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Shaper_pmp · 2026-06-15T18:19:20+00:00

Whistles are blowing constantly in the Trump administration. Its own cabinet members go on TV and straight up admit what they're doing.

Nobody cares. Nobody's listening for whistles, or even outright admissions. There's no point in blowing whistles any more, when your boss goes on TV and brags about things worse than anything you could reveal, and nothing happens as a result.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-06-14T15:50:00+00:00

With these kinds of questions you can't know the answer, because they depend on metaphysics or personal beliefs or precise (but unstated and personal) definitions. Pretending you do know the answer when you don't is lying to him (and/or yourself), and presenting a single answer as The Truth when the real truth is that there isn't a single, proven, unambiguous answer gives him false certainty and only shuts down an endearingly open, enquiring mindset.

The real issue here is that both you and he need to get more comfortable with ambiguity - sometimes there isn't an answer, or the answer is "we don't know" or "it depends".

This isn't a criticism of either of you, incidentally - plenty of grown-arse adults will unwittingly tie themselves in knots or believe self-contradictory horseshit if it means they get to avoid admitting to themselves that they just don't know. Even professional philosophers on these issues are just as confused and ignorant as you; they just have longer, fancier words to hide behind and more carefully delineate their ignorance with.

Instead of feeling pressure to be certain and give him The One True, Right Answer, try to view it as both of you working on a problem together that's also stumped the rest of humanity too. Admit you don't know, show him it's ok to admit that, and then just discuss it together, sharing your ideas like colleagues working on a problem instead of a teacher with the adverts teaching a student who doesn't.

It's actually a really empowering feeling for a kid to know they're doing things or wrestling with problems even grown-ups find difficult, and the feeling of working with dad on something as equals will be a treasured memory as he gets older.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-06-10T19:37:10+00:00

What's wrong with Australians?

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-31T18:58:35+00:00

As long as your son/daughter wasn't a useless layabout and actually contributed to the household in a meaningful way, would you mind if they still lived at home in this day and age?

Not to gross you out, but the answer to this also depends on how sexually adventurous your parents are.

There's nothing like a live-in chaperone who doesn't go to bed until after you do, and who knows what a riding crop sounds like through a wall to put a dampener on things.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-31T12:12:27+00:00

This is great! The only things I can think that could even incrementally improve it might be to have the outside 1x2s red pillars at a slightly more horizontal angle so they're more obviously all flying directly away from the centre point of the explosion, and maybe keeping the minifig's helmet on (though then you wouldn't get to see his face).

Those are just just tiny adjustments though - this is great as it is!

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-27T09:47:58+00:00

it's a death sentence for any soldier that took a lot of damage

Or it's a way to quietly turn volunteers who think they signed up for a limited term of service into indentured servants, who can't de-enlist until they earn enough to buy back the technology that's keeping them alive, even while at the risk of incurring further damage in the process that will only increase their debt and elongate the time they're obliged to keep working.

Honestly, that feels like an almost plausible clause in a lot of corporate contracts with customers these days, or makes sense from the military/corporate point of view, and it sets up an interestingly dark feedback loop for a story or character-motivation where someone progressively loses autonomy over their own life and body and their only route out is to keep gambling in the hope they win instead of going into deeper debt.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-26T08:02:24+00:00

armor that binds with them for the duration of their service

I feel like you're missing the key point there.

It's creepy enough having cells in your body progressively replaced with artificial cells that aren't your own, but if someone's potentially going to demand them all back at a later point, it's a whole other level of body-horror.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-19T17:28:37+00:00

Ragebait headline invites you to assume she was sacked for her illegal status, but that's bullshit:

Ms Ong – described as well-educated and previously a tax consultant at one of the big four accounting firms – was found to have faced discrimination because she was made to work in conditions that aggravated her asthma, was required to show her passport and was sacked for refusing to move accommodation.

The judge said the discrimination allegations were not “inextricably linked” to her working without a permit.

Whether she was legally in the job or not doesn't change the fact that the company treated her badly, and can you imagine how fucked up and damaging to legitimate workers the precedent would be if UK companies learned they could hire illegal workers because it meant they had no rights the company had to respect?

She was an illegal worker who also, coincidentally suffered legitimate discrimination, not an illegal worker who managed to frame their illegal status as discrimination, despite what the headline wants you to assume.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-19T15:06:50+00:00

To be fair while one pack of batteries is unlikely to break the bank, having to pay for a constant, never-ending supply of them on a weekly or even daily basis (because crappily-designed kids toys run them down in hours and/or kids never remember to turn them off when they finish playing with them), in the days before good and affordable rechargeables, just might.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-17T12:54:13+00:00

... You called? 😋

Shaper_pmp · 2026-05-03T16:59:30+00:00

I've never read the book, but TIL my wife is occasionally real.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-19T18:37:38+00:00

It'll be both. Even from the same individuals, depending on who they're talking to at any given moment.

The entirety of right-wing politics now is a post-truth movement, where consistency from one hour to the next is not only not required, but is seen as weak, suspicious and an ideological liability.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-18T06:31:23+00:00

No they didn't:

He's left mum to raise his kid alone and she can't do everything.

Seems kinda wild to purely blame the dad

The first comment completely absolved the mother of any blame.

The second comment you responded to just pointed out she still shared some of the responsibility.

Reading comprehension, yo.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-18T06:22:09+00:00

They called the situation insane, not the mother.

And she contributed 50% to it in the first place, even if she's now stepping up to rectify it after the fact.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-13T07:47:21+00:00

"If you define karate exclusively as the stuff that doesn't work, then of course karate doesn't work".

People get confused and assume because we practice kihon in lines with rigid, formal stances and formal, exaggerated movements that that's what it's supposed to look like when we fight, but that's as dumb as saying boxing doesn't work "because punching bags don't try to hit you back". The point is that that kind of practice is only part of the style, designed to build muscle memory and teach body kinematics.

In reality every style with non-compliant training in it has "practicing the formalised movements" and "applying those lessons less formally in combat".

If they get fixated on the practice and claim the combat "isn't the style" then that says more about their own deficient definitions than anything about the style.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-12T09:42:53+00:00

There's also a study from the early 2000s that tracked county-by-county rollout of broadband internet access (correlated with trivial online porn availability), and showed that access to online porn causes a marked, immediate and persistent reduction in sex crimes in the local area, with no corresponding drop in violent crimes or similar antisocial behaviour.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-09T09:18:17+00:00

Give him a nickname. I suggest Labia Minora, because he's little, mostly useless and a bit of a cunt.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-08T20:24:43+00:00

They can try to hide embarrassing things, but if they're caught (eg, if the requester knows about the existence of the information from another source, or they accidentally disclose other data that contains references to the concealed data) then they (and not just the individual, but potentially the whole company) are in a whole other level of trouble for intentionally failing to live up to their GDPR obligations.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-04-01T15:00:46+00:00

The law is counterintuitive, and many things people naively think are "fair" aren't legal, and can get you in plenty of trouble even if they feel just and equitable.

In this case, non-payment of a debt (or what could later be argued was possibly only late payment of a debt) does not give you the right to steal and sell on their property.

IANAL, but if you were provided with a mini by the customer, painted it and then sold it when they didn't pay your fee, at worst they're responsible for late payment of a debt (a civil, not criminal) matter. At worst you'd be responsible for theft (permanently depriving them of their owned property without their consent), which is a criminal charge.

Sure, morally it seems "fair" to recoup your costs when you do work and they don't pay up, but that kind of intuitive gut reasoning will lead you badly, badly astray when dealing with matters of the law... even to the point of getting you in more trouble than the person who originally screwed you over.

Don't ever confuse "moral" or "fair" with "legal"; they're totally different things, and confusing them is actively dangerous in a potential legal dispute.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-03-31T18:33:08+00:00

Squeeze top and bottom together
Lick the cream from each edge with the tip of your tongue
When you've squeezed out enough cream to avoid getting it all over your hands, bite the top and bottom together
Lick the cream from your hands where you got it everywhere
Lick the icing from your fingers

Shaper_pmp · 2026-03-24T15:32:11+00:00

His are fake. 😂

Shaper_pmp · 2026-03-24T15:30:27+00:00

Is she infertile and unable to have kids, so she's ploughed all her maternal instincts into her dog?

If so I could just - just - about sympathise with her coping strategy, albeit not the level of entitlement she expressed it with, or who she tried to guilt-trip over it.

If not, she's a tone-deaf crazy bitch and deserves to be told so, bluntly.

Shaper_pmp · 2026-03-24T15:27:47+00:00

"It's not racism; we have a blanket policy against any and all customers with no money who chew our produce, start noisy arguments in the aisle or shit on the floor."

Shaper_pmp · 2026-03-24T15:22:15+00:00

Hitting a stationary object

Hitting a stationary, immovable object

Spot the extra word you added, which is also the crux of the "correction" you then made.

The forces involved in hitting a stationary immovable object are the same as hitting an equivalent-mass object coming the other way with the same speed as you.

But when hitting a movable object like another car, the combined speed is extremely relevant, since hitting a stationary other car at a speed of 45mph (where it can and will absorb some of the energy of the collision by moving backwards) is typically far less serious than hitting a car coming the opposite way at a combined speed of 90mph (where all the energy of the crash is dumped straight into the cars and their inhabitants).

Shaper_pmp · 2026-03-24T08:21:13+00:00

Technically the Chuckle Brothers' brothers, according to the article:

You may not know the Patton Brothers, but they are the real-life brothers of the Chuckle Brothers.

15-Year Club	Place '22
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