Rivalarrival

joined 1 year ago
[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago

Raising sales tax won't do a fucking thing. The increase needs to be on property taxes, so it recurs year after year. And it needs to apply to everyone except owner-occupants. Investors need to abandon renting as a viable business model. They can replace it with private mortgages and land contracts (contract for deed, rent to own) arrangements where the "tenant" gains equity and is considered an owner-occupant.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dance halls and hotels don't have "safe harbor" provisions as a matter of law, and their services to performers are not deemed a "human right".

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The human capacity for reason is greatly overrated. The overwhelming majority of conversation is regurgitated thought, which is exactly what LLMs are designed to do.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If your floor is so dirty that you can't use the flashlight technique, it's time to pick up a broom...

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Lay a flashlight on the floor.

In the horizontal beam of the flashlight, every mote of dust will cast a long shadow. Something as large as a tiny screw becomes easily visible.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it correlates more strongly to the prevalence of pornography. Mainstream movie scenes look fake and contrived, because they are. As unrealistic as pornography is, that is actually a dick, and it is actually going in a vagina.

When your mainstream movie sex scene is going to be compared (unfavorably) to a scene of two people actually fucking, why bother even shooting it?

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, but I can almost always check the modlog ~~when~~ if a user complains

FTFY.

The authors of thoughtful, insightful, accurate, and reasonable posts and comments tend to be the kind of people who choose their battles, and quietly walk away from communities led by power-tripping dipshits.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I just know I am capable of recognizing a shit take on politics anywhere

Not when the "shit take" in question is the arbitrary, capricious, unjustified removal of thoughtful, insightful, accurate, reasonable posts and comments. You (generally) can't recognize the "shit take" of removing good content unless you spend all day reading the mod logs.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

the hospital did a CAT scan of little Nikki and found a swollen, bleeding brain believed at the time to be a classic sign of shaken baby syndrome.

There are, indeed, conditions that will cause a brain to bleed inside the skull. Those conditions don't explain all the head injuries outside the skull: the hematomas and hemmorhaging between the skin and the skull.

If you want to argue against the death penalty, go ahead. I lean against it; you don't have to convince me.

But we do a disservice to every actual innocent convict when we pretend a guilty man is innocent just to avoid a sentence we abhor.

If you want to explain the myriad serious head injuries in some way that absolves him of responsibility, I'm listening.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

subscapular and subgaleal hemorrhaging between her skin and her skull, subarachnoid bleeding, subdural hematoma, both pre-retinal and retinal hemorrhages and brain edema.

Translation: he beat the shit out of her.

Remove all the SBS testimony, and you still have him beating the hell out of her. He is not at all innocent.

You can argue against the death penalty in general, but there is no rational argument for his innocence.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 4 weeks ago

There are laws against selling fake drugs. Why does he think your product is a drug? Has it been represented to him as a drug by you or by someone with whom you are conspiring to sell fake drugs?

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 4 weeks ago

He isn't. No sane reading of the 14th amendment allows him to run.

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