jstarfish

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by jstarfish 3y ago
That trick mainly keeps ants at bay. Spiders and everything else get you from above.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
C-level positions from anything less than a Fortune 500 are a joke and an immediate disqualifier. Anyone exaggerating that much upfront makes me not trust anything that will follow. So much of life these days feels like Freddy Got Fingered.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
I don't know if it's about propping up the bubble (maybe!). More simply, fear sells clicks.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
It adds to the count of incidents responded to. Given that they don't actually encounter anything I doubt it'll justify purchasing of a departmental M1 Abrams but I could see it being spun for negotiation of additional SWAT office
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by jstarfish 3y ago
To further one of your points, there is very much pressure to keep closure rates up by pinning it on the most-plausible suspect even if you have doubts, and letting the DA sort it out. The DA does not always sort it out, and if it looks lik
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Yeah this ends up being exactly what I do, in addition to avoiding high-conflict individuals altogether. I can't handle the actual headache of keeping up with everyone's arbitrary titles. I'm not your Tumblr mutual or a godda
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Nice try. "Misgendering" happens to be my favorite example of modern sophistry. When you're afflicted with gender dysphoria, technically it's you who's engaging in misgendering since you refuse to recognize your o
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by jstarfish 3y ago
I know I'm being an asshole but that's quite thoughtful. Thanks. > I'm over 40, have been working since I was a teen, and I have understanding and empathy for things like preferred pronouns. Genuine appreciation for this c
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by jstarfish 3y ago
I'm terrible with names, but that's my own problem. I don't do voicemail or pronouns either. The rest of it is being ostracized for refusing to acknowledge the black floor tiles are lava. Redefining the reality of others is l
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by jstarfish 3y ago
The problem always comes down to lack of responsible use. Great, you learned a lot. Others are using it for harm . So now we have a problem. Look at the state of CB radio. Anybody can buy and use one. The airwaves are clogged with the tr
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Yeah, but once security clearances are involved, you take on reporting obligations for compromising situations. Being coy isn't really an option. Given his verbiage, this might not actually be reportable (strange man asking about nonsp
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by jstarfish 3y ago
That's what he insinuated. He never suggested it himself, but that was my initial thought too. It'd be easy to prove...by looking at the security tapes that nobody is preserving because he won't file a police report.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
It's a revised response to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
In the early days of bloated SPAs, they used to run like absolute shit on Firefox (if they even worked at all). Now everything runs like shit on every browser so things appear to be more equal.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Reminds me of both scenes in Cyberpunk where someone is bleeding out in Delamain's backseat.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> Violent crime rates are lower than ever before That depends on the boundaries of your window ;) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/31/violent-c...
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> well past the point I would just get a new phone number Agreed, but 2FA makes this a non-starter. I don't want to find out a year from now that I can't access ___ service because they have my old number on file and won't
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by jstarfish 3y ago
For N it works just as well when you accuse anybody of "hostility" or "aggression." The words themselves mean nothing but you pre-emptively frame anything they respond with as something negative.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
They're not currency, they're your score. Ultimately meaningless since it's not like you could buy anything with them. I suspect that at most it influences your weight on the social graph.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> The training sought to free them of any shyness and restraint, practically teaching them sex techniques, lesbian and heterosexual orgies, showing them perverse pornographic material, etc. ‘Practical instruction’ was filmed and subseque
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Or maybe we should have realistic expectations. Craftsman owes me a torque wrench; they promised a lifetime warranty. Except Craftsman is now dead . The lifetime of the company has expired. Expecting otherwise is delusional. Who can I sue
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by jstarfish 3y ago
He's redefining sophistry. 1 is anecdotal fallacy. 2 and 3 are reframing. I'd say all are forms of confirmation bias, but that requires good faith in debating. The point of all modern internet discourse is to "win" by a
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Gas station pills and ninja stars are how I imagine Joe Exotic became the Tiger King.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
You don't need access to a phone to vote for whoever you were going to vote for anyway. If you're making your choice based on breaking news on election day, you're the one being manipulated.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
These are terror attacks, not three people trying to shoot the same target in a motorcade. It impedes their situational awareness. If they're waiting on signals that never come, you win. If you capture one, he can't warn the other
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Nobody does that outside of feudal Japan or the Veldt. Anyone heating up knives is either sterilizing them for emergency surgery or preparing them for torture (branding).
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Most drugs are this way. Angry people are even angrier drunks. Smoking weed doesn't chemically do anything to correct depression and will reinforce the very behaviors that lead to it. Even amphetamines don't correct depression, th
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> Statistics from the police is the least accurate way to measure minor crimes, those stats mostly tracks how active the police is and not how much crime there is. Bullshit. You're applying census logic to crime statistics to sow FU
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by jstarfish 3y ago
That first link is hearsay. That second link is not evidence that they planted it . It's evidence of them using illegal means to discover it. These are not the same thing. Faking probable cause to search your car is not evidence tha
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by jstarfish 3y ago
It doesn't work in practice. Everything ends up siloed and nobody can compares notes even if they think to do so. Snowden was a network admin with access to backups or something IIRC so compartmentalization does little. He stole the pa

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