tomenzgg
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- Comment on American Dream ✨ 2 days ago:
Damn, that’s a lot of new professions you finally have the resources to pursue.
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 1 week ago:
No, I definitely get what you mean; it makes sense.
I just…don’t know how you get around the fact that there’s nothing, really, to stop that. Theoretically, that’s why you have multiple jurors: as you said, to get a slice of the population (and, hopefully, offset or dampen any bias a homogeneous group would, otherwise, have). Having a properly diverse slice is, theoretically, the mechanism.
But – in addition to that – I think what you’re envisioning only fully and always works if we can assume that the laws are fair and that all those carrying out the law are working from good faith. Judges, being more knowledgeable of the law, make sense to interpret the law but I’ve definitely seen some absurdly biased reading of particular laws, as well; what do we do, then, as recourse if a blatant mistreatment of justice is occurring but, well, that’s what the law’s been interpreted as and, as the system exists, that’s what we’re supposed to take on its face? (I don’t know that it really fits since, in the end, it was the judge who made the decision and you’ve already mentioned they should be the ones to interpret but I’ve seen lawyers argue that those later found innocent should remain sentenced because they didn’t prove said innocence during their trial so, based on the procedure/practice of things, their innocence should be dismissed/ignored: injusticewatch.org/…/missouri-attorney-general-fi…)
I think, ultimately, I’m less worried about a sense that it sets any kind of precedent for the law being interpreted on whim is the fact that it was a slice of the population. Generally, you’ll probably have someone who may want to more closely hew what the law is. The fact that the whole jury was in agreement might point to an issue with something and allow the people to otherwise push back on how their government is serving them. But I’d suspect outcomes like this to be outliers, rather than the norm.
(this is only personal – and, therefore, incidental to our conversation – but having seen the lack of easy recourse for people to put a check on their government over my time of being alive has made me more sympathetic to some avenues to overturn judges’ interpretation of the law, in some manner; I am slightly envious of the UK’s parliamentary sovereignty allowing to push back on the courts in a way that the U. S.'s congress simply cannot)
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 1 week ago:
While I get your concern, that sort of undermines having a jury of your peers. If we’re solely judging by what the law says, why not just have a group of judges decide? Or voted-for representatives?
It being your peers is a counter balance to the power of bad laws being passed and providing the public a way to push back (when things are incorrect).
While you simultaneously (and fairly) worry about the will of the majority being able to run roughshod, I’d say that ability in the context of a jury is decently limited so the ability for a jury to rule this way provides a sufficient check on possible bad laws.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure you all remember
Only thing I know about quantum mechanics is someone on TikTok using Schrödinger’s cat to justify manifesting.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 months ago:
Got harder to handle the pressure the further into the movie they got.
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- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 3 months ago:
At one of my old jobs (which handled owning malls (I worked on the websites)), one of the locations would hold an event with Autism Speaks; during a meeting, someone mentioned that we needed to get the campaign advertisements on the site for one of their upcoming events.
At the mention of “Autism Speaks”, I reflexively went, “Ew.” Only dawned on me, after the fact, that it probably looked to the rest of my coworkers like I was ridiculously immature about and ablist towards autistic people.
- Comment on Fellow Bootstraps Buddy 👋 3 months ago:
Companies, instead of people, but the premise still applies.
- Comment on Arxiv bans slop 4 months ago:
When someone proposes, implements or enforces a clearly sensible rule, and someone else brings weird corner case scenarios up, always ask yourself if there’s a conflict of interests.
I can’t tell if I started doing this more as disinformation became more prevalent over the recent years or it’s something I’ve always done; I don’t know where I would’ve picked it up from.
Nevertheless, you’re spot on; it’s an incredibly good rule-of-thumb.
(I just realized it might’ve been funny if I’d responded to this with a weird, corner-case scenario, instead; but it’s late and I can’t think of a good one for it)
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 4 months ago:
Good thing, too; it’d be pretty hard to ride the carpet, otherwise.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 4 months ago:
You’re thinking of Ensign Melora Pazlar; her home planet’s gravity was less strong than what most humanoids are used to so she needed the chair. She was outfitted in a regular wheelchair because the Cardassians (as you might imagine) don’t care much about disability so the station had no way to be outfitted for use with an anti-grav. chair.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 months ago:
Did you mean to respond to me?
/gen
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 months ago:
- Comment on Previewing the Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard 5 months ago:
I mean, the solution is pretty simple, here: remove both function and media, etc. keys. That way, no extra keys to press (in fact, no keys, at all).
This design stuff’s a cakewalk~
- Comment on Winning life 101 5 months ago:
(intentionally) gross
No, no, no – you see, the diarrhea is a more smooth and easy texture than the one with maize in it and that’s why it’s superior
- Comment on Dream 🦕 Big 5 months ago:
And people doubt the hypercarnivore theory.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 6 months ago:
That’s fair; could’ve also just been my timing, too, and there was a surge or something, at the moment I was looking, but it’s not consistently the case.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 6 months ago:
Most clips from Starship Troopers on YouTube have filled comments’ sections with people waxing about how based the society is and it’s actually a utopia (to your point).
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 6 months ago:
Frankly, this is why I’m still antinuclear; everyone is always, “It’s so easy to store!” but, like, that’s a reliance in a world that loves cutting corners (usually because of corporate pressure…).
I’d rather invest in the energy source that doesn’t have devastating consequences if we don’t do it right or someone decides to drill into it despite all the warnings we put up.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 6 months ago:
Being reminded of it, 'had to go play it for the first time in years, just now.
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- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 7 months ago:
Since 6 whole paragraphs were too daunting to read, I’d be happy to summarize the sources I’d linked to for you in just one manageable paragraph.
The primary cause, in over 50% of cases was an individual undergoing an acute stressor. Trauma could also contribute but, as I mentioned previously, mental illness is rarely a primary cause, even in cases of trauma. But, primarily, it’s an acute stressor.
This also isn’t anything I’m saying; I’m just citing the conclusions drawn by studies on the matter.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 7 months ago:
Unless you’re expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?
I mean, that’s not an argument for a better system, though; if you’re saying, “Yeah; you won’t be able to contextualize this info. yet until the next bit of info. in 0.2 seconds,” a person can certainly do that but it’s still working-around the inefficiency by retaining the day – which means nothing in any context which requires knowing the month – until you find out which month the day in question is in 0.2 seconds later.
- Comment on truly I am cultured 7 months ago:
Given the vice, I suspect he wasn’t fucking much of anything.
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 7 months ago:
Most people
An appeal to general consensus and definition by crowdsourcing is inherently anti-scientific.
kill a bunch of random people and then themselves for no good reason is mentally ill
I mean, clearly the scientist is who study these things didn’t draw that conclusion.
Being in a bad mental state is not, by any definition, an equivalent to being mentally ill. Mental illnesses are particular things, not a general blanket attribute for that person being “different from us” and non-standard.
And in this specific case, she was not a particularity stable individual.
Alright? I already said that some cases certainly involve mental illness. Your anecdotal pointing out won’t change the statistics and studies, though: those a minority if cases and generally incidental.
But you have demonstrated for all of us scapegoating in action: your entire comment disregards science and evidence-based assessment for an anecdotal definition based on a sense of normalcy that allows us to say, “Fundamentally, those people are just different from us. Normal people wouldn’t do that.”
It isn’t helpful, though.
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 7 months ago:
Of course.
Basically, any study of mass shootings within the last decade all always draw the same conclusion: they are not driven, as a rule, by mental illness. In general, mental illness accounts for 25% of cases (and that’s for mental illness, in general) but the mental illness itself is generally incidental. But, of course, most people have a particular mental illness in mind when they mention it in this context and that’s severe mental illness, generally psychosis. The previous link mentions this as only being present in 5% of cases though this other source mentions 10%.
Regardless, these are clearly minority level numbers and, even if we wanted to stretch things and pretend they were higher for the sake of argument, still well and beyond below 50% as to make saying that mental illness, primarily, is to blame – end of story – just inherently untrue.
But, moreover – and the far more important part! –, the thing that shouldn’t be lost here is that the claim that mental illness is the cause has caught on as such a popular talking point because it’s easier to scapegoat.
It’s a simple answer that, for those unfamiliar, is going to make, supposedly, intuitive sense. The politicians like it – for much the same reason they like blaming violent media – because it doesn’t force them to do anything about the actual root issues (the social conditions that drive people to this desperation or create the far right ideas that become so popular that people write entire political manifestos beforehand) and it works so well as a scapegoat because people with psychosis are foreign (and, therefore, hard to understand) for the generally (more) mentally abled population.
The fact is that schizophrenics are overwhelmingly more likely to be victimized with violence than to be committers of it; but framing violent events like these as being driven by mental illness helps to prop up the misconception and ensure that people with severe mental illness are misunderstood.
Anyway, they were close because the beginning of their comment is spot on only to settle so assuredly on incorrect information but, more over, an unquestioned stereotype that causes real harm due to it being based on erroneous information.
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 7 months ago:
Fuck; you were so close…
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 7 months ago:
Based solely on a Libertarian Linux group’s poster I saw one time, I suspect the unregulated nature of things: people provide and build their own software, no one telling you what you can and can’t build. I don’t quite know how to summarize it succinctly but do you kind of see what I’m getting at? Since a lot of FOSS is communities self-organizing and decentralized (by choice, not by edict, since right wing Libertarians clearly have no issues with heirarchies so long as it isn’t a gov. mandating them), I can see it being very appealing.
I suspect they absolutely insist on permissive copyright, though,
so all the communal work can be easily exploited and stolen for the financial benefit of a few companiesbecause something about the NAP and not restricting freedomincluding the freedom to be exploited. - Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 7 months ago:
Also, – watching at the age I am now – it’s hard for me to not notice how much of a given carceral justice is taken as a given rather than anything remotely more restorative.
And treatment of mental disability still unfomfortably mirrors our current system than anything I’d hope for so far into the future.
I think we can accept that the premise is we’ve made astounding strides and there are still areas of improvement; I don’t think that tarnishes the hopeful and utopian dream at the heart of Star Trek.
