TIRM
18hr ago
Many American government forms needlessly ask you for your race. Some have two categories of "white and Hispanic" and "white (not Hispanic). Other forms have a yes or no Hispanic portion and a separate racial section. That is strictly speaking more correct since Hispanic is not a race. A Mexican whose ancestors immigrated from Japan are Hispanic and Asian.
TIRM
1d ago
think about Hansel and Gretel and their own parents just abandon them in the woods
Modern retellings make it a wicked step mother who abandons Hansel and Gretel in the woods.
TIRM
1d ago
I've been to martial arts gyms for which the only way to see updates, announcements and schedules is to go to their Facebook page.
TIRM
1d ago
You specifically can use house building and maintaining tools to dismantle all or part of a house. I've done major home renovation projects. I'm pretty clear on this.
TIRM
1d ago
We're putting a lot of weight on the subjective judgements of a magic mirror. Maybe the mirror is as muddled as real people and lacks a satisfying resolution to a "fair" vs "fair" conflict.
TIRM
4d ago
"Headshot your enemy. Doesn't matter how strong he is if his head is broken open."
Timeless wisdom.
TIRM
6d ago
We are on a few layers of speculation at this point, but I believe the issue is she may be an illegal maid or nanny. If she admits to past illegal work on a tourist visa then CBP may be skeptical of her story about staying for months with people she never met before and also ""helping"" out around their home.
I get that we don't want law enforcement dragging your European friend to a detention center because they helped clean up after hanging out with you. But we do want them identifying illegal nannies and deporting them. Such as probably this woman.
TIRM
6d ago
almost to the point of being a problem for things like FOIA
What a happy coincidence.
Are we damaging our international relations or putting a stop to low-life's trying to come here take 'Murican (comic book) Jerbs
If so, I am fine with this. Working on a visa that doesn't allow it? A few days in detention then deported with a ban on returning. Good riddance.
Overstaying a tourist visa to work and live in America indefinitely is a common method of illegal immigration. She's (presumably) doing the popular illegal activity of violating her visa terms.
TIRM
6d ago
Incel violence isn't right coded
That's news to me. I believe it is right coded, in the minds of the kinds of people who dunk on incels.
TIRM
6d ago
Also Matthew Shepard's murder had nothing to do with him being gay. People tend to get mad if I say that. Don't drop that fact on reddit.
A popular podcast recently had a four part series on Zizians and rationalists. I enjoyed it. In that Yudkowsky's writings in particular and rationalism in general is silly.
The Zizians are actually deranged and that makes for a good story. And they murdered a bunch of people and are now in jail due to a very special understanding of Timeless Decision Theory. "What if someone took your rhetoric literally and acted on it?" is a valid question in many contexts. I did not think it would particularly strike Yudkowsky, but he wrote that Harry Potter fan fiction and blew up about the basilisk, so here we are.
Perhaps something less extreme than mass executions. Such as institutionalization. Crazy homeless library masterbaters need help we are failing to provide.
TIRM
9d ago
I thought the topic of discussion was homeless people who are scary and make formerly good public spaces ruined because regular people now feel unsafe in them. Those people need to be institutionalized.
TIRM
10d ago
change how they grant the money
Earmarking is hard. Starving the beast may be more effective
TIRM
10d ago
As a father of a young children I recommend Usborne books. They are high quality and lack all that stuff you just mentioned.
I have never in real life discussed Gender Queer. I think people would think I am a crazed conspiracy theorist if I gave a plain description of it. Rather than accept an actual published book available in schools and libraries across America and recommended for 8 year olds has cartoon gay porn in it.
TIRM
10d ago
As a child I loved libraries. My family went to the library every week. Its so sad to see their current state in blue areas of two different states.
TIRM
10d ago
But then what do we do?
Institutionalize them. Not jail. These people are deeply unwell and need care.
we don't spend enough on homeless shelters
There are localities that spend $60k per homeless person per year. They are overburdened with meth addled street shitters hanging out in libraries. In a better world these people would be institutionalized. But alas we don't live in that happy place.
I don't think that a bare metric of dollars spent is relevant. The homeless industrial complex consumes that money.
TIRM
12d ago
Words mean things and you have adopted a non-standard understanding of invasion that lacks common use meanings.
TIRM
15d ago
Okay. Strike that one sentence from my post. The rest is true and my position doesn't change.
TIRM
17d ago
I recall reading about New York City and Seattle closing advanced schools. Not equitable you see. A quick googling confirms.
The decision to phase out the cohort schools was made to address concerns about racial inequities, as the highly capable programs were perceived as not serving all students equally.
Same as universities implementing racist policies to discriminate against Asians. They worked hard to avoid clearly stating "too Asian so we are ending the advanced programs".
TIRM
17d ago
They did not find him in a vacant house. The home owner had security cameras and says he didn't see anyone entering the house the day of the murder. The murderers first saw Arbery on a public street. In a town that's majority black. They assumed Arbery must be a burglar and murdered him.
Some people discussing this years ago added a lot of fictional information to the situation that would justify killing a burglar in self defense. But resisting that urge and sticking to what actually occurred makes this unjustifiable murder. As confirmed by criminal trials.
There's an issue with HBCUs not getting higher performing black students. Those people go to regular colleges. The ones who can't settle for HBCUs.
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