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9hr ago
"They're the same picture."
I kid a bit. But not very much. Died hair, pride flags on chat flairs and hung on a couple walls, way more transwomen than you'd think, ICE warnings on group chats. We got it all in my office building. I'm not an AI techbro but I work for a major tech company.
TIRM
9hr ago
I did something similar with my first home. Thinking the housing market was overheated and there was a decent chance I'd end up selling it at a loss in order to move for work.
I was of course incredibly wrong.
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12hr ago
There's a pay wall. But anyways I assume it discusses Muslims literally not aiming and trusting Allah to guide their bullets. Which sounds incredible but supposedly enough Muslims have said it so it may be true.
TIRM
14hr ago
I've been to Beijing. They are so used to white people that they don't care and don't want to touch your hair. Maybe decades ago they were like that.
TIRM
14hr ago
I mean, I get your point but, cowhide shields and spears vs carbines. Yes: industrialized warfare stomps down on tribal warriors. Race war fantasies aren't that though. And now days the tribal warriors have AKs and technicals. They aren't going to be as vulnerable as during those golden few decades in which colonial armies had modern guns and the natives had spears.
TIRM
1d ago
which extinguished the junior security interest of the consignor, because he didn't file a UCC-1.
This is why sovereign citizens exist. A system so opaque and arbitrary that the cargo cult alternative to it is hardly more silly. Not in general, but for a few outlier examples like this.
Huh. So it is. Also LA. Not coincidentally both places that had public service announcements explaining that smoking fentanyl on public transportation is actually not a health risk to bystanders. Denying the possibility of second hand smoke concerns, but only for the very hardest of drugs. My google search about this panicked google and it thinks I'm on the verge of killing myself. Multilingual crisis counselors are avaliable 24/7.
In 2012, MMA fighter Ben Fodor, in character as Phoenix Jones, engaged in a street fight in Seattle; police officers did not intervene or make arrests afterward. A video of the fight went viral. The Seattle Police Department later defended their officers for not intervening, with a police sergeant being paraphrased as stating "a rarely used city law allows fighting as long as both people agree to it, no bystanders are hurt, and no property is damaged." Seattle Municipal Code 12A.06.025 appears to be the relevant statute.
Also in 2012, Gabriel Aubry and Olivier Martinez engaged in mutual combat and were not charged. In 2014, after Zac Efron had engaged in a fight in Skid Row, law enforcement officials did not make any arrests because they viewed it as mutual combat.
Once in my life I told a cop a homeless man was on verge of attacking people. He told me he has "a patrol to do" and would be back later to check up on the insane homeless guy lunging at people. He drove away. They just don't feel like helping; so they don't.
TIRM
1d ago
It is Afroman all over again. He has no legal ability to get the police to give him his money back or in any way face legal consequences. So instead he makes a dramatic fuss on youtube calling them fat and gay. He can't sue them, but he can shame them.
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2d ago
Yeah from what I've gathered knowing Indian immigrant tech workers it is lots of phone calls, in person meetings, meeting family members, etc. It's just not dating in a modern sense. There's a lot more involvement than "my parents assigned me someone".
TIRM
2d ago
Going by memory: that's Herod's stepdaughter fathered by his dead brother and I believe aunt through incestuous marriage. He then married his widowed aunt/sister-in-law. John the Baptist was killed for criticizing this doubly forbidden marriage; as young Salome demands his head after dancing. She's not a courtesan getting the king horny, she's his stepdaughter. Unless you imagined some higher grosser level of incest where he goes for his aunt and niece.
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2d ago
San Francisco is a haven for criminals. Cops won't even bother showing up for car break ins. Fill out that web form and watch nothing happen.
TIRM
3d ago
Teachers caught doing this are prosecuted. South Park nice jokes aside, this is taken seriously by courts and law enforcement.
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3d ago
According to baby care classes I took: they think it is largely accidental suffocation. Like falling asleep holding your baby and then shifting your weight so the baby's face ends up pressed against you. They lack the strength to reposition themselves.
TIRM
3d ago
Yeah some people here have a deranged understanding of the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The 'neighbor' is a member of the hated outgroup, and not respected members of the ingroup.
Jesus says "love your neighbor", this works fine in his time because "your neighbor" is literally your neighbor and it's probably societally adaptive
I would argue the opposite. Samaritans were reviled by ancient Jews. The Parable of the Good Samaritan was a subversive understanding of who is good and who is bad. A Jewsh priest and a Levite are upstanding respected members of their community. Then in the parable a hated Samaritan is named as the neighbor. The guy talking to Jesus won't even say the term 'Samaritan'; he instead in a roundabout way admits Jesus's point by saying he who showed mercy.
I am very much not ideologically aligned with the Catholic Church, but they may well be following a common understanding of Jesus's message. Consequences be damned as you correctly point out.
TIRM
4d ago
What’s your explanation for why it takes California a month to count votes
Mail in voting rules. "Mail-in ballots are valid as long as they are posted by election day and arrive to county election offices by 9 June" And a state law that allowed counties a month to count votes. So they took all month. Google says a recent law changed that to 13 days.
The boring literal answer is they choose this. They could chose not to, as 42 states don't allow this manner of post-marked mail in voting arriving long after election day.
TIRM
4d ago
I have no reason to think the Google maps team is in LA or that the LA Democratic machine has a hold over them. I think this sounds extremely unlikely.
TIRM
5d ago
no formal structure to any of it as far as standards and expectations go (and by that I’m not talking about selfish standards, I’m talking mature young adult standards that people used to have beaten into them)
My early 2000s history teacher had some point about how our generation no longer had a clear script to follow regarding relationships. And how that made dating and relationship forming harder for us. But he was optimistic that new norms would develop and future youths would find this easier.
Too bad he was wrong on that point.
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5d ago
This guy is the founding author of the project, and has been its primary maintainer for 30 years.
The vibe is that older retirement aged or approaching retirement aged people excessively love AI and are somehow blind to its faults.
It is a reversal of tech adoption in which the old are hyped and the young are hesitant.
And then he worked as a mercenary to kill more people and described his group as being for killing. He's not a subtle man.
TIRM
5d ago
California is shamefully slow at counting ballots. They are always this way. There doesn't seem to be a correlation between higher taxes, more state workers and actual state capacity.
My problem with them is all the ballot harvesting.
Thanks. Also that's much better than I would have thought.
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