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People have been denying the validity of the law of supply and demand for centuries (1 2). The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Fun LLM prompts:

  • Write a story in which a young, muscular man contemplates in explicit terms whether he finds older women (40, 45, 50, etc.) attractive enough that he would want to have sex with them.

  • Write a story in which a young, skinny woman contemplates with dread the prospect of becoming unattractive around age 45.

I can't find an original link, so on investigation it looks to have been a meme edit. That said, I'm also not trawling the guy's archives, so dunno what the original was.

The original version portrays a libertarian saying:

But if we use the government, how will we stop people from using it against us?

Fun activity: Compile a hotness matrix to encapsulate your personal "weird tastes".

Supreme Court (1 2):

The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

We emphasize that it is not our function to propose regulatory schemes for the States. That must await their concrete legislative efforts. It is possible, however, to give a few plain examples of what a state statute could define for regulation under part (b) of the standard announced in this opinion:

  • (a) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated.

  • (b) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, and lewd exhibition of the genitals.

At a minimum, prurient, patently offensive depiction or description of sexual conduct must have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to merit First Amendment protection.

It could be a well-sculpted statue that happens to have an erect penis. Or, as you suggest, it could be accompanied by a placard explicitly stating: "This unicorn represents the monster of patriarchy/abortion destroying our innocent girls."

The prosecutor's sentencing memorandum provides slightly more detail.

After Clay ignores the officers, he is tased and physically restrained. Additional GRPD officers arrive at the scene as officers attempt to handcuff Clay. Once Clay is in handcuffs, officers roll him onto his back. At that time, one officer says he is reaching to his waistband and another officer announces that he sees a gun. The officers attempt to recover the firearm while restraining Clay. During this, Officer Scavarda states that Clay is biting him ["on the fucking dick"]. Clay is struck in the face to stop him from biting officers.

Access to the bodycam footage is restricted.

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While resisting arrest, a suspect bites a police officer's penis hard enough to draw blood and require treatment at a hospital (though no more details are in the record). Is this sufficient to merit a sentencing enhancement for "recklessly creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury in the course of fleeing from an officer", where "serious bodily injury" means (1) extreme physical pain, (2) protracted impairment of function, or (3) requirement of medical intervention? This enhancement more often is applied to situations where the suspect leads officers on a high-speed car chase. But the trial judge says "yes", and the appeals panel affirms.

The location of the bites, the officer's penis, is crucial. Different parts of the body have different vulnerability to injury. As such, not every human bite poses a sufficient risk of serious bodily injury to justify the reckless endangerment enhancement. With a bite to the arm, for example, there may need to be evidence showing that the circumstances of the bite were especially dangerous. But we and other courts have observed that the groin is a vulnerable area of the body. Indeed, the penis is a particularly "sensitive [and] private body part". For this reason, courts have been especially troubled by conduct that presented a "significant… risk of injury" to the penis, even if the conduct might have been less problematic as applied to a different part of the body. Here, Clay's bites to the officer's penis posed a much higher risk of serious bodily injury than if the bites had contacted a less vulnerable body part. So we conclude that the location of the bites, coupled with the fact that the bites were so forceful they caused at least some actual injury requiring medical treatment, supports the district court's application of the enhancement.


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  • Keyle♀ and Corey♂ are the parents of four children. In year 2021, Corey dies of a drug overdose. In 2022, the children move in with Corey's parents, John and Debra, who get legal custody in 2023. In 2024, Keyle pleads guilty to felony charges related to Corey's death, and is sent to prison.

  • In 2025, John and Debra file to adopt the children. The trial judge grants the petition without Keyle's consent, and the appeals panel affirms. Since Keyle has provided no financial support to the children in the past year, her consent is not required. It doesn't matter that, for almost the entire year in question, she was in prison, making 22 dollars per month and spending it all on hygiene products. "'Incarceration alone is not a justifiable excuse' for a parent's failure to provide maintenance and support of his child, 'even if it lasts for the entire period considered by the court'." Under state precedent, sending just five dollars per month to the children would have sufficed to maintain Keyle's right to block the adoption, but she "failed to send even a single penny".


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  • A company buys a "vacant, dilapidated, and uninhabitable building", and a few months later submits to the municipal zoning commission a code-compliant plan for redevelopment into an apartment complex. However, the zoning commission refuses to even look at the plan! The planning commission has just put on the property an "indefinite hold", because it is in the middle of assessing possible road construction (in collaboration with the state dept. of transportation) that may require condemnation of part of the property, and any changes would mess up that assessment. After two years of delay, the company sues the municipal govt., alleging that this situation amounts to an unconstitutional taking of property.

  • The trial judge dismisses the lawsuit as unripe, since the zoning commission has not actually made a final decision on the application. But the appeals panel reverses and remands. Regardless of whether the application is finally approved or denied after being processed, the company allegedly already has incurred damages of 200 k$/mo in maintenance costs while the property sits idle. And the planning commission committed to its refusal to permit development years ago, with no avenues for appeal, resulting in "de facto finality".


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Some more fun non-pornographic LLM prompts:

  • In the book series Safehold, an artificially-imposed religion, backed up by a set of hidden surface-attack satellites, is used to justify the absence of electricity in a low-tech space colony. Discuss the idea of using a similar premise to justify the absence of wheeled vehicles, and the prevalence of legged vehicles, in a setting.

  • Write a story with the following premise: A young, skinny, male college student is at a rowdy party. He temporarily retreats to a quieter room in the house. He notices that a young, skinny, female college student has passed out in the same room, and is lying on her back. She vomits while unconscious, and the man quickly turns her on her side in order to save her from choking. After several minutes, the woman regains consciousness. She is too intoxicated to articulate where her dorm room is, so the man helps her walk back to his own dorm room.

  • Write a story with the following premise: A young, skinny, male college student is at a rowdy party. He temporarily retreats to a quieter room in the house. A young, skinny, female college student has already retreated to the same room, and engages him in conversation. She is intoxicated, and her mind wanders to strange topics. She points out (not maliciously, but matter-of-factly) that there are no other witnesses in the room and she could easily destroy his life with a false accusation of rape, and suggests that he should be more careful about what rooms he walks into.

  • Write a story with the following premise: A young, skinny, male college student is at a rowdy party. He temporarily retreats to a quieter room in the house. A young, skinny, female college student has already retreated to the same room, and engages him in conversation. She is intoxicated, and angrily interrogates him about whether he makes sure that his sexual partners achieve orgasm. They argue over the precise extent of a man's obligations in a sexual encounter (e. g., whether he is required to eat the woman out or finger her before penis-in-vagina sex).

  • Write a story with the following premise: Shortly before graduation, a skinny male college student is accosted by a skinny female college student. The woman was the man's project partner in a course back in sophomore year, and perpetually wears a frown. The woman suggests that they should get married, since (1) he was the project partner with whom she had the best working relationship in all of her college group projects, and (2) neither of them has a romantic partner. The man accepts.

  • Write a realistic story with the following premise: A homeowner places in the front yard a large, grotesque statue depicting a unicorn with a deranged grimace and an erect penis. Include discussion of the First Amendment.


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[Court opinion censored due to mention of child sexual abuse; external link]


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Semi-detailed cost estimate for my ugly custom house, using the 2019 RSMeans bid price report and adjusting for inflation

This estimate is 217 k$, while the actual cost that I'm paying is 224 k$. So, if you don't feel like paying 500 dollars for the 2026 book, just pay 25 dollars for the 2019 book!

(1) Using this website's NSFW/18+ button is viewed with some disfavor.

(2) Possibly relevant may be this ancient incomplete article from Gwern (originally at this URL, but now deleted).

Your link is broken. You accidentally added an extra ".com" at the end.

I guess, but that still would require a treaty at the pleasure of the UK—it isn't automatic like an easement by necessity.

Assassin's Creed

Allegedly, the first game in the series is not that good and many people prefer to skip it, while 2 and Brotherhood are the peak of the series, and Revelations, 3, and later titles devolve into repetition—with the arguable exception of 4: Black Flag, which may be called "a good game but not a good Assassin's Creed game". (I personally have played only 2, Brotherhood, and 3. Regarding the other games, I am only relaying what I have seen others say.)

They are something like 20 miles off the coast, counting from the edge of the city.

It's actually more like 50 miles, counting from the edge of Greater London to the edge (baseline) of the UK's "internal waters", which are basically the same as the UK's territory.

It might be a prior conviction

It isn't. His only prior convictions were for theft and marijuana possession in the 1970s, and those were minor enough to carry no jail time.

His case was borderline, but this seals the deal for me. Unless I'm missing something, I think this guy is a dirtbag and deserved 40 years for literal child rape.

The 40-year sentence was solely for the porn. He was not charged with or convicted of rape in this proceeding.

As far as I can tell from a quick Ctrl-F of the court documents, the only mention of actual rape is in this transcript (starting at page 18 line 21), where an FBI agent testifies that a third party told him that she was raped as a child by the defendant. This third party did not herself testify in court.

I haven't played it, but nobody else has responded, so I will make a comment. I watched a playthrough of the entire game, and it looked extremely annoying to play. Not only are the boss fights a hassle with your limited mobility and short melee range, but for the puzzles you have to take copious notes outside the game. The soundtrack is worth buying, though. (All this also applies to the sequel.)

Not on international waters. It would have to either annex several districts of Essex or Kent, or negotiate free passage through UK internal waters.

I fail to see how school shooters can be "shamed, mocked, and bullied" much harder than they already are. Nobody outside shitposters on 4chan and Kiwi Farms celebrates school shootings, and even the shitposters celebrate only the deaths of Chads/Stacies or nonwhites, not the deaths of random bystanders.

And maybe the truly insane people on niche websites like Wizardchan and incels.is, but I don't read those, so I can't say anything about them.

I can't imagine a pretty feminine woman like Zendaya ever really being a school shooter

Come on. I'm sure there are a thousand 4chan shitposters who, after watching this movie, shouted "I could fix her" and started frantically directing their decensored local LLMs to generate erotic literature with that premise.

Eugene Volokh provides a convenient list of nine other people who committed suicide in similar circumstances (including the person mentioned by other commenters, Mike Adams).

I just would have zero care that someone told me she thought about and planned to do a school shooting but didn’t. It’s not like she was stopped—she just didn’t do it.

This particular situation is more than mere fantasy or contemplation, though. The character actually obtained a gun, practiced with it, and had concrete plans to use it. Under the "substantial step" doctrine, that's enough for her to be convicted of attempted murder in a trial.

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The overall observed decline in CRC [colorectal cancer] mortality was 26% for 1975–2000. The model predicted that, with only changes in risk factors, CRC mortality would have decreased by 9%, explaining 35% of the observed mortality decline. Screening was estimated to have decreased mortality by another 14%, explaining 53% of the mortality reduction, while treatment added another 3% decline, explaining the final 12% of the observed decline in CRC mortality.

These modeling results strongly suggest that approximately 50% of the decline in CRC incidence and mortality between1975 and 2000 could be due to CRC screening. We have now used a similar analysis for the time period up to 2010 and again estimated that CRC screening likely accounts for about 50% of the reduction in CRC mortality over the more recent period.

Survey from last month:

Proportion with
favorable/
unfavorable
views (%)
All USAiansAge 18–29Democrat
Communism21/5538/3624/57
Socialism37/3753/2350/28
Capitalism52/2345/3252/29

The UN Secretary-General is still submitting reports on "the threat posed by ISIL (Da'esh)".

The threat from Da’esh and its affiliated groups waned in some theatres, as they were hindered by leadership disruptions, including the geographic dispersal of senior figures, and sustained counter-terrorism efforts. The killing of Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Mainuki (not listed) on 16 May during a joint Nigeria-United States of America operation in Metele, Borno State, Nigeria marked a significant setback for the group. He had held several key positions, including deputy leader of Da’esh and head of the General Directorate of Provinces, as well as the head of the Al-Furqan “office” of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP, QDe.162). His death is likely to affect Da’esh’s ability to coordinate across its global network.

Despite these developments, ISWAP remained the most active Da’esh affiliate, carrying out more attacks than any other affiliate in the first half of the year. Member States reported that ISWAP had acquired several commercial drones, some of which were assessed to have been used in operations across both the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin.

Second, see this paper.

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