@GaryFreeman I think it's safe to say he won't want anything to do with law enforcement after this. Any idealistic fantasies about how the justice system works have likely been shattered.
Even for someone like me who thinks Kyle should get off for self-defense (Don't want to get shot? Don't attack someone. Simple as.), you can tell he's not a genius, he's not playing 4d chess. If someone told me he's mildly retarded I'd find that plausible. He's as shallow and straightforward as you get, and obviously didn't think too much about anything he did, hence driving without a license. It's the only thing that saved him on the stand yesterday.
As for being in Kenosha, you're sort of being disingenuous to say he went there soley to kill. He had ties to Kenosha. His father lived in Kenosha and he lived there when he was with his Dad. He had friends in Kenosha. He was working in Kenosha at the time. He was probably going to be there with or without the riots. The mildly retarded kid thought he was going to walk into that situation and vaugely "help". Safe to say like most shallow teenage vounteers, he didn't help, and in the process found himself in a world of trouble.
Hopefully all this has helped the dumb kid learn a lesson about sticking your neck out, and hopefully he doesn't end up in jail forever over it.
Even for someone like me who thinks Kyle should get off for self-defense (Don't want to get shot? Don't attack someone. Simple as.), you can tell he's not a genius, he's not playing 4d chess. If someone told me he's mildly retarded I'd find that plausible. He's as shallow and straightforward as you get, and obviously didn't think too much about anything he did, hence driving without a license. It's the only thing that saved him on the stand yesterday.
As for being in Kenosha, you're sort of being disingenuous to say he went there soley to kill. He had ties to Kenosha. His father lived in Kenosha and he lived there when he was with his Dad. He had friends in Kenosha. He was working in Kenosha at the time. He was probably going to be there with or without the riots. The mildly retarded kid thought he was going to walk into that situation and vaugely "help". Safe to say like most shallow teenage vounteers, he didn't help, and in the process found himself in a world of trouble.
Hopefully all this has helped the dumb kid learn a lesson about sticking your neck out, and hopefully he doesn't end up in jail forever over it.
@11112011 It's crazy, everyone is so busy focusing on US culture war stuff, but it looks to me like China is in serious trouble right now and it'll be worse this winter.
Not to mention what's happening in the bond market. Good lord, lock in your debt before it goes to 1970s levels of interest!
Not to mention what's happening in the bond market. Good lord, lock in your debt before it goes to 1970s levels of interest!
@PawelK @Humpleupagus @b3nji @SirRyan given that many researchers are paid for by grants from organizations like his, doesn't that contaigen of politicization have to spread to front-line researchers?
If researching the truth is going to get you blacklisted from all the main sources of grants, and the political elite will reward you for publishing falsehoods wrapped up in obtuse language, how can that not affect the end product?
If researching the truth is going to get you blacklisted from all the main sources of grants, and the political elite will reward you for publishing falsehoods wrapped up in obtuse language, how can that not affect the end product?
Operating system discourse
@hazelnot @bulkington It's come an infinite distance from where it was when I was a kid playing with Redhat 5. Depending on the distribution you use, it's downright nice.
@cv19pandemic Nobody -- NOBODY is monitoring adverse effects.
There's people who are losing days. There's people who are off of work for a week. And who records that it happened? Nobody. Nobody at all. It's happening to young people. It's happening to middle aged people. It's happening to old people.
How can anyone say we know it's safe, when nobody is keeping track? It's like lighting your mates house on fire and saying it's ok because you never bothered to talk to him again. Maybe it was ok, but maybe you burned his house down?
There's people who are losing days. There's people who are off of work for a week. And who records that it happened? Nobody. Nobody at all. It's happening to young people. It's happening to middle aged people. It's happening to old people.
How can anyone say we know it's safe, when nobody is keeping track? It's like lighting your mates house on fire and saying it's ok because you never bothered to talk to him again. Maybe it was ok, but maybe you burned his house down?
@PawelK @Humpleupagus @b3nji @SirRyan Sorry, I just keep remembering that the "totally not contrarian" Dr. Fauci headed up an organization that said masks don't work, then they do, then later when asked about the change said "Obviously we lied because we didn't want you plebs using our masks". Then later it turned out his organization sponsored research into making bat coronaviruses transmissible to humans.
Looks totally not loony or dangerous to me! So glad he's leading the biggest crowds!
Really looking forward to the asbestos mandates.
Looks totally not loony or dangerous to me! So glad he's leading the biggest crowds!
Really looking forward to the asbestos mandates.
@Jdogg247 haha drug companies would never try to sell thalidomide!
Or Phen Phen!
Or Oxycodone!
Or Heroine!
Or Cocaine!
Or Valdecoxib!
Or Bromfenac!
Or Vioxx!
Or Troglitazone!
Or Rezulin!
They'd never try to sell these drugs to you because they're all perfectly safe and were approved by the FDA.
Or Phen Phen!
Or Oxycodone!
Or Heroine!
Or Cocaine!
Or Valdecoxib!
Or Bromfenac!
Or Vioxx!
Or Troglitazone!
Or Rezulin!
They'd never try to sell these drugs to you because they're all perfectly safe and were approved by the FDA.
@PawelK @Humpleupagus @b3nji @SirRyan See, this is the dangerous effect of this way of thinking.
It doesn't matter who you are, truth doesn't care who you are. The current establishment thing that you're talking about does care about who you are. That's a problem.
Back in the 1800s, midwives delivering babies were 10 times more likely to come out with a living mother and a living child compared to the learned doctors of the day. The reason turned out to be that doctors worked with cadavers and got covered in viruses and bacteria and went out with a slight washing of their hands before handling pregnant women and babies. The learned doctors didn't understand germ theory yet, and the one guy who was right was absolutely destroyed for this theories on "cadaverous particles" that the establishment didn't appreciate, despite the fact that he was right, causing countless deaths. Today he is vindicated.
The Mpemba Effect is an unintuitive effect where hot water freezes faster than cold water. It was discovered by a high school student named Mpemba in Tanzania. He noticed this phenomenon while making ice cream and was curious enough to make note of it. His teachers did not believe it was possible, and it took several years of experimentation until the scientific community finally accepted his discovery.
The focus on who you are in our politics and our scientific establishment is anti-scientific. It's against the whole concept of science. It isn't about who you are, it's about whether you're right.
Now, is a particular hypothesis correct? Now that's a more important question than who created it, or who supports it. That's the question we need to answer.
Of course, They laughed at Albert Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown, so it's important not to commit the opposite fallacy and assume that just because the source *Isn't* from the establishment that it's more likely to be correct. Only things that are true are true, regardless of the source.
It doesn't matter who you are, truth doesn't care who you are. The current establishment thing that you're talking about does care about who you are. That's a problem.
Back in the 1800s, midwives delivering babies were 10 times more likely to come out with a living mother and a living child compared to the learned doctors of the day. The reason turned out to be that doctors worked with cadavers and got covered in viruses and bacteria and went out with a slight washing of their hands before handling pregnant women and babies. The learned doctors didn't understand germ theory yet, and the one guy who was right was absolutely destroyed for this theories on "cadaverous particles" that the establishment didn't appreciate, despite the fact that he was right, causing countless deaths. Today he is vindicated.
The Mpemba Effect is an unintuitive effect where hot water freezes faster than cold water. It was discovered by a high school student named Mpemba in Tanzania. He noticed this phenomenon while making ice cream and was curious enough to make note of it. His teachers did not believe it was possible, and it took several years of experimentation until the scientific community finally accepted his discovery.
The focus on who you are in our politics and our scientific establishment is anti-scientific. It's against the whole concept of science. It isn't about who you are, it's about whether you're right.
Now, is a particular hypothesis correct? Now that's a more important question than who created it, or who supports it. That's the question we need to answer.
Of course, They laughed at Albert Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown, so it's important not to commit the opposite fallacy and assume that just because the source *Isn't* from the establishment that it's more likely to be correct. Only things that are true are true, regardless of the source.
@houseoftolstoy That's a good way of putting it.
The "extra context" is usually creating new levels of abstraction so you can sand away complexity to get to the next level of abstraction cleanly.
You *can* get important data using abstractions (Math->Physics->Engineering for example), but you have to be very careful because for every new level of abstraction there's a chance you cut away the core reality of a thing and once you do that you end up with absurd conclusions.
The rest of us see stuff like "Multi-racial white supremacy" and that becomes a meme by itself because it's so absurd without the mental gymnastics and abstractions upon abstractions required to make it not absurd.
The "extra context" is usually creating new levels of abstraction so you can sand away complexity to get to the next level of abstraction cleanly.
You *can* get important data using abstractions (Math->Physics->Engineering for example), but you have to be very careful because for every new level of abstraction there's a chance you cut away the core reality of a thing and once you do that you end up with absurd conclusions.
The rest of us see stuff like "Multi-racial white supremacy" and that becomes a meme by itself because it's so absurd without the mental gymnastics and abstractions upon abstractions required to make it not absurd.
@PawelK @Humpleupagus @SirRyan @b3nji I have issues with the big science journals. There are systemic problems in science, and all someone needs to do is try to pronounce the titles of 3 articles to know what they are.
The meme is useless without context. It's the context that makes it memetic. There's a lot of things from our parents childhoods that were really cool and funny at the time and they try to help us relive the enjoyment they lived at that time, and it just isn't the same.
It's sort of like what Jon Stewart said about his audience back at the height of The Daily Show. For a lot of the jokes to work, the audience needed to be very well informed. They needed to know who these people were, why they were important, why the punchlines of these jokes hit. Without that, the show wasn't funny.
It's the same with memes. Something succinct requires faith in your audience, that they understand what the meme represents, and that they understand the message you're trying to convey with very little information.
That's also why the left is losing the best and brightest, and they can't meme for the same reason -- because they don't trust their audience, they can't tell the truth, they can't or won't assume their audience is smart enough to get the joke.
It's sort of like what Jon Stewart said about his audience back at the height of The Daily Show. For a lot of the jokes to work, the audience needed to be very well informed. They needed to know who these people were, why they were important, why the punchlines of these jokes hit. Without that, the show wasn't funny.
It's the same with memes. Something succinct requires faith in your audience, that they understand what the meme represents, and that they understand the message you're trying to convey with very little information.
That's also why the left is losing the best and brightest, and they can't meme for the same reason -- because they don't trust their audience, they can't tell the truth, they can't or won't assume their audience is smart enough to get the joke.
Whoever thought that the Kyle Rittenhouse case would be the most fun piece of edutainment to come out this decade?
@RekietaLaw congrats on an epic stream last night! Already 302k views!!
(And thanks for assisting my book grift lol)
(And thanks for assisting my book grift lol)
@DogArtFilms he looks like he's going to get his gay emo son to fight in a giant robot Inhabited by the ghost of his dead wife.
@houseoftolstoy @verita84 I'm sure the drug companies selling billions of doses of medicine have made a bunch of politicians rich to the extent that generations from now they'll be taken care of.
@Johncdvorak College textbooks in particular -- they sell the same textbooks to poor people for reasonable prices and do whatever they can to stop you from buying from there.
@NEETzsche Ironically, the left thinks they're so empathetic, but they can't put themselves in the shoes of this fundamentally good kid who was there to help.
Maybe they need to take a long look in the mirror if that's the case?
Maybe they need to take a long look in the mirror if that's the case?