reading an article about miranda rights vs canadian interrogation/arrest procedures and this is the only comment
It isn't just Miranda rights we don't have - WE DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHTS. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms - along with the Constitution Act and other items - was rejected when we said NO to the Charlottetown Accord. Most laws rejected in this manner are simply passed in house, as these were. So, technically, it IS law. But go back further - to December of 1931 - the Statute of Westminster - which REQUIRES the INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN PROVINCES to come together and form a CONFEDERATION, which has not been done. Furthermore, it also requires the Government of Canada to seek the approval of the people. The first and only attempt at this failed with the rejection of the Charlottetown Accord. So the approval to be a "nation" was rejected. Therefore, as Canada does not exist legally (except as a corporation), the Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms don't either. We have no rights.
I haven't waited to play a new/unreleased game at PAX in... a long time.
I have played some games, but typically indies where I'll walk around and the dev is sitting at his booth looking a little sad that no one is stopping by. I think the last time I actually waited to play something was Orcs Must Die in like, 2014 before I started meeting chat people at the conventions.
I waited with spool so he could play Elite Dangerous last South and he had fun, but I wasn't planning on playing myself.
matt it sounds like the main problem here was deciding to go to that party
eh, it wasn't the worst
but I do genuinely like the wife in that couple, she's a former co-worker and was the person I am actually friends with. Her husband I don't really care for and tbh I hadn't even met face to face before the party, dude's just sorta talked at me before on Facebook previously.
they're not bad people, they're just dorks and he's just a particularly irritating brand of dork who is aggressively Gen X in his sensibilities about the whole subject and it just gets tiresome to deal with
we went because we were 2 of 15 people invited and at that point literally nobody had confirmed going and my wife felt really bad for them and we had no plans that night anyway and when there's only 15 people invited it's hard to ghost someone, it's not like when there's 50 people invited and nobody notices you didn't respond
so we did it to be... polite?
and it wasn't god awful, they were nice people and they had very cute pet birds, i just find the dude irritating and kind of a stereotype dingus and it was sad to see how much effort they put into it for like, only two guests who were there for like i think two or three hours?
I hope things were cool with them after you left and it didn't like, descend into a nasty marital spat.
If anything I'd imagine it devolved into sadness at no one coming and sheepishness at overplanning.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I don't think there's necessarily a justification to say 1,000,000,000:1 is "preferable" to 100:1. All things being equal, the argument would be that they're morally equivalent, because there's the same amount of suffering, which is not incoherent on its face. The conditions that produced the former ratio might be preferable to the conditions that produced the latter ratio, but that's more functional than inherently ethical.
I don't think it necessarily follows that the absolute number of people who aren't suffering also matters. That's one of the fundamental problems of utilitarianism, of course. If it does matter, it might be trivial in comparison to ethnic cleansing and mass exploitation, as you say.
The argument is probably more that absolute numbers are the most important element, i.e. if the number of people in extreme states of suffering is just steadily increasing, then your society is not doing a good job. Implicitly, the argument is that relying on proportion is sort of a cognitive trap to rationalize the failure to address systemic problems.
Moral frameworks that only consider suffering, that dismiss hedonia as irrelevant, are pretty silly. We generally accept that exchanging a small amount of suffering in exchange for significant deferred happiness is a sign of maturity.
That said, I agree that suffering is more important than hedonia; I've made that argument in chat before.
once you start assigning various levels of importance to different things it becomes difficult to argue either way. especially when we move away from purely theoretical considerations of 1 billion vs 100.
it's fine but then we can't really say society is better or worse than in the past.
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okay instead of being 100% a potato i have given my car a very thorough wash and dry
now I can be a mount&blade potato in good conscience
I started playing it
I am a Nord woman, as I suggested I would be.
I lead a band of 40 Nord men, and just swore fealty to King Ragnar in my latest play period because I was tired of being restricted to fighting sea raiders and bandits.
Now we're at war with the Swadians, and it should be a good time.
I only have one named companion - she's a merchant who spent her early years following behind the armies and selling them arms and armor as they needed them, but eventually developed a passion for the fight herself.
So she has the superior trade skill in the party, but I've also got her sufficiently equipped so that she can dive into the melee with me
reading an article about miranda rights vs canadian interrogation/arrest procedures and this is the only comment
It isn't just Miranda rights we don't have - WE DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHTS. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms - along with the Constitution Act and other items - was rejected when we said NO to the Charlottetown Accord. Most laws rejected in this manner are simply passed in house, as these were. So, technically, it IS law. But go back further - to December of 1931 - the Statute of Westminster - which REQUIRES the INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN PROVINCES to come together and form a CONFEDERATION, which has not been done. Furthermore, it also requires the Government of Canada to seek the approval of the people. The first and only attempt at this failed with the rejection of the Charlottetown Accord. So the approval to be a "nation" was rejected. Therefore, as Canada does not exist legally (except as a corporation), the Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms don't either. We have no rights.
amazing
Canada doesn't just have a Sovereign Citizen movement, they have a SOVEREIGN PROVINCE movement.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I want mount and blade 2 to have the nemesis system. I also want it to come out sometime, it still doesn't have a release date on steam!
Big open world, cruising around building an army, run into that jerk who killed your favorite horse and see that he has a new patch where you took his eye last time, that'd be so good.
matt it sounds like the main problem here was deciding to go to that party
eh, it wasn't the worst
but I do genuinely like the wife in that couple, she's a former co-worker and was the person I am actually friends with. Her husband I don't really care for and tbh I hadn't even met face to face before the party, dude's just sorta talked at me before on Facebook previously.
they're not bad people, they're just dorks and he's just a particularly irritating brand of dork who is aggressively Gen X in his sensibilities about the whole subject and it just gets tiresome to deal with
we went because we were 2 of 15 people invited and at that point literally nobody had confirmed going and my wife felt really bad for them and we had no plans that night anyway and when there's only 15 people invited it's hard to ghost someone, it's not like when there's 50 people invited and nobody notices you didn't respond
so we did it to be... polite?
and it wasn't god awful, they were nice people and they had very cute pet birds, i just find the dude irritating and kind of a stereotype dingus and it was sad to see how much effort they put into it for like, only two guests who were there for like i think two or three hours?
I hope things were cool with them after you left and it didn't like, descend into a nasty marital spat.
yeah my wife and i talked about that
this couple sometimes gets into pissy public passive aggressive snipes on facebook and shit so we're hoping they didn't get shitty with each other over this afterwards
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I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.
Only eventually, is the good news.
I mean, maybe tomorrow, that's always a possibility.
But more likely, you've got at least another lifetime to live, minimum!
And then probably a perpetual void of nothingness but it's best not to think about it.
See, that last thing just makes me wonder about consciousness, and then I get into a weird place because there is not actually an entity to experience, so what is even going on, what is a "consciousness," and why, and then also what if the universe is flat, then Poincaré recurrence probably happens and there is nothing distinguishing this me from the last or next cycle where all the quantum events line up like this, and have we done this a million times before, will we forever, never knowing about it? And that presupposes a "we" that survives, that there is an entity to experience each time through, but that is a falsehood so what even
the downfall to swag bags came a bit earlier than that, though
had a year where there was so much shit in the bags, with weird shapes, that it was a nightmare getting them stuffed
so after that things had to meet certain dimensions, like if you wanted a shirt in there it'd need to be pre-folded and bagged etc
The only swag I miss are the magic decks. It was nice just having some pre-built ones to play folks with while waiting for things.
yeah wizards used to be pretty solid in handing those out and then they just... stopped
They still hand them out at different events, but only from the Wizards or Hasbro booth. I dunno if they still do them at PAX, since I haven't been since 2015.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I actually like World of Warships a lot. The very nature of ships make it more slow-paced and you need to follow through on your actions because you can't exactly turn on a dime. And if you do try to turn tail and run, you'll show lots of broadside for a good while unless you're in a destroyer or a nimble cruiser.
I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.
Only eventually, is the good news.
I mean, maybe tomorrow, that's always a possibility.
But more likely, you've got at least another lifetime to live, minimum!
And then probably a perpetual void of nothingness but it's best not to think about it.
See, that last thing just makes me wonder about consciousness, and then I get into a weird place because there is not actually an entity to experience, so what is even going on, what is a "consciousness," and why, and then also what if the universe is flat, then Poincaré recurrence probably happens and there is nothing distinguishing this me from the last or next cycle where all the quantum events line up like this, and have we done this a million times before, will we forever, never knowing about it? And that presupposes a "we" that survives, that there is an entity to experience each time through, but that is a falsehood so what even
Then I pet the kitty because she's rull cute
I literally went through something similar about a month ago and ended up just having a panic attack about it, so I just started going back to distracting myself any time my mind starts going down that particular hole
A (very innocent) girl I am friends with has texted both jokingly bragging about her knowledge of the circulatory system, and talked about how very comfortable her comfort zone is.
It is very difficult to not make jokes about those statements, but I perservere
I ate an engineer
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IlpalaJust this guy, y'knowTexasRegistered Userregular
I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.
Only eventually, is the good news.
I mean, maybe tomorrow, that's always a possibility.
But more likely, you've got at least another lifetime to live, minimum!
And then probably a perpetual void of nothingness but it's best not to think about it.
I mean, it's kinda comforting in a way.
All the bullshit that seem really important right now doesn't actually matter.
Everything's made up, everybody dies. Find someone that you like to hug and just try to make the best of it.
Look, why can't someone who's been there just come up with a way to communicate with us and tell us what it's like. Not like they've got anything else to do.
...Unless the afterlife is just nonstop sick-ass benders. But that's gotta wear thin long enough for someone to want to throw us a bone!
FF XIV - Qih'to Furishu (on Siren), Battle.Net - Ilpala#1975
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Fuck Joe Manchin
The good news is that if hell isn’t real then no one has to go there
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Being a devoted foot soldier in Mount and Blade is dangerous, though - I have 10 archers and 31 (including myself) foot soldiers, so I set my archers up on a hill and then set up halfway down the slope, and let the enemy come to me. Then, as they reach the bottom of our slope, we charge, but I like to lead from the front, inspire confidence in my men, you know?
But sometimes a perfectly timed spear thrust can knock out half of my health and suddenly I have to cower on the edges of the battle because holy Jesus that was close.
wait if I'm reading this stuff right quebec isn't technically part of canada?
but everyone acts like they are anyway so now they are by default?
weird
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.
Only eventually, is the good news.
I mean, maybe tomorrow, that's always a possibility.
But more likely, you've got at least another lifetime to live, minimum!
And then probably a perpetual void of nothingness but it's best not to think about it.
See, that last thing just makes me wonder about consciousness, and then I get into a weird place because there is not actually an entity to experience, so what is even going on, what is a "consciousness," and why, and then also what if the universe is flat, then Poincaré recurrence probably happens and there is nothing distinguishing this me from the last or next cycle where all the quantum events line up like this, and have we done this a million times before, will we forever, never knowing about it? And that presupposes a "we" that survives, that there is an entity to experience each time through, but that is a falsehood so what even
Then I pet the kitty because she's rull cute
I literally went through something similar about a month ago and ended up just having a panic attack about it, so I just started going back to distracting myself any time my mind starts going down that particular hole
I mostly want to know if the universe is in a position to cycle, so that I can start having really weird philosophical thoughts about reliving things
But I've died every moment for the last thirty years, so like, why should I care about the last one
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
comparing 30 year olds today to those entering the workforce during/after the great depression is a bit nonsensical
all we would need to compare them is another global war and the meteoric rise of a new global imperialist superpower
good thing I wasn't comparing 30 year olds today to those entering the workforce during after the great depression then
i mean is that not literally the question you asked?
@chanus no I was attempting to understand the relative impact. So comparing those entering the workforce after the great depression to those immediately before/after would give some insight into the loss of earnings on 30 year olds today when compared with their peers ~5 years older/younger. It seems a reasonable approach to me.
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I've too have been consumed utterly by nihilism lately, sometimes I drive home and just realize that someday I'm just going to wink out of existence, as is everyone else, and nothing matters really
and then I just play random youtube videos until I forget
in fact, I think PAX East 2015 was a kind of turning point year for PAX just in general.
How so
South opened that year. It was the last year for even remotely reasonable hotel prices. Last good swag year. Last year of Khoo (well 2016 really but he was months from retirement at that point). Last year with a scheduled signing event for Mike & Jerry. First year of AFK room.
The feel of things was just different in subsequent years. Thinner, more frantic, meaner, less game oriented!
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
wait if I'm reading this stuff right quebec isn't technically part of canada?
but everyone acts like they are anyway so now they are by default?
weird
They really didn't want to be, and then we just sort of made them, and then they really didn't want to be so we held a few votes and they lost because for some reason the entire country got to weigh in, and now that they know we kinda want them to stay they've calmed down a bit and decided maybe we're not so bad.
I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.
Only eventually, is the good news.
I mean, maybe tomorrow, that's always a possibility.
But more likely, you've got at least another lifetime to live, minimum!
And then probably a perpetual void of nothingness but it's best not to think about it.
See, that last thing just makes me wonder about consciousness, and then I get into a weird place because there is not actually an entity to experience, so what is even going on, what is a "consciousness," and why, and then also what if the universe is flat, then Poincaré recurrence probably happens and there is nothing distinguishing this me from the last or next cycle where all the quantum events line up like this, and have we done this a million times before, will we forever, never knowing about it? And that presupposes a "we" that survives, that there is an entity to experience each time through, but that is a falsehood so what even
Then I pet the kitty because she's rull cute
I literally went through something similar about a month ago and ended up just having a panic attack about it, so I just started going back to distracting myself any time my mind starts going down that particular hole
I mostly want to know if the universe is in a position to cycle, so that I can start having really weird philosophical thoughts about reliving things
But I've died every moment for the last thirty years, so like, why should I care about the last one
Because millions of years of evolution led to people caring about it even if they really didn't want to care about it?
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The "Don't Let It Set In" comic wouldn't exist if it weren't REALLY FUCKING GOOD at Setting In.
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
I have played some games, but typically indies where I'll walk around and the dev is sitting at his booth looking a little sad that no one is stopping by. I think the last time I actually waited to play something was Orcs Must Die in like, 2014 before I started meeting chat people at the conventions.
I waited with spool so he could play Elite Dangerous last South and he had fun, but I wasn't planning on playing myself.
If anything I'd imagine it devolved into sadness at no one coming and sheepishness at overplanning.
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My apologies. I didn't mean it to cut you like that.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
once you start assigning various levels of importance to different things it becomes difficult to argue either way. especially when we move away from purely theoretical considerations of 1 billion vs 100.
it's fine but then we can't really say society is better or worse than in the past.
I started playing it
I am a Nord woman, as I suggested I would be.
I lead a band of 40 Nord men, and just swore fealty to King Ragnar in my latest play period because I was tired of being restricted to fighting sea raiders and bandits.
Now we're at war with the Swadians, and it should be a good time.
I only have one named companion - she's a merchant who spent her early years following behind the armies and selling them arms and armor as they needed them, but eventually developed a passion for the fight herself.
So she has the superior trade skill in the party, but I've also got her sufficiently equipped so that she can dive into the melee with me
Canada doesn't just have a Sovereign Citizen movement, they have a SOVEREIGN PROVINCE movement.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
The struggle will continue
I mean, it's kinda comforting in a way.
All the bullshit that seem really important right now doesn't actually matter.
Everything's made up, everybody dies. Find someone that you like to hug and just try to make the best of it.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
Is ZP still at all relevant? I mean he's sometimes good but I feel like everybody knows him so well his opinions are basically foregone conclusions
of course, you do have the right to remain silent, but it's not like police aren't good at getting people to open up
Big open world, cruising around building an army, run into that jerk who killed your favorite horse and see that he has a new patch where you took his eye last time, that'd be so good.
Don't know what you mean by relevant, but I still watch it. It's amusing, probably more so than most free internet content I consume.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
yeah my wife and i talked about that
this couple sometimes gets into pissy public passive aggressive snipes on facebook and shit so we're hoping they didn't get shitty with each other over this afterwards
See, that last thing just makes me wonder about consciousness, and then I get into a weird place because there is not actually an entity to experience, so what is even going on, what is a "consciousness," and why, and then also what if the universe is flat, then Poincaré recurrence probably happens and there is nothing distinguishing this me from the last or next cycle where all the quantum events line up like this, and have we done this a million times before, will we forever, never knowing about it? And that presupposes a "we" that survives, that there is an entity to experience each time through, but that is a falsehood so what even
Then I pet the kitty because she's rull cute
They still hand them out at different events, but only from the Wizards or Hasbro booth. I dunno if they still do them at PAX, since I haven't been since 2015.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'll take byzantine as fuck as opposed to where I live where I can get in a bad mood and own a new firearm in 20 minutes
Yes...
That's the good news...
>.>
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I literally went through something similar about a month ago and ended up just having a panic attack about it, so I just started going back to distracting myself any time my mind starts going down that particular hole
It is very difficult to not make jokes about those statements, but I perservere
Look, why can't someone who's been there just come up with a way to communicate with us and tell us what it's like. Not like they've got anything else to do.
...Unless the afterlife is just nonstop sick-ass benders. But that's gotta wear thin long enough for someone to want to throw us a bone!
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Need a word with historical roots where its the opposite of byzantine and something is dangerously uncomplicated.
Oh wait
that's american isn't it.
womp womp
oh no
get takeout also!
But sometimes a perfectly timed spear thrust can knock out half of my health and suddenly I have to cower on the edges of the battle because holy Jesus that was close.
but everyone acts like they are anyway so now they are by default?
weird
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I mostly want to know if the universe is in a position to cycle, so that I can start having really weird philosophical thoughts about reliving things
But I've died every moment for the last thirty years, so like, why should I care about the last one
@chanus no I was attempting to understand the relative impact. So comparing those entering the workforce after the great depression to those immediately before/after would give some insight into the loss of earnings on 30 year olds today when compared with their peers ~5 years older/younger. It seems a reasonable approach to me.
Does takeout mean delivery to you or is it like, to go into a restaurant and take away something you ordered ahead of time
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
and then I just play random youtube videos until I forget
South opened that year. It was the last year for even remotely reasonable hotel prices. Last good swag year. Last year of Khoo (well 2016 really but he was months from retirement at that point). Last year with a scheduled signing event for Mike & Jerry. First year of AFK room.
The feel of things was just different in subsequent years. Thinner, more frantic, meaner, less game oriented!
They really didn't want to be, and then we just sort of made them, and then they really didn't want to be so we held a few votes and they lost because for some reason the entire country got to weigh in, and now that they know we kinda want them to stay they've calmed down a bit and decided maybe we're not so bad.
Total days in the office since December 21st? 2.
2.
Because millions of years of evolution led to people caring about it even if they really didn't want to care about it?