BoxFour

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by BoxFour 2y ago
Online harassment can quickly escalate beyond the point of being ignorable, even for the most resilient individuals. Swatting is the classic extreme case of that. Even foregoing those extreme examples, there are plenty of other impossible-t
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Slovakia and Estonia too get lumped in with Ukraine and Russia. I assume they meant "Ukraine and Russia" as a synonym for "eastern Europe" as a whole, but it is a bit dismissive.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> I think we seek to credit the source for reasons that are not clear... We don’t really do this because there’s no concept of ownership of food to that degree. Cooking is not a great comparison, and it betrays your point more than anyth
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Obviously you're being sarcastic, but this is pretty much how things function in 2025. Faith in the justice system is almost zero, and widespread skepticism of mass media means that “Internet Guy online with 0 firsthand knowledge” is o
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by BoxFour 2y ago
That’s not really accurate, both historically and presently. I highly doubt it's true even in a place as progressive as the Netherlands. An obvious one is that many fraud victims are often shamed for "falling for it."
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by BoxFour 2y ago
History offers plenty of other examples. Daniel Ellsberg is one of the most notable that comes to mind without spending more than a few seconds to think about it. Is it worth it? That likely depends on how highly you prioritize the protecti
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> I can't remember the last time I saw news reports about an arrest where the arrestee plausibly benefited from the story being publicized Bad week to say this, given Ross Ulbricht was just pardoned. There's zero chance he woul
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by BoxFour 2y ago
It’s a double-edged sword. If the press is prohibited from reporting on arrests, you can end up with people just apprehended without a trace. The US certainly isn't above that, especially for "national security concerns." I’m
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Sure, but in a representative sample size this is largely irrelevant. The fraternity brothers and the Mormons cancel each other out, and regardless both are dwarfed by the large middle of the population that likely systematically and reliab
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> "morning coffee" could be anything from plain espresso shot to full 600+ calorie starbucks "coffee" but the meta-study-machine will lump them together. You're inadvertently proving my point, though. If morning
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Why would that be a problem for reporting relative results if the entire population is doing that? If everyone is under-reporting their alcohol consumption, that seems fine. The absolute numbers will be way off, the relative numbers t
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Why would that be a problem for reporting relative results if everyone is under-reporting things they're embarrassed about and over-reporting the opposite?
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Does this actually pose an issue for most studies? This seems like it would be an issue for any studies relying on absolute food consumption being accurate. Most studies I come across frame their findings in relative terms (likely for this
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> Perhaps it is, I don't have enough insight to know. You can spot it in this post, too. > Is it actually a free market argument? The argument is: Large corporation A offers service B at price $C. $C is an extravagant amount, and
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> It's obvious to every socialist that this move was stupid Is it? Or is this post hoc rationalization? I really dislike playing the “both sides” card, even for a moment, but it’s hard to deny that there are questionable takes on bo
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by BoxFour 2y ago
It’s a topic that comes up quite often in recent years, so I don’t know what you mean by “not talked enough in health”. The Surgeon General recently issued a warning about it, plenty of popular science articles about how even small amounts
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by BoxFour 2y ago
I was a groomsman at a wedding where someone showed up in jeans. Japes abounded and some of the more conservative family members were giving severe side-eye, but at no point was it suggested that he be sent home. He showed up in jeans (offe
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Sorry - I'm specifically referring to EMTs and Paramedics, who usually make somewhere in the realm of $18-25 an hour.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Shamefully, first responders are not well compensated - usually it's ~$20 an hour.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
You might! You’d be surprised how many people have ties to the “defense” industry.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Seems like you’re awfully annoyed by this conversation so I’ll let it go, but I hope you remember this convo the next time this happens to someone. Right now, Daniel Penny is being celebrated by half the country for killing Neely, and the o
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by BoxFour 2y ago
On a longer time horizon the norm is brutal warfare that leaves many innocent people dead. I don’t think we should be so keen to embrace that.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Things have notably gotten worse over the last decade or so, if that hasn’t been made abundantly clear.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Yes, near 50% of the country is cheering that he was acquitted and someone was killed. The other 50% would be glad if he faced extrajudicial punishment. Not a good state to be in.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
I’m not disagreeing. I don’t think we should rejoice that justice has failed so miserably that people are applauding extrajudicial killings. It’s a really, really, really bad thing.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Don’t be too glad to celebrate it, is my point.
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> Considering the other side is a minority of top-level executives and media outlets, I wouldn't bank much on that. The other side is often 50% of the country. Whatever controversial figures you like, near 50% of the country would g
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by BoxFour 2y ago
That may feel acceptable, but I hope those people remember it when someone controversial they admire meets a similar fate, greeted by applause from the other side. Once we start tacitly approving of extrajudicial killings, it doesn’t stop w
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> The problem is that in 2024, kids can play video games and watch stupid videos in the comfort of their own home I always thought of Chuck E. Cheese as being aimed at hosting larger children’s gatherings, freeing parents from concerns a
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Suppressors can interfere with the auto cycling mechanism, so you have to manually cycle it.

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