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popocatepetl
1m ago
I'm not, strictly speaking, a paedophile
I don't believe people who look at porn of anime schoolgirls are generally child-molesters-to-be, future-thailand-visitors, or groomers-in-training. That said, this is not a sentence anyone should find themselves saying. Consider not doing things you'd rather die than have people know about you.
...At which point I learned a rather-vital piece of information: the courts uphold these crazy laws when cases are actually prosecuted, but the police consider them a crock of shit and don't actually arrest people for them except in highly-unusual circumstances. So I got in no legal trouble whatsoever, and the motivation to kill myself evaporated.
This is a common intuition gap between the general public and the legal system. Most people walk around in blissful ignorance about how common things like sex crimes, domestic violence, or driving with substance abuse are. If we dragnetted everyone guilty of these crimes and prosecuted them to the extent that John Q Public thinks reasonable, it would cripple society.
Necessarily, the police exercise discretion in who to throw the book at. This state-of-affairs doesn't mix well with moral panics about racism, but that's another topic.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3m ago
Presumably, it’s the same thing which kept Trump I from sending the FBI after them in 2020, when they were actually doing stuff. While I don’t take Trump as a principled Bill of Rights enthusiast, he doesn’t seem to have thought he could make it stick.
Lone-wolf assassins are a pretty stupid reason to change that legal strategy. Guilt by association requires, you know, association. Our best chance on that front is the July 4 ambush, where at least one of the perpetrators “met someone online” who encouraged them.
If it turns out that Rose City or whoever was funding these psychos, even talking to them—there’s your justification. Throw the book at them. But if not, you’re just making an excuse for something you already wanted to do. That’s unjust.
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
6m ago
oats_son
18m ago
I appreciate your words, and everyone else's, too. I think a lot of wisdom has been shared here that has been helpful to me and made me not regret posting what I did.
However, I have to reply to you to tell you I disagree that you shouldn't put weight on others to give you a reason to live. Humans are social animals, so it makes a ton of sense to me to tell someone that they must live for others. It helps build community, it's a very obvious and plainly true statement to say that your own death will hurt those around you and if you care about them at all, you must never purposely die. And I also take the stance that you should use whatever works to achieve your goals; for me, it's to avoid the Bad Ending. There are many Bad Endings to get, many failure paths, many ways to make people shake their heads at what happened to you. Pity is not an emotion I want to evoke in people, but I understand that there's some amount of pity that people feel for me already that is unavoidable.
I do agree with you if I modify your statement a little: "you can't put the weight on a small amount of others to give you a reason to live". To directly place my fate on one or two people is pretty cruel and creates intense pressure on them to never hurt me in any way, which I think is toxic. That's why I think involving yourself in a community with many people you care about is important. The cost is distributed, and you make many more people happy to be friends with you, and it's a greater motivation to be the best version of yourself so that you hurt people as little as possible.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
31m ago
Whoops, my mistake.
Without considering the ACME contract rent, the arbitrator determined "the market rent[]" for the ACME building was $4.00 per square foot. He then considered the ACME contract rate, finding "[a]ny reasonable buyer would certainly consider the financial impact of this lease in determining what it would be willing to pay for the subject site. To suggest that the ACME lease can be ignored in determining its market rent is manifestly unreasonable." Factoring in the contract rent, the arbitrator found the market rent for the ACME building was $2.00 per square foot.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
Ave Imperaptor
31m ago
You're sanewashing what he's saying into 'multiple perspectives are good.' He's free to teach his children whatever he wants, but I'm going to mock him for having the arrogance to think that he's teaching them Actual History.
Pynewacket
32m ago
If anything, anime lovers are closer to Zoophilia, as anime girls are just cats
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
33m ago
Robits are strong, and I’m not even sure which beam weapons have recoil.
Mobile suits also use rocket launchers one-handed. The Zaku Marine's is pistol-sized, while the RX-78-2 Gundam's is long-arm-sized and braced against the shoulder.
If one has more than two arms, how many of them have to be used to qualify as a rifle?
A few mobile suits, such as the The-O and the Advanced Hazel, have extra "sub-arms". But these extra arms typically are very short and unsuited for supporting a long weapon in collaboration with the two primary arms.
I propose that the deciding factor is whether or not there’s a stock (or brace; ATF be damned) behind the grip.
Yes, I forgot about this when I made the original comment. Here's one definition.
Long Arm: All kinds of long arms—guns fired either one- or two-handed and with the help of a shoulder stock. This includes: muzzle-loading muskets; muzzle-loading rifles; breech-loading single-shot or double-barreled rifles; bolt-, lever-, or pump-action rifles; semiautomatic rifles; assault rifles; single- or double- barreled shotguns; bolt-, lever-, or pump-action shotguns; semiautomatic shotguns; full-automatic shotguns; submachine guns; belt- or magazine-fed handheld light machine guns; grenade launchers; and gyroc carbines or support weapons. It also applies for any handgun, including a revolver, semiautomatic pistol, or machine pistol, that is fitted with a shoulder stock. All guns capable of full-automatic fire are best used with the Burst-Fire technique in that fire mode.
Pistol: All kinds of handguns—guns fired either one- or two-handed, but without the support of a shoulder stock. This includes muzzle-loading pistols, derringers, revolvers, semiautomatic pistols, stockless sawn-off shotguns (“shot pistols”), flare pistols, and gyroc pistols, as well as machine pistols without stock. The last are best used with the Burst-Fire technique in that fire mode.
But the mobile suits in question use beam "rifles" without any shoulder or waist bracing even when they do deign to use two hands.
“Declaring the property blighted” has got to be one of the cooler turns of phrase for city bureaucrats.
The Supreme Court agrees with you.
Public safety, public health, morality, peace and quiet, law and order—these are some of the more conspicuous examples of the traditional application of the police power to municipal affairs. Yet they merely illustrate the scope of the power, and do not delimit it. Miserable and disreputable housing conditions may do more than spread disease and crime and immorality. They may also suffocate the spirit by reducing the people who live there to the status of cattle. They may indeed make living an almost insufferable burden. They may also be an ugly sore, a blight on the community which robs it of charm, which makes it a place from which men turn. The misery of housing may despoil a community as an open sewer may ruin a river.
We do not sit to determine whether a particular housing project is or is not desirable. The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive. The values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patrolled. In the present case, the Congress and its authorized agencies have made determinations that take into account a wide variety of values. It is not for us to reappraise them. If those who govern the District of Columbia decide that the Nation's Capital should be beautiful as well as sanitary, there is nothing in the Fifth Amendment that stands in the way.
Video games thread:
Back to Silksong after a few weeks break. A difficulty tweak mod made the game much more enjoyable for me. If you're in a similar boat to me — if you enjoyed HK1 but thought the Radiance ending challenges were too much, enjoyed the difficulty of early FromSoft games but thought they crossed a line around Sekiro/Elden Ring — I recommend the following changes to the config file, as the defaults trivialize the game a bit too much: 2x -> 1.5x Player damage, 2x -> 1.6x rosaries, disable Tool regen. On the other hand, consider changing the health regen to every 1 second; it only starts after you're 12 seconds damage free, so it won't make the boss gameplay much easier, but will make runbacks less tedious.
On my first post I complained that there's not enough exploration in Silksong. I'm glad to say the situation improves a lot once you read the Citadel at the top of the map, which acts as a massive hub area disconnected from the main fast travel network, with many hidden areas you can discover and tackle in different orders, lots of unlockable shortcuts, etc.
I can now recommend the game with a few reservations.
Crowstep
42m ago
I'd want absolutely perfect health tracking, the kind of thing where the AI can tell me exactly what to eat, what supplements to take, how much and what type of exercise to do etc. Might require a bunch of implants, but I'd love to always feel well-rested and optimised.
Me, I think I want the ability to produce bespoke episodes of older TV shows that I enjoyed but were cancelled or went off the rails and/or had horrible conclusions. GOT and Firefly are obvious examples there. But I have several others in mind.
This would also be good. The petty part of me desperately wants to re-make all the BBC costume dramas without all the ahistorical diversity casting, but I'll settle for Six Seasons and a Movie of Firefly.
This could genuinely be a Paramore B-side. Crazy.
Man_in_White
44m ago
Something like that? https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1943443522058883549
Bingbong
47m ago
Yeah Polymarket wants liquidity and is not gonna enforce shit beyond the bare minimum of compliance. 'But he told us he was from a legal jurisdiction'
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
47m ago
Has anyone figured out how much acetaminophen I should be adding to my supplement stack for autismmaxxing? Ideally, I wouldn't want to go full "memorize every detail about trains", but I'm on a Civ 4 kick and I would appreciate a bit more attention to detail during the late game slog.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
48m ago
The municipal government argues that the grocery store's below-market rent of 0.77 $/ft2 results in valuation of 2.3 M$ for the two properties at issue. The couple argues that the market rent for the grocery store was 8.5 $/ft2 and on that basis the proper valuation of the two properties is 4.8 M$
Huh? Why is the valuation only ~twice as much after the square foot price is 11x bigger?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
49m ago
Although we recently had national guardsmen on the NYC subways, didn't we?
Still there, that's "Empire Shield"
Bingbong
50m ago
Anybody seen One Battle After Another? I'm mildly interested but worried the universal acclaim is culture war stuff
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
52m ago
And I've never gotten a good answer on how "imminent" applies: can I promote a planned riot as long as it's more than, say, 12 months from now?
The rally in Brandenburg v. Ohio was on June 28, 1964. The march was planned for July 4, 1964.
Note that the "imminent lawless action" test is for mere advocacy; actually planning a riot in detail (e.g. "Charlie, you take group B up on the hill with the bottles; Jim, take group A with the Molotovs) would probably not be protected.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
54m ago
Re: Gundam, what’s special about two arms? Robits are strong, and I’m not even sure which beam weapons have recoil. If one has more than two arms, how many of them have to be used to qualify as a rifle?
I propose that the deciding factor is whether or not there’s a stock (or brace; ATF be damned) behind the grip. But Gundam variants are worse than Pokémon, so I assume there’s plenty of weird models that violate this scheme.
Unrelated, but “declaring the property blighted” has got to be one of the cooler turns of phrase for city bureaucrats. I’m sure they’re thrilled to break that one out.
Imaginary_Knowledge
55m ago
Whither this persistent myth that hate speech is illegal in the US?
And I've never gotten a good answer on how "imminent" applies: can I promote a planned riot as long as it's more than, say, 12 months from now?
IANAL but my understanding is that, as long as your speech does not constitute a threat, and as long as you are not actively conspiring with others, that's protected speech. If you are planning the detailed logistics of a riot a year from now that might not be protected. But for a silly example, the whole area 51 raid thing a few years back - saying "that's based and I fully support this. everyone should go, they can't stop all of us" a month before is, under my understanding of the law, in the clear.
How much can I complain about "turbulent priests" before I'm responsible to the state when Thomas Becket gets murdered?
I think that one falls under criminal solicitation (intent that the crime occurs + request/order that some specific person commit the crime), because it was said to specific people who would be expected to take it as an order. The state would have to prove intent, but in the Thomas Beckett case that seems not too difficult.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1hr ago
This sounds like a @coffee_enjoyer theory.
And while I’m loath to put too much stock in any categorization, just because it’s not presecriptive doesn’t mean it’s not descriptive.
four Gospels correspond to the four Keirsey MBTI temperaments (SP artisans, SJ guardians, NT rationalists, NF idealists).... Conveniently, you can also draw a parallel here with the four Hippocratic temperaments (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic)
I love this idea so much it's almost too good to check. That said, n=1: As INTJ and Melancholic, Matthew is my distant favorite, John second, and then a dropoff to Luke and Mark. If this model holds, it doesn't apply for me.
(The standard explanation for different-seeming Jesuses in the four gospels — besides "Christians are sanewashing irreconcilable conflicting evidence — is that Matthew emphasizes Jesus as King; Mark, Savior; Luke, Healer; John, God.)
BTW if anyone doesn't know about Hippocratic temperaments, check them out. Since learning about the model, I've found it cleaves very naturally to buckets of different people I know IRL and characters in fiction. Also, while it could be partially the Barnum Effect, I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
1hr ago
Do you have a source on otherwise lawful (i.e. not threats or incitement) hate speech being unlawful in the US?
ControlsFreak
1hr ago
Yes? I'm not sure what you're adding by simply stating your own personal incredulity and declaring falsity. Someone else could equally declare your statements false. They're turned off by your falsity.
I agree... except I'd be pretty nervous on the nefarious uses that particular setup could create.
My piecemeal solution is that I can feed it the information about myself rather than have it tracking me full time.
I do like the thought of being able to tell how to optimize for particular goals. "I'm training for a Marathon in 4 months, create a training and diet regimen tailored to my current work schedule."
I know, right? I've gotten it to near-perfectly emulate Rammstein, Motley Crue, and Drowning Pool, and decent-quality ripoffs of Rage Against the Machine and Linkin Park.
System of a Down has proven trickier.
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