Kellamity

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[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're being down voted, he is literally a billionaire

'No ethical billionaires' apart from this guy apparently

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

Regardless of the electoral politics, as Chris notes, the important challenge in social policy is helping people who won’t benefit from wealth transfers from wealthy relatives, rather than engaging in fantasies about “generational warfare”. What matters is not generations, but class.

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

'Is it bigger or smaller than a breadbox' was a common question in games of 20 Questions and stuff when I was a kid, although I'm not sure why or where from originally (a game show I think?)

So yeah here instead of a bread box it's a Bread Box factory and the thing being compared is also really really big

E: yeah a game show https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-is-it-bigger-than-a-breadbox/245317

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago

Right, I was trying to imply that it wasn't really okay, hence the 'okay' in inverted commas and stuff - this obviously isn't okay

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

While this prosecution was completely fucked up and was 100% linked to the criminalisation of abortion (and therefore miscarriages and pregnancy in general), the issue was that following the traumatic premature birth she didn't immediately remove the baby from the toilet

Moving north wouldn't have helped on paper, as the alleged crime of letting your baby drown is still illegal

That said, possibly a more progressive state might have had the good sense to not prosecute or even treat this as a criminal matter. On the other hand, the DA where this happened was a Democrat according to the article

A grand jury declined to indict her, so it ended 'okay', apart from all the unnecessary additional horrific trauma inflicted on a grieving mother and being a harrowing sign of dark repressive times

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it means + more than zero but less than one

So like, +(between 0.01 and 0.99)

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They're using it as (+0<1), there's no - here bc that would be + (the other candidate)

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Honestly looks pretty good as actiony eye-candy

Bit ironic seeing this right after that post about how the fan-service and callbacks ruined the new Alien film though

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Stanford Prison Experiment. But it shouldn't be taken seriously, it was terribly done, biased and unscientific

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/

Could be interesting to run something similar under actual experimental conditions, if that was doable

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

There was a really good article on this and unfortunately I can't find it now to share

But the gist was that Titan exploited a bunch of loopholes, among other things. The paying customers on the sub were in fact 'marine researchers' who coincidently made a donation, and things like that

Some of the people who were at one point involved but left due to safety concerns raised the issue with OSHA (? - or whoever the more specific body was) who repeatedly failed to investigate or take any action

So for me, whether or not they are able to charge the company, the industry regulators and government bodies overseeing them need to face some questions and judgements too (though it would take a more knowledgeable person than me to know what exactly that looks like)

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

'There's no point voting against Hitler right now because the opposition is right leaning and may one day grow into Hitler'

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