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FtttG
1d ago
I'm not saying the Hannibal directive isn't real. I'm saying I find it very suspicious that the primary context in which it's brought up is to reflexively dismiss any and all claims that certain groups have mistreated the Israelis. I'm sure if you look at the ratio of "Israeli civilians killed by groups which are hostile to Israel" vs. "Israeli civilians who were intentionally killed by the IDF as part of the Hannibal directive", it would be extraordinarily lopsided - maybe 9:1 or higher. But critics of Israel seem to have decided that, because the Hannibal directive exists and has ever been employed, therefore they can dismiss all claims that Hamas or whoever murdered Israeli civilians by saying "eh, they probably did it to themselves". But of course, they're aware that this looks really bad, unserious and conspiratorial (perhaps even bearing a family resemblance to that great woke sin, "victim-blaming"), so rather than explicitly asserting "I believe that Israel is lying when they claim that Hamas killed these Israeli civilians, and they were in fact deliberately killed by the IDF", they'll just wave their hands and say "Hannibal directive, look it up", hoping the reader will join the dots themselves.
It's a cowardly, dishonest style of argumentation. If you believe in conspiracy theories, at least have the balls to be upfront about it.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
I mean, now you're just increasing the denominator and making him even more right.
Who cares about Klaus Schwab's personal butler sniffing coke off a hooker's ass?
Wave_Existence
1d ago
The product is called waves
I didn't pay attention to that. shit i regret my jump straight to bitchy comebacks, i thought you were implying i was a big fan of recording people. Sorry for that.
That said, I still don't see how this, used in public, is an infringement upon your right to privacy as the current US legal structure exists. The problem, and what makes your privacy tangibly less whole, is the panoptic media aggregation and distribution services like Facebook Tiktok Youtube Twitch etc, those are what we should be up in arms over. Not a guy with a tiny camera strapped to his face.
The government using info they shouldnt have via parallell construction or similar is a different issue, but trust that i'm no fan of it. I just see these glasses as a small, nearly insignificant advancement that in no way changes the dire underlying situation with personal information rights.
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.
I think a huge amount of the cost growth in central London is due to non-doms on semi-annual migration paths. 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.
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.
I've come to appreciate Wetherspoons
I love Wetherspoons. It's got a reputation for being uncouth but a pub is somewhere you go to eat, drink, and have fun with friends. Why argue when someone wants to make that as cheap and pleasant and convenient as possible? Plus they buy a lot of surprisingly nice buildings to put their pubs in.
HereAndGone
1d ago
It's not on a pedestal, it's "marriage is a partnership and the unpaid work of running a household is, indeed, work".
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
Shots fired at BurdensomeCount?
Corvos
1d ago
Mr. BurdensomeCount, who is currently banned. Famous for his loathing of the British underclass and well-padded opinion of himself.
TIRM
1d ago
Subjectively, I feel like my local incarceration rate is way too low. Given the endemic property crime, illegal encampments ruining public spaces and open hard drug selling and use. Some enormous societal failure has occurred. Step one on the long road to fixing it is institutionalizing the crazy homeless people rather than letting them self medicate with hard drugs while living in filth and stealing to afford more drugs. And imprisoning the non-crazy ones.
I am not very invested in Canada's incarceration rates. If this boosts our incarceration ratio to 8x of Canada's, so be it. We have a real problem with the cost per prisoner per year. I'm open to building much cheaper prisons or paying 3rd world countries to house our prisoners.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I remember that the site AshleyMadisons most frequent occupations of the users was physician, second highest? Lawyer….
A website well known for its users' strong commitment to honesty.
HereAndGone
1d ago
Not just the rich guys at Davos, though, is it? It's the support staff around them, and all the journalists reporting on it, etc. Plenty of transient custom to be worth importing some short-term workers for.
ControlsFreak
1d ago
I think you've lost your own thread. Rather than tying yourself up in knots and running yourself in circles, just be clear.
due to the definition of knowledge work in the first place
You don't have one of these, either.
HereAndGone
1d ago
I would imagine rich men getting married (relatively) earlier, as it used to be (and maybe still is) that settling down and getting married was seen as a sign of mature stability that proved you were ready for greater responsibility and promotion up the ladder. So marrying someone of a similar background and age who knows how to navigate the work and social circles where you'll be networking your little heart out is an advantage; you can always have a discreet affair with a hot young thing from the secretarial pool later on once you're established.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
I felt like this was an allusion to something I didn't understand.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
The only leglock I consistently use is the straight ankle. Everything else, I'm too worried about fucking up.
Though I did once land a cool kneebar from an electric chair sweep, but since then I have seemingly forgotten how to hit the electric chair sweep.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
My follow up comment would simply be "I am appalled that you sat through the plant-fucking thing three times."
It's more just a data thing, the men are sorted by income percentile. There are around one million men in the top 1% of income, and because it's not weighted by income Elon Musk counts the same as my local Nissan Dealership owner or any law partner at a big firm. If it were the case that Davos type masters of the universe frequent prozzies, there just aren't enough of them to move the needle on what we're looking at, even within the pool of the 1%.
I'd add that everyone I know who has (admitted to) paying for sex was lower or working class, so it lines up with my experience. I'd imagine there are a few marginal cases I'm missing though.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
Yeah everything in London is super expensive, some things are just more ridiculous than others (rent being number one).
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I suppose the availability can have an impact on the market even if they aren't used. Like the Marxian theory that the unemployed are the Reserve Army of Labor, driving down wages by fear of competition. And I suppose the same goes for young floozies: my wife sees a 20 year old woman admiring me and knows she has to compete, and chooses to be better? I don't know.
I just don't think it's the case that there's some secret activity that proves that men don't really want the things they are visibly pursuing.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
North Korea is backed by two giant nuclear superpowers directly bordering it. Its main adversary is literally at the other end of the globe. Israel is in quite a different situation
HereAndGone
1d ago
They want peers who can fit in with their social and work circle and who will advance alongside them. Younger wives might not be as clued-in, so unless it's a second marriage it's not going to work as well. Her career is in the home supporting his career; making sure the dinner parties are hosted, the right people invited, remembering when to send cards and gifts for special occasions to business contacts, helping him navigate the web of relationships, turning up at the right events looking suitable on his arm, and so forth. His suits are pressed and ready for him, the home looks as it should, the exact balance of good taste and understated wealth on display to help him get promotions and move on up in the world. Everything running smoothly in the support system to his career so he can concentrate on work and not on "are the kids going to piano lessons or horse riding after school today? who is going to pick them up? mom is in the hospital, is everything okay on that end?"
the_Culture_is_great
1d ago
Would you agree with the 4% if I softened my language from "rape" -> "sexual victimization" like the report uses? I suppose the "willing inmate-guard" relationships don't count for as much, but I still have concerns there.
And I would still argue that a 2.6% chance of "actual" rape is still very bad.
I challenge someone to refute the central point which is "Prison really, really sucks. Yes even if you're mentally ill and on the street." Any arguments would also have to explain why these people are not trying to get into prison with any regularity.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
Wall Street Journal literally 2 days ago:
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/washington-struggles-to-rein-in-an-emboldened-israel-14fa3a74
A senior administration official said the White House coordinates closely with Israel and has considerable influence over Netanyahu because the prime minister knows that “the United States literally is the sole reason the state of Israel exists.”
The idea that the US assistance is not crucial because Israel is a high income country on paper is either extremely motivated reasoning or just an indication of knowing pretty much nothing about the situation.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
I got a good chuckle out of that one, too.
I think it was a couple BC bans ago that got me thinking about alternatives to the tempban. I thought, “when he does one inflammatory post, it’s interesting. It’s when he follows up that people start to insist he’s a troll.” How could we get the compelling conversation starters from some of our most divisive posters while making it clear that their behavior was still against the rules?
Once your 60- or 90-day tempban expires, you can post or comment again whenever you like. But it starts a timer leading to an automatic follow-up tempban. We like hearing from you, but you don’t get to stay.
Since it was BurdensomeCount, I thought about calling it the Motte Travel Visa. Or maybe it would be less controversial to call it resurrection and ascension?
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