yunyun333
17hr ago
You can just join the track/cross country team if you want to play a sport. It requires zero investment and they'll take anyone. I'm not sure what your actual complaint here is.
yunyun333
10d ago
I was laughing at all the conservatives posting that "sarcastically". Thousandth reminder that twitter is not real life
yunyun333
10d ago
"Gas prices are high, guess I'll vote for trans kids and DEI" turned out to be true.
yunyun333
27d ago
Well, the Europeans didn't complain when he signed the sanctions bill, but are now complaining that he's waiving it. They were probably confident it wouldn't apply to them.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Zelensky and Trump's arm twisting competition
Ukraine is bombing Russian refineries. Good for them but maybe not so good for the price of diesel and thus for Trump. Trump has been very vocal about how Zelensky needs to stop using the targeting data that the US supplies them. Recently he's stepped up his threats, proclaiming a diesel deal with Russia just a couple months after the Lindsey Graham Memorial Sanctions Bill, and announcing an energy ceasefire that Russia doesn't seem to know about.
Republican congressfolk have been fairly supportive of the Iran conflict but Russia is much more polarizing. Zelensky seems confident we won't see a repeat of the early administration snafu - no need for groveling and thank yous - due to this pressure. On the other hand, another winter without sufficient air defense will prove extremely painful, though we said that last year too.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Public executions were big parties. Life was so boring that thousands of people would turn out and get drunk watching a man be hanged.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Yes, it's funny to see based RWers get one shot by the most saccharine AO3 romance.
yunyun333
1mo ago
She recorded a phone call with the first guy where he claims that the only reason a bunch of other guys came into the room was that the house was full, when he sent a text to the groupchat inviting them in. So at least that guy comes off as extra dickish, and he was one of the students expelled.
https://abcnews.com/US/damage-control-phone-calls-records-suggest-cornell-frat/story?id=136987960
yunyun333
1mo ago
https://polymarket.us/event/usgub-oh-2026-11-03
We'll see if that's an effective strategy considering his approval ratings.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Trump and Co. sure seem to be acting like they expect a good outcome.
Is that why he promised $5000 to everyone if they won the midterms?
yunyun333
1mo ago
Not even a prostitute, merely a 'sinful woman'. There's a lot of sins and Luke could have just used the word for prostitute if he wanted to say that (see 15:30).
yunyun333
1mo ago
A rat blogger making an awkward comparison of his weirdo buddies to the Jesus movement is more offensive than the President posting AI slop of himself performing a Jesus miracle. Another reminder that Twitter is fake and gay.
yunyun333
1mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/28/nyregion/tompkinscornell.html
While there, Jane Doe opened one previously unopened can of beer. She and Male Number 1 “danced a little" in a way that “was definitely flirtatious in nature.” Male Number 1 brought Jane Doe to a “quiet area” and “asked how [Jane Doe] would feel about having a threesome with two male partners." Jane Doe "agreed due to how attracted [she] was to [Male Number 1] on top of [her] drunken curiousness.” When she learned that Male Number 2 would be the third participant, Jane Doe "remembered being excited because [she] thought that [Male Number 1 and Male Number 2] wanting to have a threesome meant that they were gay."
Is it gay to have a threesome with your bro?
yunyun333
2mo ago
Did Judaism end after the Temple was destroyed (twice)? Did Christianity end after all Jesus's OG disciples were dead and buried ("some of you standing here will not taste death...")?
They're perfectly capable of creating new copes. In fact, they'll probably just steal the original: "God has punished us for our degeneracy."
yunyun333
2mo ago
It would be fairly easy to steal some old medical or industrial radioisotopes for a dirty bomb; it's certainly happened accidentally plenty of times.
If you wanted to make an actual nuke, there was a window post USSR where a motivated group could have theoretically filched some poorly guarded fissile material from their nuclear cities.
When post-Soviet Russia came into being, in 1991, it inherited a sprawling state industry that had provided a full range of nuclear services, including medical science, power generation, and ship propulsion—as well as the world’s largest nuclear-weapons arsenal and, almost coincidentally, the world’s largest inventory of surplus plutonium and HEU, maybe 600 metric tons. The physical plant consisted of several dozen research, production, and storage facilities, and especially of ten fenced and guarded nuclear cities, which housed nearly a million people, yet were nominally so secret that they did not appear on maps. But within a few years the industry was obsolete, unable to adapt to the new Russian economy, and in steep decline. The buildings were in disrepair, and morale was low because people were not being paid enough or on time. Worse, the nuclear stockpiles were apparently being neglected. There were stories of guards abandoning their posts to forage for food, and of sheds containing world-ending supplies of HEU protected by padlock only. The question now, some fifteen years later, is why terrorists or criminals apparently did not then take advantage. One explanation is that they were ignorant, incompetent, and distracted. Another is that the defenses were not as weak as they appeared.
yunyun333
2mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC487792/
https://studentbriefs.law.gwu.edu/crcl/2024/06/24/dobbs-v-history-part-one-english-common-law/
The word crime harbored important ambiguities as well. For medieval jurists and theologians the Latin “crimen” meant something more akin to sin. Medieval English lawyers used a different word for what we mean today by crime. They used the word “felony.” The difficulty this poses for Alito’s marshalling of the evidence is that there is no tradition, deeply rooted or otherwise, of prosecuting post-quickening abortions as felonies at common law in the medieval period. Penalties for women who terminated their pregnancies post-quickening are spelled out most clearly in medieval penitential manuals, where the offense is treated as a sin to be absolved through penance. And even here it is clear that the underlying sin is the fornication that resulted in pregnancy. Penances imposed for abortions pre-quickening were minor, as they were even for post-quickening abortions for poor women. Some manuals imposed no penance at all on poor women who aborted. More severe penances were reserved for abortions or for neonaticide motived by an effort to conceal fornication or adultery.
yunyun333
2mo ago
But compare with abortion. It started off with the morning-after pill, then first-trimester abortion, and before you know it, low-decouplers are correctly intuiting that, if a mother killing a fetus at nine months shouldn't be a hanging crime, why should killing a child at five years be?
English common law allowed abortion before 'quickening' (16-20 weeks, when the fetus's movements can be felt) for centuries, following Church teaching that the fetus was not yet ensouled. So the debate has not been monotonic.
England, like several other commonwealth and European countries, has infanticide law defining a lesser charge for 'mentally disturbed' women who killed their <1 year old babies. This arose because juries were reluctant to hand out the death penalty to poor and desperate unmarried women.
https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/100-years-of-the-infanticide-act
This strikes many Americans as a grave injustice, but it doesn't seem to increase infanticide rates.
yunyun333
2mo ago
If it only refuses to explain how to produce extra-strength smallpox 99.99% of the time, that's a problem.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Sam Altman may be an amoral alien but most of the people who work there are not.
Why should it be easy to make an LLM act morally 100% of the time? Humans have morality and it's not that hard to get them to do amoral things. And LLMs are very different from human brains.
yunyun333
2mo ago
What did you think unions protecting their employees meant? Vibes, papers, essays?
Anyways, an opinion writer winning in arbitration with a private company is hardly the most egregious example of union bullshit.
yunyun333
2mo ago
People really hate big tech. Flock has the same problem, though it's much easier to put up a bunch of cameras than build a datacenter. That's all it is.
The anti flock case is more coherent because mass surveillance is a meaningful tradeoff. The water and power concerns are probably not as real.
yunyun333
2mo ago
It's a shame, the rector had showed some backbone in standing by his hiring.
According to the NFHS there are 4.7 million boys and 3.5 million girls in high school athletics, and this ratio has held basically constant over the 21st century. It's somewhat more difficult to find consistent statistics for participation rate in athletics but it appears to have held around 60% for decades as well, although the pandemic obviously caused a drop. So there doesn't appear to be evidence that Title IX is specifically reducing male participation.
And most kids who participate in sports aren't the star QB, they aren't getting scholarships, and they aren't doing it to be the most popular kid in the class. We generally value sports for health, socialization, and other intangibles. Your 'male versus female equivalent' comparison also doesn't hold water; the full ride football star gets a far bigger ego boost than the 'star' of an irrelevant sport like field hockey.
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