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UnfairRepresent posted...

This is kinda poor arguments. It's a non-sequitur

If someone is mentally ill or drugged they can't consent: Fair they can't.

But you started out by saying that "some things can't be consented too" which has nothing to do with drugs or mental illness

If they're sane and sober and not under coercion, what should they be banned from doing to their own body?

I'm with the libertarians on this one. You are not the property of the government, that's unironically communism at it's highest.

If someone wants a dom to do permanent bodily harm to them, do an activity that could easily result in their death, or such... Frankly I don't care if it's not yet diagnosed, there's something wrong with such a person and a decent human being would say no, and try to direct that person to professional help.

Zeeak4444 posted...

ill be honest its certainly not the same but this mentality was a large contributor to the 2008 market crisis.

Everyone thought ARMs would be fine and theyd refinance lower. That didnt end up being the case.

The interest rate in the 2000's was still historically low, people were just buying up houses and pulling any trick they could to make the payments lower.
These rates are high compared to the past 2 decades and conversely now greed will work against them. Eventually wall street will get sick of people being able to make money parking it in the banks and want another artificial stock bubble.

I don't know, I don't see how the current rates are sustainable long term w/ how fucked our economy is now. I've been overpaying each month to bring my principle down, just in case... And I want to pay it off in 20 years anyway, that's the goal... Does mean I'm spending over half my net pay (not gross pay; what a stupid metric to measure affordability) on my mortgage, which is rather painful in the short term.

Umbreon posted...

I believe you can, you just can't extend someone's original life span. So if you said your best friend dies in their sleep at 100, but it turns out they're going to die at 60, they don't get a bonus 40 years.

Oh yeah, I know that. Never expected to be able to write myself a 500 year lifespan or anything.
Just to immunize myself from Death Notes by being recorded in one already.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

In the live-action movies, this is basically what L did. But IIRC, at least there, you could only set your death for up to 30 days into the future.

Interesting. Lame restriction, but yeah, definitely covers what I always considered the biggest plot hole "what if?" that was never explored in the original anime.

I would stash it somewhere and never use it till the day I die, hopefully of old age. Possibly looking for a more permanent destruction/burying solution along the way.
Meanwhile, bribing my shinigami w/ apples so he's hopefully cool with an uneventful long term vacation to Earth.

Partly b/c extra judiciously killing people is wrong, but to be honest...mostly for my own survival. If one such book exists, others probably do too, and between rival death note owners and the authorities, the less conspicuous I make myself, the better. Definitely would avoid posting my face to social media and using an alias whenever possible, too.
The mere existence of such a "tool" would terrify me more than anything. I care way more about not-dying than I do about killing "people who deserve it".

EDIT: The one thing I always wondered about the DN is...if you put your own name in there (or had someone else write it in, if you can't "off yourself") and intentionally set the date of your own death so ridiculously far in the future that it'd never occur before you die of natural causes... does that effectively "immunize" you to all death notes? Since your name and time/cause of death is already technically recorded in a death note?
A scheme like that to protect myself and maybe others from less scrupulous DN owners would be my only real interest in "using" it, and I'd still probably be too afraid to test that.

UnfairRepresent posted...

The five appellants engaged in sadomasochistic sexual acts, consenting to the harm which they received; whilst their conviction also covered alike harm against others, they sought as a minimum to have their mutually consented acts to be viewed as lawful. None of the five men complained of any of the acts in which they were involved, which were uncovered by an unrelated police investigation.

Ok, this paragraph reads incredibly confusing to me and the rest didn't clarify.
Were the five men the doms or the subs?
Because it sounds like the UK literally convicted them for getting dominated / (arguably) abused? Which would be super fucked up.

As far as overall... I do think there should be limits to what can be "consented" to, and if a sub is asking for or agreeing to extremely harmful or dangerous activities, the dom has responsibility as a human being to not go along with or encourage it. "Consenting adults" is great, but some people are incapable of consent (drugged, significant mental illness, under coercion, ...whatever the current politically correct term for "extremely low IQ to the point they can't function normally" is, etc...).

Bill's correct

And "we signed it without reading it" is such a pathetic cop-out.
"We're not terrorist sympathizers, we're just dumb as a sack of bricks" -- Ivy league students, apparently
I guess this is why so many in Congress come from the Ivy League schools. They get precious experience signing important documents without actually reading it for their future careers.

solosnake posted...

If the added content is bad, then shouldnt i play the append mode and just skip that stuff?

It's not "bad" necessarily, it just...changes the original story or contradicts it in ways.... I can't go into specifics, so it's hard to explain. That's my opinion, some people apparently liked the new story content.
If you have any intention of playing the new content at all, the game was balanced around experiencing it periodically (the early stuff will be a total joke end game, and give you equipment that would be useful early on but useless late game, basically). So you should just do Perfect mode.
I'm also not sure if you can go to Vault of Time (basically just a place to fight stuff and get rewards) before end game if you do Append Mode, and I can't imagine how grindy things would get w/o access to that gear (b/c again, the 3DS version nerfed the legacy equipment stats and the money enemies drop to buy said equipment).
I guess Vault of Time is the biggest issue. If Append Mode doesn't stop you from going there, I guess it's not so bad. I just remember when Perfect Chronology released, everyone was warning, "don't do Append Mode!"

solosnake posted...

you really think so? What makes it so special?

It's one of the best stories I've ever experienced with an incredible ending (especially the DS game; the 3DS kind of ruins it a bit in my opinion w/ the added content that mucks w/ the amazing original ending and even introduces contradictory or impossible time line stuff)

The soundtrack, while short for a JRPG, is utterly beautiful, every single track is great.

The cast is really strong, both the party and the antagonists/villains

Battle system is a fun tweak on traditional turn-based combat, where you can risk delaying your turns (thus letting the enemy attack you more up front) to get a long string of them together for combos to group the enemies together and hit all of them for more damage and post-combat xp/money rewards.

Here, just watch this. It's a short intro for the original DS game, covers everything pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFFPfgujnGw

Perfect Chrolonology (3DS remaster) added voice acting and it's actually pretty good. But it also made a lot of changes I didn't like, including unwelcome additions to the story. I honestly recommend the original b/c I think the 3DS version did more harm than good. Like... it's a 9/10 instead of 10/10...if you can't get the DS version w/o paying an obscene amount then 3DS is good enough, but...

I say this as a huge fan that owns both versions.

Tyranthraxus posted...

If you're playing perfect chronology I recommend ignoring all the red chronicle shit. Just pretend it doesn't exist. If you're playing the original then just have fun and make sure you unlock all the nodes to get the true ending.

If he plays the 3DS version, he should play "Perfect" mode (as opposed to "append" mode; where all the new content isn't available till you beat the game) and do it as it comes up. Because unfortunately the 3DS game re-balanced everything (nerfed) such that you get way less money and the equipment is crappier. So you actually need to at least do the Vault of Time to periodically get gear from there.
But the red chronicle stuff (basically the new story content) is based on the expected level you are when you can unlock it, so it's also kind of lame if you wait till end game to do it all. I guess it could wait, but...if you're going to do it anyway, I don't see why.

I went for an ARM, never thought I would, but it got me at least 1.5% less than the 30 year fixed rate at the time. I have 7 years (of the fixed rate, before it becomes "floating") for the Fed to panic and lower rates so I can lock in a decent fixed rate, which seemed like a pretty safe bet.
People said I should just take the high fixed rate and refinance later. I was like, "if I'm gonna have to refinance later on either way, why not take the lower rate?"

Absolutely, especially the DS version

One of the best games of all time.

Chicago residents literally voted for this.
Their politicians were quite vocal and proud about it being a sanctuary city.
So why are they angry now?

It's terrible. One of the worst Nintendo* Zelda games, right down there w/ Ocarina of Time and Crossbow Training. I pre-ordered it and still have the gold wiimote. It's literally the reason I've never again pre-ordered a Zelda game.

* So someone doesn't try and say, "but the CDI games, tho!"

Iran needs to pay for this shit.

People bring up the last 2 wars, and a) Iraq was a mistake/lie and a war crime from the start so don't even... and b) we WERE justified attacking the Taliban.
The problem is we fucking stayed there and tried to nation build.

We need some good old fashioned reprisal operations. Go in, wreck their military and take out their leaders, then say, "get your shit together and don't fuck with us anymore or it'll be even worse next time" and leave.
Best case, they learn their lesson. Worst case, we spend a few billion dollars every decade or two wrecking them again so they have to build back up. Still a drop in the bucket compared to our usual escapades.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

They lied back in 9/11 in order to escalate and invade. Whats holding them from doing the same thing now? Im not saying this particular situation is fake, but historically US is just itching to get into any war it can.

Osama/Taliban wasn't a lie. The involvement of Saudi Arabia was downplayed (we know why), but otherwise was on the up and up at first.
It's the Iraq shit that was all bs.

I don't know how it isn't higher.
Russia keeps using human wave tactics. Lots of days have several hundred or more gunned down.
Then the stories of wounded soldiers ending themselves because the Russian medical field services are the same result but slower and more painful...

I hope Ukraine keeps liquidating them until they finally reach a point that turning against Putin has a higher chance of survival than charging that hill.
Imagine if all those far-flung villages Putin keeps taking conscripts from to shield the main cities from the burden started revolting and refusing. Russia is a gigantic fucking country and their military is already strained. Good luck quashing uprisings over millions of square miles of land.

Yo_D_oY posted...

https://twitter.com/olilondontv/status/1715414447865410044

Damn, managed to encapsulate the entire Hamas playbook in one 24 second video.
All that was missing was them killing their own people then posting the images to social media to blame Israel for it.

I don't like going on twitter, but I'm kinda tempted to search #AlAsqaFlood to see how many who were celebrating the Oct. 7th terrorist attack are now in victim-mode, crying about "Israeli aggression".

Damn it, why'd he quit so soon?
He's tied for biggest fucking loser in Congressional history.
I wanted him to be the sole owner of that historic L

teep_ posted...

House Speaker: the final vote
House Speaker: the final vote 2
House Speaker: the final vote 3
House Speaker: the final vote 3-2

Nah, next topic (and there will be one) should be Part 5.
We just skipped 4 b/c it's the number of death and unlucky.

CableZL posted...

The Texas State Bar's discplinary lawsuit against Sidney Powell was thrown out on a technicality. They're likely to try again, but I haven't heard any recent updates on that. I haven't heard about any disciplinary proceedings against Kenneth Chesebro.

A lawyer can plead guilty to a felony and continue practicing law?
That's not an auto- shit can?
The court system is so fucking fucked in every conceivable way....

Alucard188 posted...

People who are upset at just probation are missing the forest for the trees. You don't hit the low level drug traffickers when the kingpin is still available. The only people we are interested in seeing justice for are the people on top. Trump and his inner circle need to go down as harshly as possible. The lower level grunts testifying against the higher level ones is better for the prosecution, and also hides the prosecution's case better against Trump and his attorneys. I have no issues with this plea deal.

Trump will die from old age and poor health before he spends 1 day in a jail cell.
This is a colossal sham, both of them avoid prison entirely, couldn't even put them in for a fucking month?

Will they at least be disbarred / lose their law licenses over this?

https://youtu.be/jerByB7wJxg?t=242

4:02 - 5:38
Can only clip 60 seconds from a YT video, apparently :(

Alteres posted...

A reckless driving for 5 over the posted speed limit is just plain fucked.

Reckless driving for 5 over in a 25 mph zone is fucked.
For 5 over in a 75 mph zone is outright fucking organized crime.

Also, friendly reminder that VA is (still, I think?) the only state where it's illegal to have a radar detector in your car. No, not using a radar detector. Merely having one. Even if it's boxed up in the trunk of your car, you're breaking VA law.

Takuya_Lee posted...

Yep. Which is why a Jeffries Speakership is a real possibility. He might not even be keeping count of how many GOP House members are actually present

If Jordan did accidentally get speaker Jeffries, would the Dems still be beholden to the 1 vote to remove rule, or could they just get rid of that?
For that matter, since Reps still have a majority and the one thing that unites them is hatred of Dems, couldn't they just have him removed on Monday?
I'm even imagining a scenario where like 2/3 thru, Jordan realizes Jeffries is on course to win (Reps are missing, or a bunch voting "present" out of spite) and starts shouting, "stop the vote! stop the vote!" And Congress's rules are so arcane and stupid, I don't know if he could actually do that.

ClayGuida posted...

I don't feel bad at all. Oh no I gotta work!?!

Foh

All those jobs are nepo jobs anyway

I feel bad for the 212 Democrats.

Ferarri619 posted...

Wtf is Yemen doing getting involved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeKeYvkY5GQ

Iran-backed terrorists.
They're all over the Middle East.
Iran is emboldened and thinks they can do whatever the fuck they want w/o repercussions.
Hopefully Biden proves them wrong.

mystic_belmont posted...

Going after kids?

WTF.

The current leaders of the GOP are Trump, Gaetz, and Jordan.
Of course they're going after kids.

hockeybub89 posted...

Would you support Canada bombing the shit out of innocent Americans if a Trump policy led to us committing a terror attack against them?

Would you argue that there are no innocent Americans if they don't stop him before another country does?

Canada would be justified to bomb any military targets they wanted.
Hopefully Trump wouldn't stock bombs and rockets in schools and hospitals let alone launch terrorist attacks from them, but if he did, Canada would have every right to strike back at them.

Ukraine routinely blows up Russian ammo dumps and even infrastructure like the Crimea Bridge to stunt the Russian war effort, and they're totally justified in that, too.
U.S. hasn't let them do much in Russia proper b/c of fear of WW3, but I've said all along Ukraine has every right to strike into Russia however they feel is necessary, too.

Not sure how you think I've been inconsistent. Hell, it'd be fucking great if Hamas only attacked military targets in Israel instead of usually doing the opposite.

Shadow_Don posted...

You understand that the top part makes the bottom part impossible right?

You understand that the Palestinians aren't fucking helpless and a lot of them support these monsters, right? They're long overdue to revolt against hamas for perpetually leaving them in their condition, but they won't do it. If Trump's policies literally plunged us into darkness, people would rise up against him. Why do they get to avoid all personal responsibility for letting terrorists run their government?

"We want our utilities back!" should be a pretty easy fucking rallying cry for them to pressure Hamas into letting the hostages go.

Funkydog posted...

You're asking for fucking children to rise up against terrorists who will gladly murder them without a second thought?

Are you saying that every adult within Gaza is a member of Hamas or other terrorist organization?

Skankhair posted...

So punish Hamas instead of torturing and killing innocent kids who werent even born when Hamas got their power. What the fuck is wrong with you psychopaths?

How is Israel supposed to "punish" Hamas, exactly? Laser-targeted, w/o impacting civilians.
Please, explain.

name_unknown posted...

And Georgie Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on X: "I'm not sharing our power with democrats, after our voters gave us the majority."

And Republicans' refusal to compromise the slightest bit w/ Dems is why they can't get a Speaker.

But Georgia Rep. Austin Scott indicated before a House GOP Conference meeting Thursday that he could be open to empowering McHenry if a majority of the conference supports it.
I support the Hastert rule if 50% of our conference plus one wants to do that, then the conference can have that discussion, he said.

The Hastert Rule is an abomination and Demand #1 for any Dems to come onboard is striking it from being utilized.
Anyone that says they support the Hastert Rule should be asked, point-blank every time, "Why do you want to destroy the country in order to honor the memory of a pedophile?"

Israel wants the hostages back. Just fucking give them back. It's pretty simple. Whether they continue to be held or not doesn't really mean jack shit for whether Israel's going to launch a ground offensive anymore.
Hamas doesn't give a damn about Palestinians and would sooner have all of them die than give up the chance to murder another 200 Jews.

Funkydog posted...

'Terrorists did something bad so I HAD to bomb a hospital' is really the argument you want to make?

Israel didn't, first of all.
2nd...if hamas or some other Palestinian terrorists cache a bunch of weapons and explosives in a fucking hospital and launch rockets from it, YES it is a military target at that point, and international law recognizes that fact.
Israel was giving them at least 24 hours notice (apparently longer/indefinitely, since it wasn't them).

Be angry at the terrorists for intentionally putting hospitals and schools into the combat zone because getting Palestinians killed is their goal, and no one is better at it than them. The more corpses the more propaganda they can push online...even when they're the result of their own fucking explosives.

Revisited posted...

If I understand this right, Michael Bay is into women/underage Megan Foxes while Zack Snyder is into men and the male form especially physique? Also Michael Bay knows exactly what he is and doesn't pretend otherwise while Snyder thinks of himself as making actual cinema?

This is pretty accurate.
Also, Michael Bay makes entertaining trash. Zack Snyder just makes trash.

I'm not a fan of either, but I'd always choose a bay film over a Snyder one if I had to choose one.

The topic filled up to 500 so damn fast w/ people falling all over to themselves to blame Israel.
No interest in letting the truth be found out, they got the answer they wanted and pushed it HARD.

Any time it's about something Hamas did, like the beheaded babies, they decry "propaganda" and "not jumping to conclusions".
But when it's Israel supposedly doing wrong, leap away!

IDF's word means nothing. Biden's word means nothing.
But if Hamas claims something, it's taken at face value. Hamas wouldn't lie! Except for all the times they blatantly lied.

https://i.imgur.com/4nZDOIB.gif

https://i.imgur.com/7hSyrmi.gif

Either of them

VGAddict90 posted...

We wouldn't be in this mess if the New York Democratic Party didn't completely shit the bed last November.

Seriously, fuck NY Democrats.
They were (rightfully) upset about rising crime in their state due to laws passed by their Governor and state assembly, so what do they do?
Re-elect the same state government and give the rest of the country a bunch of Republicans.
Makes sense to me! /s

CableZL posted...

https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1714712263498620951

What's the purpose of this strategy? Why not just vote against him?

Probably political theater for their primary voters that "I tried to play ball, but Gym is a born loser and his creeps started threatening families."
Instead of just "being against him all along".

I don't know. Congress is stupid, especially Republican Congress.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Jordan is King Do-nothing so if you're hoping that some legislation might get passed with him in charge you're going to be disappointed. Even if all you hope for is he does the bare minimum of keeping the government open, you're going to be disappointed. With that knowledge, Democrats have no reason whatsoever to capitulate to him or any Republican.

creativerealms posted...

A deal may be the only option. But Republicans would have to choose someone far better then Jim Jordan. I don't think they can offer anyone decent.

Ok...I made it clear in my post that they should get a power-share agreement and/or moderate / swing district Republican for Speaker.
And yet this is now the 2nd and 3rd person to read my post and think I said, "Dems should help out Gym".....

Hahaha! Get fucked, Gym!

mystic_belmont posted...

Could enough Democrats vote present to lower the threshold and win that way?

No. Each Dem present vote lowers the threshold for majority by 0.5, but reduces the Dem vote total by 1.

Last one was the bivalent booster. I think January this year?

I had the issue (3 strikes) w/ FF and UBlock Origin. Then I added some custom filter, purged my cache or whatever, and restarted.
Been no issues since, except the video will pause after a second and I can't scroll down. Play button lets the video play again, and to scroll down, you just use the bottom right full screen button, scroll down a bit, then back to normal size and everything works.
Only other side "glitch" I've noticed is thumbnail previews for recommended videos only show for like a fraction of a second before going back to the thumbnail image now, instead of a preview.

Kai_Laguna posted...

The person who decides when to put forward the vote is a republican, so no way he'd allow it if there was a democrat majority.

So even if Dems have the majority, they still don't have the power to call a vote just b/c the temp Speaker is Republican?
God, the Congress rules are so fucking stupid.
Whatever...the other Reps would just walk out anyway so it doesn't really matter.

Just reaffirms Speaker Jeffries isn't happening till 2025 and our only hope is a compromise deal not-crazy Republican speaker....

Bambi will just be a human furry in a deer suit, using "deer self" identifiers.

It's a joke, lighten up

So, if 10 Republicans decide to not show up for work tomorrow and it leaves 212 Dems and 211 Reps, the Dem majority can call for a speaker vote and get Jeffries?
Is that how it works? If you have quorum and get the majority to vote for electing a Speaker, it happens and they can't do anything about it? Or would all the other Republicans then just walk out to get below quorum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI9f9LYuqtk

I take my foot off the gas just before reaching the crest of the hill, let gravity speed me back up and past my original speed, then inertia back to my original speed before putting my foot back on the gas.

Assuming noone in front of me, nor speed trap cops lying in wait, to foil my plans.

Does that count?

Torgo posted...

Notice he did the fascist propaganda trick.

He found an outlying Cornell professor, took the bare bones of a quote without context (I don't know if the context makes it better or worse but it's missing), and then saddled the entire left with it.

You mean like people have done w/ some idiot right-wing professor in Israel that's never served in its government or military (besides I assume the mandatory conscription), to tell me that it's official Israeli policy to nuke everything around it if it gets invaded?

The House hasn't done anything in over 2 weeks.
Why are we paying them?
Every day they're not legislating bills, they should be forced to work 8 hours in a soup kitchen or something.

Thomas Hobbes:

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

It's a Yay from me, dawg.
Fear is what kept us from going extinct by now.

Strider102 posted...

It's not the first time he's said that and won't be the last.

It's like when Reps made speeches not long ago about how they're always the first ones to compromise to Dems in order to get the ball rolling and that Dems need to be more willing to compromise. Which was a straight up lie.

Yeah, fuck KMac to hell, I'm so glad he got embarrassed so bad that it's going into history books.
If he had a single functioning brain cell, he could've realized forming a coalition government would've kept him in power, but instead took every chance to go far-right to appease those psychos.

Are the House Republicans really such utter shit bags that not even 4% of them are decent people? That's all that's needed to end this shit.

RyukSan posted...

@streamofthesky
None of this is a reason for Democrats to vote for Jordan, a guy part of the Trump caucus, conspiracy peddler, and was pro Jan 6th.

Republicans have over 218 members in the house. It's on Republicans to get 218 to vote in their clown. If they can't, it's not on Dems to help vote in a clown like Jordan.

I don't want Gym.
I made that clear.
I hope Dems and swing district Reps come to an agreement specifically to avoid Speak of the House Gym Jordan