FishFace

In the UK we had Guy Fawkes’ night for that, though it has now been somewhat supplanted by the reimported Hallowe’en traditions from the USA.

Of course, the USA was supposed to have Thanksgiving to hold Christmas at bay, and apparently that didn’t work, so good luck.

Let’s recap. The comment you replied to said that it would be false to say “ICE executes a US citizen by shooting him in the back of the head” because ICE didn’t kill him, and he wasn’t shot in the back of the head.

You replied (sarcastically) with “That’s OK then,” implying that you thought it was necessary to tell someone who stated correctly that ICE didn’t kill a man that what ICE did wasn’t OK. To be clear, that person didn’t say, “this is fine because the guy is still alive”, they were just correcting someone who falsely said ICE killed someone.

So why do you think literally anyone here thinks it is OK that someone got shot? Nobody has said that it’s OK. Just to spell it out:

you have read someone making a correct point that ICE didn’t kill someone as “ICE shot someone, but it’s OK.”

To me, that says one thing: you think that it is not important to speak the truth about ICE if that truth is that they didn’t behave in the worst possible way. Any truth that doesn’t align with the narrative of “ICE bad” is not important truth to you, right? The only statements that should be written are those which criticise ICE.

Does that sound about right? If so, then I’ll just say again: you need to be better than that. If not, then what possible reason do you have for asking “do you think it’s OK he got shot” when no-one said that it is OK?

All the time? Or only some of the time?

Does the truth only matter to you if it’s aligned in all respects with the narrative?

Be better.

What struck me is that the CBP didn’t even respond to comment. Even the IDF pretends to investigate its war crimes.

Can you prove it in court? If not, he shouldn’t go to prison. It’s an easy formula.

I’m perfectly happy calling him a nonce, but I’m also one of those old-fashioned types who values the rule of law and all…

By all accounts Andrew will be fuming because he’s up himself.

WTF are you on about?

Oh, thanks for that, I read different but here’s the key thing that I think was missing from the analysis I read:

But the concentration of alcohol required for this increases as you get thirstier. If you just drank wine on your desert island, you would initially lose more water than you gain from wine, but as your body became more dehydrated, it would produce more ADH to compensate and you’d eventually reach an equilibrium point.

That sounds like a level of detail it is not necessarily useful to go into with most people. I never experienced anyone non-technical complaining about cloud products, so it would just be proselytising about what to me is a hobby/passion project.

(Not that I’m big into self hosting, but to the extent I am)

Bullshit!

The threshold for dehydration is about 2% alcohol, so no it won’t

The sequel, salt lassie, left a bad taste in my mouth

Put the kids back in the factories I say

Does not project the entire earth.

You can’t do this for all great circles, because sphere geometry is incompatible with plane geometry. Great circles all intersect each other twice, but straight lines intersect at most once on the plane.

There is no map projection that renders all great circles as straight lines.

I always wonder how you can distinguish this from people just being poetic. Beaver means basically the same thing but no-one is proposing people were afraid of summoning them.

Aren’t waymos safer than human drivers? Why are we shitting on something that will reduce a huge source of death and injury?

Even the people working in sweatshops have better access to clothing than peasants pre-industrialisation.

You know proper socialist countries industrialised as fast as they could because their leaders saw the benefits it would bring?

It’s human nature that some people don’t feel, or don’t feel as acutely. There’s also a cultish aspect to it, where because everything is MAGA Vs democrats, all your friends and identity are likely bound up in the same thing, so admitting you were wrong isn’t just admitting you were wrong: it’s completely changing the way you see yourself and severing many relationships.