@Gianpattention @arctotherium42 You're still basically asking good cops to take that risk and then punishing them for doing it.
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Darrell
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Darrell
@darrellprograms
Recovering pointless argument vegetable.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 加入时间 Mart 2019
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@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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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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@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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(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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@darrellprograms @AltFemKG Are you saying there are a lot of people tempted to falsify a DNA test to free a rapist
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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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@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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@AltFemKG sorry 15% was 'definitely not' and 25% was 'can't tell' which is where the 40% comes from. true figure is probably closer to 15% obvs
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@coryfromphilly @maraudershields Can you really? Recent experience says no, California can not build rail infrastructure.
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@maraudershields Yes that's true, but Switzerland is just as mountainous, if not moreso! We can build tunnels
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You're never gonna believe this
Rokko🇯🇵🌐💻 ✈︎@Msamalam
“urbanist slop” is apt. 🇨🇭has the ideal rail geography; Everyone lives along a single axis. Similar in 🇯🇵
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@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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I'm telling you now, in ten or twenty years, the big environmental crisis will be solar waste.
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@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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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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@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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@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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I grew up north of 60, and while -30 is a bit much, absolutely prefer cooler to heat.
brandon@SiNuTrmon
I’ll say it a million times if i have to but nobody who believes this has experienced real winter
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@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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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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@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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@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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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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@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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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"
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"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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@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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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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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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@upstatefederlst Some places burn oil for electricity routinely, but they're usually not very competently run places.
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Electricity come from wall.
Tony Ashai@TonyAshai
Oil is the real root cause of all the geopolitical trouble. Time to go 💯 Electric.
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@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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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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@GMShivers I think the theory isn't that the ligaments will shorten with stress, but that they can atrophy from minimizing stress in everyday life, and be less able to resist irreversible lengthening from things like pregnancy or injury.
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@darrellprograms Strengthening the tissues underneath your breasts is also done by lifting and not by letting it all hang out. A ligament getting "stronger" with wear does not mean it is shorter. They are not flexible to begin with
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You cannot "work out your breasts" man. Stressing out breast tissue does not make it stronger. You can only improve the appearance of it by strengthening the muscles underneath, the ligaments are still blown once they're gone.
Mylan Giberson@trequor_
It's only nuts if you have zero understanding of anatomy or how animals evolve. You mentioned working out earlier, so you might be aware that working out weak muscles makes them stronger. Repeated stressing of bodily tissue generally makes the tissue stronger, so long as it is done gradually
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@Sargon_of_Akkad "The slow blade penetrates the shield." "So why don't we wear full-coverage armor?" "... Shut up." "Pretty hard to slowly push a blade through armor, isn't it?" "Stop." "We have advanced future materials, we could make great armor." "You're going to ruin cool space swordfights!"
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The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't explain why people don't return to formations of spears and shields.
Zack Stentz@MuseZack
A hugely underrated aspect of the Dune universe's appeal is how Frank Herbert built a world where people zip around the galaxy in spaceships but then fight each other with swords and knives. It makes everything 50 percent cooler than a world of ray guns and robots.
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@CriticalZaku @Robotbeat Chip fabs are trying to recycle more, but they still lose a lot of helium.
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@Robotbeat Also chip fabs recycle 95% of their helium, this isn’t a burning platform.
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Fun Fact: The US produces almost half of the global helium. The Qatar thing is a big problem, but pretty much the only country that isn't affected by it is the United States. Also: we can make helium. It's produced by radioactive decay & is concentrated in natural gas reservoirs
Eric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing
FUN FACT—helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines used in hospitals worldwide. We lost the largest helium extraction plant in the world in Qatar. US reserves running low. Helium cannot be produced de novo. Any helium escape is permanent.
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