For places where this is a regular issue, I'd say Allow police officers to inflict corporal punishment as a summary procedure.
I'm watching a lot of youtubes of (US) police bodycams and man it's hard to argue otherwise. Of course, it's a biaised sample, but man does it seem unreasonably annoying to have to deal with someone who believes they are going to argue, refuse to comply their way out of a ticket and then physically resist and yell and twist their way out of an arrest. I think there might be some people who'd become more reasonable if they were clearly told by the police "if you do not shut up and comply, I am empowered to beat your ass".
There are also of course, police officers who seem to jump to every opportunity to claim battery on a law enforcement officer. I get that anything that can discourage resisting is probably good in the end, but resisting is already its own charge, it makes me lose some respect for the officers if they feel like a suspect lightly pushing back on them while resisting is them being "battered".
I'm also confused by how many people in the US seem to be driving without their license on them; what the fuck?
pigeonburger
1d ago
You don't have to be a genius at economics to understand "Less hot girls are making more money than you in escorting while doing less. If you want to make more money, you just need move to where there are more rich, lonely, awkward guys." While I don't finish that fast, I'm pretty sure you don't need to elaborate much more for this to be within intellectual reach of anyone with an IQ of 95. Probably 90.
pigeonburger
4d ago
whereas photorealistic AI-gen porn looks just like real life except with every conceivable imperfection mercilessly rooted out.
Honestly, this was already the case before AI-gen porn, for some categories of it. The high-end, "classy", "art" porn from central/eastern europe already has models-style girls with few imperfections to begin with, with top quality Hollywood level make up, flattering lighting, poses and angles and post-processing erasing whatever was there. So I think unrealistically perfect was already a thing before AI-gen.
Obviously consuming either kind of porn to excess will mess with your head. But which do you think is worse?
As a previously healthy consumer of porn (mostly reformed), sometimes you're in the mood for those perfectly shot videos, but also sometimes you're up for real amateur content, for fake amateur content, for 2000s early online productions, for 1990s italian hardcore flicks, for 70s classic films, for drawn content, for 3D CGI content, for softcore...
I think what is worse is being laser-focussed on a single thing and letting that shape your tastes. Checking many things out and being aroused by many of them is healthy.
pigeonburger
6d ago
The accounts I had read gave the impression Digwa was considered by his own community as overly enthusiastic about knives and swords, in that context, the provocation that led to him murdering Nowak might have been a mere pretext for doing something he's always dreamed of doing.
pigeonburger
7d ago
The answer to that will be an even fuller embrace of cloud computing by every software manufacturer. It will be the end of running commercial software locally where you could possibly decompile, crack or copy it. Every software publisher will only allow you to interact with their software through cloud computing, that way they can avoid needing to copyright their software. This includes games (the infrastructure is slowing coming into place to allow this).
How much would it really costs to remake them like 1.5-2.5 b which is significantly less than the initially paid for the IP.
I think the real cost, the real problem, is the reputational hit from admitting they fucked up, alongside the shame, blame, and perhaps even legal responsability, it puts on the creators (producers, directors and writers, mostly) of the publically disgraced movies and the chilling effect it would have on future works.
Imagine how it would go! It's hardly a new phenomenon, bad movies get made all the time at all budget levels, but admitting it means throwing people under the bus. It means telling, quite directly, to the dozens of fans of episodes 7-9 as they are that they have objectively bad taste, talk about spitting on someone's soul. For any producer, director or writer who is about to work on a Disney movie, they'll have seen how Disney failed to stand behind their works. Are they going to imply the movie I worked years on is shit if it doesn't make them enough money? For the public, they'll have seen how Disney swore, for years, to the tune of billions of dollars that episode 7, 8 and 9 were the sequels we always wanted to the Star Wars saga.
No, I don't think we're gonna get a redo. If that bad all women Ghostbusters movie was never officially disgraced by Sony, Disney's not going to do it with Star Wars. At least that Ghostbusters movie could be pushed into a corner never to be talked about again, while SW killed off or bastardized beloved characters. It's best for them to maintain the fiction that they were perfectly good movies that simply for whatever reason, didn't resonate enough with audiences. The best they could do to correct it is a split timeline, JJ Abrams' Star Trek-style, that they then splice over the bad one, and I have a hard time imagining them pulling it off in a way that doesn't feel like a massive ass pull; at least Star Trek had a history of time travel and diverging timelines.
pigeonburger
12d ago
NewPipe broke for a few days, but the latest update fixed it for me.
pigeonburger
13d ago
If you offered me both, I know I'd chose the rattan strikes, easily. I don't know how low the time in jail and high the amount of strikes would have to be for me to, not knowing precisely how painful the strikes are, prefer the opposite, but in my ignorance I would at least exchange up to 20 strikes for a year.
pigeonburger
13d ago
This will open the congressmen to accusations of being too lazy to go in person: "I will go every week to argue your case in-person to Washington DC and I will not be leaving until I get what's best for you, my opponent wants to phone his vote in, literally phone it in with online voting. This is not what a dogged, hardworker does!"
It's kind of stupid because the reality of campaigning means you have to promise something absurdly draining, unrealistic, and unnecessary.
I do agree that if a man is high enough status, he can probably play the "I am a humble servant and a lowly worm" schtick and still attract women. I would call that "countersignaling."
No, that's the thing, high status men don't play "signaling" games. They don't play act like they're servants, they're just bros to everyone. They just don't act like women are different in that matter.
Honestly, the second you start thinking about how to "signal" and playing games to attract women, you've lost; you're not and will not be high status that way. Maybe you'll trick some broken women into sleeping with you, which is maybe from some perspectives better than staying a virgin "nice guy". But high status men don't even know when their charm is on. I know some of these guys. They're just charisma black holes, there's no switch they don't act different to men and women, and their charm works on both equally, even straight guys. When they join a conversation, whatever the topic was is immediately dropped for everyone to talk about them and what's up with their lives and please talk more about yourself.
pigeonburger
14d ago
I disagree with the maximalist version of this. I agree if we're talking about the guy bending over backwards to help a woman because she's a woman, maybe some sort of childish misguided chivalrous ideal is pushing him and women resent that because they feel like the guy taking on this chivalrous role is trying to push her into the role of the grateful rescued maiden. But the well-liked, pillar of the community, popular with women guy is a helpful guy too. The difference is that he would help anyone, not just "fair maidens", and women know and feel that difference.
pigeonburger
15d ago
Yeah, the fact that it's trivially resolved overnight when it would be unbearably embarassing for the politicians in charge kind of proves that point.
pigeonburger
15d ago
It's not just western fast food in China, I think it's western fast food in any market where it's still seen as foreign, so (as you say) fancy.
McDonalds and Burger King in Spain blew my mind. I even saw a Tim Hortons there and was amazed at how posh it looked, I hope not too many spaniards are disappointed if they ever come here and realize that their image of fancy canadian coffee shops is a complete lie.
That's the rub, writers and the fanbase they interact with (ie: the reddit crowd) are not in the mood for optimistic sci-fi, Star Trek writers had to be dragged screaming into making Strange New Worlds, otherwise we'd still be stuck with nothing "actually, Star Trek has always been about opposing Trump and Brexit".
Stargate is inherently optimistic, but not blind either, about humanity. Not a hypothetical future humanity like Star Trek, but humanity as it currently is. The government and military are not perfect, but mostly act in the interest of the people. As you say, benevolent conspiracy. Even with a big technological disadvantage, humanity is able to more than pull its weight on the galactic scene. And its not foreign values that makes humanity powerful, it's deeply human ones. Even our flaws are cast as advantages, frequent wars on earth made humans good at fighting, at making weapons, better in many ways than warrior races (Mass Effect put this idea too in its lore).
If they were to try making it now, the writers would have to write it while thinking "if it were real, Trump would be the highest authority in charge of the Stargate program". Their own biases made it easy to ignore when it was Clinton, and they did push more evil politician stories during the Bush era, but that was after establishing the program as benevolent. But I don't think they would be able to do it now.
pigeonburger
17d ago
For me, it never left
FPS often offer gyro aiming on controllers that have a gyro, it allows quick precision adjustments for aiming, helping bridge the gap between controllers and kb+m players. The idea is that you make fast turns with the thumbstick and small adjustments in aim at the same time with the gyro.
pigeonburger
20d ago
Imagine society has devalued the concept of marriage to the point where to younger generations it's either just something religious people do or that people do for convenience (taxes, finances, immigration, etc...), you end up eventually needing to reinvent a concept to separate the "trial run" of being with someone and a serious long-term partnership with someone.
pigeonburger
21d ago
It's seeing someone take candy from an innocent baby and going "I should steal candy from babies too". The vengeance narrative is not a good defense, but it's the only thing that even slightly appears acceptable because stealing from a baby (or from American taxpayers) is obviously wrong.
That framing does not work. "Stealing candy from a baby" is a meme because the baby is a) helpless, b) doesn't have anything worth stealing but you're doing it anyway. As a result from b), you're likely doing it for a stupid ego reason rather than some strategic gain. Here, the baby is not helpless, is the richest collective entity on earth, and the Democrats (and now Republicans) have been appropriating that money to fund their political ambitions.
So, no, not at all like your analogy.
pigeonburger
22d ago
Non-domiciled CDL holders (aka. foreign drivers) have been involved in a rash of high profile accidents, prompting a crackdown on non-domiciled CDLs, but the federal government doesn't track accident rates based on CDL type, so there is no data that presents a smoking gun suggestion that non-domiciled CDL holders have a higher crash rate than US citizen drivers.
Interestingly, Canada has a similar, or maybe even worse, issue. Ontario's truck licensing program is in the hand of a company that has a major corruption scandal. Of course the CBC is carefully avoiding mentioning it but the main beneficiaries of the corruption are recent Indian arrivals, hence why the trucks in question (Ontario plates and Indian drivers) are called "flying carpets". Now if Ontario doesn't care that's one thing, but Ontario trucks find themselves all over North America, especially since these practices make them undercut other Canadian trucking companies.
pigeonburger
23d ago
Also known as: what listening to city pop will trigger in you.
pigeonburger
23d ago
I feel like it's mostly a cohort size effect. In the 90s and 00s, bankable nostalgia was mostly about the 50s and 60s, because boomers were the ones indulging in it. Now, millenials are a growing demographic indulging in nostalgia, and the era that boomers, gen-x and millenials could all compromise on was the 80s, boomers were taking power over from their own parents, gen x was in its teen years and some millenials were kids.
As boomers die, I feel the late 90s and early 00s are going to have their time in the limelight. I'm less sure about the 10s. Like the 70s it felt like a transitional decade few people are going to be nostalgic for.
pigeonburger
25d ago
The main story was a major disappointment in that game for me. It felt like it had to be a "tour" of big cyberpunk tropes, so it wouldn't really commit to properly exploring one in depth. Some of the sidequests were much more interesting.
pigeonburger
27d ago
"We kept him in a room with 24/7 streams of Andrew Tate content, he doesn't even understand the concept of consent anymore"
pigeonburger
28d ago
Would you say it happened organically in Knights of the Old Republic or Jade Empire?
The whole concept of the series is exploring this aspect of the Star Wars universe; how can normal, realistic human beings can become what appeared to be comic book villains, so it felt like the morality system and its difficult questions was in service of the world building. Yes, the Sith are comic book villains, but the comic book villains occasionally make a good point. And I'm reminded of that planet in KOTOR where a Republic officer is decidedly guilty of murder; this is the kind of realistic dillema that helps the world building. KOTOR2 also works a lot to knock the Jedi down a peg, not intervening against the mandalorians was a problematic decision that with the benefit of hindsight the Jedi love to act all superior about, nothing says that it needed to have happened that way, especially if the Jedi had been led into the war by wiser masters rather than hothead Revan. I don't remember much of Jade Empire, I remember the thesis of closed fist being not exactly evil made sense when it came up in the game, but as applied in the game it felt disconnected (it would have made sense if CF was about letting or empowering people to deal with their own problems, but in the game it felt more like inflicting additional cruelty for the lulz)
However, you can tell that Dragon Age is written by people who have the KotOR/JE/ME script still in their heads, and they keep presenting you with contrived dilemmas that feel like they're from earlier games.
Yeah, Bioware of that era was high on their own supply in that regard (and in the LGBT romances department) due to the praise they were getting. It's not the morality system I resent, but the contrivances made to force you to engage with the moral dilemmas. In the KOTOR murder case I mentioned, the murderer doesn't also randomly kidnaps your dog and forces you to chose between losing your dog or helping him off the hook; the reason why you would hesitate are utilitarian calculus (his condemnation could affect the balance of power on that planet), or perhaps an extremist belief that all Siths deserve death because the ideology they willingly embrace would spread it, etc... The story doesn't feel the need to twist itself to try and make the choice harder.
But that's urquan's points; are these men looking for girls that are into the same things they are, or for girls that are into "geeky girl" pursuits?
I have been single for most of my adult life, I couldn't find many girls that were into the things I was in. The few dates I had where it clicked with the girls were into museums and arts, one of the girls I had a very enjoyable date with was a jazz musician. These are geeky things, those girls were geeks, but not "guys with boobs".
More recently, and after I found and married by wife, I ended up having to work, for a little while, for a company that did services for libraries (like categorizing, writing descriptions, and stuff like that). The whole place was filled top to bottom with mousey, shy librarian-type girls, some very good looking, that were for the most part a bit awkward interacting with a straight guy like me. That's when it really hit home; there are a ton of geeky girls, they just define geeky differently.
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