Corvos
50m ago
Sorry, now I see what you mean.
That would make it more complex, certainly, though personally I doubt they did this. It seems a weird way of doing things in general and you’d expect them to demand this proof at buying time to prevent exactly this scenario.
The government is also aware that people don’t read disclaimers, and as a non-lawyer I would say that buying plane and hotel tickets signalled fairly clearly that Bartender expected to be able to get in. So I think even in that scenario he’d still have a decent chance.
Doesn’t matter. If it’s not very clearly flagged in advance, such that he couldn’t have bought it without reasonably expecting this turn of events, then it’s not appropriate under UK law.
In general if a consumer would reasonably expect X, and not-X isn’t both clearly flagged and legally appropriate, and he has accumulated financial damage as a result, then the seller is up shit creek without a paddle. Doesn’t matter what the terms and conditions say. You can’t sign away your rights as a consumer in the UK, especially not three paragraphs into the small text.
@MadMonzer, do you have any thoughts? The above is true as far as I’m aware, and AI agrees.
Corvos
1hr ago
Alternatively, or simultaneously, this sounds like something you could (threaten to) take up under the consumer rights act and equivalent protections.
They are incurring real losses for you by effectively changing the standards of the contract post buy. That is a very very shaky place to stand, it doesn’t matter what weasel words they put in the terms and conditions.
Corvos
2hr ago
Thank you! Much appreciated.
I think this was the category with different names for weed, different brands of cosmetics, etc. so that’s how I’m preserving my dignity.
Corvos
3hr ago
75th percentile in US, 79th in Anglo, 50th percentile among test takers on that site (?).
Greater than 70th percentile in everything except cultural info where I'm 8th percentile. I'm not sure what kind of upbringing I had but I think the test is saying 'sheltered'.
Corvos
3hr ago
About 1% if even that, I believe.
1 billion Jews is ridiculous, though, it'd be one in eight humans on earth. Perhaps in certain parts of America it feels that way - Rogan likely has disproportional contact with intelligent, unusual people and maybe that skews his estimates. But Israel would have to be the size of China.
Corvos
21hr ago
Sarker, Shrike, and Shakes sounds like a Victorian pharmaceuticals company to me. Or maybe a legal one.
Corvos
1d ago
Funny and catchy, but too long and strikes the wrong tone. I would have thought, “look what we have to do to defend ourselves” worked well for Palestine, while, “lol, want us to kill more of your boys? We can do this all day,” is very provocative from a country as essentially weak as Iran. Maybe they just don’t like playing the underdog.
Corvos
1d ago
Women may joke about being smol, but none of them brag about being cowards.
They can do. I was going out with a girl in Japan who reacted to quite a few things (including goldfish with bulgy eyes) as, “Scary!” which is Kowai!.
It was unfortunately only with the benefit of more experience and hindsight that I realised her intention was ‘scary (cute nuance)’ not ‘scary (I have the spine of a jellyfish nuance)’.
Corvos
1d ago
First thought: fiction really requires >3 people with an interest in acting and a vague talent at it. That’s not easy to do unless you’re in an IRL theatre troupe or university (The now-defunct Collegehumor for example).
Informational video is easier to do on your own. Even then, a lot of people are ex-radio stars.
Corvos
2d ago
I would love to see serial publications come back in. It's the engine that drives all the wildly popular Japanese stuff: manga and web novels are the source of everything and both are serialised. Main downside is that most of them don't have a planned ending and just die or decay into reruns.
Corvos
2d ago
Sure. I just had the bit of my brain light up that goes, "No! Somebody on the internet has made an easily-correctible error!"
The millenarian bit does seem to be at least partly real, though I'm quite prepared to believe it's over-reported.
You're [America is] on the side of a clearly fascist
Just being persnickety but I'm pretty sure a "clearly fascist nation committing genocide in the name of a crude ethnosupermacist theological doctrine" is referring to Israel.
That said, I agree that Dase is overstating his case. I personally always found his ideas interesting and his style to be an unfortunate barrier to the ideas, but I guess that's how he likes it.
In practice it’s more complicated than that. Immigration is disproportionately in the main cities and at the top and bottom of society. For example, of the heads of the four main UK political parties, i.e. the people who might become PM, 50% are not English in the sense I describe.* In practice, you only need one non-English person in a committee before asserting Englishness turns into a massive interpersonal conflict.
I agree with you that KMC’s wishes are ultimately doomed thanks to prewar immigration, but I agree with his assertion that, ‘having massively diluted my people’s share in and influence over America in the 20th century doesn’t give you the right to then do it again much harder in the 21st’. And I appreciate his willingness to state clearly that nationhood and national character is about more than a passport or being able to recite the magic words in the right order.
*Labour+Reform / Tories+Greens. Lib Dems are as irrelevant as they have always been.
Of course not, but IMO you have to remember:
- Modern heavy mixing is really very new. We’ve had mass movement of people for 130 years max. The Americans of 1890 were (I would think) overwhelmingly the Americans of 1776 or 1690. Similarly in the UK it’s the same: over time everybody’s English, still English, still English, still English, whoah holy fuck. Even the Irish and Welsh and so on didn’t immigrate that much and where the English emigrated to Northern Ireland you do see different ethnicity and bitter rivalry. I’m describing healing a recent massive discontinuity, which has vastly increased in scale only very recently.
- Of course nobody is exactly like their father, but even a grandson who moved abroad is going to be much more like them than somebody from god-knows-where. In America especially I observe a thought process that goes approximately: America is a land of pioneers -> everyone who comes to America is by definition a pioneer -> therefore they’re super-duper American and all is well. I think this is extremely superficial and surface-level. Creedal/propositional nations don’t work, because everyone interprets and responds to the creed differently.
To put it more provocatively:
You can paint the Stars-and-Stripes on any number of substrates: wood, steel, plastic, paper. For a while they will all look the same. But in fifty years they’re going to look VERY different.
Personally, I just miss an ‘Englishness’ we used to have. It brings me immense comfort and joy to go back to the countryside, which is still majority British, and be amongst my own familiar people. Then for work I have to return to London which is just fundamentally alien. Not just in its languages but in the attitudes and looks and behaviour of everybody around me.
We imported vast numbers of non-British and it’s now completely impossible to defend any sort of right to our country, our government or our institutions without stepping on the toes of people who don’t all hate me now but will the moment I suggest that Englishness should be anything more than a historical relic. We (the native English) lost our country, and the only way to even begin getting it back is to be able to freely distinguish between what and who is English and what and who is not. So I appreciate @KMC for being forthright about it.
Corvos
2d ago
You seem to be slipping between ‘national character’ in the sense of ‘at X we believe in building character in our students’ ie a chosen set of virtues, and ‘character’ as in ‘characteristic’ as a description of group traits.
You can simply go to countries and observe that different groups of people across the word have markedly different traits and that this is partially attributable to descent. Aggression, deference, conformism, stoicism, garrulousness, sensibility … these are not things taught purely in school. And what is taught in school bears a strong relationship to the traits of who decided the curriculums, who taught it, and who learned it.
Nobody is surprised when a child does something and people say fondly (or angrily), “he’s just like his father”. How can it be any different at scale? And why should people who liked their group, and the ‘character’ it had, not publicly lament its dissolution and call for reversing the damage?
Corvos
3d ago
I don’t know about American, but the English word is “foreigner”. It doesn’t refer to your passport.
Corvos
3d ago
Most obvious answer is supporting young communists, right? Find the politicians who might make it into the big leagues, give them a helping hand, make introductions.
Internships for young communists that require them to be just communist enough in public that they would have trouble walking it back.
Make educational materials available. Do the boring stuff that other orgs don’t want to do for them. Provide templates for charity constitutions and licenses.
Corvos
4d ago
You aren’t going to be doing this under your desk. If you’re renting the compute from someone, it’s a cloud service for all intents and purposes.
Personally I would love for a GPU revolution from AMD to make this stuff possible for consumers. Anything below 300b is surprisingly impressive but IMO just not good enough if you care about consistency and detail over 30,000 tokens. Has any interesting new model come out?
Yeah, reference points are hard. I once lost a general knowledge quiz for my team by getting us to the tiebreak and then being asked, “What is the distance between London and the closest point in Canada?”
I thought for a bit, tried to imagine them on a map relative to a journey in the UK I knew and thought, hmm, easily ten times that.
Said, “1200 miles”.
Teammates not best pleased.
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