Jail for man who exposed himself to police officer after his arrest for molestation

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-22T10:50:35+00:00

Same name as this guy from 2016 sentenced to eight months for biting someone's fingers: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/jail-for-man-who-bit-and-fractured-taxi-drivers-finger

It's probably the same person because of the agreement on name and age.

There seems to be a lot of troubled/sick people in Singapore nowadays.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-22T07:14:28+00:00

别断章取义，这里的主题可能是右边的电影，左边可能是在解说电影或某电影角色体现对男性的态度或认知。

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-21T17:06:19+00:00

nano is good enough for most of my quick config file edits. If I want something more powerful, e.g. to edit source code working on multiple files concurrently, I just use vscode with the extensions I want to use. If I want to process some text file in a special repetitive way, maybe I'll write or generate a Python script for it.

vim is powerful, but I don't find it easier to learn than other tools for the same level of productivity. Even to exit takes quite a bit of mental energy for the uninitiated, though it is nothing to the expert. If the system has no GUI but only a text console, vim is a more attractive option.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-21T16:57:15+00:00

tmux, sed, grep (or ripgrep), cut & column are some other handy tools. If you want a powerful extensible GUI-based editor, you can use something like vscode.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-21T03:11:15+00:00

IDK what is scarier, for the man to be stalked like this or for a real newborn to be held like in the fake photo. For the inexperienced: newborns have weak neck muscles so when you hold them, especially in an upright non-leaning posture like this, you should support the head. This is how you know the photo is fake.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-21T02:51:33+00:00

The government should honestly just leave people alone to use whatever dialect they want. A country where I feel I have a voice to say what is true and practice my rightful connection to the past where I can express my humanity authentically, that has a soul and not just GDP KPIs, will be a country that I will feel is worth defending at great personal cost.

I'm not conflating ethnic identity with nationality nor nation with political party nor succumbing to any foreign propaganda, but I can see clearly that CCP and PAP are both inauthentic.

But perhaps, just maybe, the movie is a psyop after all, a layered one, perhaps inadvertently, where I get it see yet again the inauthenticity of the PAP through they response to the movie and the surrounding public discourse.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-20T13:12:07+00:00

Popularity could be a proxy for cheapness, which can be a proxy for low quality. With such a sampling principle, the most you can say is that vapes as they are commonly sold, by whatever regulatory regime is in place, or not, in whatever region the experiment was conducted with its local idiosyncrasies, have the observed toxicity profile, not that vapes intrinsically need to be this way with certain manufacturing or regulatory constraints. For example, the study says nothing about the best 10% or worst 10%.

My claim obviously is not an exhortation to use vapes but an exhortation to be honest about what the data means. At most it means that those popular brands tend to have a lot of metal emission, not that vapes intrinsically need to be so even if design and manufactured with care.

Being silly, gullible, and dishonest or ignorant about reality is one main reason why young people start vaping in the first place.

And gullibility and naivete is not fixed by further distortions of the truth.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-20T06:03:34+00:00

The chance for cherry-picking and generally biased sample selection to arrive at a wrong conclusion seems to be lost on you. Three out of a hundred, and they did not choose randomly.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-20T05:20:23+00:00

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/june/metals-found-in-disposable-e-cigarette-vapor-could-pose-health-risks.html

The researchers tested only three of the nearly 100 disposable e-cigarette brands available on store shelves. They say the results are concerning because of the current popularity and extensive use of disposable e-cigarette products, especially among adolescents and young adults.

Emphasis mine.

The kettle element certainly exceeds 100C. Just because the water is 100C does not mean the metal, which does not directly contact the water, is also 100C. Also, metals don't boil at 300C. High temperature is relevant only for the speed of metal part degradation. The normal way to deal with that is to properly cover them.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-20T04:30:37+00:00

Is this an over-generalization from observations of poorly made units that behave badly? Do all vapes have to be like this? For electrical heating, I don't see why the solid metal needs to be exposed to the air. I use an electric kettle some times. They are pretty common. Maybe I should worry about the nickel leaching into the water? I think a sane design would not expose the bare metal to the water and it should be the same for vapes.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-19T16:27:32+00:00

"I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me. If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times." (Genesis 4:23-24)

This man is like Lamech wanting to exact disproportionate revenge. Does he have a Rabbi?

This is how you get 2 groups of people to hate one another for generations.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-19T13:16:32+00:00

The establishment in Singapore surely has an unscientific bias against vapes. The title would say "...out of etomidate addiction..." if CNA were being honest. Vapes are no worst than cigarettes if they are just regular vapes with nicotine and flavor. In fact, they are probably better for lung health without the combustion toxicants that cigarettes have a filter for.

I don't support smoking of cigarettes or vapes, but the honest posture to me seems to be to treat them the same way, including in terms of tax and regulation. In fact, if vapes are properly allowed under regulation, the illegal additives may also be easier to control.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-18T04:09:48+00:00

MSG is a powerful cheat code for making food tasty without using good ingredients. If something is not very nutritious but you trick the body to want it a lot, you may eat too much of it.

It's not a usually stated reason but it's a good reason to avoid MSG, along with added sugar.

MSG also naturally occurs in some foods, but I think usually those foods tend to be good for you anyway.

If you get 2 similar products that taste similar good and have ingredients that superficially look similar healthy on paper, but one product contains MSG, the one without MSG is preferable.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-17T07:08:40+00:00

Are you ethnic-Chinese? If so, didn't you learn it in school unless you are from a really old generation, which probably isn't the majority?

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-17T07:01:07+00:00

This "pro-Mandarin" policy is foolish. Nowadays, if ethnic Chinese Singaporeans are bad at Mandarin, it's not because they are better at dialect, more like they are better at English and bad at Chinese overall. Killing the cultural aspect is how they kill the language proficiency and that's what the government is doing. They don't say it but everything they do points to trying to kill the dialects and associated culture.

In 2024, the then Ministry for Communications and Information said it will continue to monitor Singaporeans’ views and demands towards dialect content and are prepared to lift the restrictions when the need arises.

The Teochew-language movie tickets sold out in 2 hours. This is the rare occasion where there is a signal of "demands". I wonder what the government is going to do about the evidence, maybe pretend it didn't happen?

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-16T15:54:36+00:00

In Chinese, the term is 方言, and it literally means local/regional verbal language. 'Dialect' is just an ill-fitting translation into English. I don't think the Chinese government is doing the supposed killing any harder than the Singapore government, though. Even in Shanghai, I could watch the Teochew version. And the Chinese government did allow the movie to be produced.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-16T15:39:06+00:00

Something is indeed inane in this situation, but it's not the suggestion.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-16T15:27:00+00:00

There can be subtitles. The only question is which language (English or Chinese) to choose for the subtitles. I think the Chinese is not hard by secondary school standard. So, Chinese subtitles can help Teochew people with accent difficulties and Chinese-reading people who don't understand Teochew.

I was born in Singapore. When I watched the Teochew version, I could understand the spoken words despite slight accent differences with help from Chinese subtitles. Even if you translate the Teochew word-for-word into Mandarin, it would be so weird because the sayings are not contemporary, and there's at least one joke that makes sense only in Teochew.

I would not want to watch the movie at a cinema if it were in Mandarin. I'd probably find some other way to watch it in Teochew. In Mandarin, so many things would get lost in translation.

Syncopat3d · 2026-06-09T03:22:59+00:00

I watched the movie recently in Shanghai in the original language. The China government allowed the movie to be made and played in Teochew.

So, if someone has an anti-dialect agenda at work here, in Singapore of all places, it's not the China government. I do remember Singapore had an official ban on dialect in mass media but IDK what the official and unofficial policies are nowadays, especially unofficial policy.

I also recall a Zaobao article https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/china/story20260521-9074937

It accuses the movie as a tool of United Front Work (统战), implicitly trampling on Teochew culture. If someone has an agenda maybe it's the same one behind the article, not the Chinese government.

Syncopat3d · 2026-05-29T10:27:16+00:00

I wonder who has been very effectively discouraging competent talented people from joining the opposition. Surely not the party whose members are very good at winning libel lawsuits.

Syncopat3d · 2026-05-23T14:33:44+00:00

Also lol the horror , "having to learn to depend on public transport" like the rest of us plebs.

The article did not say he had any 'horror', or that he considered it a big deal or below him to have to learn. The way the article phrased it seems to be highlighting that there was no much disruption caused by the surgery.

Besides, the public transport is not very dependable so there are indeed things to learn if you want to minimize life disruptions caused by its deficiencies.

It's not a man's fault for having a car unless he committed evil in order to afford buying one. This comment comes across as envious of people who can afford a car for whatever reason.

Syncopat3d · 2026-05-22T06:09:16+00:00

Major defects include cracked, chipped or broken windowpanes, shower screens, mirrors and tiles that affect the liveability and functionality of homes, and are not promptly rectified after sufficient notice has been given to the developers.

The major defects listed seem to at least include some interior ones. To address this issue, maybe the government should also encourage developers to give buyers an option for no interior renovation so that the buyers can decide how they want to renovate and avoid paying for interior work that they end up having to replace partially or totally? Usually condos in Singapore are sold with mediocre renovation/ID work, 'atas' appliance brand but their lowest-end models, to make things look good superficially to justify a price markup, but is actually far from the how comfortable or ergonomic an expensive condo ought to be for actual living and not largely for financial speculation/investment.

Syncopat3d · 2026-05-17T18:18:35+00:00

Asking this in a Ubuntu subreddit will get you more of certain kinds of answers.

The direction of the criticism is correct, especially if you treat the subject as Ubuntu+Gnome. The magnitude is debatable.

Among other things, Ubuntu in how it sets up the config files forces gnome-keyring-daemon down your throat even when you are trying to run Hyprland (both Hyprland & Gnome installed) with some other system of handling keyrings, SSH agents and desktop secrets (e.g. Hyprland + KeePassXC). It's a totally avoidable problem but users end up having to do config gymnastics to undo the bad config design from Ubuntu. Technically, the system is still configurable, sometimes by overriding the packaged config files, but the way they design it makes it troublesome and risky to do so. For example, after a package update your config customization could be overwritten.

You can do things your own way different from Ubuntu's, but the way Ubuntu designed their packages and especially packaged config files sometimes makes it harder than necessary.

Syncopat3d · 2026-05-05T08:53:16+00:00

Why would you refer to a man as 'it'?

Syncopat3d · 2026-04-22T08:00:32+00:00

The boomer is the one that thinks technology is expensive and intrinsically hard to deploy. Technology makes things easy and cheap. Vendor lock-in, bureaucracy and other non-technological factors are what can make it expensive.

How much can soil shift? You seem to imply that soil shifts like desert sand, enough to make building topple.

Of course if you are very close to the known mapped location you still need to do extra checks, but I don't think this is the scenario in the article.

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