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Jiggle_Physics ,

You are talking about Henry Bennett. This is a myth though. While he did have stairs like that, he died in a care home after years of declining health. His actual cause of death wasn't announced, but it was likely because he had been in rapid decline for years and just before going into the care home, had a stroke.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Wasn't one of these built and ended up being a huge failure?

Jiggle_Physics ,

Concentrated solar plants that heat using a bunch of focused light

Jiggle_Physics ,

Ok, for one example, after the 2008 housing market drop, banks bought the debt from other banks intentionally writing bad loans, which they then resold to third parties. This buying up of the debt of the banks that collapsed during this time lead to banks pushing families out of their homes, many of which were paid-up, but the lending institution behind them had failed, in order to resell the property later, when the market prices had recovered, or use the land for other developments. This was enforced by the police. Bankers did not go around forcing people out of their houses, the police did it at their behest.

Another is laws created specifically to punish people for being homeless. Laws like not being able to camp anywhere near a place they might be able to get themselves out of homelessness, e.g. a place with jobs, and other resources, not some place way out in the forest. These are also only effective because the police use violence to enforce them. Anti-solicitation laws fall into this category. Police often don't realize that (speaking for my country) they are not constitutional at the federal level. Police departments that know about this tell their cops to do it anyway because it's not like homeless people will likely be able to sue them.

A third is the enforcement of petty traffic fines. Things like window tint, or minor violations in situations where the safety concern isn't present. These fines are, often, the brunt of how they fund themselves. Petty violations, like tint, are also used to go on fishing expeditions, so they can either wrack-up more fines, or make an arrest, even if that means intentionally escalating the situation, lying about what happened, and giving false testimony in court. More arrests, more convictions, equals more money for the police, and the legal industry as a whole. If you work with, or around, police, like I have, you will hear them discuss things like testilying. Bouncing ideas off of each other as to how they can make bad arrests, and use illegal levels of force, while having a technicality to maintain their immunity, e.g. screaming quit resisting, while in a position where they know cameras can't really see what is happening. This is just the tip of this iceberg, I would need thousands, upon thousands, of words to detail all the shit I have heard police say, and see police do.

I can go on, but I think I have made my point.

Jiggle_Physics ,

It isn't that out of touch with contemporary prices. Maybe 10 years at most, as a lot of the cost increase has been the past 5 years. Doesn't mean the image isn't older, just commenting on the price here.

A current restaurant serving Lobster Thermidor costs about 55$. While any place serving this dish is likely a high quality restaurant, it's not until one obtains a michelin star that it becomes a 3 digit affair.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Also Cathode Ray Dude

Jiggle_Physics ,

You really think kids use consoles, to access social media, more than phones, and tablets?

Jiggle_Physics ,

yes, lengthy, nuanced, disputations, are just what the four panel comics, on the meme forum, needs.

Jiggle_Physics , (edited )

He is banning his employees from using them at work.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Ha, something similar happened to my grandmother, though they claimed to need to read her meters. My grandmother is in her 90s and has a lead a hard as fuck life, she takes zero shit. So she immediately thought it was odd that they didn't say which utility meter they needed to look at, nor did their uniforms have anything more than vague identifiers on it. So she said oh? which meter? What utility? She said they stammered a bit but said water, and she said, ok, the water meter is right there, pointing to the meter in the back of her car-port. Then they tried to come up with some BS about how they need to get the "other" meter readings at her water-heater. She knows that isn't a thing. So she said there isn't such a thing, you need to leave. They immediately started to argue and she said "I have no qualms shooting two men trying to rob me". They left, they were yelling they would tell the police, their utilities company, the department of public works, etc. She said she needed to take her heart medication right afterword, but was otherwise fine. Well guess what? Nothing came of it. Thing is, she keeps a small gauge shot-gun next to the door and would have, indeed, shot them if they tried to get inside.

Jiggle_Physics ,

A lot of people are able to recognize the shit side of the world and be strong enough to not fall apart because of it.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Being driven by profit is not mutually exclusive to being malicious. Taking greed over things like truth, better quality of life, life, etc. has long been considered a nefarious thing to do.

Jiggle_Physics , (edited )

If you don't think major media outlets run propaganda to protect the interests of the countries they work in, and the people they work for, I have bad news for you.

Jiggle_Physics ,

And choosing selling ads vs being a decent news company and having good, balanced, reporting they nefariously choose to take profit by manufacturing controversy. They, as in the the news in general, also have a history of coming to the defense of the oil industry, and shitting on anything in competition to it, because it is a vital venue for US imperialism, or economic influence, as they might say. It has proven so intentional that they call everything they say on this subject into question. You are free to feel that these economic interests don't play a significant factor in the broader operations of why they release the articles they do, but that doesn't mean it isn't that way.

Jiggle_Physics ,

I notice you don't mention the existential crisis most of the "humanity is doomed" sentiment comes from.

Jiggle_Physics , (edited )

The point of the joke is not that they think men are being babies about it. It is that women's birth control causes these same side effects, along with strokes, and a number of other serious, long term issues. However when women say they do not want to take birth control, and instead opt for doing things that require more responsibility of the man, they are often told similar things concerning the negative effects they get when using it, and they should just deal with it.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Sorry it's very rare to cause the least of the issues on that list, must mean they don't have a point.

Jiggle_Physics ,

he really does, doesn't he

Jiggle_Physics , (edited )

The problem that brings up the idea of no good cops is, if these 23 other cops are good, and this one is bad, why is there still the bad cop? Why do the other 23 not push that bad cop out?

Jiggle_Physics ,

Huh, so I looked up the top 100 arms manufacturers in the world. 41% of them are the from the US, with the entire top 5 being from the US. The next biggest are china with 8%, and the UK with 7%.

Jiggle_Physics ,

They aren't being forced to sell their operations in the entire world, just the US. So, doesn't it make better financial sense, if all legal options to keep control fail, that they sell their US operation to another company, and at least get billions of dollars before exit, than to just lose the market and get not billions?

Jiggle_Physics ,

They have a leg up, they would have to use their early footing to compete. If they go, the vacuum of their loss of presence will open a spot for an american tech company to copy them. Either way, they are going to get competition from an american tech company. Nothing they are doing is esoteric in a way that would make them hard to copy. There really is no secret sauce, so to speak, in the software. If they are doing it to hide something then then it lends credence to the US's accusations, at least it leaves a grey area for that speculation. This gives the US a big avenue to push that they are right and everyone should be cautious of their media business.

Jiggle_Physics , (edited )

They are going to get one when a western tech company copies them to fill the vacuum they left. Their only real advantage is their leg-up with their earlier footing. There is nothing particularly interesting in their software, it's easy to copy, and someone likely will. If they do not get a copycat, their crowd will move on to some other thing and, being in the same industry, will still be a competitor.

Jiggle_Physics ,

A man named Raghavan has been taken on as a major operational manager for yahoo, ibm, etc. Seems his direction of their operations lines up with a sudden collapse in quality in the areas he was at. Regardless everyone seems to discuss how he is one of the best researchers in field. The dark design, and other issues, google has been seeing an increase in, for years, is basically his direction and, while he isn't the CEO, he basically runs google.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Yeah Nazis are a problem in pretty much all subcultures. Industrial, punk, goth, and so on. Subcultures attract people who don't feel like they have a place, and this is the group extremist groups target.

Jiggle_Physics ,

They get the other side of the coin. Friend of mine has played harmonica for a long time, has played with/been in numerous blues bands. You will find a lot of heavily anti-white, black nationalism. Like the "we need to exterminate all white people for any chance at peace and prosperity" types.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Well your experience has been very different. He has been handed literature explaining how the prosperity of the african people can not exist in world with europeans and asians. My friend is not white, might be the difference here. He has run into numerous recruiters for this ideology in a number of different forms. Any form of ethnonationalism is bad. Just because where you live, it is a minority, and therefore isn't some eminent concern of going third reich, does not make it not bad.

Jiggle_Physics ,

If the strip club is in their house.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Children seeing porn is the lesser evil in a choice of that or authoritarianism. The police are not allowed to just come onto property and demand everyone there prove they have the right to be. Does that mean that lots, and lots, and lots, of people enter property when they aren't allowed? Yes, does this mean that sometimes people get away with serious crimes? Again, yes. However the downsides of the 4th amendment are lesser than having cops forcing everyone they don't know to prove their identity and that they aren't doing anything wrong.

The 1st amendment means that people will be exposed to things, considered speech for legal purposes, that are not good for them. This is less bad than the government getting ever more control over speech. In order to to have freedom you will have to accept that bad things will arise from it.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Crime is ruining people's lives, if we can just make everyone demonstrate that they aren't committing crime at any given time, crime will go down. So everyone should be on board with that.

Jiggle_Physics ,

I didn't avoid the question. You made a a bad comparison.

If the strip club was streaming, and children could access it via their home computers, then no the strip club should not be held responsible. That is the parent's job, and if the parents suck, the parents need to suffer the consequences, no one else.

However, you have made statements that make me doubt there are very many authoritarian measures you wouldn't agree with, in regards to restricting access to porn, because you are one of those people who blames a disproportionate amount of society's ills on porn.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Oh and the stupid child going into a strip club vs accessing something at home argument isn't?

Jiggle_Physics ,

Yes I did.

Let me be direct. You are not able to understand the difference between something happening at a specific physical location, and access rights to that, vs something accessed via property not owned by that place. You, for whatever reason, either cannot, or refuse, to acknowledge that accessing data, on a device you own, puts the onus on you to stay within the law. If your kids are accessing some strip club's stream, on devices you bought them, or on your property, then it is you that needs to make sure they don't. Not the strip club, not the streaming platform, not the ISP. These "think of the children", reactionary laws, that place parenting responsibilities on outside entities, are simply wedges to reduce protections of liberties from the government. This is moral panic 101.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Did you know that a child accessing porn is illegal? Did you know that, when it is done in their on, or with, their property, the people responsible for that are the parents of those children, and no one else? The only thing these bills do are shift the regulation of personal life onto the government.

Yes we need a STRONG MAN to lead us all to REALITY! We just need leader who is a STRONG MAN that doesn't get distracted by pussy, weakling things, like freedoms, context, and viability. Just push government force onto everything I don't like! That will bring people to REALITY!

Jiggle_Physics ,

And you keep proving you are incapable of realizing that what you are saying is not the same as what is happening in REALITY. Your premise is foundationaly flawed. Accessing a porn site, and walking into a strip club, are completely different things. You, however, only seem to be able to understand that both have naked people in them, so they are the same.

It's illegal for a kid to walk in a strip club, it's also illegal for a kid to access porn. The difference is that the strip club has a physical door you can stop the kid from passing through. You can see, and physically interact with, the kid at the strip club. On the internet you do not have that. A kid can not change themselves to be someone else, and have reasonable proof that they are an adult, and in a location where this is legal, at a strip club, like they easily can online. With less than an hour with google, and some basic computer software, a child can easily make themselves look anyway they want to a porn site, ISP, platform, etc. The best one can do with the strip club is provide a fake ID if you look like you could be old enough. Guess what? If they do this it is THEIR fault, not the strip club's. The strip club can say "hey they had an ID and look like they are old enough" because they can physically interact with them. False identification is what is happening when a child accesses porn. This time they have no physical person there to examine though. They are saying "yes I am legally able to get on here" and, since there is no reasonable way to make sure this is true, they get let in the door. If the legal penalty changes to the site provider, who exists in a REALITY where there is no reasonable way to ensure someone is who they say they are, then there is no reasonable way they can adhere to a law, thus effectively creating a blanket ban of online porn without having to say "we made something ruled to have first amendment protections illegal".

If parents, who know, and have more control over, their child than anyone else, can't stop them, what in hell makes you think some outside entity, who can only interact with them via layers of abstraction, could possibly do so? All this shit does is make kids learn how to mask their locations, and fake their credentials online, which is not hard to do. The only reasonable person to hold responsible for this is the child's parents/care givers. The onus of liability has to fall on them. Even places like China can't keep people from faking their identities online, yet you want to saddle porn sites with a legal burden if they can't. But you don't really want to stop children from accessing porn. You want porn to be illegal for everyone.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Because it's an actual image of tate done in the style of wojack

Jiggle_Physics ,

Assuming this is representative of everything OP has to eat in the time frame these were purchased for. They might have meats in the freezer, dried/canned beans, etc. that these items will be paired with.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Yeah, missed that, however my point still stands. This could be more just component items for longer term shelf life stuff, and snacks. They still could have beans, lentils, rice, etc at home and these things are just to make specific meals through the week or whatever.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Anything I have done, that hasn't run out its statute of limitations, I never post online. So I am good. Not that they could have pinned anything i put on reddit to a specific person with any certainty anyways.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Yeah, it's sad that everything doesn't have to cater only to what I like.

Jiggle_Physics ,

I have been shot with a bean bag. Balaclava isn't going to do shit. I was wearing a leather coat and almost my whole torso was deeply bruised.

Jiggle_Physics ,

not just straight at people, they have caught police, on video, intentionally getting within arms reach and shooting at the head.

Jiggle_Physics ,

I wish.

Jiggle_Physics ,

I am saying that something as weak as a balaclava would not even accomplish this. If you have ever seen people get hit by these wearing hoodies, and the like, you will see they tear right through that shit like it isn't even there. This is like trying to reduce the trauma of a hammer blow with a sheet of paper.

Jiggle_Physics ,

As long as the security software it uses is solid I think it's a decent idea.

Jiggle_Physics ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/79159248-7b0b-485e-b014-2469245a27de.png

Jiggle_Physics ,

Yeah, was going for the controversial form of pedantry given the subject.

Jiggle_Physics ,

People can call it whatever they like as long as everyone involved is cool with it. Refer to it as a penis, fine by me. I am just saying that this is a very, very, casual conversation and use of the word. Those actively concerning themselves with others using a word in a non-technical manner are just mildly annoying pedants. Pedants who likely use a word in a lay person's manner, that is technically incorrect according to a professional or academic lexicon, probably without even realizing it.

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