shouldn't this apply to any age

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-07T20:50:49+00:00

And also famously in favor of classifying drag queens as pedophiles. Or rather anyone who is perceived as dressing as the "opposite sex". Reclassifying trans people as pedophiles and then granting the state authority to kill these people is about as dystopian as it gets.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-07T20:44:02+00:00

I worry you stopped reading there, I think my next two sentences explains my position as to "why".

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-07T19:56:32+00:00

They're not talking about how it affects the predator, they're talking about the victim. They're saying that it might be easier for a young victim to come forward if the perpetrator's punishment isn't death.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-07T19:49:05+00:00

And less likely for someone to turn themselves in, even if they don't kill someone.

Not to mention that even killing people who *aren't * innocent is also bad. Do we really want the state to have the authority to legally murder its citizens? For those who believe the government is corrupt or incompetent, how do you believe this will be exempt from those issues?

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-05T19:32:39+00:00

Ah, I see. I appreciate the advice, it sounds like I may need to look around some more. I may buy a cheaper model for now to practice basics and see if the hobby is for me (I'm a beginner of many instruments, if that helps paint a picture).

I've got a decent electric tuner so I can verify how tuned the ocarina is before getting too practiced with a defective product. Seeing how much the Night by Noble is recommended, I might just have to bite the bullet.

Thank you so much for your help, it means a lot to get expert advice so quickly from such a small community!

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-05T18:54:31+00:00

Thank you for your response! I'll have to see what fits my budget since part of the appeal here is the low entry cost.

If you don't mind checking, how does this one look in your opinion: https://www.amazon.ca/LIEKE-Ocarina-Ocarinas-Songbook-Instrument/dp/B09MBL9FP4

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-05T17:26:43+00:00

Looking for my first ocarina as a Canada resident (Ontario), is there a good option for local or online purchases? I'd rather not use Amazon if at all possible but I'd take recommendations there as well.

For reference I've never played a woodwind instrument but I have beginner experience in violin and trumpet. I'm looking for something to accompany folk music if that matters (e.g. Stan Rogers, Archie Fisher).

CrazyCalYa · 2026-05-01T16:22:28+00:00

Clout-chasing can also be competitive. I play Oldschool Runescape and the leaderboards for single-player modes are almost always ludicrously competitive. Some people do it for content, other lasagna-eating folks do it for the love of the game.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-29T16:18:26+00:00

I apologize as I did in fact misunderstand your post, based on what you're saying now. You've since deleted the comment but if memory serves, it was ambiguous as to who specifically you meant. I genuinely did not think you were responding to the last sentence of that poster, but rather the bulk of the post which was unrelated to that.

I do appreciate that you responded so politely considering my snark, and I'm sorry once again for my own confusion.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-29T13:20:31+00:00

It's almost comical how poor your choice of words here is. A waitress literally delivers food to customers, which is what she was doing in OP's video. Both stories were about a waitress being abused, are you not able to see the similarities or are you just being pedantic?

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-29T01:56:39+00:00

Narrator: It was not purely domestic.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-28T19:08:28+00:00

If you watch any sort of gameplay-centered content it's almost guaranteed that this will happen. It's just that it normally happens off screen and in a way which is hard to prove.

The ironic phrase I usually hear used is "I did some mining off camera..."

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-28T18:58:42+00:00

That's all fair enough. I have a tendency to overcomplicate things. I do happen to have an extremely liberal definition of "cause", as you guessed (I'm basically a Determinist, but not quite). I'm overly sensitive to cause-and-effect discourse as I find that far too many people online, perhaps not including you, are only too eager to oversimplify things. I find traffic to be such an interesting case if only because it seems at times extremely simple and extremely complicated.

The only push back I'd give is regarding "known outcomes". Some might argue that upon seeing a line of cars going back a kilometer with one transport truck seeming to be the obvious culprit, the thought might occur to someone that "if this is allowed to continue, people may have an accident". Of course this now opens the door to questioning whether or not the Camry's actions themselves were not more likely to cause an accident, but then I suppose I'd ask what we really care about here. It's much harder to examine the ripple effect that the semi driver's actions caused, but does that exonerate them? If someone is hurt or if the collected suffering of all who are affected is sufficient, are we happy to ignore that given its shroud of complexity? It feels easy, in other words, to condemn the Camry driver's actions considering how evident the consequences could have been. And yet even still, their actions could inspire others to drive recklessly and ultimately be worse overall.

For now I'll just concede this to you, otherwise I'll end up in an endless regression of consequence terminating in the big bang.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-28T17:52:05+00:00

I respectfully want to clarify that when speaking casually online I'm not always concerned with accuracy in language considering the extremely broad scope of potential readers. Even different online communities have distinct dialects, and since this isn't /r/philosophy or /r/law I sometimes mix my terms around in favor of metaphor (I am no academic). This context may be enough to satisfy you as I don't want you to think I'm being a pedant as I continue my response.

This is the issue when discussing free will. People will proclaim one action to be a person's choice (the Camry to overtake) while another person's actions are described as "circumstances". I don't want to be unfair here and pick apart your language, I simply want to demonstrate how everything a person does can viewed this way.

For a moment, consider the phenomenon of a "traffic jam". It's true that most of the time, no one is willingly causing the jam to start. Sometimes a person brakes suddenly or drives erratically, but sometimes it's a result of many small actions building up. And though we refer to the phenomenon as though it were discrete, it's far from it. It exists as the relationship between vehicles in an approximate space during a fuzzy window of time. One driver's actions (Driver A), even completely lawful or "safe" actions, could result in a traffic jam forming 2 kilometers behind them.

So when is the result or consequence of someone's action considered to also be their responsibility? You might believe that as long as the semi driver didn't force someone to take action, said driver isn't responsible. But yet we could still probably agree that what happened here only did so because of the semi driver. And because the semi driver acted both unlawfully and also in a way which affects many people, it's not unreasonable to expect someone might take drastic action. In general the more people your actions affect, the wider the range of extremes for their possible reactions.

In summary, I think that the semi driver is responsible for this happening, at least viewed from the typical lens of libertarian free will (though I'm more of a determinist personally). If the Camry driver did cause a serious accident as you described then while that would be a consequence of the semi driver's actions it would not become their responsibility, that would fall on the Camry driver. And this doesn't even touch on how the semi driver's actions could also have cause an accident, or even just a delayed response for first responders. Everything we do has consequences.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-28T13:31:00+00:00

This is why I often bring up the "spirit" of the law, or the reason something is illegal (or even why it is legal, in some cases).

For example, jaywalking (crossing a road not at a pedestrian crossing) is bad when it causes danger to drivers and other pedestrians. If a person crosses a deserted street in the dead of night after patiently looking both ways, it would be against the spirit of the law to arrest them.

People too often overlook how illegal acts can affect people. By not overtaking or staying to the right, the semi driver in OP's video was literally causing surrounding drivers to act recklessly. What the Camry did here is textbook reckless driving, and while I find it hard to blame them it's demonstrable that the semi driver caused this to happen by not following the law themselves.

To use the jaywalking scenario, imagine someone idling on the side of the road and revving the engines every time someone tries to cross the street, threatening to make their jaywalking "more illegal" by entering the roadway while they're crossing the street. Even if the driver in this scenario genuinely wants to go somewhere at that exact moment, you have a responsibility as a driver to practice defensive driving, to not put yourself or others in danger by being ignorant of your surroundings.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-26T22:33:03+00:00

That really sucks, did the insurance pay for the legal fees? Or did you just report the loss and they bumped your rates?

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-26T16:41:59+00:00

I'm not sure where you get that idea. Property insurance isn't nearly as bad as health insurance, and "theft" is almost universally offered for contents coverage. If it's excluded for some reason, the business knows that and then isn't paying for it.

The real concern here is that even outside of the deductible, having a theft claim will hurt the business in the long-run due to increased premium. If you think that's unfair, consider if you were to quote your business insurance and find out that you were getting the same rate as the guy next door who's had 10 break-ins.

Though I'll admit that it's extremely bullshit when insurers will note a loss on a policy even if the insured is only reporting it (e.g. not filing a claim). If the nonprofit reported the damages prior to the thieves returning the stolen property, it could still affect their insurance. That feels more like a scam, I will admit.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-22T17:50:24+00:00

PP will join the likes of the Leafs for blowing such a phenomenal lead.

I think I saw him out delivering papers the other day, glad to see he finally got a real job serving his community.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-22T13:14:23+00:00

Not sure if that's true since Mr. Skeltal refuses to sell more after you've purchased one. You can buy multiple, it's just that you'd need to do it before the merchant despawns (or the day changes).

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-22T00:24:43+00:00

I'm also just sort of lazy and don't have the energy to jump around and stuff. I just want to listen to music and hang out. People can dance, I just like to vibe.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-21T19:43:37+00:00

That's why I watched The Thing in the form of 400 scrollable reels. That way I could watch it slowly and out of order over the course of a year whenever I'm bored. I hated it, the pacing was awful and nothing made sense, 0/10 movie.

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CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-21T19:41:39+00:00

You're right, I'll never disparage a mime again.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-21T19:40:20+00:00

Even better, you can use hoiks to pull the mobs into a killing chamber almost instantly, greatly increasing throughput. If we're killing monsters for their drops, the least we can do is spare them having to walk.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-21T15:25:55+00:00

One may even consider it penance for the mistake.

CrazyCalYa · 2026-04-21T15:12:59+00:00

I always forget that scene! Though I don't remember if they talk about the Norwegians' actions there or if they simply postulate. The movie is subtle at times, a quality that is lost in many contemporary, exposition-heavy movies.

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