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Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
This is almost-certainly part of my problem.
Gdanning
11mo ago
every other commentator, even putatively conservative ones, are doing the expected throat-clearing about how Neely’s death is a tragedy, that we all wish he “could have gotten the help he needed”, etc.
Surely respect for life, and charity towards those who are ill, are consistent with conservativism, are they not?
Rov_Scam
11mo ago
Even if it has predictive value I don't see what the point is. Either people causing disruptions that make the general public do so at their own risk of consequences up to and including death if anyone feels the least bit threatened or they don't. Even if someone can make an accurate predication about another person's criminal and mental health history we have to establish criteria under which he can operate. Do we really want to go down the road of defining how many arrests it takes before someone is legally considered scum and forfeits basic civil rights most of us enjoy? And what happens if someone's wrong? If Neely was really just a normal dude dealing with some personal problems that expressed themselves in an unfortunate way, do we then bring the hammer down on Penny for wrongfully assuming he was some homeless wino? If not, then do we just give everyone the benefit of the doubt and lose the distinction entirely? When dealing with matters involving human life I don't know if this is a road we want to go down.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I’ve had similar experience of low life I felt bad for assaulting people on train. It was actually Easter I was going to airport so felt particularly bad for him. He threatened old guy as easiest target with family. The assaulter looked young so felt bad for him but I would never take away our right to defend ourselves.
For the guy who ended up contributing to low life death I’m fairly certain he’s got a job offer as Desantis personal security. (He doesn’t but if he asked I’m sure Desantis would say yes).
I'd like to point out that in a lawless world of all-against-all OP would probably win a fight against any insane pauper, no matter how burly or experienced with violence. All he would need to do is buy a gun and shoot anyone who tries to get close to him. The homeless man probably can't afford a gun and ammunition.
The advantage of people who are good at one-on-one violence is artificial. It's created by a society that punishes people who win fights by inflicting deadly injury, but doesn't punish people who harass with low-level violence and intimidation.
In every previous era of our species, the military state of the art favored social deadly force over antisocial harassment. Two hundred years ago that dancer would have been sent to a prison or workhouse to die a miserable death. Five hundred years ago he would have been hanged. Two thousand years ago he would have been enslaved by the state and worked to death in a silver mine. Ten thousand years ago a gang of 4-10 men would have encountered him, perceived him as a threat, and thrown rocks at him until he died.
This man's ability to have any power at all in a public setting has nothing to do with his strength and everything to do with our mercy.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
11mo ago
Disappointing, but not surprising. Thanks for the answers! It sounds like this is another case of "it is a good game but a bad Zelda", just like with BOTW.
zeke5123
11mo ago
I’m not “blaming” anyone in the sense of saying those doctors should’ve known. But we later found out things like cpap machines were much more efficient
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
They also legally suppressed the French language across the state. Cajun and Creole children were paddled for speaking it in their public schools well into the twentieth century.
This is technically true, but the dominant factor in Cajuns abandoning the French language was that their bosses were Texans who preferred English speaking workers, and Cajuns who had mostly been paddled for speaking French in school and then continued speaking it anyways stopped teaching their children French because they wanted them to make more money as adults rather than be stuck in the rice fields subsistence farming. The paddling mostly suppressed the Cajun language in a few holdouts.
The narrative that state pressure, rather than economic factors, was the main reason for the decline of the French language is mostly driven by Cajun academics trying to cast themselves as oppressed by a white anglo hegemony alongside blacks- my grandfather told me "my parents spoke French, but they never wanted to teach me". For the same reason you tend to see occasional books talking about how Cajuns were more likely to intermarry with blacks or whatever- being oppressed is fashionable, and LSU academics who got French department sinecures through nepotism and themselves speak standard, not Cajun French want in on the grift.
Actual working class(the vast majority) Cajuns are more likely to point to anti-Catholic or class biases as reasons for their poverty, and are often not shy about criticizing lazy or dysfunctional friends and relatives, with the implication that those prejudices are much reduced and so there's not a lot of excuse for not succeeding.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
11mo ago
Goes to show that people will praise a shit sandwich for its distinguished aroma if indoctrinated since birth.
Eh. I genuinely cannot tell the difference between anything above 20 FPS or so. I've played games with as little as 15 FPS back in the day (on a shitty PC), that was noticeable but anything else is all the same to my eyes. Which is quite nice for me, as I don't have to worry about framerates ever.
Rov_Scam
11mo ago
How does arming rural citizens to the teeth help here? You already said that people in rural areas should be given special treatment (for what reason, I don't know, since rural meth heads are just as obnoxious as urban ones in my experience), so you have to give them special treatment. A guy with a shotgun willing to shoot anyone who enters onto his property has even less opportunity to evaluate if the person he's shooting fits into one of the special categories you seem willing to create wherein people are given a free pass to violate laws that ostensibly apply to everybody. If it becomes clear that antisocial behavior is tolerated beyond a certain line then ne'er do wells will have an incentive to go there and urban leaders will have an incentive to make sure they go there, especially progressive ones who don't want to put them in jail.
somethingsomething
11mo ago
As someone who can't stand 30fps gaming but loves 24fps film, let me just (imprecisely) defend it here.
I'm pretty sure there are ways to mitigate the choppiness from pans, I'm not sure on the specifics. But generally I think it's a limitation that should be worked around as one of the weak points.
The strengths of 24fps film is how the natural blurring of movement in each frame creates the beautiful and subtle impressionistic quality movies have, and that's something that would have to be painstakingly simulated to do in games (and blurring effects in games are pretty bad so I feel like that is a ways away)
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
11mo ago
stopped teaching their children French because they wanted them to make more money as adults rather than be stuck in the rice fields subsistence farming.
I don't follow. Why would that make them stop teaching them French instead of starting to teach them English?
Nwallins
Finally updated my bookmark
11mo ago
This is fantastic! I lived in NOLA for 7 years (see my nick/handle), and most of this history is new to me. The names some facts are familiar but not the conceptual fabric tying everything together.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
The guy was gutter trash, same as any number of whites I've known.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
Even animals recognize big and imposing as something to steer clear of, so I'm not sure it's evidence against being mentally unwell that they prefer to pick on women, old people, and small people.
freemcflurry
11mo ago
This is slightly off topic but the picture at the top of that article caught my eye. I count 7 people holding signs in two rows. The photo looks like it was taken from a couple of feet in front of the first row, so these 7 people fill pretty much the entire frame. There's one other man in the background but he's some distance away from the protestors and not holding a sign so I assume he's a bystander and not taking part. If you scroll past it quickly it's easy to assume it's of a sizeable protest and not just a handful of people. The author doesn't state a figure for the size of the protest anywhere in the article.
Later, the article says:
That decision has prompted protests at subway stations and on New York City streets against officers, prosecutors and the mayor, Eric Adams, with demonstrators calling Neely’s death vigilantism by a white man against a Black subway passenger and talented dancer who was experiencing homelessness as well as mental health struggles after his mother’s murder when he was a teenager.
Which again, makes it sound like a serious movement. I think if there were actually widespread protests by more than a handful of people then it would have been simple to take a picture of them, from a distance and angle that shows their approximate size.
I think the Guardian is intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking these protests are larger than they are by photographing them in a misleading way.
curious_straight_ca
11mo ago
Anonymity with respect to other internet users and anonymity with respect to law enforcement after you've just killed someone, who'll physically possess your electronic devices and subpoena your ISP and every internet service you've ever used are different! I doubt he, or many here, have it in the second sense.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
To note, America has a much higher mentally ill population.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
11mo ago
which lies in the social realm some very 'fine' jews and Americans have constructed for everyone to enjoy.
Is there anything you don't blame on Jews?
It seems to me you are just calling Hoffmeister25 low status so therefor he shouldn't dare voice his feelings on the matter.
This is a willful misreading. I agree with pretty much everyone that a schizophrenic homeless career criminal getting his ticket punched after harassing one too many people is no tragedy. My objection is to making it a racial grievance (which includes sideswipes at Da Joos). But I also think there are reasons we should not be eager to embrace vigilante justice, and my observation that you cannot control which end of the pointy stick you'll be on was quite straightforward.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
Because natal bilingualism was not understood to be completely possible in the 1940's.
ResoluteRaven
11mo ago
I have seen cats leap and grab onto doorknobs in a way that clearly indicates they understand their function. Can't speak for all of them of course.
As for the human example, I imagine it would be something like a cargo cult or old pagan religion. "If we build a runway/shrine and make the proper sacrifices the planes/gods will shower us with treasure."
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
11mo ago
I don't believe that. There were bilingual regions in the world way before that.
Not sure if this is what you were thinking of, but it's relevant in any case.
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