aldomilyar
22hr ago
It'd make them substantially weaker in terms of escalating to lethal force.
'Here is the guy who is mean to me occasionally and has not murdered me on previous iterations, TIME TO START SHIVVING' is not a defense.
aldomilyar
1d ago
There's a pretty big difference in the plausible threat between a random guy charging you in the middle of an active riot and/or protest versus 'I have sat down in the wrong team's section of an athletics carnival with a plethora of people around and somebody has laid hands on me whilst trying to move me away'.
Using this logic if say Nikola Jokic got confused during an NBA Playoffs Final game today and sat down on the Clippers Bench, prompting Kawhi Leonard to shove him whilst trying to get him to leave, it would be fine for Jokic to escalate to lethal force and shiv Kawhi in front of America? Your argument tracks if it's a one-on-one unprompted interaction in a dark alleyway with uncapped potential consequences for losing, but is pretty blatantly insane in this circumstance unless you think the local track meet participants were going to form a lynch mob.
aldomilyar
1d ago
Even there there's a fair bit of listless whataboutism in those responses, even attempting to No True Scotsman the people donating to the GSG and saying it's ze Russians, the Kochs and secret false flag conservatives.
aldomilyar
1d ago
I get that but like I'd give more of a pass to a kid called Zion Williamson born the year he got drafted than I'd give to one born the year of Zion's retirement.
aldomilyar
1d ago
If it was one-on-one in a dark alleyway and prime Mike Tyson is coming at me, I may pull a knife to attempt to de-escalate. But Karmelo Anthony was the one trespassing to begin with, with no real threat of any meaningful physical harm beyond his removal from the premises, and he chose to massively escalate the situation by pulling a knife and then to actually use the knife.
aldomilyar
1d ago
I think there's a difference between 'I would pull a knife in order to deter an attacker' which is excessive in the vast majority of interactions but may be the quickest way to defuse something and 'I would actively stab an attacker who's shown no overtures towards violence beyond wanting to remove me from a tent'.
Was Karmelo Anthony under any realistic lethal peril beyond 'yaddayadda he trips whilst being defenestrated from the tent and has a massive coronary heart attack'? Like if this was just 'a bouncer put his hand on a patron who then pulled a knife and then stabbed the bouncer to death' it would be the most open-shut murder case possible. Even trying to defend Karmelo is tiresome. It's essentially impossible to do in good faith.
aldomilyar
2d ago
Honestly the Karmelo Anthony is insanely blackpilling to me. The whole thing should be so abundantly open-shut and it's being presented as an issue due to a combination of race issues and a childlike understanding of what happened with Rittenhouse.
Spontaneously stabbing somebody to death since they told you to move from a seat in an area that you obviously didn't belong in is something that prettymuch any society in human history would condemn you to immediate death for. Yet Karmelo's being compared to Rosa Parks of all people? Genuinely insane.
aldomilyar
2d ago
Dude's 17 which means he was born/name selected in 2008 when Carmelo Anthony was more exciting up-and-comer than his full legacy playing out.
aldomilyar
3d ago
Polymarket you can get some decent liquidity going, but it depends on exactly what you're talking about.
Domestic stuff, particularly previous generation, is a mess of taxes and tiny maxbets yeah.
aldomilyar
7d ago
Don't think that's necessarily Google trying to turn the agenda. Carmelo pronounced with a Hard C been notable for decades at this point and K probably fairly common misspelling.
aldomilyar
8d ago
Sideline but the amount of 'Rittenhouse was found to be acting in self defense therefore Murder by anybody left/POC-aligned that I find morally justified is apparently not a crime' thinking from the Left side of the aisle you see lately is insane. I've seen legitimate direct comparisons of Karmelo Anthony shivving somebody to Rosa Parks on the timeline in recent weeks.
aldomilyar
8d ago
My CHA is not high enough to charm randos at events into doing things for me
I don't think this is necessarily the best way to perceive it. For me it's more like 'pick up enough random weak links into people doing stuff broadly related to your personal industry and in future you'll be able to refer 'oh I randomly ran into a guy who needs Niche A subniche C services and I remember running into another guy who provides those a few months ago I can interlink them' and have people do the same for you. Moreso than assuming direct control of random passerbys to directly build your career.
aldomilyar
8d ago
Submit to Musk's impregnation ultimatum or he'll financially pummel you?
I feel like it's a little bit different when he's essentially been the one to give Fong a platform to make money through his attention and whatever jury-rigging they did to the X algorithim to pay her 5-figures a week. It's not like she had an independent business that he's arbitrarily crushing.
aldomilyar
8d ago
Yes but the notional balances of retirees accounts has gone down which is a great evil, whilst all these other evils were good for the amount of 0's on the spreadsheet and could be justified by magical thinking in other spreadsheets about fungibility of human labor.
aldomilyar
9d ago
Additionally hilarious when the majority of people making these arguments, if confronted with a similar 'transness is valid since super rare hormonal dysfunction that impacts 1-in-2-million people' would instantly side on the yes but side whilst since it's about their own bodyweights are suddenly reality relatavists.
I'm reminded of a twitter thread from Big Yud ages ago on similar lines about why he was unable to lose weight. Can't find it on a quick search but it was a similar matter of 'rationalist attempts to rebut CICO when it's fairly obvious he just likes eating and doesn't like exercising'. A post meming on him from back then https://x.com/MorlockP/status/1657098074139811876
I've personally struggled with my weight depending on a bunch of factors, swinging 20-30kgs either direction depending on circumstances but ultimately CICO's the only way I've ever been able to lose weight and generally I gain when I'm distracted by other things to the point of letting go of either moderation or exercise.
aldomilyar
9d ago
As we are mere mortals, generally we can estimate a CO number that's within 5-10% of the appropriate one (regardless of hormonal and compositional differences) and then ensure a CI number that's a decent margin less than that. This whole thing seems to be trying to invoke the Zenos paradox of weight loss in which 'I cannot lose weight since I cannot know my exact expenditure and the only thing stopping me from adjusting my consumption is not knowing to 8 decimal places how many twinkies I can consume to achieve an exact 200 calorie deficit'.
Luckily there's a fuller article of what actually happened
https://dcwitness.org/prosecutors-call-defendant-a-clever-story-teller-in-homicide-trial/
'“I’m thinking I’m about to be shot…I know this man to be this type of person,” recounted Ruffin. Ruffin testified he punched Lee and then stabbed him with his pocket knife. '
The entire case here was that he was being intimidated by the stabbed party, believed that the stabbed party was armed with a firearm based on a series of previous encounters where the stabbed party had a gun on him.
'During closing arguments, Irving argued that Ruffin’s testimony only added additional details, not differences in his story. Irving asserted that Lee’s hand behind his back was a deadly threat of violence, and even if appearances were false, it was still self-defense because Ruffin believed Lee had a gun. “It doesn’t matter how many times he stabbed him, he did what he had to do to keep that gun from coming out,” said Irving.
The prosecution argued in closing that Ruffin did not act in self-defense because he was the initial aggressor. They added that there is no evidence that Lee had a gun and it is pure speculation by the defense. '
The only reason it was even somewhat possible to claim self defense in this situation was the presumption of a gun being involved. That was what the entire defense rested on, the tenet that the knife wielder was matching lethal force instead of massively escalating stakes for no reason.
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