Darrell

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Darrell

Darrell

@darrellprograms

Recovering pointless argument vegetable.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Joined Mart 2019
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Darrell
Darrell@darrellprograms·
@BarneyFlames Generally they did have the right to hunt in the commons, even big game like deer (though good deer hunting grounds were rarely left as commons). They commonly (though not always) were allowed to hunt small game in royal forest and other woods.
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Total NIMBY Death@BarneyFlames·
famously english peasants did NOT have the right to hunt, this is literally the foundation of many of their folk tales.
Robbert Leusink@robbertleusink

An English peasant in 1400 had the legal right to graze animals, fish the river, hunt, and gather wood He had no employer Needed no permission Had not dependency Between 1604 and 1760, Parliament passed 5,200 Enclosure Acts By 1850, 6.8 million acres of common land had transferred to private hands The man who could feed himself without an employer became a man who could not say no to one We called it progress

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@BosCityJMJ @PaladinPolecat @revenant_MMXX You can tell those criteria were decided by a woman over 25 with a degree, a car, and a full-time job, who wanted to allow only men she would be interested in, and exclude the women they'd rather meet.
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🌘revenant⚡@revenant_MMXX·
"Trads" don't want to hear it, but church might actually be one of the worst ways to meet a significant other in the 21st century. So much of modern Christianity is just posturing, especially in Churchianity culture
Mack@kenzietuff

Man posts in local Facebook group, moving to area. Asks which Catholic parishes have thriving community, would be best for single man to attend- “is successful + seeking wife soon” + same faith is priority. Entire comment section berating him. “Church isn’t for dating!”

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@DocStrangelove2 I don't know why everyone seems to believe the buyer got scammed rather than being a bold scammer who thought he could get a free 5090 by doing a fake unboxing video.
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@romanhelmetguy Elon's entire career has consisted of doing things people subtly aren't allowed to do (like start a new car company), with the government somehow always coming down on his side in the end, and you think this time the manipulation of procedural outcomes will go *against* him?
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Gianpaolo@Gianpattention·
@darrellprograms @arctotherium42 could even make a rule that if the evidence allows for a guilty sentence the cop is free, if the verdict is not guilty the cop gets the sentence of the crime
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arctotherium@arctotherium42·
One of the Supreme Court decisions that led to the Great American Crime Wave (~1965-1995): the Exclusionary Rule, created 1961 (Mapp vs Ohio), which excluded improperly obtained evidence from trials. This saved terrorist bomber and Obama mentor Bill Ayers from prison.
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@arctotherium42 This isn't ideal either, because you're putting good cops in a situation where they can martyr themselves, and society accepts the benefit they provide while punishing them.
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arctotherium@arctotherium42·
(The sensible way to handle the problem this is theoretically supposed to solve is to punish the police or other decisionmakers who improperly obtain evidence, but allow the evidence to be used).
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@St_Rev @AltFemKG 1) Yes. Vindication projects measure their success by the number of legal vindications they produce. Once it becomes someone's job, they just try to win. 2) More mundanely, the temptation would be to conceal faulty work.
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St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻
St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻@St_Rev·
As a fun kicker to this, the false conviction rate for real rape (ie a rape happened, wrong guy was sent away) was historically pretty high, based on retests of old rape kits with modern DNA analysis. Have they solved that problem yet? IDK man.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil

Huh! Apparently if you recode all the cases where a woman withdrew her accusation as false *as false* (they're generally not counted that way for some reason), the false rape accusation rate rises to 20-40%.

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@St_Rev @AltFemKG There are a lot of reasons a DNA test can show "definitely not this guy", and only one of them is "actually not this guy". In a re-analyzed old sample, there have probably been about two dozen chances for to make an honest lab or filing error and a dozen temptations to cheat.
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@ReviewsPossum Maybe it'll be the big environmental grift, but it won't be a real problem. It was always inevitable that when solar can win on its own merits, the degrowthers and scold-careerists would turn against it.
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Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum·
I'm telling you now, in ten or twenty years, the big environmental crisis will be solar waste.
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@ThomBrady5 "Imminent threat" isn't a matter of capabilities alone, but capabilities and intent. The central question is whether Iran would have eventually started a war with consequences as harmful as this one is going to be, and I can't guess either side of that equation.
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Fugitive Caesar
Fugitive Caesar@ThomBrady5·
The Retard Right is going to ignore this, but this by itself justifies the entire Iran war. Iran's military had developed missiles (IRBM) that were capable of traveling 3,700–4,500 km, depending on launch point inside Iran. Anyone questioning "imminent threat" has their answer.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical

Iran fired a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean. One missile failed in flight, and another was engaged by a US Navy destroyer using an SM-3 missile.

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@GMShivers There are downsides to modern sealed-up insulated houses, but it's amazing how well they'll hold any heat produced inside them.
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Jennifer D'aww@GMShivers·
@darrellprograms I've been in a house where the furnace broke in -25 and it if its insulated and the pipes wont burst its not that bad
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@WomanDefiner You know why that doesn't work? "Anti-discrimination" law and manipulation of procedural outcomes. Your $200 billion right wing patronage network project would just get slurped up by the uniparty.
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Paul
Paul@WomanDefiner·
If I had 200 billion dollars I'd fund a real right wing patronage network and get people paid without strings.
Matt Forney@mattforney

@Ted__ted_ If someone gave me $200 billion I'd buy a mercenary army and start invading African countries for fun

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@ReviewsPossum Do you look around at society today and say the government *isn't* creating artificial misery and poverty in order to control the workers they most desire control over?
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@ReviewsPossum Maybe it's actually dumb if you hear the whole lecture, but it doesn't sound to me like he's saying infinite free fiat money would make everyone rich, but that he's saying selective free fiat money is a tool of arbitrary economic control.
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Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum·
I was just talking about how highly educated people convince themselves of obviously stupid things all the time. Being educated makes it easier to do the mental gymnastics needed to ignore common sense and evidence, and convince yourself that something any moron could tell you is a bad idea is "actually kinda genius if you think about it".
True market Leader@TmarketL

f Money is Infinite, Why Do We Still Have Poverty? | Prof. Jiang Xueqin If money is infinite, why does poverty still exist.

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@SCHIZO_FREQ There's actual trillions on the line, plus prison terms for financial shenanigans, and probably some guys who'd have him murdered if he wasn't loudly advocating for customers to spend they way they were supposed to in the wildest AI bubble fantasies.
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Lukas (computer) 🔺@SCHIZO_FREQ·
Somewhat worrying the CEO of the company that sells compute has been going around for the last month saying things like "You should be spending almost as much on compute as on salaries" and "Everyone should use openclaw - the AI tool that inefficiently forces you to use 8x more compute than you intended." "Trillion-dollar megacorp CEO hard-shills open source token-usage-multiplier to retail" is definitely one of those things I can see myself looking back on like "yah that was a pretty obvious top signal man"
sunny madra@sundeep

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@GMShivers I mean... modern male underwear is a major contributor to infertility, and possibly also hormonal abnormalities. There's a temperature control system for the testicles that can't do its job in supportive underwear.
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Jennifer D'aww@GMShivers·
Your tits aren't "strapped down" bro, if your bra fits properly it's the same thing as your underwear preventing everything from swinging around lol.
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Jennifer D'aww@GMShivers·
Which is why you just let your dick and balls swing free with no limits when you work out right?
Mylan Giberson@trequor_

@GMShivers There is absolutely no way strapping down your body every day is healthy. This is just a less extreme form of footbinding

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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@upstatefederlst Some places burn oil for electricity routinely, but they're usually not very competently run places.
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Darrell@darrellprograms·
@AnechoicMedia_ They already play games with the prices constantly, seeing how much people will pay, and I hate it. Food costs twice as much if you just go and buy things on your schedule than if you buy it in the right week each month.
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AnechoicMedia@AnechoicMedia_·
One reason to ban price discrimination in consumer goods is businesses are incentivized to impose new costs and annoyances on society as free-to-them filtering mechanisms for their own benefit. If you make people whose time is subjectively worth less clip coupons while everyone else pays a premium to not bother with coupons, the total amount of time being wasted in society has increased for no reason other than enabling a business's market segmentation.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

Ubiquitous price discrimination is going to be extremely annoying, especially for relatively affluent people who are also lazy and inattentive (ie me personally) Possibly good for the poor, who will be internalizing their own thriftiness more. slowboring.com/p/the-racial-j…

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