Pynewacket
7d ago
It's just like trying to force yourself to drink 20 shots of vodka, or smoking 200 cigarettes in a day. Pleasures just don't scale that way.
I notice that your choice of examples have deleterious effects on the recipient of said "pleasure" that could range in severity up to including death.
Pynewacket
7d ago
What about smashing their own (non shared) things in a fit of rage?
Do they correctly dispose of the smashed bits afterwards? Did they do the smashing when I don't have to see or hear them and they aren't inconveniencing anyone?
Would you say it's immoral for someone to intentionally burn themselves so they could get a cool scar?
Is the scar in a visible part of the body? Will it be deleterious to their health now or in the future?
Pynewacket
10d ago
“Honestly, I think you are going to have to let go a little bit or she might go crazy after she gets out yalls house. All of her behavior was appropriate for a 17 year old. I was doing these things at 17. Almost all of my high school and the high school down the road were doing these things. And worse…. The way you go forwards is going to determine whether you are in her adult life.”
There’s a significant attitude of “Teens are going to engage in risky behaviors no matter what, your punishments and restrictions will have zero deterrent effect, and the best course of action is some kind of harm reduction.”
I'm more of the opinion that it is preferable to not be in their life when they aren't your responsibility anymore, than being present in their funeral when they still are. That sub sounds like a bunch of childless kidults with a "hello, fellow kids" attitude.
Pynewacket
15d ago
Trump pardoned literal conmen for things way worse than Hunter had done and no one noticed or cared.
can you give us some names, please?
The whole point of the suit is that the process by which Musk's award amount was reached was biased in his favor, not a neutral process.
This isn't true, as the NYT puts it, the targets were a "series of jaw-dropping milestones" or "laughably impossible". It's biased in Musk's favor in the fevered mind of that stock pauper, but the lawsuit and subsequent rulings are just political activism fueled by anti-Musk animus.
EDIT.- I'm going to go one over and affirm that the only people that are against the pay package are political activists like the plaintiff and the judge or people that don't know the details of the package and are just following what their peers are telling them to believe. That is how good of a freaking deal it was to the shareholders.
Pynewacket
21d ago
What genre of videogame are you making?
Pynewacket
30d ago
to add to what SteveKirk already said that I agree 100% with, I would consider the poor smuck on twitter that was sounding the alarm about the poor messaging for men days before the election, for which he was dragged by his own side (can't remember his handle, but he had his 15 min of fame), as a more valuable signal than the Ezra Klein or Matthew Yglesias of the world.
Pynewacket
30d ago
My only point is that no matter what immigration policy you choose, unless it is open borders you will have people trying to immigrate illegaly no matter how sane you consider the immigration system and you are just adjusting the proportions with the criteria.
A sane immigration system will prevent people from trying to enter illegally because it’s plausible that one can do so legally.
not everyone is going to be delusional enough to think they can immigrate as a single mother of four, with no skills or with an open warrant for their arrest.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
If the choice is a 5-10 year wait or hop the fence, I don’t think you can act shocked when a lot of people jump the fence.
there are people that have no path to inmigrate legaly to the US, be that a 5-10 year wait list or 2 weeks, and that their only way forward is through fence hopping. Think gang members, non-skilled people, minors, etc. the only way to stop them is going to be enforcing the border one way or another.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
I get the feeling that a lot of these people wanted to speak up more loudly sooner, but it was only once progressives were properly on the back foot that they felt empowered to do so.
that sounds like cowardice, that they were unwilling to breach the party line, up until the catastrophe befell them and everyone was scrambling, like a chicken with its head cut off, asking what happened. Personally I would look for the lefties that didn't care to be excommunicated from the party and searched for the truth. After all, what good is a yes man?.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
I mean, maybe one can say that parts of the Secret Service seemed remarkably unconcerned should something happen to him under their "protection," but 'if someone should take him out for us, that would be good' ≠ 'we need to take this guy out'.
too many weird issues with the situation and handling of it, to be just a lone wolf attack without institutional backing.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
But I personally would rather spend my day on my computer than outdoors on a pickup truck,...
...and I think the Republicans are equally braindead as the Democrats, just less trigger-happy about their stupid plans.
why I have more in common with the other blue-grey people than I do with the pure red people.
Sounds like you are more of an indoors type of person rather than outdoors, and has the scorn for the politicians that some of us remember from the last century before it became a team sport.
you are red tribe.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
wouldn't it be necessary for the cops to have a court order to ransack your home? I would assume that includes potential charges.
"If you're more libertarian and completely disagree that the state and its agents should have some good faith wiggle room for mistakes or best practices that fine,..."
I just find it hard to consider the killing of pets without recourse from the owner as a mistake.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
it apparently bit an officer when they were in the process of seizing it. The same as incarcerating someone for resisting arrest without any other charge raised.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
"The Chinese man – a student at the University of Michigan – cast his ballot on Sunday and then reached out to local election officials later that day in an attempt to get the ballot back, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The man registered to vote at the polling place on Sunday, the source said. He used his university ID and other documents to demonstrate his residency in Ann Arbor while filling out a same-day voter registration forms, the source said."
He wasn't even caught, he practically turned himself in. Granted, he was in the US legally, but he is a non-citizen that voted and got away with it but by his conscience.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
and not only with the voters, let's not forget that supposedly Bernie Sanders is an independent. In my opinion, the number of true independent voters in any given year is half or less of what we are told.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
socially optimal
how do you define it in this context?
Pynewacket
2mo ago
that's a wordy way of saying "no u" in view of expressions like "you are seal-clapping for" and "pretending you didn't just crib off of Dean" (didn't know facts had owners by the way).
poor argumentation and boo outgroup
if you can point the errors in what I have said in these responses it would be more useful than vague gesticulations.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
mhh, someone is angy now (sorry if it's babying you, but you are better than whatever pissy personality you are adopting here). The rural purge was due to ideology and almost everyone raking you over the coals is saying it: the sequel is due to ideology with varying degrees of conspiracy mixed in; you are one of the few ones here aserting that it is due to money with nothing to show for it. At least on this side of the argument we have a really prominent historic example.
merely kneejerk Grand Unified Theories of Wokeness.
I subscribe to the principal agent problem myself, thank you very much. And it perfectly explains everything it is happening right now with respect to wokeness, you will notice that private companies like valve suffer much less than public companies like Ubisoft or Blizzard.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
and they're consistent with wanting a peasant population that has kids who join the army and do actual work
if the chattering in X is anything to go by regarding the recruiting ads displayed on TV, it looks like your sentiment only applies in times of war or near the beginning of them. In which case it would be assisted suicide by enemy action at best.
And it makes sense, why would they need red tribers any other time when they have illegals willing to do the job for much less.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
Hollywood is very woke. They like to make woke movies. They also like to make money. I submit they like to make money more than they like being woke (at least the really important people, the people who make money decisions, do).
If that were true there wouldn't have been a rural purge of television programs in the 70's. In view of this, I don't think you can or know how to model the mindset of the "really important people, the people who make money decisions" and I posit that it's in your best interest to update your priors to the more reasonable takes expressed in the thread.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
it's principal agent problem all the way to the top. The mistake often done in these kinds of discussions is assuming that the news reporter or the editor and journalist in the news room cares about the bottom line of the corporation. The only ones that do are the CEO and the bean counters in the finance room; everyone else cares about other things (ideology) as it isn't their job to make sure their business is profitable enough to make payroll.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
but then I don't really pay much attention to her. I fully admit I am voting for generic Democrat and against Trump, not out of any like for her as a candidate.
would you say that "vote blue no matter who" is applicable to you?
Pynewacket
3mo ago
I completely reworked my model of what people get out of “wage slavery” and realized that many, many people will trade 20%+ of their earning potential for stability and security.
were these people alone or with families?, I would assume family men would be reticent to trade stability for a few more bucks.
In my opinion, latines is as woke as Latinx or Latinaos. Granted, It's the only spoken term that is seeing a push in latino-american, but it's correctly mocked when encountered. The plural is Latinos or Latinas if the group consists entirely of females. Wokies must accept that there are gendered languages.
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