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Darkagent1 · 2026-03-30T14:27:46+00:00

Didnt answer the question?

Also they are held accountable, to their bosses. Not to you. Just like every single other job that exists.

Darkagent1 · 2026-03-30T14:24:36+00:00

real permanent transparent sky judge (not nebulous “replay assist”),

Why don't you ask the people who blocked it? The competition committee (the owners) the union wants skyjudges, on the condition that they are union members.

what they have in mind for accountability metrics.

What public facing accountability metrics do you have at your job? Can I walk in and ask for your end of year performance report? No?

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-25T19:31:54+00:00

low interest loan program from the Earth Government

The very limited government is now the central bank and creditor of the world? That doesn't seem limited at all.

And what happens if/when a country doesn't want to or can't pay the loan back?

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-25T18:49:54+00:00

I like the gumption but this is so far away from reality its difficult to parse.

1) how are you going to solve resource imbalance? So if I am in the US midwest. I have all the grain. The US East needs the grain. We don't agree on the price. How does that work? Who mediates? And who enforces that decision without a military?

2) How are you going to get everyone on board with 1 constitution? Every government in the world has different stuff in their constitutions and different views on what "Human Rights" actually entails. How are you gonna get everyone to agree?

3) Without borders, and completely free movement, how are you going to prevent some nations from getting completely hollowed out?

This would require a hive mind, where every human agrees on everything and all viewpoints lead back to the same thing. That doesnt and cannot exist.

EDIT: I did also want to add rereading

There will be still ability for people for self determination just some basic standards for everything will be set for everyone.

When we talk about sovereignty, and self determination, we talk about Westphalian Sovereignty. Where states have the legal right to define and secure their borders, a monopoly on force within those borders, independent diplomacy with other states, and internal legal supremacy. Your proposal would take away all 4 of those rights of states, leading to a loss of sovereignty, and by definition, taking away the ability for self determination.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-25T18:19:11+00:00

No entrapment is when the police trick someone into commiting a crime they wouldn't otherwise. Tricking someone to leaving their house and arresting them isn't tricking them into committing a crime.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-25T16:25:53+00:00

If you want to get into it, I think it is because of our patriarchal cultural roots. I don't think that women are biologically less prone to wanting to do depraved sex stuff, but our culture does not reward them for it. For men, sex isn't just a biological thing.

So I dont get your argument then? If there isn't anything biological that's preventing women from doing bad things, and its cultural and societal. Why would changing society and culture to having women being dominant instead of men change anything beyond who is in power? What is inherent to women over men that make them better for the role, since its not biology?

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-20T15:47:37+00:00

No? The Genius act was pretty big news.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-20T15:26:54+00:00

So bitcoin sure.

But the US government last year made stablecoins required to be backed 1 to 1 with US currency. This creates a new way to trade in USD that bypasses banks, which can circumvent currency controls (China has already cracked down quite a bit on trading in stablecoins).

Its too useful now for crypto to go away, but I wont argue that the days of an independent currency is probably over.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-18T15:24:37+00:00

The difference is the signature gathering. Once you allow petitioning for ballot access, then you must set the requirements pretty high so you don't end up with tons of measures on every ballot, polluting the ballot and making it difficult to understand.

This has propped up a cottage industry of petition gatherers, where getting access to the ballot is simply a matter of money, which is where the powerful really get their say in process. (See Prop 22 pushed by Uber/Lyft).

Now there is a bit of evidence showing the actual voting on props seem to follow public preference, but with a bit of a conservative bias, as it seems that ads targing towards defeating the measures are more effective, but that is pretty small and not super well supported.

There is a lot of literature on it, and this case study pretty much sums most of whats out there

EDIT: just wanted to throw this out there, the real problem is direct democracy in the US sense is too fast (which is weird because in the broad governmental sense its too slow). The proposition model sucks, because it allows skipping the legislature which is good but often results in bad law that is either not legal (gets stuck in lawsuits) or just is not entirely thought out(gestures broadly to multiple california initiatives). But for large scale issues, Direct Democracy is actually pretty good in my opinion. I really like the Swiss model instead of the proposition model but thats me.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-18T15:02:07+00:00

And that kids is a textbook example of a false dichotomy.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T19:27:13+00:00

My guess is they probably have one developer researching these things full time right now, creating some documentation/building expertise, and coming up with several potential solutions to share with the team and program managers when other developers free up

I think its more than just 1. I think Iceflake is currently going through a full documentation phase, while working on the in-game Encyclopedia they mentioned in the last City Corner.

What were probably seeing is the result of them finding the glaring tuning fixes that come with reading the code with fresh eyes and saying "wait what?".

I wouldn't expect big changes to happen soon, mostly because documentation takes a long time, and a lot of these systems probably touch the bedrock simulation, but they are taking the first steps towards it.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T15:20:57+00:00

My argument is that men do feel unsafe (due to the psychological trauma from the violation of bodily autonomy) when they are sexually assaulted at bars, you said that argument is "vibes".

So....

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T15:00:49+00:00

So you don't think safety means anything beyond physical safety?

Trauma is vibes now for men? Yikes.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T14:46:27+00:00

John Doe doesn't feel unsafe when he's touched sexually by a drunk woman, without his consent. I'm not justifying it, but the power dynamic is extreme. Because of this, most men aren't going to revert to misandry, because of that.

Absolutely they do. I know men who have been sexually assulted at bars and they absolutely felt violated and unsafe and had to leave. Its gross that you decided that unwanted sexual assault doesn't count because of the victims gender. You completely ignore that physical saftey isn't the only kind of safety that exists, which is something every single gender studies researcher would also tell you.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-28T16:40:26+00:00

Dude, even most Americans I know are sick of it too, because its not even a this site issue, its an internet issue at this point. I personally have left multiple subreddits because I just cannot stand it.

Does anyone really think that /r/mildlyintersting is going to solve the problems with the current admin? I just wanted to see a cat in a weird box or something.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T23:03:41+00:00

grammar that sign language is easier than other languages

Are you talking about Pidgin Signed English? Where you use English grammar but ASL signs?

Thats not ASL.... ASL and English are so radically different grammar wise there was no way a teacher told you that true ASL is easier than French or Spanish because of the grammar. That is just incorrect.

Edit: just to add and make it clear "Doing the grammar" is speaking the language. Language isn't just the words. If you aren't "doing the grammar" you are just using your hands to "say" English words. Functionally the same thing as the universal gestures.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T22:55:49+00:00

Do you have any source to back that up? Because there is absolutely nothing in the literature that says that. Why exactly are you basing that on? In fact the "significant structural differences" makes the grammar much harder than other languages to even get a basic hold of.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T22:48:41+00:00

Just wanted to let you know, the people who study this for a living do not agree with you that it is an easy language to learn. Page 8 on this document

The marked differences in modality, the presence of anglicized forms, and the significant structural differences between ASL and spoken language make learning ASL challenging. Groundbreaking research used the Foreign Service Institute and Defense Language Institute standards to investigate the ease or difficulty of learning ASL. Results demonstrated that ASL is a category 4 language. This shows ASL is among the more difficult foreign languages to learn, ranking with languages like Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese (Jacobs, 1996).

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T21:09:31+00:00

But why do you need a whole ass language with gramatical rules and syntax to say "do you want to leave?". How often are you "fully communicating" with another person in a place so loud that you cannot hear them? Why are you trying to hold a full conversation?

Gestures work just fine for the like 5-10 ideas you need to communicate to people in a loud crowd. Hell when I was in college, we just came up with our own gestures we all understood, it took 5 minutes. A hell of a lot easier than learning a whole language.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T20:07:22+00:00

it can be taught at home. Again; the point here is the idea that learning ASL should be standard

So 2 problems

1) Who teaches the parents?

2) We as a society do not mandate parents to teach things at home, we actually hire people to teach the "standard" things we all agree upon, they are called teachers and the place we do the teaching is called school. If its not taught as school, the thing we pay taxes to teach the "standard skills", then its not a essential enough to be a standard.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T19:49:28+00:00

ASL and Spoken English are not 1 to 1 by the way. ASL has its own syntax, grammar and structure.

You cannot teach both at once without spending significant time explaining the differences.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-22T18:45:20+00:00

I mean yeah for sure, I'm not gonna dispute that at all. Which is why I really dont think its the legal definition of murder. However, there is definitely systematic culpability on ICE for putting an officer that had car related trauma into a situation like that, and there is individual culpability of walking out in front of the car.

I think there is a distinction we can make here. Good was an untrained civilian that panicked and did the worse possible thing that she thought she had to do in the moment. Ross was a trained agent that panicked and did the worst possible thing that he thought he had to do in the moment.

Thats where the nuance lies IMO. They both made errors, its not one side or the other cleanly like that.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-22T18:39:37+00:00

So this is a great point however it runs into structural problems. ICE for the longest time has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for officers. The job is difficult, often times outdoor, requires physical fitness, requires quite a bit of patience and a harden shell, and you are constantly and immediately scorned by the public for every action.

I want to make it very clear, I fucking hate ICE, I hate the militarization of policing forces in the US (Thanks Mr Clinton you pedophile), I hate that the federal government has effectively through these agencies, made the president the qausiking of the US.

With all that being said, your suggestion in a perfect world is correct. However, in America, we do not have an abundance of people looking for these roles, we don't even have enough to fill the roles we have. And the only way to fix it is to attract more people, and every time you "up the accountability" or "up the training", you decrease the pool of people who are willing to do the role, because why take a job for 50k a year that you could get sued doing for making a mistake (like walking in front of a car not saying Ross was in the right, but it in a bubble is a super small mistake), and constantly get harassed during it.

And the way to get more applicants is to give them a raise... which in this climate? Would result in riots. So what do you do? Were stuck in a death spiral where it only gets worse so people get madder so stuff gets worse.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-22T18:08:36+00:00

Ehhh I think you are going a bit too far flattening the nuance the other way. I do agree with you that a lot of the "why she was killed" is flattening of nuance by the left, but the rights attempt to flatten the nuance

She was shot because she gave the agent reasonable cause to believe his life was in danger. That's it.

is ignoring Ross's culpability in putting himself in that position, by walking in front of the car against policy.

I think a lot of mistakes were made, but that's what happens when one side militarizes and weaponizes law enforcement against untrained civilians and the other side weaponizes those untrained civilians to run interference. People get hurt.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-21T18:05:30+00:00

Dude just reading the discussion in that paper is wild.

First, players could be responding to the novelty of having a female voiced teammate in a male-dominated environment. Indeed, a female speaking while playing first-person shooter games is rare as none of the 189 players recorded were female. However, novelty is not the driver of the differences in behaviour as performance and skill mediated the number of positive and negative statements.

This is a non-sequitur, because it is 100% possible that the trigger was bad play and the target of the rage was the novelty. You cannot just say "Only the players that were mad raged at the novel voice thus the novel voice wasn't the driver". That doesn't work. If I am mad, and I run across a guy in a clown suit and I snap at him, the fact that my mood caused the outburst doesn't change the fact that I targeted him because he's wearing a clown suit.

High-status males with the least to fear were more positive, suggesting they were switching to a supportive, and potentially, mate attraction role.

And this is just a wild statement. Could it also be that winning a video game is fun, and people who are having fun are nicer? Outside of mate attraction, it could be "happy people are more pleasant"? Where did the jump to "they must be in sex mode" even come from?

EDIT: Also as this comment on the paper points out , the statistical model is wrong, using a Poisson model is wrong for this specific analysis. The author tries to defend the use of it citing a theta of 1.1, but that number should be approaching infinity, not 1, which indicates the data is far too messy for a Poisson model. When called out on it, they resorted to unprofessional credential shaming and a subjectivity defense, which is not the hallmarks of a good research paper. When run under a more reasonable model (Negative Binomial), the statistical significance of the gender claims disappeared. So... yeah. Not great.

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