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4d ago
Gideon the Ninth was an extremely pleasant surprise. Harrow the Ninth less so. Hoping Nona the Ninth can bring it back.
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9d ago
In order to stop conspiracy theory disparate impact racism you're advocating for explicit racism.
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10d ago
An important thing to keep in mind about Law:
PDF: The Law is a Fractal: The Attempt to Anticipate Everything
For instance, we might consider a municipal park for which a city had adopted the rule, “no vehicles are allowed in the park.” We could treat “Point 1” on the number line as representing the act of driving a car through the park and “Point 2” as representing refraining from driving a car through the park. The rule would assign the label of “illegal” to Point 1 and “legal” to Point 2. ^5
As has been famously pointed out,^6 these two points and the rule itself are insufficient to cover all the specific factual situations that might arise involving vehicles in a park. At least they are insufficient in any reasonable rule system.^7 What if, for example, a police vehicle has to enter the park on an emergency call? If we want an appropriate, specific rule, we would need another point, between Points 1 and 2, corresponding to the factual scenario, “A police vehicle entering the park.” Point 1.5, let’s call it, to which we would assign, like Point 2, the label “legal.” But what if the driver of the car were a thief who had stolen it from the police? That specific scenario would fall between Points 1 and 1.5, perhaps 1.2, and would be assigned the label “illegal.”^8
And so on. Given the numberless potential variations, foreseeable and unforeseeable, in “vehicles,” motives, and circumstances, there can, provably,^9 be no end to the possible specific scenarios—and thus no limit on the number of rules that would result from trying to write an appropriate one for each possible, distinct fact situation.^10
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12d ago
I've been on a huge fiction candy binge. I don't know how many books a year I was reading per year for the last 10 years but it's been pretty intermittent. Start with the birth of my second kid I gave up all mobile gaming, and have read what I feel is an unhealthy amount. 7 Dungeon Crawler Carl books and on book 12 of He Who Fights with monsters in 5 months. Wife even says I've been doing more than my fair share around the house and taking care of the kids. Still feels like wasting a lot of time.
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12d ago
He Who Fights with Monsters 12. Seeing as I've read 12 of these things I am having fun but he can't help himself insert some reddit tier lib takes. They are infrequent enough that I find them manageable and he is semi-self aware. He's gotten better about not rehashing the previous chapter (I'm sure this is because of how he releases on patreon) at the start of every chapter. I think it was book 10 I could basically skip the first couple pages of each chapter.
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12d ago
Could be a good career move, wouldn't be the first leftist terrorist to get tenure.
Guy is facing the rest of his life in jail and people can't help want more regulations.
I maintain that social decay is a result of wealth. We don't need anyone else to fulfill Maslow's bottom rung. Virtually no one has starved to death because of poverty in the United States in living memory. There was inertia that kept the systems going - hyper-available dopamine hits may have been the last straw - but now that the incentives for maintaining a social circle - going to church, joining a fraternal organization - are gone, atomization is just the natural outcome for a significant portion of society. Good news: their genetic lines will end. Bad news: they're going to vote in horrible policies until they shuffle off this mortal coil.
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17d ago
Depending on the day it could have been the majority. The prosecution admitted to 15, defense said it was higher.
Malheur Trial Defense Team Seeks More Info On Government Informants
prosecutors said in court the government used 15 confidential informants during the occupation.
Similar many if not most of those in the kidnapping plot of Gretchen were feds. The feds admitted to at least 4 defense says 12.
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24d ago
I've always suspected that a material portion of the fatalities are suicides.
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24d ago
Caveat: Generalizing
As pointed out men tend to drive more but also I would say it's just an extensions of women's general tenancy to nag and complain.
Proverbs 21:19 "Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife."
Remember "10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman" [Reddit threads] and then the pushback when people realized almost all the cat callers were men of color?
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1mo ago
And then there's a decent change they're a paper tiger like it turned out the USSR had been since at least the 1980s.
Their latest gen weapons are very very efficient and the whole military industrial complex rot that infests the US military doesn't really exist over tere.
This is not clear whatsoever.
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1mo ago
That's not a great example. "Equipped" is cheating and that women has higher testosteronal than any natural man.
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1mo ago
Sauer: "It's a new world, 8 billion people are only a plane ride away"
Roberts: "It's a new world, but it's the same constitution"
ACLU lawyer: "let me be clear, we need to go with the original public meaning"
It would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating.
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1mo ago
Never underestimate 'There can't be any "members" of Antifa. It's just an idea, not an organization, bro.'
The top comment in /r/law on reddit: https://archive.is/FNOnK
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1mo ago
is a distraction from Trump maybe getting a massage from a 17 year old once 30 years ago.
This is an unfair portrayal. Significant portions of the left think this is a distraction from Trump violently raping young teenagers.
I think it feels like an over representation because they have a higher propensity for being terminally online.
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2mo ago
I think you're perhaps inadvertently reinforcing my point. magicalkittycat is taking a very literal understanding of the terms that I would assert is outside common parlance; at least outside of the common parlance of a significant group of people.
There was a "shooting"; shots were literally fired, multiple people were hurt. As you note a mass causality event, but within valid definitions of the terms "mass", "shooting", and "casualty" synonyms.
It's like when people post a stat about "gun violence" that include suicides. Yes, some literal definitions of violence can encompass suicide but it's not the norm.
As I pointed out with magicalkittycat initial example, the shooter got 5 years. While injured vs fatalities might make no meaningful difference to magicalkittycat it makes a massive difference to the justice system.
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2mo ago
Primarily because there is a maximum of one fatality other than the shooter in any of them.
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2mo ago
These are not "traditional mass shootings style school shootings" and Cristo Rey High School is more gang bangers being gang bangers.
| Location | Deaths | Injuries | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen High School | 1 | 2 | Shooter (suicide); two students critically wounded but survived. |
| Antioch High School | 2 | 1 | Includes the shooter (suicide) and one 16-year-old female victim. |
| Florida State University | 1 | 3 | Shooter killed by police; three victims wounded (one paralyzed). |
| Lincoln University | 1 | 6 | One fatality during Homecoming; multiple gunshot and stampede injuries. |
Sailer's Law...
Sentenced to 5 whole years!
Does it really need to be spelled out why the "average school shooting" is not covered? Because the "average school shooting" are gang bangers doing everyday gang banger shit, and not what people actually think about when "school shooting" is invoked.
Finished He Who Fights with Monsters 12... I liked it, did we really need to introduce trans pronoun norms to a whole universe?
Started Red Rising. Been many people who have raved about it, I should have seen it was young adult, but I wish someone would have warned meIt's Hunger Games for Boys . I don't hate it but I started to see where it was going and got a little annoyed. I hear things shift for the latter books.
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