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faceh
11hr ago
Yeah, my experience is that once you're able to fully articulate your problem and request to them, with specificity and supporting documentation, they get like 80+% of the way there on the first shot, and then you correct them in the places where it wasn't able to quite get your intent.
Which, yeah, that's the same issue you'd have if you hired a human to help too.
2rafa
11hr ago
A lot of the failure comes from the fact that European countries could not really fathom a guest worker program with NO route to permanent residency. There was a need for guest workers, but we should just have used the Kafala system. No family members. No route to citizenship. Mandatory return home for a 6 month period every 5 years.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
recruitment has completely collapsed.
Recruitment collapse is in large part due to the decline in working class human capital. Cops have high standards(reasonably so) and human capital has gotten worse.
NullHypothesis
11hr ago
There is a culture war angle here about how some people like animals way more than humans.
Considering all the things Hasan has previously done and said (things that break the Twitch TOS like doxing other people and arguably inciting violence with inflammatory rhetoric), if this alleged mistreatment of the dog is what gets him cancelled, it's pretty revealing what certain people's priorities actually are.
This story was brought up on some discord servers I'm in with people that lean mostly left/center and the consensus is that's "subhuman" behavior from Hasan. So it's not something that's just circulating around his haters.
That being said, I highly doubt this is what gets Hasan cancelled, or that this will be a major blow to his reputation. Anyone who isn't a fan of Hasan probably already greatly dislike him, and many people on the left aren't huge fans of Hasan. The worst this can do is get some of his existing fans to stop watching his content.
please
11hr ago
If the collar was an "air tag" as Hasan is claiming, his response is still pretty bad - his dog got up, he began yelling at her, she injured herself and yelped, and instead of checking on her/making sure she was okay, he continued to yell/complain about her. The response to a dog yelping in pain is not to yell at it, especially if the pain was not anticipated to occur.
From a culture war perspective, the defense of "I didn't do X bad thing, I only did Y bad thing! Take that!!!" is wild to parse as a strategy in real time - a shock collar is horrible, but so is what Hasan is claiming he actually did in the moment, and no one seems willing to comment on the behavior of the latter just because that type of abusive behavior is less bad than the shock collar.
07mk
11hr ago
My father got a shock collar for one of our dogs when I was a kid in the 90s-00s, to let her out in our yard without having to worry about her running away. It didn't work for keeping her "fenced in," as she would respond to the shock by just running even faster until she left the area. I didn't think much of it at the time, both as a kid and as a Korean immigrant who grew up with dogs being little more than props to put in your yard to keep thieves out.
faceh
11hr ago
This is the take I pretty much endorse.
Thinking "AI is going nowhere and will be prove to be a waste" a la the Tulip or NFT craze is wrong.
Thinking "A lot of people/companies are going to get wiped out before the final winners are clear" seems inevitable. Lot of blood on the streets before we're done.
Especially with this:
here’s extreme cross-ownership / circular dealing in the market where Nvidia is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI companies and data centers who buy its chips
blatantly occurring. NVidia seems to think they're so dominant as to be unassailable, we'll see if that works out.
But every single company is in it to win it, despite this point:
Big AI companies have no moats.
Hard to predict who is going to make it out.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
It’s pretty normal for big dog owners around here. But I also live in a bubble where everyone spanks their kids, so acceptability of corporal punishment is just higher.
NewCharlesInCharge
11hr ago
I think John Brown would have found another cause for his righteous violence had slavery been abolished before he started killing people.
pigeonburger
11hr ago
I don't know personally what he did, but I know that I've never seen a dog yelp in response to anything except pain or the expectation of incoming pain if it has been conditioned into them, neither is a good look for Hasan.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
11hr ago
The Bible is special too. But Christians don't think we should ban the Bible in order to protect it. They think we should disseminate it as widely as possible precisely because it's sacred and it brings people into contact with the sacred.
Maybe Protestant Christians, perhaps, but I know plenty of Catholics, at least, who think the Bible should have been kept in Latin and read in whole only by priests.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
11hr ago
You can tell civil war is not the trajectory because of a few things. A non exhaustive list includes the simple fact that the George Floyd protests eventually stopped. That kind of street protest is not the new normal. Even slavery which was a far more potent issue than all of those today took decades and decades and decades to result in war.
Grant_us_eyes
11hr ago
If you are a Republican voter in Alabama, I don't see how Chicago is "your house" in any morally relevant way.
CDL holders issued in California killing people in Florida says otherwise.
Look, I'd love for there to be a larger argument for States Rights(for my own safety's sake, if nothing else), but it's clear by this point that it's been well done and buried, and we have to live with the consequences.
Jiro
11hr ago
If you are a Republican voter in Alabama, I don't see how Chicago is "your house" in any morally relevant way. If you are a Reform UK voter in Lower Snoring, I insist that my house in London is not "your house" in any morally relevant way,
Okay, whose house is it then?
Open borders proponents always say "well, it isn't yours, so you have no right to exclude anyone". It's someone's. Who does have the right to exclude? It may be an individual, it may be a government, but that right didn't just go away because you don't personally own the country. Where did it go and who has it right now?
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Cities in the sunbelt are hiring.
This isn’t arresting granny here, this is getting in a firefight while outgunned. They’re not suicidal.
faceh
11hr ago
Yeah I see your point there.
I'm just pointing out that you've got the messaging from the boosters and all the money being spent to sell people on it, and then there's the other side where there's messages from the doomsayers AND messaging on the political side and then there's the market's response to tall this, with evidence that spending related to AI development is propping up growth right now.
It is questionable what the real goal of all that is, if we take everything being said at sheer face value.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
11hr ago
They're gonna instead form a human wall against it because the dem apparatchik who 6 months ago was calling for their total defunding and disbandment tells em to?
Yes, because that apparatchik and his associates control their paychecks; and even more, their pensions. Just ask the cops. It doesn't matter how Red Tribe they are, or their own personal feelings, they'll do whatever they're told to if they have to in order to protect their oh-so-precious pensions.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
11hr ago
What actually happens is the police decide they’d rather live to cash their paychecks than shoot at federal troops.
And if they're told that any officer who doesn't follow orders to shoot at federal troops will no longer have paychecks to cash, nor their precious, precious pension?
Stellula
11hr ago
E-collars are extremely common for people with dogs and land, especially people with hunting dogs.
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/outdoor-recreation/sporting-dog-tracking-training-devices/
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
What I expect is more like
- Speed limit is too low -> everyone obeys the speed limit -> it becomes a non-issue, with would-be violators just sucking it up.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11hr ago
When we got a dog, and had it professionally trained, they used a shock collar. They also gave use the shock collar, and instructed us on it's use. It was really helpful training the dog to stop jumping on people, because it scared our daughter so badly she was hesitant to come out of her room if the dog was around. Later on, when we got a geofenced collar, it's also a shock collar. Basically an invisible fence collar, except it uses a GPS instead of a buried wire.
Now that I think about, everyone I knew with well trained dogs has them on shock collars. But maybe that's regional or social bubble related.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
11hr ago
Isn’t that just MLK-ism? The whole “unjust laws” bit, how it doesn’t challenge the legal legitimacy but rather the moral legitimacy, and despite the time worn temptation is to conflate the two they are not the same. I’d want to see more elaboration of this point than jump to that assumption. Unless you have an actual issue with MLK-ism?
Uh, what do you want done instead of immigrants on farms?
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