thebartermyth

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[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

staggeringly reckless thing to do

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

send good links for japanese jazz? I only really know uyama hiroto and honestly mostly through the freeform jazz album

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Maintenance Phase is good and I recommend it. I'll admit it's not in my regular rotation of podcasts, but I like it a lot :)

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago (5 children)

idk if it counts as technology, but cookbooks have gotten waaay better.

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, you are incorrect for dozens of reasons and using multiple terms incorrectly.

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Lmao no, they're not "classical liberals". is this bait?

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

It's easier to understand the process under the assumption that the person is innocent.

If someone is arrested for prostitution, they would be fingerprinted, etc (processed), then within 24-48 hours will have an arraignment hearing. At the arraignment, a judge will present charges and the defendant will plea innocent or guilty. The judge will then set bail. The bail amount will be higher than the defendant can pay in the majority of cases (avg $10,000). The defendant will either buy bail bonds or have family help pay.

If not, which is very very likely, the defendant will be held in pre-trial detention, aka Jail. Half a million people are incarcerated because they are unable to pay their bail. This makes up 2/3rds of the prison population. These people are incarcerated because they are poor. Again, they have not been convicted of anything. During this time, it is very likely that the defendant will lose their job and housing.

After pre-trail detention, the defendant will go to trial. Here the police will produce whatever evidence they have in this hypothetical. For the sake of this hypothetical, the police do not fabricate evidence and instead rely on circumstantial evidence and random testimony from people who hate the defendant. This will be presented to the judge, having already been agreed on by the lawyers for the prosecution, state of xyz, and the defendant, public defender (or maybe private attorney). The judge, acting in capacity of the court, (possibly a jury, but more often a judge) will then either convict or acquit and lay out sentencing if applicable.

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

They would produce evidence subject to discovery and the court would either convict or acquit you. Depending on the situation there would be other charges, and maybe you confess for some reduction in sentencing, etc.

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The police don't need to literally witness a crime to arrest someone.

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Liberalism is a reaction to feudalism. It aims for systems of governments that maintain:

  1. Bureaucratic neutrality and equality under law (ie. not kings)
  2. Governmental transparency and input (ie. will of the governed)
  3. Capitalist property relations and legalist dispute mechanisms (ie. courts)

Libertarianism originated as a term for anarchists, but now roughly means conservatives. Libertarianism attempts to bifurcate something which it calls "the Market" from "the State".

To avoid this confusion, the economic system has been moved out as libertarianism.

This is simply not true. This is not how libertarianism originated, and the imagined bifurcation of economic state and governmental state is extremely modern.

For example, accessibility improvements of government buildings is a liberal movement.

The Americans with Disabilities Act, signed by the George H.W. Bush, is a mechanism of welfare reform which established a tort system of accessibility. The bill used cost-burden language to remove people with disabilities from public assistance and require them to individually litigate for accessibility via the court system. Please review any congressional testimony on the bill.

Minimizing the control over capitalism is a libertarian movement.

Both movements are capitalist. Governmental regulatory frameworks provide reliability and transparency for resolving disputes between capitalist actors. What do you mean by "control over capitalism"?

There's also so called "liberals" which is not more than a hate speech. We are not "conservatives" or "liberals" in every topic.

You've scare-quoted so many of the relevant words that it's hard to understand what you mean.

 

How commie should I be? We're supposed to have a book swap and idk if it's NYT bestsellers or Lenin. They've got a lot of "we'll take your name off if you're scared to associate with our group", but looking through the docs and all seems like completely normal stuff.

 

So I've gotten really into this board game and after many plays with varying difficulty and number of people I'm settling on this as my circle of fifths for the game. Also I've decided people should make circles of fifths for things rather than tierlists.

Lmk if you agree.

 

You can't literally see lights from space or whatever. If somewhere had less coverage on google maps you wouldn't think it's uninhabited, but for some reason, people irl seem to be constantly referring to this image as though it's a literal picture. Mostly for 'civilized' reasons, but also light pollution and just other stuff. Maybe this just made the rounds on reddit or something?

 

My library carries it apparently so I might start reading it.

 

it makes sense that this exists, but damn

 
 
 

As Steward Health Care struggled to provide services and pay vendors in many of its three dozen or so hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country, its executives spent millions on intelligence firms, according to corporate records, videos, and other files obtained by the global journalism outlet the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and shared with the Boston Globe Spotlight Team.

In all, senior Steward executives authorized and spent over $7 million from 2018 to 2023 on firms that provide research, intelligence-gathering, and surveillance services, according to emails, encrypted messages, and financial records reviewed by the Spotlight Team.

In the US, Steward is currently mired in bankruptcy, the fate of its network hazy, while its Massachusetts properties head for the auction block. In recent years, crippling staff shortages at Steward hospitals have put patients at risk, records show. Dozens of lawsuits from unpaid vendors — from elevator companies to orthopedic suppliers — have piled up in court.

Records show that Steward executives prioritized intelligence-gathering over most everything else. Monthly bills ran as high as $440,000. They were to be paid on time and in full.

While much of this investigative intelligence work was taking place across the globe, Steward’s hospitals in the United States were struggling under the weight of the coronavirus. From 2020 to 2021, Steward hired hundreds of temporary staff to meet the need. But by March 2021, Steward was disputing 3,400 invoices and withholding over $42 million from one staffing agency, who eventually pulled their staff from Steward hospitals, court documents show.

On one night in fall 2021, there were 101 patients in the emergency department with only six nurses to care for them, creating a 14-hour wait for some patients in the waiting room, the memo noted. On another, seven full ambulances idled outside the hospital as 11 nurses juggled 71 patients in the emergency room.

A day after Thanksgiving, 11 nurses were assigned to 95 patients and a patient with acute renal failure was left unattended.

That patient was later found dead in the hallway.

 

While this kind of thing isn't quite 'theory', it definitely has some elements of theory within it, but it also uses very grandiose writing and mythological references. This one seems to be created as a museum exhibit with some connection to Mozilla.

Is there a name for this type of essay or a way I could find more like it? This sort of thing is very fun to read even if it's not serious theory. The subject matter is more or less unimportant to me.

 

If you need to explain, never ever shorted the phrase. Just keep saying "bourgeois nihilism".

The bourgeois nihilism of today is distinct from the bourgeois nihilism of Nietzsche's era...

 
 
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