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faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
20hr ago
Whereas if I see a mountain lion in my US neighborhood, I have something mildly unusual to post about on nextdoor. Occasionally a mountain lion even makes its way into the heart of a major city, though that makes headlines when it happens.
Family stories? The school I attended had corporal punishment into the late 80s. The teachers who practiced it are still living, and the last cohort of students to experience it are only in their 40s.
ETA: I had those same teachers in later years. They found some creative alternatives to the paddle and the rod once those were banned. I think I might have preferred a quick paddling to the more protracted punishments they used instead.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I'm registering my support for a 'smoke the whole pack' rule- a rule that particularly inflammatory posts by users who make a habit of it are required to respond in depth to every argument, no matter how banal or trite.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Well maybe when he gets back from his ban...
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I also rarely see a mob of investment bankers torching a hotel.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Homeless shelters are often located at the center of the city because that is where the people who need their services mostly are.
No jokes in this post unfortunately. Around 10 years ago Asahi beer was still imported to the US for certain sizes (1L and 2L cans, interestingly enough), tasting it side by side with the US brewed licensed swill gave an insanely obvious difference. The Italy-made swill isn't like old US-licensed swill, but similarly it's not at all like Japanese Asahi.
The level of difference is like the difference between Bud Light -> Guinness - it's not even the same category of beer.
Do the inherent population and cultural differences between Canada and the US really justify that?
At a quick glance the murder rate is 2.5-3x lower in Canada compared to the US. So a lot of the force of that number is cut down immediately.
I've also seen arguments that legal systems play a role: stronger protections in some domains mean that the US must use incarceration as a relatively blunt tool rather than catching people early.
I think the more likely truth is that the US is well past the point of diminishing returns when it comes to prison capacity
Based on? The post-Floyd loosening of the justice system's grip made things notably worse. It didn't lead to a massive exodus of unfortunate bike couriers caught with a blunt from the jails, instead criminals showed themselves.
Corvos
20hr ago
Is this actually true? I thought it tasted different in the UK but I assumed it was just a vibe thing.
SkoomaDentist
20hr ago
No, really! She was carving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given to her by Svenge, her brother-in-law.
Asahi
It might only be a small thing, but I have to break it to you. Asahi anywhere outside Japan is simply low-quality Italian Peroni beer made in Italy and with the Asahi logo slapped on it. It tastes absolutely nothing like Japanese Asahi beer and imo is a waste of money. I hear Britain has alot of domestic beer options but idk shrug.
Ironically "Peroni" sold in the USA is actually domestic Coors labelled as Peroni, while "Asahi" sold in the USA is actually Peroni made in Italy. So "Asahi" in USA is actually the Peroniest beer even more than the stuff that says Peroni on the label. Anyways I hate how trademarks can simply be bought and sold and slapped on whatever as long as the money grubbing conglomerates can make a quick buck. Imo trademarks should exist to protect consumers not corporations, so this should be illegal. See also: "Yashica" Y35.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
20hr ago
I'm glad you enjoyed your weekend, and this is an excellent write-up. You have a good eye and have now possibly seen more of 2025 London than I have.
Thank you, I appreciate the timely advice given to me as I was adrift in Tottenham. Helped me get my bearings right quick.
I think a huge amount of the cost growth in central London is due to non-doms on semi-annual migration paths
I'm not sure I follow? Are they working seasonally?
For complicated reasons I am staying in a nice block of flats there temporarily and I check the parcel collection regularly for a delivery that I am expecting; I have never seen an English or even a European name on the parcels.
What's that about? Tax fraud? BTW, if you're ever free, I would love to catch up over drinks. Presuming it's not a place where the drinks are even more ludicrously priced than average, they're on me. It sounds like we can both agree on Wetherspoons haha.
I suspect also that there was a pent-up suspicion that London could tolerate higher prices and that COVID provided the excuse to let 'er rip and see the limits of what the market would tolerate. As a result locals seem to have mostly accepted that pubs and meals out are a treat and not a lifestyle, and go maybe once a week while penny-pinching the rest of the time. This may skew prices and (God I hope) they may come down as the market decides it prefers regular attendance to spiky high profits.
It does seem to be tolerated. At the end of the day, the bare minimum for human habitation is subsistence, and it takes a lot to make people truly give up and flee their homes. And there's no shortage of people hypnotized by the London Dream, not to mention a steady influx of tourists. Of course, I wouldn't have met the people who decided that London was too rich for their blood and fled. Anyone there is there by choice, or simply has none.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
20hr ago
I feel like this is missing some obvious "thirteenth tribe" joke, maybe in reference to the great Mormon work of literature Battlestar Galactica.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
21hr ago
I know a Jewish family that has carefully acquired and maintained multiple passports across generations rather openly based on the lived experience of their parents (and grandparents, and great grandparents) during WWII. The cynics would say "rootless cosmopolitans" here (and maybe there is an element of that), but having heard their Holocaust stories second-hand, I see why they care so much.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
21hr ago
Moose bites can be pretty nasti
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
21hr ago
Just three? I was there for several hours, and if the blurb was accurate, the damn thing looped every 17 minutes.
Rest assured I quickly stopped paying much attention.
TIRM
21hr ago
My school teachers are not trusted to make good judgments. They'd screw up corporal punishment. In a better world we'd have reliable teachers who could correctly determine who needs a paddling. We don't live in that world.
Arnaud
21hr ago
Unless I've been reading maps really wrong up to this point, North Koreas main adversary is immediately to its south and connected by a land border.
Corvos
21hr ago
Remember that one culture-war flashpoint is the fact that the vast majority of asylum seekers are getting sent to the places that are too poor and too lacking in political power to refuse them. People are pissed. If there's one thing the English still believe in, it's in everyone doing their part.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
21hr ago
The 'charitable' explanation seems to be utter bureaucratic incompetence. The cynical one would be that said bureaucrats are trying to prove a point, getting one over the financiers too big for their britches.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
21hr ago
Just give police their nightsticks back. A poke in the back or a tap on the shins is enough to motivate most people to move along while discouraging the impulse to fight back.
celluloid_dream
21hr ago
We observed the strange outcome of a government policy decision: an attempt to convert a luxury hotel in the heart of the Wharf into a center for asylum seekers. Leaving aside the political firestorm, the pure economic logic is baffling. It seems like an attempt to solve a problem using the most expensive possible tool, a phenomenon I've noticed governments are particularly prone to.
To tug on this particular culture war thread, I also don't understand why anyone would agree to this. Even if your only allegiance were to the asylum seekers, you could house more asylum seekers with the same funding in cheaper real-estate on the outskirts of the city. See also: homeless shelters, rehab centers, halfway houses, etc.
Throwaway05
21hr ago
The UK was doing well, or at least okay, until the middle 2000s.
Auspicious timing, I just started watching Top Gear from the beginning and early in the second series (which would be 2003?) they have a bit on the Humber Bridge and the decline of British efficacy, engineering, and manufacturing.
It sounded like the kinda thing you'd see in the news in the US or Uk today but over 20 years ago.
I think someone on the left might point to that and indicate that the fears are overblown but I'm more concerned about how far we've fallen and how much further we may yet fall.
FtttG
22hr ago
The OP uses the Hannibal directive as an example of how Jews are very unsafe
Even saying "very unsafe" is an example of exactly the kind of thing I'm complaining about. In an actuarial table of how Israelis met their ends since the founding of the state, would "being intentionally killed by the IDF to prevent them from being taken hostage by groups hostile to Israel" even crack the top hundred most common causes of death? The top five hundred? The top thousand? No, obviously not. And yet critics of Israel have this obsessive fixation on the Hannibal directive as evidence of how uniquely barbarous the nation is - when in reality, a counterfactual world in which the Hannibal directive didn't exist would only mean a tiny handful of Israelis would still be alive.
Let me put this in terms that you might find more agreeable: being shot dead by a police officer is a live possibility for black Americans in a way it isn't for black Britons, or indeed black citizens of just about any European country. But if you were investigating the causes of the reduced life expectancy among black Americans relative to other ethnic groups, "risk of being shot dead by police officers" shouldn't even enter into the equation. It's evidence of a mindset warped by political partisanship.
I'm not sure exactly when it disappeared, but that sounds about right. I know the laws still allowed it in some cases through at least 2000, but I never saw it myself. My parents have stories of it happening.
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