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self_made_human
C'est la vie
3hr ago
In the novel, in the past 3 million years, there were ten "invincible" rank 9 Venerables. During their reign, before they died of old age, literally nobody was able to contest their dominance or pose a threat. There's more to the story, which I can't discuss without massive spoilers.
If FY did achieve both becoming the strongest, and true immortality, then there's strong precedent that he could smack down any upstarts.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
4hr ago
I just wanted to say that I appreciate your curated collection of legal anecdotes, and look forward to them every week. I did, in fact, find this one bleakly funny, but my sense of humor is darker than my complexion.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
4hr ago
Nitpick, but Darwin was worse, it was always hard to tell whether he was sincere, or at least he always had at least some plausible deniability, whereas this guy clearly has an axe to grind which makes it easier to just ignore the low effort snark.
Crowstep
4hr ago
Your post suggests that you're talking about yourself rather than your child, which is a relief. But I have to ask, what negatives do you forsee from getting vaccinated so much that you'd risk getting the diseases they protect against?
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
4hr ago
If I'm catching the drift of this boo outgroup post, it prompts me to wonder this: for the average person, who to the extent they pay attention to the news, has seen mainstream media and the government burn all credibility in the past decade... what are they supposed to do? Every institution they're supposed to trust has lied outrageously. Are they supposed to double down and believe the NYT and MSNBC even harder?
I agree that doing the 100% opposite of what the mainstream says is probably not ideal, but other options are tough. Are they supposed to devote hours per day like us very online types to sort out all the lies and misleading claims to try to chart their own semi-orthogonal path?
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
4hr ago
Particularly hilarious is that the father's three sentences were run concurrently, rather than consecutively—so he did not receive any extra penalty for the third pregnancy (or, indeed, for the second one).
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
4hr ago
Personally, I find it quite amazing and hilarious that hentai plots can regularly be found lurking in real-life court opinions.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
4hr ago
Someone charged in my state with sex with two minors under 15 would be held without bond or with a million dollar cash bond.
New Jersey court rules appear to recommend bail of 150 to 300 k$ for this crime. I don't know what the judge's rationale was in not imposing bail.
Someone charged in my state with sex with two minors under 15 would be looking at life in prison with no parole.
Under New Jersey law, the maximum sentence for this crime (sex with a minor under 13, or with a minor between 13 and 15 by a parent/guardian/etc.) is life with the possibility of parole after 25 years. In this case, the criminal received the minimum sentence of 25 years without the possibility of parole, running concurrently for all three instances.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
4hr ago
It's all well and good to begin succumbing to the recessionary pressures up top once you're already married and settled down. To my (mild) astonishment, women are quite unlikely to abandon the partners they cherish and love, while being averse to going for their less lucky counterparts while single.
But hey, hair transplants work if you can afford them.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4hr ago
I think the whole idea is frankly pagan. I don’t think it’s very Christian to say that God has to do anything we decide he should, and the idea smacks of magical thinking.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
4hr ago
You're in luck, because I did in fact decide to begin that effort-post. I've got a 6 hour journey today on abominably slow British trains, so expect something in a few hours or change.
In my experience the much more frequent cause of single motherhood is not that the father is a net negative but that the mother is and society is so blinded by unwarranted sympathy for her that it refuses to do anything about it nor let the father, leaving the child to suffer while the mother's poor behavior is continually subsidized.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
4hr ago
I would be interested to hear if you've found anything more reliable than the old "best indicator is whether a man's mother's father went bald" (which doesn't seem terribly accurate).
My 77yo father is Norwood 0, as am I in my 40s, so my vested interest is minimal.
WhiningCoil
4hr ago
Exercising via leetcode or codewars to see where you stack up
Listen, I know this is popular. I know leetcode bullshit comes up all the time in interviews. But IMHO, a better proxy for skill is open source contributions. Can you dive into a foreign code base and understand it? Can you code in the style/language already extant? Can you check out a project and have it compile?! I'd suggest using more open source software, and if something bothers you, fix/change it! Be the meme about the engineer who joins a company, fixes one bug that's been bothering him for 10 years, and then quits. Leetcode is a complementary skill, relevant 10-15% of the time at best, in actual day to day coding. Frankly if leetcode is all you can do, or all you enjoy, I wouldn't suggest sticking with it.
Okay are you conducting some sort of social experiment where you gradually push the limits of what is considered acceptable in the Fun Thread before people start objecting en masse? Because if you were, I'd believe it. The topics of these legal cases have escalated dramatically week after week.
This is way more off-putting than anything in the CW thread IMO.
GoofyGoose
4hr ago
Wait, you have never been struck by the thunderbolt?
We should have a poll. I thought it happened to everyone, although not too frequently.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4hr ago
During COVID I had my hair cut really short, like a buzz cutt even in front, just because. I thought it was cool enough but then looking at pictures of the cool guy buzz cuts it seemed my own buzz cut was considerably higher up the forehead. I proceeded to have a moment where I was sure I was beginning the downturn and my hairline was receding at an accelerated pace. Began growing it out a bit. Now I find I still have a pretty full head of hair, even in front, but I probably just have always had a fairly high hairline. Old photos suggest this is true.
Hair is weird for men. You can lose the beer gut, you can build your arms and legs and abs. But you can't diet or exercise yourself more hair.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
4hr ago
The second one: someone charged in my state with sex with two minors under 15 would be held without bond or with a million dollar cash bond. Released OR is insane. And they would be looking at life in prison with no parole. When I read stories like that from other states, it's so alien to my practice that it might as well be fiction.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4hr ago
This second one? Not. Fun.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
4hr ago
I'm also gauging interest in an effort-post on the topic, so let me know if this something that you'd like to know more about.
aqouta
4hr ago
You can say you dislike territoriality as a national interest but it's not without reason. I think you're confusing arbitrary with contingent. Borders could have been different if circumstances had gone differently but they were reasoned and fought for with blood and statecraft for various very real purposes.
They're neither arbitrary in that they were set up for no reason nor arbitrary in that they make no difference. It's like if you insulted some guy and he punched you in the gut, you wouldn't call his actions arbitrary even if the response could have been a wide variety of actions. He had reason enough and it certainly matters to your gut that he decided on punching rather than harsh words.
I've done a relatively exhaustive analysis on male pattern baldness (I have a vested interest). I'm extremely relieved to find out that despite the reflection of the OR lights off dad's head being dazzling, I likely have lower than average odds of going bald.
Relevant factors:
- 50% of men lose some hair by 50.
- Dad's saving a lot of money on haircuts.
- Maternal grandpa has a respectable head of hair past 95. If I'm slightly thinning when I'm crossing my 80s, I can live with that.
- Only 1/3rd of my paternal uncles are bald, all of them older than my dad.
- I'm teetering dangerously close to 30, without losing anything off the top. That pretty much rules out early onset AO.
I can breathe a little easier, without having to worry so much about turning 30 and finding out that I've lost my hair, alongside my well-founded belief that you immediately develop arthritis and an inability to drink liquor like you used to. The jungles of Norwood seem less daunting, and worst comes to worse, it's time for minoxidil or a trip to Turkey. Going bald might even be good for career progression, just look at Scott!
(I was immensely annoyed by the fact that while stats on the probability of your dad being bald if you're balding are well established at around 80%, the odds of becoming bald with a bald dad are much harder to find. And MBP is annoyingly polygenic to boot.)
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Tree
4hr ago
No, that is not necessary. I love individual freedom, but if people want to self-segregate, have a trad marriage, wave a flag and sing a song, the state should not intervene. But I don't want individuals forced into collectives, or punished for victimless crimes either, even though it may be good for social cohesion.
I just want the regime to change,
Well, my first instinct is to chastise you for your recklessness, but if I'm being honest this is not much different than how I feel about Europe, so fair enough, especially if you have ties to the place.
Iran has significant brain drain as education levels are high and emigration's unrestricted. I see between 3 and 5 million emigrants for a population of 80 million 2010 and ~90 million today. I'd guestimate emigration up a bit,
No total regime collapse? No neighboring countries swooping in to setup a puppet state? No civil war? No refugee wave?
Iran was able to build many impressive things in-house, so I don't doubt there are many educated people there, but I distinctly remember people telling me the same thing about Syria, to the point where "doctors and engineers" became a meme.
All things being equal, I'd expect some sort of secular military government, where the army puts down the IRGC.
That sounds like the good ending, but I have my doubts. "Khamenei is a religious fanatic who hates us for irrational religious reasons, and so cannot be reasoned with" is a common argument, but I can't help but notice that Putin is secular, Hussein was secular, Gaddafi was secular, Assad was secular, and none of them had better luck being seen as rational people to be reasoned with. So unless it's possible to impose a puppet regime of the US and/or Israel, I don't think a secular military government will be accepted by them any more than the theocratic one is, and so, we'll see a descent into chaos. Hope I'm wrong.
Lord Kelvin comes immediately to mind. And there are plenty of gentry, such as Charles Darwin.
I don't think Turok really cares about class, though; it's just a stick to beat people he disagrees with. Kind of a silly one, though, since if you're on the right in America today you probably believe that the "elites" and the "PMC" have been fucking it up by the numbers, so the stick really has no bite.
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