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A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
5m ago
But not sword canes?!
anti_dan
8m ago
This really isnt persuasive to me at all. Posting video online where someone over-reacts to your jerk move is pretty standard fare. We have the Shiloh Hendrix case, thousands of cases where women dress provocatively at the gym for the purpose of cussing out men who looked at their butt or bosom, trans people being aggro then filming clerks who "misgendered" them, and many more. I think the term is outrage farming. Its super common. My presumption now is that anyone filming a sole, private citizen, in public at a non-public event is probably a bad actor. You dont just film a 14 year old girl, even if she is being an asshole and brandishing a hatchet if you are a normal guy. A normal guy just shrugs and leaves. Video guy tries to provoke the situation so he can get a good video. Whether he is just a jerk video guy, a snitch, or a creepy rapist remains an open question. But I see no situation where he is actually a positive contributor to the community.
gattsuru
16m ago
Fair; it's definitely not that they were trying to be the next desktop infrastructure, and it's not like what they're doing instead is easy. It makes sense for them to focus where they've focused. If I ever have the free time, I'd love to get some experience working with the IMX8 stuff as an embedded linux tool.
But even compared to where Freescale was in 2002 versus the market segment NXP is aiming for in 2025, the difference seems bigger. Some of that's just the top of the market has gotten much higher -- Razr mattered, but it mattered pre-smartphone; some of the network equipment goes in a similar boat -- but it's something that separates the business from being meaningful competition for most of Intel's most important stuff.
Throwaway05
20m ago
-If you haven't been before do some of the touristy stuff. Much of it is overrated but it is still worth doing once (ex: Time Square).
-NYC is arguably the greatest city in the world. With the most selection in the world. This means shopping (for a partner maybe?). You ever wanted incredible Indian food but don't have it in your usual area? What about something more specific like Cambodian? Pull up some lists of stuff and go to town.
-You'll be there for a minute, depending on what your situation is it may be worth doing something like taking Amtrak to Philly for a day trip. If you are coming in from say Toronto or otherwise have limited access to the east coast you'd be surprised at how much you can do nearby. You'll never run out of things in NYC but it can be overwhelming and adding extra stuff can be paradoxically helpful.
-I've never been to an IRL Motte/SSC diaspora meet up but I've always figured you'd have a chance at getting some of the paranoid opsec types with an open invite to some location instead of a direct "lets meet up." Food for thought?
...and it's completely irrelevant to cases such as thus one...
Plus, honestly, at this point, are you sure? This seems to have been true 20-ish years ago, when conservative culture in America had some slrt of presence. Nowadays? I'm not sure I'm seeing it. Do you have any examples in mind?
hydroacetylene
38m ago
Or whatever. Local mexicans are pretty evenly split between 'actual rapist domestic abusers' and 'very concerned with public order'.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
40m ago
It’s actually pretty fascinating how few things there are that offer real, tangible, and difficult to oppose feedback.
In gaming for example, despite claimed common frustration with trash teammates, team games are quite common. Because you can blame them, in part! StarCraft for example is the complete opposite. It’s a 1v1 format, and you can play “ladder” which ranks you and gives you a matched skill opponent. The fact is that the game is pretty well balanced. If you lost there was almost certainly a reason, that was your fault. You didn’t scout well enough, or missed a build timing, or didn’t adapt your army composition in time, or controlled them poorly, or made a poor decision about where and when to expand to a new base. And surprise surprise, it’s not that popular, because again you can only really blame yourself. Even “cheese” strategies that leverage an unconventional and seemingly unfair method often have glaring weaknesses to accompany them.
Now to be fair, implementing advice has more drawbacks than mere effort or unbending of pride. You can get stuck in a dead end, you might have difficulty deciding when to bail, and deeply implementing a program often has switching costs if you later decide to do something else. But yes, on balance most people are better off committing to something rather than spending a lot of time waffling, at least in our modern society.
DirtyWaterHotDog
41m ago
A part of me wants to meet up. Another part of me is scared of meeting my fellow motte racists. Can I mark myself as tentative ?
I recommend spending a Saturday morning & afternoon in Williamsburg. It's a special neighborhood. Up there for hottest people per capita anywhere in the world (I bring the median hotness down). Smorbasborg is great. Domino park is amazing and the Domino sugar building is my favorite new building in America. If you like climbing, then the indoor-outdoor bouldering wall at Vital is fun.
Williamsburg food crawl:
- Lindustrie (basil slice) OR Fini (long hot pepper slice) are 2 of NYC's best Pizza slices
- Esse Taco OR Tacqeria Ramirez = Turns out NYC now has amazing tacos (Ramirez is my favorite taco place anywhere in the US)
- 12 chairs OR Paolina - falafel/hummus/mezze platter.
- Birds of a feather for upscale sichuan - Curiously tasty chicken + cuman lamb are classic.
- Drinks - Kahwah house for Chai, Devocion for instagram coffee and Birdie for good vibes (and rotating foods)
There's best in class vintage stores (artists & fleas and surrounding blocks), wine bars (Sauced, or really any of them), Bath houses (bathhouse is legit, actually). Williamsburg is a 25 yr old white woman's dream. But, it's pretty great for all other demographics too.
Depending on if it was too much or too little, you can go south and spend time with the Hasidics or go east and spend time in Bushwick. It's unconventional people either way.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
47m ago
A noble effort. But hopeless. The first thread already demonstrated that priors were set by who you hated most: (1) females; (2) young hoodlums who bullied you; (3) brown people.
This thread will not shift any priors.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
51m ago
Most ancient societies had rigidly (lethally) enforced rules about who was allowed to carry weapons.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
56m ago
I'm not a libertarian, and when libertarians act as if libertarianism means you must tolerate fists being swung within 1cm of your nose as long as they don't hit you, I am further repulsed by it.
5434a
1hr ago
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/child-10-caught-knife-capital-35322556
"More than a dozen 13-year-olds - including two girls - were also subjected to positive blade searches"
She probably was worried about being harassed - by other teenagers with knives. I bet she knows more people who have been stabbed than have been groomed/abused.
When the police in London wanted to reduce knife crime they asked Scotland for help.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
1hr ago
Gave some examples in a short comment above/below.
It seems to me that court packing arguments (which for the record I vehemently oppose) were more a result of a sustained series of SC appointments they lost. Merrick Garland resulted in some bad blood, but then even after they simply had a mixture of bad luck and bad timing with more justices dying or retiring than is typical. Some (maybe not all but a big chunk) of this resentment comes down to bitterness. And not only on the SC (3, more than Obama’s 2, in just a 4 year term instead of 8), for example this showed that Trumps first term almost placed as many appeals court judges in 4 years as Obama in 8. And polling data indicates that views of SC partisanship (see line graph) tend to dovetail with the change in balance. I’d say that’s evidence against Dems being especially respectful of the SC, but I think that aspect of fairness and respect has always been a little overblown. For at least a century the SC has been controversial and also respect ebbs and flows, especially with major decisions, and that’s true for both parties.
In short judgeships are a separate issue that I don’t think is representative. But on that issue, yes I think both parties behave similarly.
As to forgiveness? I’ll have to think a bit. A few come to mind though. Clinton didn’t take a hard tack after his own impeachment and that helped his reputation a lot (and Gore was a whisker away from winning). Internationally our relatively forgiving response after WW2 did quite a bit to ensure the next decades would be peaceful and even gained Germany and Japan as solid allies.
Arguably the decline in political forgiveness is partly why bipartisan stuff is harder recently, but I’m not certain how much to ascribe to it.
cartman
1hr ago
Do you think the difference in the damage a 12 year old and an adult could potentially do with an axe is really so significant?That seems ludicrous to me. If I would call the police on anyone older than a toddler waving an axe and threatening people, I do it equally on a 12 year old, because they still have the strength to kill many members of society.
"Take her toys away himself". So it's not important enough for the police, but it's also somehow important enough to initiate a violent confrontation over? This doesn't make sense.
FirmWeird
Randomly Generated Reddit Username
1hr ago
Even if one accepts your claim that the Palestinians in Palestine are being "genocided", they are neither American citizens nor resident within the US.
The genocide (thank you for accepting the claim) is taking place with US support and using US manufactured weapons. The genocide in Gaza would be impossible for the Israelis to carry out without extensive western support and American taxpayer dollars. I do not think that you have a very good picture of the average left-winger's thought process if you believe "Oh the brown people we're exterminating for more Lebensraum for white settlers aren't American citizens so you can just ignore all those hospitals we're blowing up" would be compelling to many of them.
FirmWeird
Randomly Generated Reddit Username
1hr ago
How many of them would describe it in those terms?
Depends on the context, but this objection is utterly meaningless. If I was selling influence to political donors and lobby groups, I would not describe what I was doing in those terms. If someone eats a pure carnivore diet but describes their diet as vegetarian you're just being stupid if you invite them to your roast vegetable appreciation society meeting.
As far as I can tell, the closest she got to mentioning the death toll
What she actually said was that she wasn't going to distance herself from Biden's policy and that she wouldn't change anything about it - and the Biden policy was that Israel can do whatever they want and the US will support them no matter what. Trump, when he said that what was happening in Gaza had to stop, was actually further to the left than Kamala Harris.
Rov_Scam
1hr ago
I knew something was up with this when the alleged assailant was the one who recorded the video. Putting aside why you would record your attempts to perv on a little girl, why would you post that online? The only other person who could have posted it would be the police, and there's no indication that the video was released by police. Why is a twelve-year-old girl hanging out in a place where she feels unsafe enough that she needs to carry weapons? Why do they keep slowly backing away instead of running? I know that when I was a kid if I had ever though someone was about to abduct me I'd get out of there as soon as possible. It's not like it wasn't a wide open public place with plenty of escape routes. And although it's not unheard of, it's certainly rare for attacks of the type that have been implied to be carried out by a man and a woman working together. I didn't comment earlier because I didn't want to speculate without more information, but the whole thing seemed fishy to me from the outset, because it conformed to a narrative certain people have. It's almost as if some of them want it to be true, and are hoping that it will turn out that these were nonwhite people there trying to rape children because it will validate the ideas they have about immigrants from certain parts of the world.
Quantumfreakonomics
1hr ago
I'm the kind of sicko that wants to see stuff like this when I travel.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
1hr ago
Obama-Trump transition of power. Obama’s (non)response to birtherism. I actually think the first impeachment was a relatively fair process (though I wish they had waited a little longer for more testimony). On the whole Obama’s response to tea party waves, you lie, etc wasn’t too apocalyptic and he did attempt some bipartisan working during the ACA stuff (failed but he tried). I think he also was criticized by fellow Dems for not escalating debt ceiling fights too?
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Not as far as I know- migrants get to Germany as fast as possible instead of dithering in the Balkans.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
But these people were originally from Bulgaria and born to parents who are originally from Bulgaria. I have no sympathy for gypsies but, you know, the ones from Bulgaria are from Bulgaria.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Probably, yeah, but teenagers from lower class backgrounds facing potentially serious charges aren't exactly reliable witnesses.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I am not a libertarian and think it's perfectly reasonable for holding a weapon in your hand to be a serious crime.
DiscourseMagnus
1hr ago
You'll occasionally see a particularly tonedeaf Muslim blame Rotherham on the girls, or a particularly fervent supporter of prostitution do the same re:Epstein.
You mean the way one ordered the FBI to spy on the other, hoping he'd find something disqualifying?
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