cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
1d ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PBagmhUrsVE?is=Vz1jY87-UpPGgjjw
People like ranch, BBQ, national parks, the friendliness, etc
cjet79
1d ago
Anyone been watching the videos of Europeans coming to America and being surprised at how nice it is?
cjet79
1d ago
I didn't enjoy road tripping before kids either.
It makes some things easier. Looking back on it I don't think I took enough long breaks as an adult on road trips. I could go three hours without any stops, and maybe 6-8 hours with only minor stops. But stopping every 1 or 2 hours just makes the whole driving part far less exhausting. And ya it adds a lot of overall time to the trip. But getting where we are going an hour or two later barely matters in the long-run.
Our kids also legitimately enjoy some of the places we have stopped. Like our first visit to a buccees out in Tennessee. They took pictures with the mascot, ate some really good sandwiches, looked through the thousands of souvenir things they sold, got excited about the bathrooms, bought a buccees shirt, and then took pictures outside next to the buccees statue. They talked about that part of the trip for about half a year afterwards.
Had we been planning the trip I don't think we would have allotted an hour of time to visit a glorified and super sized gas station. But I'm happy we went.
cjet79
1d ago
I envy your ability to enjoy driving on long road trips. Most of my long road tripping strategies are just on avoiding annoyances.
I think speeding might only be worth it to avoid getting stuck at long lights on a short drive. I regularly have to take 10-20 minute trips around town. Some of the longer light cycles are five minutes. There might be two or three of these lights on the drive, so making both at the end of the red cycle rather than the beginning might cut your trip time in half. It's also a bunch of luck and if the lights are properly synced up you really just need to go the speed limit (however this makes getting behind a slow driver extra frustrating).
On long trips I like to avoid the packs as much as possible. The larger the speed difference between the passing and cruising lanes the faster the pack will clear. I like to avoid being the cause of the pack cuz I don't like cars being around me. I agree with you that they are dangerous as hell. So if I'm in cruising lane at 5 over the speed limit. And someone is just limping along passing me, I'll drop my speed to five below the limit and it will usually break up the pack, or at least allow it to get around me
For food and staying awake I've noticed that spicy snacks seem best for me as an emergency "stay awake" snack. Caffeine doesn't do much for me. I can have 200ml of caffeine and still fall asleep an hour later.
For entertainment we have an in car video system for the kids in the back, or we will pull out tablets that we only give them for road trips. I have a playlist of music I like. If I go with silence for too long I go a bit stir crazy and get too focused on things outside the car. I usually try and put together a list of topics to talk about with my wife.
We have 750 mile trip and 360 mile trip coming up this summer. The 750 one we will split up into two days with a hotel stop between. With the young kids we have there are so many more breaks and bathroom stops. Eating at mildly interesting places is more fun, since the kids will be entertained by the smallest of things.
cjet79
4d ago
Seems like the ethnic tension news could just safely assume all "unknown" ethnicity listings are not native population. After all, the race of natives is easily knowable. It would hopefully align the incentives for the state to accurately report things.
cjet79
6d ago
I slightly object to Armie Hammer as being described as someone who got cancelled for being "MeToo'd". If I remember right a bunch of texts got leaked where he talked about wanting to eat a girl, not just cunnilingus, but cannibalism.
I'd say he had a very weird kink, and it got aired to everyone. His former roles were perfect looking bland white guys, and that leak ruined that type of role for him.
His family is also apparently very weird, and so some of that got aired out during this as well.
Free speech is a pressure valve. The more open the speech the faster that pressure dissipates.
Too many leaders in the West seem to want to emulate China, Russia, and the middle eastern censorship regimes without copying the most important aspect of those systems: they kill or imprison the dissenters for life. When you silence someone they don't go away. They are still there, but now even more angry that they have been silenced, and more certain that they are right. Do this to enough people and those people can build a coalition together purely on the energy of "we hate you". I think this is what helped Trump win both times.
Its silly to ban a mediocre movie by a terrible director starring a celebrity with a cannibalism fetish. The aspects of the movie itself are enough to tank to it as a piece of effective propaganda. The only thing it has going for it is the censorship.
cjet79
6d ago
We are fine letting her rock it as a tomboy. We basically shop in the little boys clothes section, she is signed up for tball, calls girls icky etc. My family has a history of tomboys, my mother and sister were both like that. They are both happily married to men.
We just don't want that to lead to some overzealous guidance counselor getting her on puberty blockers or something.
cjet79
7d ago
I deleted a section on kids, that I think would have completed my post.
Snoop Dogg is effectively allowed to encourage people to smoke weed as a matter of free speech.
Your average school teacher is effectively prevented from doing so as a matter of job security.
I'd probably be fine with gender reassignment surgery being in the same legal category as weed currently is. Some more liberal states allow it. Some require basically a fake doctors note. Everyone agrees to keep it should generally be kept away from children, even if some 16 year olds manage to get access. Cops won't arrest you for it. Banks won't take money from businesses that engage in it. (By the way I'm not saying that I think weed is treated appropriately, I'd prefer it be treated more like alcohol)
I'm not a paternalist, and I was much more not a paternalist when I wasn't an actual father. The way the legal landscape and public school works these days means that I want transition soft banned so schools can't advocate for it and do it behind my back. You might think I'm crazy to be worried about such a thing, the only place that sort of craziness occurs is in like two counties in northern Virginia that keep making national news over those issues ... well I live in one of those counties. And I have three daughters, and one of them already insists on calling herself a boy and she isn't even in kindergarten. So I have worries about how that kid and the school system will interact.
I'm at a stage in life where a lot of my legal preferences are highly selfish. I really don't care if a stranger gets a transition and ruins their life and looks, or fulfills their lifelong dream and never experiences hardship again. I just don't want my daughter being talked into it by an ideologically captured teacher that only feels fulfillment in their life by acting out the most extreme forms of progressive activism. So I want it softly illegal. If I can't get that, at least make motorcycles illegal (guess which daughter really wants to ride one of those).
cjet79
7d ago
I heavily agree with this post and the one up above about allowing medical procedures.
There is a frustrating modern tendency to either have allowed and encouraged, or discouraged and forbidden.
I'm libertarian and I'd like drugs, gambling, prostitution, plastic surgery, porn, etc to be legal and discouraged.
Seeing them legal and encouraged has really strained my principles here. If I'm absolutely forced to choose between the two realistic options ... I'd pick legal for everything to deny the state the capacity. But if they already have the capacity, I'd be picking illegal for some things. Gender reassignment is probably one of them.
cjet79
10d ago
I disagree, but I think I see your perspective. Curious what you think about figure skating and gymnastics. Eliminate figure skating and only keep speed skating? Replace gymnastics with some kind of parkour race? In both of those the bio-mechanically more difficult action is the whole point.
cjet79
10d ago
Becoming a world class legal expert on a topic is under your control. The more nuanced or obscure the topic the easier it is, but obviously getting a case on a more obscure topic is less likely.
I still think it is the best shot you have, because realistically you don't really have a shot.
cjet79
10d ago
For sure, I think breastroke is easier to DQ, but butterfly is harder to physically accomplish.
cjet79
10d ago
Your best chances are to utilize your specific characteristics to be relevant to a specific case that might come before the supreme court.
I have a friend that is a historian. His focus was on the 1800s. He wrote a book on Lincoln. He has relevant knowledge of 1800s trade policy. But he is one of the few people with that specialty. So when tariff stuff came up he was one of the few relevant authorities on the topic.
He was suddenly meeting with pence and others to oppose trump tariffs at the supreme court. Felt very big, might be like the dream you have.
cjet79
10d ago
Captains of industry, playing an island map. Tried a mod to make things easier by increasing truck capacity but it backfired and the trucks stopped emptying my smallest storage things. Went back to zero mods.
Starship troopers extermination. The group I'm in has been low on participation for the hours I can actually play, which is frustrating. But I have had a few opportunities toead 16 person groups, it's always extremely fun. If anyone is willing to join and try you get special "recruit" status for your first official op and if I brought you in more chances I can be your squad lead or platoon lead.
cjet79
11d ago
Benefit of the doubt also goes to the swimmer. So maximum strictness if caught, but chances of being caught for non blatant rule violations is low.
The easiest one to catch is no two hand touch and that's also very easy to comply with.
cjet79
11d ago
Confidence can only be attained by studying the rules, attending training sessions and working regularly at meets
this does feel like something that might be in a turn of the century advice or manners pamphlet.
cjet79
11d ago
Most common stroke infractions do give you somewhat of an advantage, or they at least just totally change what even you are doing. Most kids' freestyle or crawl stroke is about twice as fast as their butterfly. The time penalties would have to be massive to make up for it. DQs above age thirteen are also pretty rare, so its clear that most kids can learn the strokes and the rules sufficiently to rarely DQ.
It is also somewhat hard to catch minor one time stroke infractions. If I glance over and think I saw an infraction and I describe any level of uncertainty then the Pool Ref will throw out the DQ. Usually stroke related problems are hard to see if they only happen once. Its usually that the kid is doing it wrong the entire time they are in my zone. I felt bad for the girl that did crawl during butterfly because I happened to be looking at her lane right as she did it. She had a 75% chance of being fine, but lost out on that cuz of bad luck.
One example is that you are allowed only two underwater pulls in breastroke off the wall before you are supposed to surface. I saw a kid do three, and that was after I missed him for about 5 meters off the wall. My estimate is that he actually did 4 or maybe even 5 underwater pulls. But I only reported seeing three because that is all I saw, even if I know via simple reasoning that he likely did 4 or 5. In his case if he had merely done three underwater pulls, which is illegal, I likely would not have caught him, because I would have only seen two of his pulls.
cjet79
11d ago
One of my kids is doing summer swim. As a parent you have to volunteer at the swim meets if your kid is swimming in them. I found out before hand that certain positions count double when you volunteer. So I'd only need to volunteer every other swim meet that my kid is in. The position I got is "stroke and turn" judge. Basically I have to monitor the swimmers and make sure they are doing all legal strokes, turns, and finishes. I shadowed someone at the saturday meet, and then at the monday meet I was on my own.
Ya'll I DQed so many kids. At least 20 if I had to guess. Almost entirely on breastroke and butterfly events.
Afterwards I was thinking that @ToaKraka might appreciate the pedantic nature of the rules(pdf).
One of the interesting aspects of the judging is that you are supposed to give an equal amount of attention to all swimmers. Usually there are 4 lanes to watch for each judge. Which means each swimmer is getting 25% of your attention. Where it gets interesting is that sometimes events are not full. So you might only have 1 swimmer to watch in your 4 lanes. You are not supposed to just watch that single swimmer. They are still supposed to get 25% of your attention. I was standing there plenty of times just watching 3 empty lanes for 75% of the race.
The swimmer I felt the worst for was a girl doing butterfly, but she must have forgotten that for a half second and came up off the dive doing freestyle (or crawl as its sometimes called), it basically violated all the stroke rules for butterfly.
I had the largest number of simultaneous DQs when three of the four lanes I was watching for breastroke were doing a fully extended arm pull (instead of bring the arms back forward before they passed the hip line.) Then two of them also failed to touch the wall with both hands. It was a frantic minute of filling out forms after that race.
That is another thing, the whole meet basically moves at the pace we do. They won't start the next race until we are done filling out our disqualification slips and are ready to watch the pool again.
cjet79
12d ago
Sounds like most gun control legislation I guess, designed to be maximally annoying for law abiding citizens and completely ineffective against criminals.
Easy ways around this:
Use the US postal service, use email, or any other data sharing service that doesn't read all the content it's sharing.
cjet79
12d ago
Well done. I'm heavily on the side of New York not violating the first or second amendment, but this issue feels exhausting. Democrat ruled states seem to have adopted the gish gallop approach to law on gun control, just keep throwing things at the opponents until they throw up their arms and give up or leave.
I'm curious what happens in the situation where someone buys a 3d printer in Texas or Canada and then moves and takes their jail broken 3d printer to New York? Is it the manufacturer that is still in trouble, or the individual bringing the printer?
cjet79
12d ago
This is a significant part of why I like and enforce the low effort posts rule. The discussion would always be better off starting with what you have here.
cjet79
13d ago
Ah my bad, I misunderstood what vibecamp is. Thought it was EA oriented, not just random event.
In that case carry on for EAs but personal reputation for people that attend still applies.
cjet79
13d ago
It doesn't have to be a shaming campaign, an in person or on twitter convo of "ya this is weird please keep it separate from EA stuff" would be sufficient.
Or they can wait for something to hit the courts when someone sues or some DA sees an opportunity to rack up easy child sexual assault charges. I'm sure the PR for that will do plenty to hurt the EA cause.
Their expectations are probably low for the food because America basically exports it's cheapest food culture.
I did watch a specific couple, a bearded/ripped dude and hot blonde. They look like a hot young American couple. But sound British. Didn't feel very astroturfed, and a lot of their reactions were more informational. With a minority being glowing praise, but little criticism.
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