jkf
12hr ago
Sick final though. Trading two teeth for the gold medal in OT is legendary.
I'm watching it right now -- yes I know what happens, I'm watching it anyways!
NBC doesn't serve hockey to Canadians apparently, but looking at footage elsewhere it's a hard shot that bounces out -- this is hard to be sure about sometimes even for the refs and players! That's why there's a goal judge sitting behind the net. In this case it looks like it might have bounced off some of the crap they've got stationed inside the net; in the past you'd mostly see the impact on the netting, but there's still the rear bars -- normally there's a noise though.
If you think hockey is bad you should try watching lacrosse -- crowd injuries used to be a major problem there for people who didn't follow the action. Now I think there is dumb netting all over the place so people can safely focus on their beer.
jkf
13hr ago
jkf
13hr ago
but I can't really see the puck being shot or going into the net in real time.
I'll put in a "nuh-uh" on that -- maybe only Canadians can see the puck? Certainly you lose track of it at times when they're fighting for it in the corners or whatnot, but out in the open being passed or shot it's just, like -- not hard to see? Easier than, say, a baseball in flight I'd say?
The "i know where the puck is even if I can't see it" thing is not that you never see it -- it's that you know where it is, so when it pops out onto open ice that's where you're looking. Maybe your TV is too big?
jkf
1d ago
Vscode was a breath of fresh air when it released.
Windows 10 was actually amazing on (pre)release -- I still have somewhere an install disk from one of the first Tech Preview versions that I wouldn't mind figuring out how to hack the time-bomb on. It ran great on old Core2 era laptops, and was generally unobtrusive -- I even put it on an original Intel (white) Imac, and it was miles ahead of Snow Leopard or whatever OS Apple decided to abandon those with.
Since then basically everything about the OS has gotten worse -- work put Win11 on my laptop, and it's not so much a new OS as a slightly shittier Win10 -- essentially just following the pattern of previous Win10 update versions.
It's like they have a competent team who builds stuff, and then hands it off to the enshittification team who fails (for instance) eliminate the remaining XP-era dialog boxes and fucks around with misfeatures and generally bogging things down.
jkf
6d ago
That's the female scale! I maintain that my way is far closer to the way that men see the world; it is, in fact, non-trivial to tell the difference between a 9 (maybe even an 8) and a 10.
The neat part is that this... kind of reflects the male view on attractiveness pretty perfectly.
jkf
6d ago
It's simply a question where the trivial autopilot "answer" is not the correct one and you need to actually model the system on a very basic level
Not necessarily -- they should have included some chudlier types in the RHLF training:
"Of course you should drive, are you retarded? Walking sucks man!"
jkf
6d ago
Isn't a "10" more likely to be, uh -- 90th %tile?
Unless you are using the female scale, which as I recall is exponential to the point where a 90th %tile man is like a "5" -- men are much more linear!
jkf
10d ago
If you rent a book on law from the library and take notes to help your case, your notes aren't protected?
I think this is true though? Why would your notes to yourself be any more protected than anything else you might write, like a manifesto or whatever?
jkf
10d ago
The thing is, a >7.5T truck is probably a strictly worse tool for mass murder than a regular chud-mobile -- they aren't very maneouverable, and the gearing isn't great for snappy (and sustained) accelleration.
I know that a regular one-tonne pickup is not an everyday item in the UK as in North America, but I don't think that they're like banned or anything -- if somebody wanted to do Nice in a crowded English downtown, I'm pretty sure they could.
jkf
10d ago
Lashed out at his mother and young sibling? Based on the mothers' social media she was more than supportive; I don't think this will fly. (which doesn't mean that it won't be tried I guess -- some people are pretty out of touch)
jkf
10d ago
We don't fully know the nature of the victims quite yet, but I'm getting the impression that most of them (other than his mother and one teacher) were pretty young -- there's a twelve year old in critical condition at the hospital.
"I was bullied so I shot my family and a bunch of grade 7 kids" seems like a tough sled...
jkf
11d ago
Strong chance that this demographic is also on SSRIs, so that hypothesis still has legs too, IMO.
jkf
11d ago
jkf
11d ago
I think it was called out because it's pretty notable for a woman in Tumbler Ridge (55° N) to be wearing a dress in February -- local fashion I'd expect to run more towards lumberjack shirts even in the bug warm season.
The fact that the person was wearing a dress is in-and-of itself indicative of trans status IMO.
jkf
11d ago
95% true -- it's a very small town where everybody literally knows everybody, and neighbours etc. have more-or-less confirmed the shooter's identity (both kinds!) on twitter.
There are fake (well real, but the wrong person) photos of a ridiculous young tranny from Ontario floating around; AFAICT that person has the same last name but is not the shooter; a yearbook photo of Jesse Strang for Tumblr Tumbler Ridge shows a much better effort but is still identifiably trans.
jkf
11d ago
A (young and incompetent sounding) American reporter from ABC NY called into the press conference last night and was referring to the shooter as a "gun-person" -- the cop answering questions mirrored it for a while but seemed unenthused; politicians today are picking it up in their statements so maybe it will catch on!
A true win for peoplekind...
jkf
11d ago
Apparently they are used only for "serious crimes" so probably not in this case. Unless it were to be framed as sexual assault, which seems unlikely.
Also it seems as though as of this year they've eliminated the Scottish quirk of "not proven" as an option for juries -- hard to say what the impact might be, but I don't think that's a verdict that judges return so it shouldn't impact the bet.
jkf
12d ago
co2 emissions per capita peaked around 2000 in the developed world
Now do industrial production...
jkf
12d ago
"no donations to the Stormfront server fund," got it.
I'd also prefer the cash -- details on that can be TBD; it depends how private you need to be I suppose, but we can figure it out. (and I'm gonna say ~50/50 we won't have to given the "no bet" possibilities)
jkf
13d ago
I'm fine with the honour system if you are -- thanks anyways @ArginFerman!
So AIUI -- no resolution if neither of these two is tried on these charges (ie. some plea bargain to a lesser offense would be no bet; a guilty plea on what's described above is probably a win for me though?), or if nothing happens within two years.
In the event of a trial, I need a guilty verdict; "not proven", hung jury, not guilty etc. all resolve in your favour.
If you have any other scenarios we should cover, let me know?
jkf
13d ago
pro tip: saying you are in the top 1% of brainpower out there is just going to make you come off as an arrogant jerk, so drop that line
Either that or they'll say "well actually we are kind of after the upper .01%, sorry" -- probably a bit of both actually!
jkf
14d ago
I'm pretty high trust myself, and can certainly find a way to get you 25 sterling without resorting to crypto -- but if you need someone to hold the dough that's fine with me. Pick somebody and we can both send them some cash -- I don't expect the mills of Scottish justice to grind excessively fast on this one.
Can you typically tell whether an MLB pitch is a ball or a strike without seeing a replay/specialized camera view? I guess they have some electronic BS for this now too, but for me that's not necessary to enjoy the game!
I guess I don't understand the complaint -- typically it seems like people are saying that they can't see the puck at all -- but you are saying more like "90mph slapshots are hard to track"? That is true, but I'm not sure it's that big of a problem -- for another example, does it bother you when they bring out the chains to see whether a football team has made first down?
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