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My friend calls it "exhibiting getting shot behavior", and it's remarkable how bad it is. There's definitely a selection effect because boring stops don't get posted. You've got your freak atrocity's like Daniel Shaver and Philando Castile (granted I've seen people claim they just needed to follow orders as well) but most of the time these people can just not sit still. Or like this guy "Let me reach deep into every pocket" while the cop has his gun drawn on me.
Like everyone around me... Dungeon Crawler Carl. Started after Christmas on Book 5 now. It's fun, and surprisingly not battling the culture war that much.
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2d ago
Trump strong-armed Netanyahu into stopping because he just loves Iran so much?
Why would Trump have to strong arm Netanyahu into stopping if Israel was getting its shit shoved in?
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2d ago
It's kind of inline with some of the zeitgeist of the day.
https://archive.is/JQyEC#selection-561.0-565.189
Defense attorney Daniel Small said the most relevant evidence was recorded later, when security officers heard the wounded man shouting the racist slur and captured it on their body cameras as he described the incident.
"The most relevant evidence" is that after a man was stabbed, he called the stabber a bad word.
I was actually relatively impressed how long the conversation stayed under my initial post, almost exactly 24 hours before the next one. Often I see it happen within hours. I'm sympathetic to starting a new top level when the thread has fallen below the threshold. I'm less sympathetic to starting a new post on the same event when a top level on the event is still the newest.
The takes really are coming from every direction.
Why was he filming with his cell phone if he felt she was an imminent threat?
Dude literally switched his phone from the right hand to the left, just before the lunch comment, so it would be easier to draw and shoot.
So I'm not just calling out one side. What's the best evidence that Renee Good's vehicle actually made contact with Jonathan Ross? This one isn't super controversial but what's the solid evidence that the women filming is Renee Good's wife?
One, not relevant to the point I'm making.
Two, keeping your weapon hand free is one of the most basic LEO practices probably since the concept of LEO and the concept of wearing a weapon came into existence.
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4d ago
To quote my earlier post:
Those who are less inclined to give deference to law enforcement argue that fleeing the police shouldn’t be a death sentence, and that usually in these situations the LEO has put himself in front of the vehicle.
I have seen those who want to give the least amount of deference to law enforcement assert that LEOs will place themselves in front of vehicles not just "stupidly" to keep the suspect from escaping, but to manufacture the opportunity to kill the suspect. I think this vantage gives strong evidence that there is little evidence that Jonathan Ross was attempting that. He is filming as he circles the car, he is only in front of the car for a relatively short amount of time, and Ross's position in front of the car is as much Renee Good's doing because she backed up as it is his doing.
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6d ago
Yesterday the narrative for Democrats was that she was a "Legal Observer", what that is I don't know.
Direct to Rep. Ilhan Omar's Tweet.
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6d ago
A woman in Minneapolis has been killed in an altercation with ICE. I don’t really trust any of the narratives being spun up. Here are two three angles:
Angle 3 (Emerged as I was writing this)
This is actually a fairly discussed type of shooting. Law enforcement confronts a person in a vehicle, the LEO positions himself in front of the vehicle, the person in the vehicle drives forward, and the cop shoots the person. Generally, courts have found that this is a legitimate shoot. The idea being that a car can be as deadly a weapon as anything.
Those who are less inclined to give deference to law enforcement argue that fleeing the police shouldn’t be a death sentence, and that usually in these situations the LEO has put himself in front of the vehicle.
I have a long history of discussing shooters in self-defense situations [1] [2] [3] and also one of being anti-LEO. However, I’m softer on the anti-LEO front in the sense that within the paradigm in which we exist, most people think the state should enforce laws, and that the state enforcing laws = violence.
The slippery slope for me: “Fleeing police shouldn’t be a death sentence”
“Resisting arrest shouldn’t be a death sentence”
“If you just resist hard enough, you should be able to get away with it”
People really try to divorce the violence from state action, but the state doesn’t exist without it.
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7d ago
Criticizing insider trading in the stock market is one thing but criticizing it in prediction markets is another. Harnessing insider information is a reason Robin Hansen pioneered the concept of prediction markets.
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7d ago
I understand why utilitarian arguments exist against insider trading, but deontologically I'm having trouble getting to it being unethical.
Any regulation can be rationalized. Burqas are mandated to mitigate lusting after women because lusting after women leads to all kinds of untoward things.
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7d ago
Investing wins long term because of overall market growth, not information disparities. Wisdom of the crowds only works in unbiased markets. The famous examples work unless you shove a bunch of lead weights up the cow's ass or put ping pong balls in the middle of the jar of jelly beans. Insider trading increases accuracy, reducing volatility on net, long term. This is good for long term growth.
Prediction markets are zero sum to begin with, so I don't expect them to survive long-term without subsidies
I'll take that bet /s Gambling is zero sum and is one of the most persistent markets that has ever existed.
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7d ago
Does this sound insane to anyone else?
Using congressional insider trading as a rough proxy, the vast majority of people are vehemently against insider trading. People have a knee-jerk reaction to unfairness (caveats abound) and thus insider trading must be prevented. Being a libertarian, I'm much more comfortable with unfairness than the general public.
I believe a big issue with child rearing discourse - relationship discourse for that matter - is that people really need to define what they are talking about. Before this one sleep training blew up on my feed where the range of believed practices seemed to be from letting your 3 week old scream until they pass out to not immediately running to pick up your six month old if they made any noise whatsoever.
Complaining about 10 minutes is weird, but it's not like I spend hours playing with my 2 year old. On weekdays I probably "actively play" with him less than 30 minutes a day. We interact more then that but it's just touch points. We'll interact for a minute and then he'll go back to doing his own thing.
This comic will always be with us. It amuses me that in the comment section it's talking about Net Neutrality. Remember that massive culture-war issue and how it completely disappeared?
This is one of those losing things that only weirdos think should not be illegal. That's the cross us libertarians bear. Though, unlike price gouging and insider trading, which I think are good things, this does fall under the "immoral" and should come with severe social ramifications. Just like many things, if it is going to be illegal, the law should not pertain to the tool but to the person who misuses the tool. But hey, I guess we just make it illegal to get some things done while your car warms up.
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16d ago
The fitness would apply to my parents. While my father has born with several physical maladies, he pushed through and was an athlete. He plays pick up basketball in his 70's. My mother not so much.
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Do you know men who get "man flu"? Are you a guy who gets "man flu"? If you don't know what man flu is, my understanding is that it's the idea that men are lazier than women when they're sick. I heard this and wrote it off, like most gender war stuff. Men don't help around the house enough, women earn less than men for doing the same work. But I keep seeing guys defending the idea that viruses make them sicker than women.
This is completely anathema to me. My father would go years without taking a sick day. He would get sick every few years during his busiest work event of the year, when he'd be pulling 12-hour-plus days. Growing up, I don't recall ever hearing about anything being put off in our social circle because a man was sick. My mom, on the other hand, was down all the time with one thing or another.
My father-in-law is the same. In 2021, he clearly had COVID. His wife was in the bedroom for days; he was out shoveling snow, cooking, and then making everyone play cards with him.
The only time I take "medicine" is when I'm at work events pretending I'm not sick. Afrin and a constant supply of cough suppressants..
@TK-421 Challenged me to write a post about The Apartment before Christmas. I'm not going to use spoiler tags because this movie is a classic from 1960. It's an IMDb Top 100, and I think it deserves to be there. Great film, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The last paragraph paints this film in a worse light than it probably deserves. It's even a Christmas movie if you want to squeeze it in.
The Summary: Baxter works at a huge insurance company in New York and to accelerate Baxter’s career trajectory he lets junior executives and later Jeff a senior executive use his apartment to cheat on their wives.
I come from a Christian denomination that - in the not-so-distant past - banned going to movie theaters and all alcohol consumption. Watching this had me nodding my head, thinking I totally see why they felt that way about films like The Apartment. Released in 1960, it's black-and-white, so I think it comes off more risqué because I'm mentally bucketing it with '40s flicks, but Hollywood - always more progressive than the general populace - was already barreling toward the full-blown late '60s revolution. Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot came out the year before and is just as (and in light of current trans issues) even more norm breaking.
I’m no film historian, but if The Apartment wasn’t the first, it must have been very close to creating the template for the bawdy office Christmas party trope. It's all there (short of nudity) full on pre-HR debauchery with people getting hammered, hooking up wherever they can find space. I’m sure Mad Men borrowed heavily for it's office culture.
You can, of course, make the standard progressive culture-war points: powerful men exploiting female staff, systemic sexism, etc. But flip the lens a bit, and this film could almost have been written by a modern manosphere/red-piller.
Baxter is a cuck in almost every sense of the term. He literally crawls into the still-warm bed after the alphas finish their trysts. Even after he learns that Jeff (married father of two) has been carrying on a long term affair with his love interest Fran, Baxter keeps letting Jeff go at his one true love in the apartment. When Fran attempts suicide with sleeping pills, Baxter nurses her back to health, all while actively trying to keep Jeff and Fran together. This isn’t Fran’s first rodeo; her previous beau is in prison. Since it’s the 1960’s she not just in it for the sex, she actually falls suicidally in love with the bad boys, and she doesn’t have any kids. But Fran only turns to the nice guy after she’s been "run through".
P.S. And small culture war take it's interesting to think about how much technology replaced thousands of jobs represented in this film
Your post is clever, how you reframe the film, but without actually making it an "effort post," I think it's lacking, clarity and not overly helpful if one hasn't seen the film. The film is a Culture War Artifact or time capsule worthy of discussion. It demonstrates both how long "woke" narratives have been pushed (much longer than this) and how tropes have changed.
Spoiler: The family is actually the most gentry of gentry living in a huge house in New England with a progressive bohemian aesthetic. They are ever so willing to signal their tolerance and encouragement of their young daughter's fornicating and their gay, interracial, deaf son's desire to adopt a child, yet they are cruel to Sarah Jessica Parker's character for the slightest of faux pas... or is it a slight faux pas and not a full on cancellable offense?
A film that I just watched that is quite the Culture War time capsule is the very good 1960 classic The Apartment.
It's weird but it's a quirk based off of the strip club being a bar. It's state by state but it's not uncommon for employees to be allowed to be under 21. Beyond that there's the even more common carveout for "performers"; granted the law makers probably had musicians in mind.
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