulyssessword
3mo ago
They just don't enjoy the friendly relationship with the media that the progressives do.
That's like saying a business is run amazingly well, but can't make any sales. A friendly relationship with the media (or at least positive coverage in a wide-reaching format) is an essential part of many protests. If you can't do that, then your protest is failing at one of its core goals.
ulyssessword
4mo ago
Maybe that should be your first priority, then. The fact of the matter is that the government can compel you to work, morals be damned.
ulyssessword
3mo ago
More "rationality competence is systematized winning".
If a protest's goal is to get people to show up and raise the profile of an issue, then your comment only focused on the participants and not on what effect they have on the wider world. I'm not fully convinced that conservatives are worse at effective outreach given the loss of prestige of the mainstream media, but those (alleged) failures can't be dismissed by pointing to the challenges they face.
ulyssessword
6mo ago
How far do you have to walk to touch grass? If it's less than half a block, it's suburban IMO.
ulyssessword
8mo ago
What are you talking about? Do you think that they were hopping in a time machine to get to their "home" in the 1860s when they were attending school in the 1960s?
Of course the conditions improved in a hundred years. You've correctly identified that it's simply ludicrous to deny that, but I'm not sure why you felt it was relevant.
In fact, let's imagine an alternate history: Colonization, settlement, and the Treaties happen like normal, but then the native population gets locked in and experiences zero changes in welfare/wealth/happiness/etc. from the pre-contact baseline. Would you think "Wow, the Federal Government is doing a great job. We haven't worsened their nasty, brutish, and short lives at all!"?
Maintaining the status quo doesn't meet my standards, and neither do the (frankly huge) improvements we have done in reality. This goes double when you cast your eye back a few decades.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
I am going to die in this game-like dimension has one of the most unique worlds I've seen, even if the plot is kind of generic. It was written by a physics teacher, and it has entirely new physics: gravity pulls you to the nearest surface, cold is just as real as heat, your lungs process lavi and oxygen doesn't exist, and my personal favourite: "
Generally, the differences from earthly physics show up in a controlled scenario (such as training), then surprisingly they also show up in real situations working exactly the same way. Like, wall-running past a pit is fine because the nonexistent floor doesn't pull you down, but surely
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ulyssessword
4mo ago
most Americans would be squicked out and there's literally no one pushing for it...Every politician who voted for that would be saying goodbye to their career and personal life.
Why? Every argument I can think of comes down to "because they don't believe sex work is real work", and the same arguments that would convince the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice would convince the Department of Corrections (and/or the voters upstream of those organizations).
I'm aware that the previous paragraph sounds like "without God, Atheists have nothing stopping them from murdering everyone!!!", but I literally don't see the limiting principle (assuming there is one).
ulyssessword
5mo ago
OP mentioned him getting a standing ovation
Oddly, that article (link again) never actually says who was arrested. If you read through word-by-word, all you can say is:
- Petgrave's skate slit the throat of Adam Johnson.
- Johnson suffered a fatal injury to his neck.
- A man has now been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over Johnson's death
Who could that man possibly be?? Any conclusion you could reach would just be wild speculation and couldn't be attributed to the Sun in any way, shape, or form.
ulyssessword
16d ago
Care to provide counterexamples? Preferably the official policy of a multibillion-dollar system.
ulyssessword
4mo ago
Yes, we call that slavery and are also very actively against it.
As I said downthread, it matters what order you do your goals in. If you succeed in prostitution-is-work before you succeed in prison abolition (etc.) then the scenario I outlined becomes possible.
Also, knocking off one example still leaves my other two, as well as the countless others I skipped over.
Ok, sure? Prostitution licensing seems unnecessary...
That's not wild. What would be wild is defining a Scope of Practice that excludes non-licensed people from undertaking the listed actions, regardless of whether they are paid or not.
ulyssessword
4d ago
Why did anyone make zooming in go in increments of 25% (100% -> 125%) and zooming out go in increments of 25% (100% -> 75%) without having them be discrete steps between states? Nobody wants the 93.75% size that you end up with after zooming in and out once each.
ulyssessword
15d ago
Such as...
ulyssessword
7mo ago
ulyssessword
8mo ago
Why would I engage with the horrors of pre-modern life? Residential schools were only shutting down around the 1960s, so it's appropriate to judge them based on contemporary standards.
ulyssessword
9mo ago
I don't know how, but I immediately pegged that part as a Christian criticism of Christianity. I couldn't see a New Atheist, Marxist, nonbeliever, or follower of some other religion making those points. In fact, it took reading your response (then rereading OP) to notice that an "attack" even existed because I've been hearing the same points from priests (and other faithful) for so long that it sounded like preaching instead.
ulyssessword
9mo ago
The entire split between "words" and "actions" is false, but that doesn't mean people (including me) feel that way. Composing a comment evokes different emotions than clicking a button, even if the results are identical.
ulyssessword
11mo ago
I'm more sympathetic to that argument when we have months of factfinding followed by days of debate on the minutiae of the event, like in a criminal trial. We don't usually have that much detail available, so we have to use something to fill in the blanks the rest of the time.
The flow of information from the "unknown" background to the actor isn't magic, it's just not explained in the text. For a more concrete example of how background characteristics can change the events in a way that aren't reflected in a description, consider:
Alice shot Bob after he approached her in the alleyway behind 1st street. She stated that she feared for her life, as he was carrying knives "in an obvious manner". Bob was a 23 year old male who...
The end. Everything else is background that she couldn't have researched (and even the age would've been a guess). Otherwise it might change your opinion that he:
A) ...had a history of mugging, a rap sheet as long as your arm, etc.
B) ...was a culinary student heading home from class.
I think that variant A was likely justified, and variant B likely wasn't. Do you think that both are, or neither?
ulyssessword
11d ago
You just need to accept that program state and file state do not need to be correlated.
Or I could continue to tilt at windmills.
I just have an odd feeling that, when you're using a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get style editor, when you see something you should also get it.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
Not sure why it’s not working for me.
Try it while logged out (or in a private window). Reddit's blocking functionality is a bit strange.
ulyssessword
3mo ago
Maybe
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It also shifts the comments rightwards to use up that space
ulyssessword
4mo ago
I like that idea for luminous intensity. The other option would be a number of photons, but I'm not sure how well that would work out.
For temperature, absolute zero (-273.15 C) is 0, freezing (0 C) is 100, room temperature (20 C) is about 107, and boiling (100 C) is about 136 (depending on elevation).
ulyssessword
6mo ago
Okay? 62% Christian - 46% YEC = 16% Christian nonYEC (very very roughly).
I didn't expect that to be a smaller subset of Americans and I'm still not confident in the calculation, but filter bubbles are salient because they break your intuition.
ulyssessword
6mo ago
One of the internal websites at my company only supports Chrome. Not "Chromium-based browsers" like Edge, just Chrome. IIRC, it was an effort to reduce development challenges, and getting 100% of employees to install a program is easier than building something with compatibility in mind.
Given the fact that User Agent switcher addons exist, I suspect that that practice has been increasing and will continue to increase in the future. There's not much point in having multiple browser engines competing if only one is allowed to access the websites you want without (the mildest forms of) "hacking".
The poor conditions in their home communities were also the fault of the Canadian government, so relative rates aren't a very convincing argument.EDIT: Nevermind, I've fallen for the narrative. Death rates at residential schools reached acceptable mortality rates by 1949 (Source Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials (PDF), p17, from this website).
(As a sidenote, my thought process was "Why the downvotes? Motteposters are usually smarter than that. I'll show them with FACTS and LOGIC." lol.)
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