Tits_Mcgruff
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My point wasn’t that because tattoos and piercings are now common that they’re now good; my point was that they're now so common that they’re no longer a useful signal of if someone is a “ruffian,” I.e., a criminal, member of the underclass, or otherwise the type to get in bar fights (e.g., tattoos have long been associated with marines and sailors).
You now have to actually look at the tattoos to potentially get any useful information about the person with said tattoo. If they have prison tats that tells you different things than if they have a USMC globe and anchor which tells you different things than if they have generic normie tattoo art.
Being fat is different. No one wants to be fat for the most part (aside from maybe young women who put it on only in “all the right places” in subcultures into that look), and absolutely no one actually wants to be obese; anyone saying otherwise is coping. So when you see someone who is fat, you see someone who, for one reason or another, either can’t or doesn’t even try to manage their weight. That does give you some amount of information about them, but as more and more people get fat, the information is starting to go from “this is a person on the lowest end of the self-control spectrum” to “this person is not on the highest end of self-control”.
Tits_Mcgruff
1mo ago
“Like ruffians”? Piercings and non-facial tattoos aren’t that taboo anymore. Almost half of adults under 45 have at least one tattoo. It’s been over a decade since the “tatted-up barista with full sleeves” archetype became a thing. Workplace rules about covering up tattoos have also become far more relaxed in most industries. Sure, face tats are still pretty taboo outside of the traditional subcultures you'd find them (line cooks, construction, etc.), but the OP didn't specify face tats in particular.
Personally, I don’t have any tattoos, but that's because I’ve never felt the desire for any, not because I think I would be ostracised for violating a social norm. The worst I would have to endure is my parents giving me shit cause they think all tattoos look ugly.
Tits_Mcgruff
1mo ago
The issue with gang tats isn't that they have ink in their skin; it's that they are openly advertising that they are a member of a murderous gang. You're conflating the message with the medium. Do you not actually judge all people with tattoos in general? If you do, can you explain what you're judging them for/about? The same goes for piercings and swearing; what about these things leads you to make character judgments?
Tits_Mcgruff
1mo ago
and other things including things like tattoos, piercings, foul language and so forth
Are you judging them solely on aesthetics here? Or do you think these things actually give you meaningful insight about their character?
on the other, it's clear that there would be a lot of collateral damage
How so? A pager is mainly made of plastic and can’t hold all that much high explosive (especially if you’re not gutting the internals). It’s not even a 100% guarantee that such a device will kill the wearer, let alone anyone else near by.
I’ve seen several videos posted of these pagers blowing up while the wearer is beside other people, and in all of them, it seems only the wearer was harmed. Obviously this does not confirm that zero bystanders have been injured, but based on the size of the explosions in those videos, I don’t see how there’s going to be “a lot” of collateral damage.
Tits_Mcgruff
2mo ago
Off the top of my head there’s the 1951 Chinese annexation of Tibet, the various land grabs between Israel and its neighbours, the 1961 annexation of Goa by India, and the 1975 Indonesia annexation of East Timor. Depending how you frame it the Vietnam war ended either with North Vietnam annexing South Vietnam or the reunification of a single nation split by civil war.
There’s also been failed annexation attempts post ww2, like the 1950 North Korean invasion of South Korea and the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
Tits_Mcgruff
2mo ago
A lot of your initial complaints seem to have more to do with implementation.
Here in Australia voting is compulsory. Well, showing up at a polling station and getting your name ticked off is compulsory; nothing is stopping you from submitting a spoilt ballot.
The Australian Electoral Commission has tried to design the system so that, aside from illness and misadventure, there is virtually no reason for someone to be unable to vote. Our elections are always held on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with pre-polling stations opening a week in advance. Federal and state elections allow absentee voting, and postal voting is available as an option of last resort.
Tits_Mcgruff
2mo ago
But as far as I can tell it's not true that there are different licenses per state; there is a national "chainsaw ticket".
Each state has different training courses, as education and training is run at a state level. However, the states try to standardise around a national framework.
Also, from what I can tell, there is no chainsaw “license” in any state or territory. There are only training course requirements in some states for certain industries. For chainsaws there’s various training courses ranging from basic handling and maintenance, to cutting fallen trees, to felling limbs, to felling entire trees. But these are all separate courses that can be taken either individually or as part of a larger training course for a higher certification or diploma.
The main difference between a license and a certification requirement is that without a certification, you’re unable to be hired in the relevant field, while without a license, you’re not legally allowed to perform the relevant task at all.
For example without a first aid certificate you might not be allowed to be hired as a life guard at a swimming centre. But without a forklift license you’re never legally permitted to operate a forklift even if it’s privately owned and on private property.
Licensing requirements to operate a chainsaw vary from state to state. A NSW chainsaw license may not necessarily entitle the holder to operate a chainsaw in Victoria.
Not sure if this is a shitpost, but there’s no license required to operate a chainsaw. Some employers/industries require you pass a training course, but there’s no state or federal government licensing programs like there is for say, forklifts.
Tits_Mcgruff
2mo ago
Comparing the homicide rates of police and "average citizen" is flawed. The “average citizen” is not the same thing as the “average law-abiding citizen”. The cohort used to calculate the risk of death due to homicide for the "average citizen" includes violent criminals who make up the vast majority of homicide victims. This group is excluded from joining the police force creating a sampling bias that distorts the comparison you’re making.
Additionally, you're conflating the risk level after implementing mitigation strategies with the inherent danger of the job. Police engage in work with high-severity hazards of varying likelihood. They employ risk mitigation strategies that reduce the potential severity (e.g., wearing ballistic vests) and the potential likelihood (e.g., situational awareness training).
The effectiveness of these risk mitigation strategies likely contributes to the lower fatality rates among police officers, masking the inherent dangers of the job. So claiming police officers have a low risk of being killed, so they don't need to employ such strict mitigation techniques, is flawed. It's akin to arguing that because few firefighters die on the job nowadays, entering burning buildings isn't actually dangerous and firefighters overly cautious.
The comparison to commercial tree trimmers is also flawed, as the nature and unpredictability of threats faced by police officers are fundamentally different. Unlike tree trimmers, who face primarily environmental hazards, police officers confront unpredictable, potentially hostile human actors. This introduces a level of situational volatility and stress that is not comparable to most other professions, including high-risk manual labor jobs.
Tits_Mcgruff
3mo ago
The national guard is regularly deployed during large riots. The marine were deployed during the LA riots. Though that was prior to the Navy and Marine Corp being added to Posse Comitatus in 2021.
Tits_Mcgruff
6mo ago
Huh? The point is that they’d have to at least be legal adults for the mum to be saying that. The reason the mum wants them to fuck off is cause the daughter is a fucking psycho who the mum doesn't want to be around. It doesn’t really matter if they come from a culture where they normally kick their kids out at 18 or 30.
Tits_Mcgruff
6mo ago
It’s not a game where they have a warning “all these characters are over 18” despite being set in highschool.
Not only is their age stated during the course of the story, they are shown being spoken to as if they’re adults by their own parents. When they visit their parent’s home, the mum makes it clear she doesn’t either of them to move back in.
Their design IMO doesn’t strike me as appearing obviously underage. Based on the art style they look like young adults to me.
Tits_Mcgruff
6mo ago
a western visual novel about underage siblings engaging in incest and cannibalism
If you’re talking about ‘ The Coffin of Andy and Leyley’, then the two title characters aren’t minors. They’re both in their twenties.
Tits_Mcgruff
6mo ago
or indeed with cutting firefighter numbers because there are far fewer residential fires than there were 50 years ago
That’s why (professional) firefighters now also double as paramedics in most places in America.
Tits_Mcgruff
6mo ago
Israel is under no extremely urgent (ie advancing enemy army) pressure to retreat, so mass graves of executed dead Gazans with their hands tied behind their backs left where the UN can find them seems very unlikely. That said, and as you suggest, it’s unclear whether executing enemy combatants would even be a war crime in this case, since Hamas does not follow the rules of war, does not wear uniforms and so on, so their fighters can’t be considered legitimate PoWs but instead partisans, who are allowed to be executed
That hasn’t been true for decades. The Geneva Conventions don’t permit summary executions of anybody. Unlawful combatants are considered to be civilians and so fall under GC I-IV article 4. This means that any combat they engage in can be considered a domestic crime, no different than if you decided to run around shooting at the military right now.
But, just like any other civilian, unlawful combatants are still afforded the right to a fair trial. If they’re found guilty, then sure, you can execute them if that’s the prescribed punishment for what they’re convicted of. What you don’t get to do is line people up against a wall like you’re the German army in 1914 executing “Francs-tireurs”.
Tits_Mcgruff
7mo ago
Tits_Mcgruff
9mo ago
The majority of autists who are high enough functioning to (successfully) do what you’re suggesting already do so. That’s what “masking” is.
The ones who don’t mask are typically the ones who are more autistic. They’re both worse at understanding what’s wrong with how they act and care far less on an emotional level what others think of them in the first place.
The primary reason autists complain about masking (be it the ones who mask 24/7 or those who refuse to) isn’t shame; it’s that it’s a massive pain in the arse. This is to be expected; everyone bitches and moans about the annoyances in their life. The only difference is most people don’t empathise with their complaints because they find unmasked autists annoying.
Tits_Mcgruff
9mo ago
This is an unnecessarily antagonistic way of going about it; Biden can simply federalise the National Guard units and give them new orders. He can even order them to take down the wire themselves.
Tits_Mcgruff
9mo ago
Border Patrol and the Texas National Guard aren't going to get into a direct confrontation. Biden will federalise the National Guard if it comes down to it.
Tits_Mcgruff
11mo ago
Well there’s your problem, most people think crimes like murder, rape, and manslaughter should receive retributive punishment. Simply shrugging your shoulders and going “well I don’t agree” is why the types of ideas you’re preposing won’t ever see widespread acceptance.
Tits_Mcgruff
11mo ago
How is criminal law meant to tie into this? People who value retributive justice aren’t going to be satisfied with someone simply getting sued out their arse.
Tits_Mcgruff
11mo ago
I mean, what fraction of US Muslims can this represent? There are over 3 million of them. The idea that they're substantially high IQ elites doesn't really square with their lower educational attainment and income.
“Elite” might be overselling it, but there are 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide. The 3 million Muslims in America are only 0.17% of the global population of Muslims. It’s a small enough number for selection effects to have had a significant impact.
Not sure I'm following the reasoning here. US Muslims are well integrated because Whites were replaced in the inner cities? A plurality (38%) of US Muslims are white.
He’s talking about the same economic niche lots of other first-generation immigrants fill in cities. Think of the stereotypical bottle shop or grocery store run by a family of immigrants from China or Korea (“roof Koreans”). They’re saying these economic opportunities exist because the pre-existing population of working & middle class white Americans all left for the suburbs during the second half of the 20th century (“white flight”)
Tits_Mcgruff
1yr ago
During the sexual revolution, there are attempts (supported by some but no means all feminists) to reduce ages of consent or to undermine enforcement. In the UK, for example, Gillick (doctors can prescribe contraceptives to girls under 16 without the parents knowledge or consent) was widely supported by feminists on harm reduction grounds
I don’t see how this is evidence of anyone attempting to lower the age of consent or reduce enforcement? Age of consent laws in practice have never focused on minors of similar ages having sex with each other. The focus has always been on people over the age of consent having sex with those below it (with some allowances in jurisdictions with Romeo and Juliet laws), along with the occasional case of minors with significant age gaps.
The most common situation a doctor is prescribing birth control to a girl under 16 is when she wants to have/is having sex with her boy friend who’s about the same as her.
I was tempted to use this one as the example instead.
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