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They were picked up by animal control and neutered but clowns are even less likely to be adopted than pit bulls so most were destroyed.

__starsnostars posted...

Do you consider the courts the government?

I do consider the judicial branch of the government to be part of the government. Do you?

TurtleInFreedom posted...

Speaking of gender ideology, I always find it funny when some gender studies person says gender is social construct like it's supposed to refute the two genders. If gender is a social construct, anything that is 'gender' literally is a construct. According to their logic, male, female, nonbinary, gender fluid, these are all social constructs. I'd argue that the latter two are 'social constructs', other former two, heteronormative culture.

'Gender is a social construct' is literally on the opposite side of the nature vs nurture debate as people saying that people are 'born this way' in regards to gender identity but I've seen both paraded around as the psychological consensus in the past few years.

In a field where most studies are based on something as subjective as questionnaires and the vast majority of published studies can't be reproduced how can anyone say that anything is settled in regards to any of these issues. Its all just arguments from authority but you pull the curtain and its flimsy nonsense.

COVxy posted...

You don't know what you're talking about.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/

Don't I?

Over the past few years, an international team of almost 200 psychologists has been trying to repeat a set of previously published experiments from its field, to see if it can get the same results. Despite its best efforts, the project, called Many Labs 2, has only succeeded in 14 out of 28 cases. Six years ago, that might have been shocking. Now it comes as expected (if still somewhat disturbing) news.
In recent years, it has become painfully clear that psychology is facing a reproducibility crisis, in which even famous, long-established phenomenathe stuff of textbooks and ted Talksmight not be real. Theres social priming, where subliminal exposures can influence our behavior. And ego depletion, the idea that we have a limited supply of willpower that can be exhausted. And the facial-feedback hypothesis, which simply says that smiling makes us feel happier.

evilpresident posted...

Fine, somebody tell Peterson to go fornicate himself. Better?

Still not there yet buddy. Use words like "Someone send a carefully worded advisory to Jordan Peterson suggesting that he should consider the benefits of self love".

evilpresident posted...

Somebody tell Peterson to go fuck himself.

Sounds like you may need to take some social media training mandated by the government. Use kinder words friend.

DnDer posted...

I'd imagine that you don't need scientific or unscientific evidence to go, "A psychologist essentially telling someone to kill themselves is incorrect psychology and unprofessional, and reflects on psychologists overall."

Not someone. Someone who's part of a regulated profession with a code of ethics and conduct.

A psychologist telling someone to commit suicide is wrong but science has nothing to do with it is my point.

Psychologists a few years ago, and now, will tell you that gender is a social construct, but that transgender people exist, but some will say it isn't and that they don't exist. All these things at once. Because psychology isn't science, its philosophy dressed up in some pseudoscientific babble.

A5modeu5 posted...

Europe.

Sometimes I get new games 1 day early.

Why would you be from Europe instead of Australia?

This whole situation seems ridiculous to me.

1. The Canadian government mandating someone take "social media training" so that they are nicer on the internet- The jokes write themselves.
2. The harrumphing about what is and isn't the correct 'psychology' - Psychology is and always has been full of pseudoscientific nonsense. This whole situation amounts to bullshit artists threatening to label Peterson's brand of bullshit "unsanctioned bullshit" as opposed to their brand of bullshit. I'm not saying that therapy has never helped anyone but any attempt to define the 'correct' version of psychology is bound to be dressed up in unscientific nonsense that is driven by whatever is politically correct at the time.

DnDer posted...

Your mayor is a goddamn moron who didn't spend an actual week on the streets if he was within range of a camera that whole time, as the article indicates.

Along with a host of other problems with his observations about what was going on in that camp.

I wish he could spend an actual week homeless. Or a month.

This quote alone shows me he didn't even try to learn anything except what reinforced his preconceived notions.

Your mayor is a fucking dangerous lifestyle choice. I hope you kick his ass out of office next election.

The mayor is a retired marine. The way he talks about going to the camps and at the shelters sounds more like a scouting mission than some attempt to feel what its like to be homeless.

" I think there's so many questions -- Where's their income? How do they exist? And what is the profile of people in homeless encampments?"

And then the article has him describing going into the camp and taking notes on how these people are getting their food, what their daily schedule looks like, taking notes on their age and characteristics, along with taking notes on the drug use.

I think he understands the homeless better than before he did this stunt but he doesn't have more empathy for them.

My Republican mayor went undercover with the homeless camps in our city sleeping out in a tent with them for a week ..... and he came out and said they are all on drugs and advocated a ban on homeless camps. (Aurora Colorado just east of Denver).

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/homeless-mike-coffman-aurora-mayor-undercover-streets/

I honestly think he did it just so that he could push for an urban camping ban that he had already decided he wanted without people saying he didn't understand the lives of people living in this camps.

A lot of the hostility comes from the fact that most anti-vax people are quick to disregard any evidence the vaccines worked at a large scale and quick to amplify any story about complications of the vaccine.

Any time you bring up a study showing far lower death rates and rates of serious disease for people that were vaccinated they revert to conspiracy theories "its just the drug companies in bed with the FDA and CDC".

Its infuriating arguing with conspiracy theorists on any topic but its particularly infuriating when there are real consequences like continued lockdowns and stress on the medical system.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-02-10/covid-hospitalizations-higher-among-unvaccinated

in the U.S., unvaccinated adults were up to 25 times more likely to have a COVID-19-associated hospitalization, compared with those who were fully vaccinated.

The first one was always a bit rough around the edges. The Legendary edition helped a bit. The second and third games have much better combat than the first.

They were doing alright and them some Jewish fellows showed up and walked around them for about a week and then killed them.

Worst case scenario it turns into a program where all the cash going in is spent every year and the fantasy that individuals are funding their own retirement dies.

I've gone from 230 to just under 218 (6'1").

My diet to lose the weight has been fast food for lunch, whatever I feel like for dinner, and instead of drinking 1000 calories of alcohol every night I've been drinking water and Coke Zero.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/1/AABJHTAAExS7.jpg

The reason Confederate symbols became so widespread after the civil war is because of the paradox of forcing the South to remain part of a free country.

The confederacy only lasted 5 years but 12 years after the war "Reconstruction" ended and the US pulled the occupying troops out of the south. The confederate flags came back out, black people in the south lost the right to vote, and the pro confederate forces in the South were elected to every public office in the entire region and the representatives and senators they sent to Washington were a powerful political force for generations after that.

Exoprimal gave me strong EDF vibes.

BewmHedshot posted...

Well yeah, because Trump doesn't actually have consistent economic, cultural, or geopolitical policies. Everything he did in office was calculated around grifting money for himself.

Trump is a grifter by nature but I think the bigger part of why he became president is that he likes adulation. Something like staying in government hotels on the government's dime has an insignificant effect on his total wealth and looks sleazy but he can't help himself.

Trump is a person that can switch from pro to anti gay marriage without thinking or the anti to pro on many if not most issues because he doesn't actually care about those issues he just cares about how people will perceive him.

Desantis brought this up recently.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/19/desantis-trump-listless-vessels-00111971

A movement cant be about the personality of one individual, DeSantis said. If all we are is listless vessels thats just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, thats not going to be a durable movement.

Essentially he is saying that Trump supporters aren't tied to any core values other than following Trump. They don't support Trump because of his economic, cultural, or geopolitical policies align with theirs, they support Trump because he's Trump. They don't think deeply about what they believe in or what they want.

What do you do if a candidate you support says they support something that you disagree with? Trump supporters don't contemplate that prospect anymore because they have decided that if that happens they will just change what they believe to match what Trump believes.

hockeybub89 posted...

No, just greed. Corporations cut costs (such as wages) and raise prices to maximize profits. The people that run these companies are not as smart as people think they are.

So apple phones cost more than the the fruit because of greed. Has nothing to do with the cost of producing an iphone?

You people are hilarious.

WingsOfGood posted...

How did costs go up and they have record profit?

Think hard. The conclusion is super simple.

The conclusion is that prices are determined entirely by greed and magic?

Torgo posted...

You set this topic as 10 year old public urination "live event" and all the Qanoners come rushing in ready to click a video link.

Qanontavious?

WingsOfGood posted...

Not a significant one during record profits and record lower overhead.

To believe othereise would be idiotically naive.

This is just strange to me. Instead of supply and demand in your mind price is just determined by demand? There is no relationship between the costs of providing a good and the cost of purchasing that good?

WingsOfGood posted...

Bzzzt
Wrong answer

https://marketrealist.com/consumer/are-grocery-stores-price-gouging/

Wings do you believe that there is any relationship between the cost of the goods you purchase and the cost of providing those goods to you?

WingsOfGood posted...

Price of food went up cause grocer charged more.
I asked why the grocer charged more when costs decreased.

Because there are more costs to getting the food from the farms where its grown to you than the labor costs associated with the number of cashiers that are employed by your particular grocery store.

WingsOfGood posted...

So why groceries still going up?

Because the price of food has gone up. Grocery stores buy food and sell food.

WingsOfGood posted...

Cahsiers came first

They eliminated them

So the lowered prices right?

Right?

OH

Technological and logistical advances made in the past have in fact led to lower prices for consumers.

1. Self checkout is cheaper than assisted checkout.
2. I would not pay someone to checkout my groceries for me if there is an alternative where I can check out my own easily using a self checkout.
3. Less cash spent on cashiers means cheaper goods in general

I know the response. "But the corporations aren't going to pass those savings on to you because evil corporations bad".

You are essentially claiming that basic economic concepts are invalid because you don't understand them and instead the world runs on mean people doing mean things because of feelings. I can't change your mind with rational arguments if you reject basic economic concepts in favor of conspiracy theories.

WingsOfGood posted...

You argue this as you support the dudes who are against UBI and mock people for being lazy and not wanting to work getting MORE cuts of the profit.

You are literally cutting off your nose to spite your face by not admitting this is what it is, them firing their workers and having you do the work unpaid.

They can find another job, it may even be at the same store. As self checkouts rise grocery pickup is also rising. My wife and I put together a combined order from the store, set a pick up time so that I can just roll up and have them roll the cart out to my car and toss the groceries into my trunk.

That actually saves me a significant amount of time running through the aisles in some cases looking for very specific items.

I don't understand making this into some sort of moral issue. How is this any different than self service gas stations?

We could have attendants at every station that run out to pump your gas for you. But why? I can pump my own gas. The job doesn't need to exist so in most places it doesn't.

hockeybub89 posted...

I've definitely been in stores where the self-checkout lines are long as shit. Those are the only times I'd do something as stupid as go to a cashier.

At King Soopers (Krogers) I use the old fashioned checkout lanes when I've got a full cart because they have you put your groceries on a table that weighs the groceries and it just doesn't fit the bigger loads of stuff. Its great for small volumes though.

WingsOfGood posted...

so now the argument is that if nobody uses self checkout it is better?

kinda funny lmao

the better question is why are they empty? the more effecient faster method should have all the customers going to it yes?
right?

hhaha

Its dramatically cheaper to add self checkout lanes than add employees to assisted checkout so for a relatively low cost you can alleviate all but the most extreme crowding issues at the checkout for a low cost.

I think that in the near future people will view self checkout the same way that people everywhere but New Jersey view pumping their own gas.

Blue_Dream87 posted...

After working as a self checkout associate, I've realized 90% of complaints are born from incompetence and 5% entitlement/refusal to change. Shit isn't that difficult to operate, especially nowadays. And people who worked my position are there to walk you through it if you're unsure.

And yes we want to help, we fucking do nothing else

I do sympathize with old people that clearly have some cognitive decline along with people that are trying to keep their kids under control.

Its weird watching a young person push their cart up *beep beep beep beep beep beep* pay and roll away.

Old person walks up *beep... beep .............. beep......... ..........beep . .....................beep...... ..................................................... ..................beep *looks at the screen confused, looks at the cart, looks at the screen, looks at the cart* ................................................. beep

I've never minded self checkout.

It usually goes a lot faster. When it doesn't it leads to some interesting people watching moments where multiple people are standing there watching bafflingly slow people try to figure out how to scan their items and then use their credit card.

Questionmarktarius posted...

https://archive.is/0JOoS

Thanks.

"New Yorks rent-stabilization scheme is at heart a public-welfare program. It may be a worthy one. But it uses private property for a public purpose. The Constitution therefore requires its cost to be borne by the general public, whether through a tax benefit or some equivalent compensation applicable to all affected buildings."

That appears to sum up the argument of the landlords. In 2019 New York passed a law that took away some of the ways that apartments could stop being rent controlled including by doing renovations after a long term renter leaves the complex and restrictions on turning the apartments into condos so that they can be sold.

The landlords are arguing that this makes it so that they can't be provided with fair compensation for the value of their property.

I think New York specifically may have gone too far, particularly with restrictions on turning the apartments into condos.

g980 posted...

how far can this topic go before anyone talks about the actual arguments in this case i wonder

I'm pay walled on a wall street journal article about it and the best I can figure out is that the plaintiffs are arguing that the application of the law is arbitrary. The source from the TC is a childish rant rather than a news story.

legendary_zell posted...

This Youtube channel is a far right clickbait channel that seems to be focused on culture war issue such as grooming and cheering on insane people at school board meetings. The comments are all calling for death and arrest or promoting conspiracy theories.

We may not be getting an accurate story here and people may be desperately searching for a villain or using this as a weapon against people they were already in conflict with.

Didn't realize that about the youtube channel, removed it from the opening post.

The Newsweek article though is valid and the actual contents of the video were just the guy speaking about his views on his position within the Hawaii state government without commentary.

Zikten posted...

Maybe. Anyone who denied water

Honestly I feel like a new law should make it so that firefighters can take whatever water they need in situations like this, with no permission needed. And maybe criminal charges on anyone who tries to stop them

I think its also clear that the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources should be, at least temporarily, removed from the chain of determining when local utilities are allowed to release water. This was a massive failure partly caused by someone in Oahu's permission being required to use water for firefighting on Maui.

From further along in the newsweek article the Governor of Hawaii says-

"One thing that people need to understand, especially those from far away, is that there's been a great deal of water conflict on Maui for many years," Green said during a press conference on Monday. "It's important that we're honest about this. People have been fighting against the release of water to fight fires. I'll leave that to you to explore."

He added: "We have a difficult time on Maui and other rural areas getting enough water for houses, for our people, for any response. But it's important we start being honest. There are currently people still fighting in our state giving us water access to fight and prepare for fires even as more storms arise."

That is a pretty stinging indictment.

Requiem posted...

Honestly sounds more along the lines of couldn't reach the guy because he was fucking running away from some local disaster affecting a good number of people.

Oh yeah, the fire.

He doesn't live on that island. He is a state official that is based out of Oahu.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-kaleo-manuel-hawaii-official-delayed-water-release-maui-fire-1820405

West Maui Land Co. manages three of West Maui's water providers. As the fire was ravaging the island, the company said that firefighters had used what little water they had in their reservoirs and tanks, so they asked the CWRM to divert water from streams to enable them to "store as much water as possible for fire control."

But instead of approving the request, the commissionaccording to the letter sent by the company to Manuelhad asked them if the Maui Fire Department (MFD) had requested permission to dip into the reservoirs and told them to inquire with a local farmer first to check how a diversion of the water supply would affect him.
The company said "communications were spotty" and the commission's approval to divert water from the streams came too late, some five hours after their first request.

I get respecting the cultural traditions of the natives but it seems like Hawaii gave a guy a veto on the usage of water that thinks the water is sacred and has a knee jerk reaction of denying the use of water ever for things like fighting fires.

One time I had chipotle show up over 4 hours after I ordered it from uber eats.

I had refunded the order and gotten something else instead after an hour and a half then this guy shows up at 930 pm with two burritos that i ordered at 515.

They had serious staffing issues. My order kept getting taken up by drivers that then went into the store, saw it was a shit show with the store full of drivers waiting for delayed orders and then dropping the order. One of the drivers texted me the situation and recommended I refund.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/17/what-happens-when-you-dont-use-toilet-seat-cover/99293226/

according to public health experts. Seat covers do not stop germs, they said, and you're not likely to catch an infection from a toilet, anyway.

I don't because they don't work. I get that they make some people feel better but knowing they do nothing they seem a bit silly to me.

I was tired of Counter Strike before CS GO released way back in 2012. Did my time in old school cs and source but that kind of shooter just doesn't work for me anymore.

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How do you even type those words out without realizing its BS? What planet are you living on?

FFXIV has a reputation for having a fairly laid back and positive community.

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