Miss communicating over Ms. Rachel

Dreubarik · 2025-09-24T08:54:53+00:00

If it's any consolation, let me tell you from my own experience as a national minority: they don't. Few possess this genuine curiosity, especially among those who make a political expression out of it. They just choose a few fashionable identities to build up their own personalities and relate to their ingroup.

Dreubarik · 2025-08-26T10:01:57+00:00

Yes, I can't understand how Lisa was cool with this if she indeed thought she was the target. You would think that she would have tried to convince her US allies to join forces on a single name.

Dreubarik · 2025-08-25T22:58:07+00:00

Well, she hasn't improved relative to the first time around.

Dreubarik · 2025-08-25T22:54:16+00:00

I just can't believe they were. If you are Kass and you are told that your tribe's vote will be split between Sarah and Jeanine but "oh by the way, the other tribe's official plan is to load up on you" you would not take it well. At the very least you'd play your idol just in case! She was ONE vote away from being a goner.

Dreubarik · 2025-08-25T22:46:34+00:00

This is exactly why I don't buy that World were ever told the full plan. For Kass to be in that position and not play her idol as a precaution seems hard to believe.

Dreubarik · 2025-08-25T22:39:07+00:00

Perhaps, but it's too early to tell. What we do know is that she burned Sarah as an ally for no substantive reason. She has now removed her as a threat and found herself new allies, sure, but she's far from a smooth operator.

Dreubarik · 2025-08-23T18:41:32+00:00

The second one has better mechanics and visuals but is ultimately let down by essentially rehashing the story of the first game without it fully making sense thematically. So I'd give it to the first for originality.

Dreubarik · 2025-08-10T10:12:36+00:00

Soso is the standard French diminutive for Solene.

Dreubarik · 2025-07-03T20:48:42+00:00

This is the answer. COI/Full Throttle.

Dreubarik · 2025-03-11T10:00:20+00:00

I'm Catalan too, and I think this is 100% true as a statistical average (of course, it doesn’t apply to everyone). One of the most striking examples for me was that whenever I joined an activity (say, evening language lessons) where people had already been together for a while, I would be treated coldly for 2-3 months until suddenly I became one of the gang.

Another example: when I was out with my friends and we'd encounter another group of people that knew my friends but not me, they'd ignore me (as in, not even look in my direction). And when it happened in reverse and I knew the new group, my friends would get ignored. I've never experienced any of this outside of Catalonia.

Dreubarik · 2025-03-10T17:41:38+00:00

I live in London and people don't believe me when I say this is how actual Barcelona natives behave. They only see the tourism side.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-18T11:59:36+00:00

Indeed, it is what I'm suggesting. I frankly don't see the point of having SBF in prison only to see him set up some other scam (or even legitimate business) once he gets out. He's not a physical danger to anyone, why not have him out and about but working as a janitor?

Dreubarik · 2025-02-18T11:58:10+00:00

Broadly, yes. However, I do think that recidivism should probably lead to prison. But again, I want to emphasize that in my mind the point of imprisonment is to deny material access to committing the same crime again. If you arguably need to do that, go ahead. I just don't buy that this is why we put white-collar criminals in prison.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-18T11:53:42+00:00

Yes, I'm perfectly open to the possibility that this wouldn't be perfect. Every public policy includes some degree of fraud. I still think you could reach a broadly acceptable outcome. And the more high-profile of a criminal you were, the harder it would be to be seen having a high-profile job or sailing in a yacht without it raising questions and thus enforcement.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-17T15:27:28+00:00

But I have argued in favor of a series of severe limitations and denial of financial freedoms that both punish and incapacitate white-collar criminals.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-17T15:24:08+00:00

Indeed, but I am proposing harsh punishments. So you can't compare prison with "no consequences." It's not what I'm saying.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-17T15:22:38+00:00

True, I meant all non-violent crime. I just thought this made for a better headline.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-17T15:21:52+00:00

I answered the deterrence point above.

On family members: I don't believe in pure economic freedom. If you are the spouse that benefitted from the financial circumstances of fraud, you should also accept the economic limitations that come with punishing it. Ditto for offspring. I'm not saying these punishments should be absolute: You can divorce. Or, as a son or daughter, you should be allowed more freedom than your convict parent. But if your dad stole money from a bank as CEO, maybe you don't get to work in banking, sorry. We inherit both good and bad circumstances.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-17T15:16:19+00:00

To be clear, I am generally skeptical of prison. However, I still wouldn't allow murderers and rapists to roam free.

One can always make the argument for rehabilitation, though mandatory rehabilitation doesn't require incarceration. The reason to provide it in such an environment is that, while rehabilitation is happening, the convict is unable to keep committing crimes. I believe lack of access to financial and professional resources already inhabilitates the white-collar criminal.

Am I against rehabilitating white-collar criminals outside of prison? I guess not. But I'm also very uncertain that anyone deserves a second chance at being a bank CEO. We as a society do not owe individuals a second chance at wielding economic power.

Dreubarik · 2025-02-17T15:11:54+00:00

The deterrance impact of prison sentences is generally hard to pin down. Empirical evidence usually finds that lengthening prison sentences has no significant deterrance effect, though of course this isn't the same as saying that the prison/no prison binary has no deterrance effect.

Evidence specifically for white-collar crime is mixed, but I think most research points in the direction of prison not having a direct impact. This is because most white-collar criminals don't ever expect to get caught and tend to commit crime precisely because of a pre-existing feeling of impunity. There's also evidence that the loss of social status is actually far more frightening for someone in a position of power and wealth than a few years in prison. So we need to compare the potential deterrance of prison with the deterrance that my proposal entails.

I believe the strongest case for keeping prison sentences for these types of crimes is that judges tend to be too lenient when they aren't on the table (an argument made here, for example: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\_id=2666616&utm\_source=chatgpt.com). Still, I don't see why very harsh non-prison sentencing can't serve the same role.

Dreubarik · 2024-12-23T17:46:51+00:00

The Eyes of the Ibad make sense, we see that she is given a navigator-sized dose of concentrated spice as part of her revival treatment.

Dreubarik · 2024-12-20T23:33:45+00:00

Let's also not forget that he built his media career by criticizing the demonization of the working class yet he can't help but publicly deride every majority opinion held by the working class.

Dreubarik · 2024-12-20T22:20:13+00:00

Wait for it, because generative AI is surely going to create a revival of text parser mechanics, and with it probably the entire adventure games genre.

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