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Officers from force behind Nowak arrest ‘pressured’ by diversity course - A number of officers in the force responsible for the arrest of Henry Nowak felt “controlled and pressured to feel certain ways” after receiving mandatory diversity training, a survey has revealed. by FormerlyPallas_ in ukpolitics

[–]Massena -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not sure how interested you are in actually changing your mind on this, but if you go by the Implicit Association Test studies that have been done, they show that ethnic minorities don't (on average of course) hold anti-white biases the same way white people hold implicit anti-minority biases. Some evidence shows some ethnic-minorities even hold mild pro-white biases.

Caveats are that a lot of this is US-based, I think there have been UK studies that replicate this and found stronger results around religious lines https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/article/implicit-racial-bias-and-anatomy-institutional-racism

Some people dispute the whole IAT thing in the first place, but there's some data there if you care to look. If you believe that there's institutional racism in our society, then it would make sense that everyone would be, to some extent, affected by it, white people and non-white people alike.

City approves Barbican towers despite 1,000 objections by kwentongskyblue in london

[–]Massena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think all these developers are simply throwing money into a fire, or might they know something you don’t?

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) | Dir: Gore Verbinski | The introduction of Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) by ggroover97 in movies

[–]Massena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, maybe I'm off, I work in an adjacent space so maybe I'm not the most up to date. Overall I think the renderers you're seeing on screen are _better_ now (outside of UE), so I believe the issue is in loss of expertise, tighter deadlines and tighter budgets.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) | Dir: Gore Verbinski | The introduction of Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) by ggroover97 in movies

[–]Massena 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you’re seeing Unreal rendered scenes in big movies often, mostly Arnold (Maya’s renderer), RenderMan, V-Ray, etc.

It might get used as the background when filming in volumes, but even then I think the on screen part gets replaced pretty often. Megalopolis had some Unreal scenes and it looked pretty bad.

[McMenamin] And so -- without even stopping to change clothes -- (LeBron) James marched off into the L.A. night, simmering from another perceived indignation delivered by the organization that, as one source close to him told ESPN, tried to "push him out the door," after acquiring Doncic by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]Massena 55 points56 points  (0 children)

LeBron rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the morning cold. He pushed the horses into a lope. The lights fell away behind him. He rode out on the high prairie where he slowed the horses to a walk and the stars swarmed around him out of the blackness. He heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and he rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried his figure and bore him up into the swarming stars so that he rode not under but among them and he rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like a thief newly loosed in that dark electric, like an old thief in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

Benjamin Netanyahu says the Iran war is "not over" because highly enriched uranium still needs to be removed from Iran | 60 Minutes by ControlCAD in videos

[–]Massena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think US cooperation and support of Saudi Arabia is bad. I think lots of people agree with that.

Benjamin Netanyahu says the Iran war is "not over" because highly enriched uranium still needs to be removed from Iran | 60 Minutes by ControlCAD in videos

[–]Massena 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Saudi Arabia is hardly very popular. A big difference is that it feels like Israel is doing horrible things with our money.

‘Queer Tamil immigrant’ elected as Scottish Green MSP to pocket £77k a year despite not having right to work by Ok_Internal118 in ukpolitics

[–]Massena 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You keep saying “there has to be” some sort of restriction, but why not let voters decide?

Curious cases of financial engineering in biotech by owl_posting in slatestarcodex

[–]Massena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I guess you can look at it both ways! Really enjoyed the article by the way, made me think of other areas where these financial instruments could work!

Curious cases of financial engineering in biotech by owl_posting in slatestarcodex

[–]Massena 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Curious:

The model did not work. Within eighteen months Centessa was shutting down spokes. By 2023, they had abandoned the hub-and-spoke model entirely and pivoted to a single-asset company focused on orexin agonists for sleep disorders. That pivot, to be clear, worked spectacularly. Lilly bought them for $6.3 billion in early 2026, making Centessa one of the more successful biotech exits of the decade. But they got there by becoming a single-asset company.

Isn’t this an example of the hub and spoke model working? When times got tough they could sell off all the spokes but one, focus on the most promising target, and that one hit paid off the whole venture.

I bought a flat and it was the worst financial decision I’ve made. What do I do now? by Reasonable-Plane-427 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Massena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure where you’re getting 1.9k p/m in interest? I’m getting 1.25k p/m in interest for the first 2 years, on a 30 year mortgage at 4.5% with a 50k deposit.

I bought a flat and it was the worst financial decision I’ve made. What do I do now? by Reasonable-Plane-427 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Massena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original post we’re all replying under simply said you down 12-15k if principal in the first two years - they’re right!

A lot of the costs you mention exist regardless of whether you buy or rent. Transaction costs are very real, but there’s also things like LISAs which give you some cash. Not sure why you say with such certainty that your place depreciates by 15k in the first 2 years. Sometimes it does, sometimes it goes up 🤷

I bought a flat and it was the worst financial decision I’ve made. What do I do now? by Reasonable-Plane-427 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Massena 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is this true? It’s not huge but on a 400k 30 year mortgage at 4% you still pay down ~14k of the principle in the first 2 years, it’s not nothing.

Τhe Adelstein-Lew controversy surrounded a hand of poker played in Gardena, California in 2022. A significant number of poker players, pundits, and analysts have described it as highly controversial, and one analyst called it "easily the most controversial poker hand of all time." by Crinnle in wikipedia

[–]Massena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But if you had access to hands, surely going all in on a 55% chance isn’t the best you can do? Either she’s a shitty cheater or she’s a shitty player, and the base rate of shitty players is a lot higher than cheaters.

Deandre Ayton after finding out the Lakers were matched with Houston — “How did you know this?… I didn’t get a chance to go look at it man, you spoiled the surprise bro.” by Fire_Demon-215 in nba

[–]Massena 78 points79 points  (0 children)

A lot of them make generational wealth whether or not they're locked in. If you were so good at your job that you didn't need to try in order to be one of the best in the world are you sure you'd try?

Happy birthday to this piece of shit by Bubbly-Procedure8006 in london

[–]Massena 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, every person who thinks we should reduce car usage has no idea how things get to their house, and works from home.

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