ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
The video shows a violent confrontation initiated by the McMichaels.
Where? They weren't hitting him, they weren't even threatening him. You can make the argument that they shouldn't go around armed, and "arresting" people, but the fact remains he's the one that initiated violence.
ArjinFerman
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12hr ago
George Floyd? It should be obvious he is because people were actually arguing about it. There was a war element to his death.
Was there? I'm honestly not seeing one, unless I apply a completely different standard between that case and this. No one was saying the police should never be allowed to restrain a suspect, or on the other side, that they should be allowed to arbitrarily murder black people.
Some people said police shouldn't kneel on a man's neck for 9 minutes as the man pleads that he is struggling to breath, and others think it is an acceptable restraining method.
There is an actual disagreement over police behavior.
Not really. What I recall from the conversations here was a reaction that was essentially identical to yours: "Its a sad situation but nothing here seems unique or even too particularly culture war". It wasn't until the toxicology report came out that people started making the argument that the method of restraint he used had nothing to do with Floyd's death, and therefore was essentially fine. Progressives never really disagreed with that statement either, they just didn't address it.
So where's the war?
ArjinFerman
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13hr ago
But sure I'll answer yours
There's still an important part of this question you're not answering for some reason.
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
@magicalkittycat, hey bro, how come you answered pretty much every comment except this one?
ArjinFerman
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21hr ago
“Can store them” - eventually run out.
But certainly after much more than 36 hours.
“who says their starving” That is why you take out civilian infrastructure. Cut electricity, power, key bridges and suddenly your farms don’t have irrigation and the food disappears.
You can also easily store years worth of food.
So all you did was ignore the entire point I made of taking out civilian infrastructure. You just ignored it. You didn’t even counter that it would fail for x,y,z reason.
Your point is moot. Taking out the civilian infrastructure will not help you end the war.
How long would America last if a country had air superiority and bombed every power plant and oil refinery?
Depends on the war objectives. If the goal was to get America to retreat from some distant part of the world, that would work. If the goal was to conquer and occupy America, it would have been a nightmare for anyone that tried.
The current American goal of opening the Strait of Hormuz is closer to the latter scenario than the former.
ArjinFerman
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22hr ago
Too soon!
ArjinFerman
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22hr ago
Not a lot of tinkering this week, but I started the second approach on reworking the data buffers to optimize the bullet simulation.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
@FCfromSSC, since you pinged my last week, would you like regular pings as well?
ArjinFerman
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22hr ago
I'm afraid you were beaten to the punch.
ArjinFerman
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22hr ago
Not a clear example but your question makes me think of the Ahmaud Arbery case, where the killing was video-taped and no charged for months.
The video shows he got shot at only as he charged the shooter, and only actually got shot after he landed a few punches.
ArjinFerman
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22hr ago
I remember seeing a video, I want to say it was in Germany? of a non-white person engaging in a mass stabbing act of terrorism, the police arrived on scene and assisted him because they assumed he was being attack by the native white Germans (and got injured in the process).
The Mannheim stabbing (iconic photo included). The police officer actually died as a result.
ArjinFerman
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22hr ago
I was genuinely surprised when a search here for Henry Nowak turned up nothing given how throughly this has dominated the right-wing/MAGA media space for the last week.
There's so many stories that I just gloss over nowadays. It's been years since I noticed that somehow, no matter how egregious the situation, we never get a reaction symmetrical to the MeeToo / BLM / Smirkening / PrettiGood cases, so I don't even put pen to paper unless there's something I find personally interesting in a story.
Edit: I should add there is viral picture of henry being handcuffed floating around with his anemic, sliced hand visable (SFL, but pretty chilling).
That's an AI "upscale". The bodycam footage is far lower quality, and quite a bit less demonic.
ArjinFerman
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23hr ago
Can you make drones in the dark?
No, but you can store them.
Do starving populations riot for regime change?
Who cares? Are they going to stop you from shooting at ships from your secret underground bases?
Do starving soldiers still fight?
Who says they're starving?
It was winter so he wore a heavy jacket, and the bleeding seems to have been mostly internal. From the linked PDF:
The consequent bleeding flowed into his chest cavity. ,The pathologist, Amanda Jeffrey, found 1200 ml, or over 2 pints, of blood there.
Though I saw some mention of witnesses saying his mouth kept filling with blood (though after my first comment turning out to be false, I should point out it's only something I saw skimming the feeds, and don't have link for).
EDIT: Oh, actually it's kinda in the bodycam footage. One of the first things the killer's father says is "he has a mouth full of blood". Also you can hear him choking on his own blood.
ArjinFerman
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23hr ago
Its a sad situation but nothing here seems unique or even too particularly culture war
Quick sanity check: what is a "particularly culture war" situation. Was George Floyd one?
ArjinFerman
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23hr ago
Sure they can. You can stockpile supplies that will last you months, or even years, very easily.
ArjinFerman
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23hr ago
The strait would probably be open in this case.
Why? Has everybody forgotten that partisan / guerrilla warfare exists?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I am specifically saying “Not if you do war crimes”. We clearly can’t do regime change etc with just air strikes on military targets. But we do have the ability to bomb basically anything in the country. We can nearly completely cut power/water in Iran.
You said you can "end the Iran War", how do you propose cutting power, and ruining their infrastructure will do that? They have stockpiles, underground bases, and a fanatically devoted military. They'll keep shooting at ships until you mop them all up. I'm not saying you're unable to do that, but thinking you can do that in 36 hours is delusional.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
a fourth cousin you only met as an adult is not going to cause the same response as an adoptive sibling.
I think you got carried away with the example here. I'm pretty sure even explicit anti-cousin-marriage laws/norms don't prohibit relations between fourth cousins.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Oh damn. Thanks for the correction.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Digwa did these things, and hid information from the police, so it's a little more understandable that they made a mistake. In light of the Pakistani rape scandal, however, I also find it understandable if the public doesn't find it understandable, and really do suspect that the police have an anti-white bias.
Also worth mentioning, after Nowak died in their custody, they thought it important to search his phone for racism. When that turned up nothing, they went to his father to inform him of what happened, and searched his phone as well, hoping they can find some racism there. Whatever you think of their behavior in the heat of the moment, their action afterwards is not indicative of an honest mistake, in my opinion.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
That strikes me as wishful thinking. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan surrendered, they had to be taken, and each of them took more than 36 hours, as would Iran, due to their geography and population, if nothing else.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
What does "work well" mean, though. What's supposed to happen when you get the price right, vs. when you get it wrong?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
How is one supposed to go about answering that question? As far as I can tell the stock market is voodoo, and there is no "correct" value for a company.
I remain skeptical that he's Darwin. I understand what you're getting at, I recognize the similarity, but I maintain there are also differences in their styles.
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