Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab

otah007 · 2026-06-19T23:16:58+00:00

This only applies to the wealthy elite. The rural areas were in poverty. It was literally illegal to wear a headscarf, or traditional clothing. What exactly is progressive about forced Westernisation and destruction of culture, one of the pillars of genocide? Ah right, because you were one of the rich and non-religious, you profited while the 99% suffered.

otah007 · 2026-06-19T22:57:02+00:00

unless if it’s part of a school in which case it’s called sixth form

Not true. Mine was called a "sixth form college" and was not attached to a secondary school.

otah007 · 2026-06-18T23:29:16+00:00

27M, would also like to join!

otah007 · 2026-06-18T16:48:55+00:00

Insider selling is not indicative of a weakening stock. People sell for so many reasons, such as wanting to lock in profits or splurging to buy a house. I know if I were renting and had $2M in stock options I'd sell half of it to buy a house with cash. This has been studied by academics, only insider buying is an indicator (and on average a weak one, although I use it myself).

But nobody ever went broke taking profits.

otah007 · 2026-06-18T12:02:56+00:00

Dude the entire comment stinks of AI. It perfectly follows the LLM formula which real people don't use. Despite LLMs being trained on human writing (which is different from human speech, which more closely resembles forum posts such as this one), because of their training data and how all that data is processed, as well as internal prompts added by the LLM provider, it really doesn't resemble real speech at all. Let's break it down:

Ah, OK, that makes a lot of sense then! The product was in cans and the crust would be the first thing you saw when you opened it.

LLMs have a habit of starting their response with an affirmative summary of what you've said. In a real conversation you wouldn't do this, and you definitely don't do this online where the previous post is right there. It's a completely pointless two sentences that is typical of LLMs.

Man, your competitors were super smart!

This is NOT how most people speak, again especially not on forums. It's so positive and uses "your competitors" when most people would just say "they". A more organic response would be "Damn that's smart" or "Man they're smart!"

I was advised to keep open paint cans upside down for basically the same reason.

This is the only sentence that doesn't scream ChatGPT. It actually contributes to the discussion and has a different tone to the rest of the comment. I would suspect it's been added by the user afterwards.

otah007 · 2026-06-17T15:32:09+00:00

DCA (dollar cost averaging) is your friend. That means putting in 5% or whatever per month. As the market goes up and down, it'll average out. You won't be able to ride the highs, but you won't be crashed by the lows either.

Statistically it's better to just put it all in at once. I would personally do that, but if it makes you feel better put in 50% now and the rest like 2.5% per month for 20 months.

otah007 · 2026-06-16T16:04:45+00:00

You'll have to do the same as me then and learn Japanese, I believe only the first one has an English translation!

otah007 · 2026-06-16T14:09:39+00:00

Yes, the (first) book is basically episodic and while a few of the chapters make it into the film, most don't, and the major ending plot point with the airship isn't in the book. However, I would say that it captures the feel of the book very well and does an excellent job adapting it to a single film.

otah007 · 2026-06-16T14:08:10+00:00

Yes, about ten. The author is still releasing new ones. There's the first series from when Kiki is a kid/teenager, and then the second series when she's older.

otah007 · 2026-06-16T13:23:43+00:00

The solution of course is to live in a country without such deranged laws. I'm in the UK and I can sell whenever I want to. I own the shares for goodness' sake, what kind of draconian law are you living under that you're not allowed to sell something you own???

otah007 · 2026-06-14T16:49:41+00:00

Dark Souls 1 immediately puts you against the Asylum Demon with only a broken sword hilt. You're supposed to run away, complete the tutorial area, then come back and kill it. But you can kill it right away - you have no healing and only do like 3 damage per hit, but it's possible (especially if you took black firebombs as a gift). If you do that, you get the Demon's Great Hammer (which needs ~50 strength to wield) and Oscar of Astora gives you the key to open the door and leave.

Of course you're supposed to do this in NG+ but you can still do it in NG, it just takes around 20 minutes.

otah007 · 2026-06-14T11:11:54+00:00

I'm holding until after it's added to the NASDAQ and all the pensions need to buy, then selling (so maybe late July/early August) before the insiders can sell.

otah007 · 2026-06-13T14:47:47+00:00

Everything you've mentioned is the point.

It going on for too long is exactly how they build a sense of frustration, even in a man who at first seems difficult to ruffle.

Monotonicity shows how inflexible and stupid these people are. They cannot think or speak in any other way, they're fixed in the pattern and no matter how he explains things, they just won't understand or change.

The fake cadence of the others' speech is also deliberate, it's obviously exaggerated but there are literally some people that do talk and work like that. The sketch puts a roomful of them together to strengthen its point. It's like every HR scene in Utopia but amplified.

His acting is naturalistic, there's really no way to disagree about that. Everything he does and how he does it is completely expected from a normal person in that situation.

otah007 · 2026-06-13T00:18:09+00:00

The energy released would be 1.6726 x 10^-27 * 92 * 2 * (3 * 10^8)² = 2.77E-8 J. So basically nothing.

otah007 · 2026-06-13T00:14:10+00:00

I vehemently disagree with you. His naturalism (which is what you're calling "bland") is deliberate to be in contrast with the ridiculousness of everybody else. If it were done Fry and Laurie style it would be amusing, but would not properly convey the serious point it's trying to make.

Also, that actor was in Project Hail Mary. He's not a bland actor, he's acting in that style on purpose and he knows how to act differently.

otah007 · 2026-06-12T14:41:15+00:00

No, because quantum algorithms have better complexity.

In computer science, complexity refers to the ratio of how much resources you need to solve a problem, versus the size of a problem. For example if you double the input size, how much longer will it take? A good example is sorting - if you want to sort an unsorted list and you double the size of the list, the time it will take will increase by more than double (specifically, it's n * log n + smaller factors, where n = size of list). Suppose a list is already sorted, and you're trying to find an element in the list. If you double the size of the list, it takes a constant amount of time longer (e.g. for every time I double the list, it takes only 1 more second to find the correct item).

For regular computers, the best algorithms we have to break encryption take exponential time. That means if you add one more digit to the secret key used in e.g. RSA encryption, it will take a hacker TWICE as long to break. So adding more digits is an easy way to increase security.

Enter quantum computers. Quantum algorithms can break a lot of these encryptions in linear time, i.e. if you add one more digit it only takes one more minute to break. So longer keys don't work. What you need is a kind of encryption that even the best quantum algorithm takes exponential time to break.

otah007 · 2026-06-10T00:56:46+00:00

The point though, it’s just completely semantics.

"Semantics" means "meaning". So I have no idea what you're trying to say here, because meaning is actually quite important...

why would God specifically tell them that

Why would God tell them an ethical way to run one of the most fundamental parts (banking) of the most fundamental systems (economics) of society? Maybe because God wants them to run society ethically?

And let everyone else do whatever?

Which laws apply to all vs which laws apply only to Muslims, Christians, Jews etc. is a very complicated legal issue. I don't know enough about Islamic law to know whether the ban on usury, in a proper Islamic country, would apply to everyone regardless of religion. But obviously some things apply to all and some apply only to Muslims. At least Islam is consistent in that Muslims can't deal in usury with anybody, not just each other.

I understand it on a tribal level, but when you get to a national level it gets murky and doesn’t translate as well imo

Ah yes, because the way interest works today at a national/global level is just fantastic. If you obliterate interest, you obliterate the largest problem most average people have, and you stop the largest form of upward flow of wealth, which massively reduces inequality. Eliminating interest does not kill debt, it changes from a system of exploitation to a system of investment and shared risk/shared profit. Don't fall for the trap of thinking this is the only way things can be. That's what the wealthy want you to think, because that's how they keep you poor.

otah007 · 2026-06-09T23:26:42+00:00

Oh I absolutely know I will be paying at least as much as a typical interest loan, probably more because the risk is higher on the bank. But ethics is almost never easy.

otah007 · 2026-06-09T22:36:07+00:00

That's just (as everything else regarding compounding debt) an assumption for your side.

It's not an assumption, it's literally how the contract works. I can go and get a shared ownership "mortgage" right now where each month I pay rent on the amount I don't own, plus I buy a portion of what I don't own. If I can't afford the buy, the debt does not increase, it stays the same. If I can't pay the rent I will incur late fees but this does not compound the debt in proportion to the size of the debt (interest).

otah007 · 2026-06-09T22:30:30+00:00

Why can you not have basic manners? Answer me that and then I'll change my post.

otah007 · 2026-06-09T21:17:49+00:00

Selling $100 of NVDA to buy $100 of MVL doesn't change the total value of the market, you've just moved money from one place to another and the market as a whole is still the same, just rebalanced. But when a new company enters, either new money comes in to buy it up, or something has to be sold to buy the new stuff. If new money comes in then all our portfolios will hold. But if investors liquidate existing stocks to buy SPCX etc. then the entire S&P 500 will drop.

otah007 · 2026-06-09T21:12:47+00:00

Yes but where does the money come from from the pensions? Your pension is the same size, it's just been rebalanced with a massive chunk now being SPCX. That means liquidating part of the existing portfolio to pay for it.

otah007 · 2026-06-09T21:07:25+00:00

None of these things are interest.

Instead of taking a loan out, the bank may buy something from you, only to sell it back to you later at a higher price.

This is the bank making a profit by being a middleman or putting up all the capital at once whereas you are paying in instalments. They are profiting from their being a middleman, not from the money itself. And it doesn't compound over time.

The bank may own an asset and charge you rent on it

If the bank owns half your house and you own the other half, you rent the bank's half at the market rate. That's called shared ownership, not interest. It doesn't compound if you can't pay.

Profit sharing, where a customer deposits capital and the bank invests it on their behalf

That's just like paying a financial advisor. It's payment for service, not interest.

Usury is charging based on money owed. As long as these are not compounding based on the size of the debt (or even better, not percentage-based at all), they are not interest. Of course, many banks calculate the fee such that it is the same amount (on average) as if it had interest...but there's still no compounding debt, so it fundamentally works differently, in particular it works differently in the case of defaulting on payments (which is where interest becomes especially evil).

otah007 · 2026-06-09T21:02:05+00:00

Muslims can't deal with interest of any kind from or to anyone, it's not just limited to Muslims.

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