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NeptuneOrbit ,

I’ll take this stuff over the Sovereign Citizen stuff, any day.

NeptuneOrbit ,

God gave plenty more laws in the next few books of the Bible. The famous commandments about not mixing fabrics or cutting your hair? Yeah Moses of the Ten Commandments is behind that book too.

NeptuneOrbit ,

God put bones underground to trick the selfish and evil. Look it up.

NeptuneOrbit ,

The kids don’t have hats. Does she hate her kids??

GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case (www.politico.com)

Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution Friday urging the Supreme Court to “intervene” in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump before the 2024 election — a move that experts say is a political stunt that faces significant legal obstacles....

NeptuneOrbit ,

Sadly I think original jurisdiction of SCOTUS means they could choose to jump the line and hear the case. However it would be unprecedented to do so as a) they don’t have time to review every state felony case and b) his lawyers have yet to actually make a case that the trial was performed wrongly.

But in this case, Trump does want an appeal, but probably can’t wait til June '25 to have it

NeptuneOrbit ,

I don’t think so, but they have also used their shadow docket more and more to do things that are unprecedented. It’s not 100% unbelievable.

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So if it makes sense to charge people in India 1/4 the people in the US why can’t we pretend we are in India? People travel to other continents for healthcare.

NeptuneOrbit ,

As others pointed out, a lot of factors would go into this decision. How many working hours can she normally put in if the average client only pays for an hour? How much time does she have to spend cleaning herself up between? How much risk is there in taking a new client?

Its pretty similar to working freelance compared to a paycheck. If I wanted to go on my own as a freelancer I could probably charge 2-3x my hourly salary rate as a freelancer. But I’d have to hunt for my next meal. I’d have to figure out all my 1099s. I’d have to change stragies to get new clients… Or I can just work my current corpo job making an OK salary but always know I have a paycheck coming and insurance.

NeptuneOrbit ,

The implication is clear. The art of the deal?

NeptuneOrbit ,

I love how it’s presented like they could have just gotten on a plane. Once a century the Olmec rolled some dice and then sent ten artisans to one other empire on the other side of the globe. No planning, supply chains, or other stops on this world tour. Just one cultural exchange about how to carve a face to this one other set of artisans. Oh, India and Egypt want to learn how to carve faces like the Olmec? Too bad. They are only stopping once on this flight of fancy.

NeptuneOrbit ,

My friend was upset about this making it to SCOTUS a few weeks ago. How can the courts suspend your 2nd amendment rights before a trial?

Well what is a gag order? What is contempt of court? It turns out when you are credibly accused and/or indicted for certain crimes courts ARE allowed to constrain your constitutional rights, when their is good reason, while the court proceedings go along.

This would be as stupid as letting the dealer keep his bricks of heroine until which time a lab can check and double check that it’s indeed heroin.

Fucking bonkers that someone on trial for a shooting/death threats would be able to KEEP THEIR GUNS.

Thomas is clearly insane.

NeptuneOrbit ,

I think the direct implication is that the bullets are padded with foam. Softened.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Go place a plaque that says “Mustafa Ataturk” and watch people’s heads expose that he was actually a very small cat and not a normal sized human.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Whatever the fuck podcast popularized the idea that blue just didn’t exist? Yeah stupid.

I do believe there is some relationship between one’s main language and how it affects thought patterns, but I mean cmon, even if I don’t know every word for shades of green (avocado VS chartreuse) doesn’t mean I’m not capable of distinguishing them. I may not have an exacting language tool set for distinguishing them. But I could.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Nvidia makes a real product. An AI bubble might hurt them but probably not the same as the companies who have been buying their product.

Poisoned trees gave a wealthy couple in Maine a killer ocean view. Residents wonder, at what cost? (apnews.com)

Wealth and hubris fuel the tale of a politically connected Missouri couple who allegedly poisoned their neighbor’s trees to secure their million-dollar view of Camden Harbor. The incident that was unearthed by the victim herself — the philanthropic wife of L.L. Bean’s late president — has united local residents in...

NeptuneOrbit ,

treble damages

Is someone safe if they report income from illegal means to the IRS?

I have seen multiple times on Lemmy that the IRS wants people to report income from illegal means and that they don’t care to bust someone for it. For example, an illicit drug dealer is expected by the IRS to report their drug sale revenue without having to worry about being caught for drug dealing....

NeptuneOrbit ,

You would need to weigh the cost of

The IRS realizing their is un-reported or misrepresented income

Vs

The IRS reporting legally reported but otherwise suspicious income to the FBI or DEA OR whatever

NeptuneOrbit ,

Yeah I mean in some cases it’s not hard to surmise. Given the context (class, diagram) and how many numbers you have assigned, what formulas are available to you, you might be able to guess the teacher shoved the numbers into the wrong formulas to create the incorrect answers. For some classes simply supplying nearby numbers to the correct response might not be “real” enough.

Student logic is certainly a thing, but I can’t image it much help for the complexity shown in the meme. Basic geometry or math word problems as found in biology or statistics? Yeah sure

NeptuneOrbit ,

Because actually learning will do both. Learning only calculated guesses will only really teach you how to deal with manufactured scenarios. I won’t really even serve you much past high school.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Sure.

But if their isn’t some human author to your problem, student logic will be way less helpful than logic actually honed by learning how to learn.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Yes I’m implying student logic is only applicable in contexts where a teacher has laid out a test for you to intuit.

Student logic doesn’t apply when you have to come up with a new idea to an actual problem that exists in the real world.

There is value to learning student logic. It shows creativity. It shows a level of understanding of the material and how to be a teacher. But it’s not the same as learning the material.

NeptuneOrbit ,

This is the first headline I have seen that excluded Airbus

NeptuneOrbit ,

Upsigh down? Or upside ouwn?

NeptuneOrbit ,

To be fair to the original “scientist” you can definitely go to museums and find rocks that are supposed to be tools with pretty much 0 indication visible to the lay person.

Look at some of the images at the top of the link.

smithsonianmag.com/…/humans-have-been-crafting-st…

NeptuneOrbit ,

Excel: a tool to make an ignored case that the data should be handled in a database

NeptuneOrbit ,

He took both sides of every issue

Is "food" a social construct?

Hear me out. There’s nothing innate to an object that makes it “food”. It’s an attribute we give to certain things that meet certain qualities, i.e. being digestible, nutritious, perhaps tasty or satisfying in some way, etc. We could really ingest just about anything, but we call the stuff that’s edible “food”....

NeptuneOrbit ,

Are you saying that because most people wouldn’t consider acorns and dandelions edible, or worth processing into food, that the definition of food is meaningless?

Or are you saying that yes you can technically est mud and rocks (what is salt, anyways?) that food is a meaningless concept?

You can drink your coffee from a bowl but that doesn’t make it a mug.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Every word is created through human interaction.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Usually when people say “gender is a social construct” they mean that when your 7th grade biology teacher told you there are males and females, there was more to the story.

If someone tried to tell you that you can fit everything into either the “food” bucket or the “not food” bucket, you would definitely have questions. How do we define food? Food for whom?

If you define food as something edible, with nutritional value… How much nutritional value? A stone covered in lichen probably has nutritional value and I might try to eat it if I were starving to death. Raw grains of wheat might have nutritional value but also might make me sick of I ate them whole, but we all recognize they are generally edible and are usually processed into bread.

“Food” is a useful concept in that it can usually help guide humans toward sustenance. It was never meant as some airtight philosophical concept.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Still really valuable

NeptuneOrbit ,

Biden rigged the DOJ to garner sympathy and also to punish his son for doing too much marihuana

NeptuneOrbit ,

I’ll just put my phone in the trunk in the future.

Capitalism is essentially alive

I think capitalism can be understood as a living entity, a being composed of billions of smaller beings (people), essentially cells. It evolves (legally and through market innovations), has an immune response (police), and grows and reproduces itself (imperialism). The cells are independent life in their own right, but they...

NeptuneOrbit ,

It’s called a “system” normally.

NeptuneOrbit ,

As an outsider, who does not seriously game, this is not surprising.

Ten years ago, the people best at COD or halo or whatever cut a lot of class. Practiced a lot. And it was not fun to get whooped by your friend over and over again. I still to this day have friends I won’t play Mario cart with. Why would I?

Fast forward. Instagram and Facebook are designed to be as addictive as possible. We had Farmville. Candy crush. Mods to let you pull the trigger faster. All the the video game micro transaction scandals. Tiktok is now the premier addiction algorithm. Why wouldn’t these billion dollar enterprises use all these data points to juice their business?

If you need a game to justly stroke your ego, play chess.

NeptuneOrbit ,

We call that (systemic) racism

NeptuneOrbit ,

They can’t say (time travel protocols)

NeptuneOrbit ,

I have a captain crunch whistle so I hear it anytime I want to!

NeptuneOrbit ,

I think the simpler answer is, you are so right, it barely has to be valorized. It sells itself.

I think the long answer is that porn addiction is a real thing that can affect people. Also lots of people in charge of things like sex education have historically been prudes who see masturbation as some sort of gateway to promiscuity.

Orgasms are normal, healthy and necessary.

NeptuneOrbit ,

I mean addiction colloquially. The existence and over use of porn does cause some people and their relationship some level of affects. I don’t think we can just hand wave it all away.

NeptuneOrbit ,

You are preaching to the choir here. Yes I can believe porn addiction only exists in the kinds of the those in the religious community. I’m still trying to provide a larger picture to answer the question of why the government doesn’t tell you to masturbate every day.

Porn, for some people in contexts, has had drawbacks. Those people, in some contexts, have curtailed the valorization of porn writ large. Maybe this campaign has biased me to a degree as well.

I have never been to a Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting but I’m not about to write the whole idea off entirely.

Missing mother found dead inside 16-foot-long python after it swallowed her whole in Indonesia (www.cbsnews.com)

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017....

NeptuneOrbit ,

They inspected every snake with a hjman sized lump

NeptuneOrbit ,

You and the person on a chair on the beach next to you will both get sunburnt. In the same way, radio waves washing around your house or car interacts with everything, antenna or not.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Tartaria? What on earth do world fairs have to do with anything

NeptuneOrbit ,

Lol OK then. I guess everyone needs their own Atlantis.

NeptuneOrbit ,

I think it’s worse than that. The work is about the same. The skill and pay for that work? Lower.

Why pay 10 experienced journalists when you can pay 10 expendable fact checkers who just need to run some facts/numbers by a Wikipedia page?

Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?

I’m asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don’t really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don’t naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it’s...

NeptuneOrbit ,

I think the idea is that the default yellow is symbolic (with some “white people are the default” connotation) and now that you can choose the skin tone of your emojis, many people now select one that matches their skin tone.

NeptuneOrbit ,

I’ll never make it sadly.

But I dream of a game that kind of looks and feels like a Pokémon game. But you are a witch or herbalist going round the different biomes in a fantasy setting making remedies and potions like a morrowind game.

So obviously there’s be your dying grandma or mentor and some sort of evil overtaking the land. You set out of the city with your knife, shovel and glassware. There’d be a pokedex of plant and animal parts to find and fill out. Roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, then maybe also monster parts. There’d probably be a crafting tree like I’m Minecraft. Different biomes, seasons, or biome locations would inevitably have to be gated by tools or potions.

Eventually you’d discover the recipe to make the thing to defeat the BBEG and he’d probably show up to stop you from getting the last and rarest ingredient in the potion. Etc.

Would definitely need to ride the knifes edge of challenging a players knowledge and intuition about botany, as well as tropes in witchcraft and fantasy. Without being too hard, too requiring of memory and notes…

A challenge to making the game? Would need probably 5x the art in an old Zelda or Pokémon game. Talking 200+ unique foraged items, 6+ biomes with sub biome/habitats. Monsters. Townsfolk. Etc. Oh and I’d like have to learn how to code and make art. So yeah. Someone. Please make this game for me. Or tell me it exists.

NeptuneOrbit ,

After skimming the beginning, it seems the argument is that there are probably lots of latent survival tools built into their (any) culture. If they take up the internet as a past time, they will stop doing this other past time that has benefits for the survival of the community in their particular location. For example, if they stop playing some game about colored rocks, the ability to differentiate colors will diminish, eventually causing them to be unable to properly distinguish berries in gathering activities, leading to the end of their society.

Is that the up shot here?

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