Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
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Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
9d ago
Ok, feel free to rephrase my previous comment. Draw me the line from Indonesian prostitute earnings to men caring about their partner's body count.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
9d ago
I'm gonna need some help. What's the chain from "there's a negative correlation between time as a prostitute and earnings among Indonesian prostitutes" to "there are not a lot of normal guys who would marry Lily Phillips."
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
9d ago
If you watch the documentary she's pretty clear her lack of enjoyment at the end is because she feels bad that some of the guys didn't have a good time, not any regret about the act itself.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
9d ago
Ok. Then those men are free to not to marry a woman who has had a lot of partners. I am confident there are a lot of normal guys who do not care how many previous partners their partner has had.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
9d ago
Socially agreed upon by who? I certainly don't agree. What is the benefit to me of this woman having difficulty finding a husband?
I guess I'm fascinated by the logistics of the whole thing. The article says that each guy got 5 minutes for the 100-man run. That's right around 8.3 hours or so of sex. Were there breaks to eat? Use the restroom? Seems like that would be essential. Or maybe you fast beforehand? For 1000 men, assuming you want to keep the same time, you're looking at 30 seconds per guy. That's not a lot of time! Makes sense to have them disrobe first but I wonder if getting/maintaining an erection will be a problem. Standing in a line of naked guys for 30 seconds of sex is probably not the most arousing thing. Wonder how you find a venue that is big enough for a purpose like this.
Lily and her friends have done similar things before but I cannot find any of it since any mention of her name brings up thousands of links about what she did this week.
For many search engines you can add something like "before:" to get results that are before a particular date. Ex. doing a search on StartPage for "Trump before:2020" gets me news articles about Trump from before the year 2020.
The cherry on this cake is that she can get married to a fairly normal guy tomorrow because Riley Reid, another adult entertainer did this too.
I feel like I'm supposed to read this as sardonic, but why? Is there something bad or wrong about the fact she could marry a normal guy?
ETA:
I watched that whole fucking documentary and I'm glad I did because if you watch the whole thing she's very clear the reason she's crying and emotional is because some of the guys tried to guilt her about not making them orgasm or not feeling they got their 5 minutes worth, not because she feels some kind of shame or remorse for having sex with so many guys.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
16d ago
I have had pretty good experiences with Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield. My employer actually just started offering a United plan to us this year, though I did not elect to use it.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
16d ago
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
16d ago
The main character in Doctorow's story also has a personal connection. His initial entry to the content that radicalizes him is his insurance company denying an experimental treatment that could cure his wife's cancer.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
16d ago
Cory Doctorow called it I guess. All the way back in 2019 he wrote a short story about a man, radicalized by reading online stories of heartless insurance companies, doing some retaliatory terrorism. It was a pretty good story too! I also see the Wikipedia article for the book has already been updated to reference the shooting.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
16d ago
I guess I don't see it. All the people alive today who are choosing not to have kids are, themselves, the kids of "kids who have kids." Seems like there's a further assumption required that some proportion of the population will never be convinced by memes or ideas that lead people not to have kids. That is, humans will never do some kind of voluntary extinction.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
17d ago
What is the time horizon for this, though? When I look at modern intergenerational differences on things like feminism, gay marriage, and so on it does not seem clear to me those shifts are the result of people with certain politics having more children than people with different politics. Is gay marriage more popular with current generations than past generations because people who were more pro-gay-marriage had more kids?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
17d ago
This logic justifies literally any pay award. The whole point of the suit is that the process by which Musk's award amount was reached was biased in his favor, not a neutral process.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
18d ago
That hadn't happened when the lawsuit was filed. OP gets the order of events wrong. The lawsuit was filed 5 months after the package was awarded, well before performance targets were hit.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
18d ago
What is the evidence that the plaintiff of judge are politically motivated? "Company fails to take lawsuit seriously, gets wrecked" does not sound like a crazy thing? I would probably describe the Hogan-Gawker lawsuit similarly.
It's not just the judge saying this, she cites a bunch of Delaware precedent that votes during litigation can function as ratification for the corporate acts in question. Tesla (for obvious reasons) cannot find a single precedent that post-judgement shareholder votes can serve as a basis for overturning that judgement.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
18d ago
Your (3) and (4) are (chronologically speaking) in the wrong order. The award was granted in Jan 2018 and the lawsuit was filed in June 2018, long before the performance targets were hit. The lawsuit has taken a long time to resolve in part because shareholder suits like this in Delaware put a heavy burden on plaintiffs looking to reverse corporate decisions.
Basically what this means is that, if you register your company in Delaware, a judge can prevent you from making legally binding contracts
I hate to break it to you but this is every jurisdiction in the nation depending on the terms of the contract and (crucially for this case) how they were reached.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
18d ago
If your read the opinion from the judge it's clear that, yes, Tesla was dumb in the way they went about it. If Tesla had done a shareholder vote at any point in the five years this lawsuit was ongoing, that could have ratified the package. Instead Tesla waited until they had lost and then did the shareholder vote to try and get the judge to reverse her decision. She also points out independent reasons why the shareholder vote wouldn't have the ratifying effect Tesla wants, including that the proxy statement for it contains material and misleading statements.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
22d ago
Yes, Zvi's post links to an article that discusses it some. There's a certain (large) percentage of the ships parts that have to be fabricated in America. It also discusses a court case where a shipping company tried to buy a pre-fab "ship kit" from South Korea and just assemble it in America. A court ruled that was not Jones Act compliant.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
23d ago
It turns out that it's cheaper to hire whatever vessel to do a journey like domestic port -> international port -> domestic port than it is to hire (or build) a Jones Act vessel to do domestic port -> domestic port.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
23d ago
The Jones Act requires the ships be built in the United States.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
23d ago
I don't really see how one reasons to the omnibus position. If the drag on prices caused by the Jones Act is not worth the benefits then we should repeal the Jones Act regardless of whether we implement tariffs that have a similar effect on prices. Similarly, if we think the benefits of tariffs would outweigh their costs we should implement them regardless of whether we repeal the Jones Act. I don't see how the two policies are linked except rhetorically.
Obviously, people would horrifically oppose it, but what would they say when they oppose it? What would the reasoning be? How would that reasoning come across to the people who would respond with a different choice from the list?
I would say that we should just repeal the Jones Act and not do tariffs. Indeed, if tariffs would have a similar effect on prices as the Jones Act (potentially worse) they undo all the benefits of repealing the Jones Act! Instead of replacing one drag on US prices with another we should just get rid of the bad drag on prices.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
23d ago
Sure. My point is that consumers use artist identity markers as a way to find kinds of music. Obviously the consumers don't have to share the identity markers to like the music.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
24d ago
I think it's simpler. We might ask "is there a perceptible statistical relation between an artist's identity and the music they make?" I think the answer to this is clearly yes. This is probably most obviously true with with black people but it's not hard to suppose a case for others. Think about how much music is about love and relationships, for example. Might gay people enjoy a song more if the lyrical content was aligned with their own attraction? How many straight guys are singing songs pining for their lost love (another man)?
This isn't to say that only people of a particular identity can make a particular sound or that people of a particular identity must have a particular sound. Just that there is a perceptible relation such that consumers can use artist identity as a kind of crude filter for sound.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
24d ago
I think the idea is that relatively little of the 75% of discretionary spending by women is being captured by games while a lot of the 25% of discretionary spending controlled by men is captured by games. This makes appealing to women relatively more attractive as a vector for making money. You don't need to convert as many of them as you do men for a similar payoff, which in theory should be easier.
I gotta know. What is actually the ROI on fare enforcement? Here's an article from the AP written March this year talking about NYC sending an "additional" 800 NYPD officers specifically to check for turnstile fare evasion. According to the NYPD Police Officer benefits page the starting salary for an officer is $58580/year and grows to $121589/year at 5.5 years of experience. So the total cost to the city of just these officers is somewhere between $47M and $97M per year (assuming all are between 0 and 5.5 years experience). The fine for jumping a turnstile starts at $100. So in order to justify the cost of these officers they are going to need to ticket between 470k and 970k people. According to that same AP article 28k people had been ticketed so far that year. Here's a Gothamist article from September this year that claims about 70k tickets were issued for fare evasion in the first 6 months of the year. So those 800 officers turned a presumptive 28k tickets/3 months into 42k tickets/4 months, a gain of 14k tickets (or, $1.4M in fines). Set this against the payout of NYPD salaries in the neighborhood of $12-24M. A steal! As long as you're the NYPD.
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