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Caribbean immigrant to UK / Long posts tagged #long or #long post / Officially mentally unwell // Please don't hostile ping me into any arguments, or hostile ping others to see my posts.

[gsirvitor]

What is a Man

A miserable pile of secrets.

A featherless biped.

Swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon.

Water - 35 liters. Carbon - 20 kg. 4L - ammonia. 1.5kg - lime. 800g - phosphorus

Voting ended onMay 29

[anamericangirl]

The only right answer

[joinsideke]

Any time someone says "let's get down to business", my brain thinks it's a call and response. Which isn't great cos this only really happens at work.

[generallemarc]

Bro who even voted for the fourth one, that's not even close! You're missing 250g of salt, 100g of saltpeter, 80g of sulfur, 7.5g of fluorine, 5g of iron, AND 3g of silicon, not to mention the trace amounts of 15 other elements! Smh, you can tell that some people just didn't have a passion for science when they were kids.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Ran out of poll option space?

[thememedaddy]

[brazenautomaton]

Welcome to my twisted mind

[anamericangirl]

It the left really believed Trump was all the horrible things they say he is, you’d think they would have hated him before 2016.

[pussybitchasscons]

He raped little girls and You're okay with that

[siryouarebeingmocked]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

"Its like how they make cop shows and movies where the criminals are all Machivellian geniuses to make police seem more competent. "

Many shows and movies are specifically about catching the criminal geniuses that regular cops can't.

And very often (EG CSI, Bones) the criminal is pretty normal, it's just hard to figure out what happened.

House MD doesn't make medicine complicated to make doctors look better. If it's a cop like Harry Bosch, cold cases are complicated by time. Bosch doesn't (just) succeed because he's smart, he succeeds because he's persistent, and often breaks Da Rulez.

Which has gotten himself and others hurt and killed.

Also, who wants to see "oh, the husband was found with the murder weapon in his hand, standing over the body, and he was caught in 4K stabbing his wife. Case closed. "?

What will you fill the other 39 minutes with?

Writers have to complicate the plots to make them entertaining.

There's also plenty of complex mysteries where the investigator is not a cop, or even a private detective, technically. And the real cops will go "drop the case". Several times.

Fincher's "Zodiac" focuses on journalists, and some of their lives get wrecked by the case.

Robert Graysmith lost his wife and the kids. And wasn't even a reporter! He was a cartoonist!

And there are several famous mystery works where the answer turned out to be SIMPLER than the investigators thought.

Very often in mysteries, there's a moment where the investigators realize there was something simple they overlooked the whole time. Maybe they rush to stop the bad guy and barely make it in time.

They can't make the cops hyper-competent without losing drama. Which is always ignored.

Bottom line: This is a stupid claim made up by the sort of people who call everything with cops "copaganda".

[bebe-benzenheimer]

don't mind me, just dropping the recent Ryan Hollinger Zodiac review here

[idle-drifter]

I had this little conversation last month. I don't know where they calculate the 85%. But I do get paid for my time and labor. Otherwise, I would quit. The nice thing about not owning the business. I'm not attached to any debt incurred by the owners.

[gearboxpraexology]

The 85% is probably the business's revenue after labor costs.

@thinginthefen am I correct? do you think wage labor pays for inventory or raw materials? What about the equipment the business uses? Rent, electrical or water bills? Maintenance and upkeep? If not, do you not believe those costs should be paid for with the revenue earned from their use?

[return-of-the-blech]

Why do these idiots believe the boss doesn't do any work?

[siryouarebeingmocked]

>This is what they call a loaded questions;

No, it's a question with an opinion in it.

>; they’re not idiots and more often than not its the people under the boss that do most of the work and create the surplus value.

The idiot explicitly said the boss "doesn't work". Not "doesn't do most of the work".

Doesn't work, full stop.

You're making up a stronger argument instead of admitting someone on your side was wrong.

>Also dipshit, how does your inventory and equipment create value? Are they self assembled and 100% self operating? Are they 100% self maintaining and self cleaning? No? Do you need skills to do those things?

Who purchased that inventory and equipment and hired the workers?

Who pays expenses, like Gearbox said and you are deliberately ignoring?

A lot of the time, maintenance and assembly and cleaning is done by outside contractors. Paid for by management. Which is itself a skill.

Stop pretending it's all-or-nothing, and anyone who isn't rabidly pro-worker* thinks management is entirely responsible.

*Or more accurately, their classist stereotypes of workers.

[pussybitchasscons]

Tfw you're only alive cause of goverment run tax payer funded social programs.

Kicking the ladder out from under you so Noone else can benefit is scumy ngl. You know since you're unemployed

[siryouarebeingmocked]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

"Its like how they make cop shows and movies where the criminals are all Machivellian geniuses to make police seem more competent. "

Many shows and movies are specifically about catching the criminal geniuses that regular cops can't.

And very often (EG CSI, Bones) the criminal is pretty normal, it's just hard to figure out what happened.

House MD doesn't make medicine complicated to make doctors look better. If it's a cop like Harry Bosch, cold cases are complicated by time. Bosch doesn't (just) succeed because he's smart, he succeeds because he's persistent, and often breaks Da Rulez.

Which has gotten himself and others hurt and killed.

Also, who wants to see "oh, the husband was found with the murder weapon in his hand, standing over the body, and he was caught in 4K stabbing his wife. Case closed. "?

What will you fill the other 39 minutes with?

Writers have to complicate the plots to make them entertaining.

There's also plenty of complex mysteries where the investigator is not a cop, or even a private detective, technically. And the real cops will go "drop the case". Several times.

Fincher's "Zodiac" focuses on journalists, and some of their lives get wrecked by the case.

Robert Graysmith lost his wife and the kids. And wasn't even a reporter! He was a cartoonist!

And there are several famous mystery works where the answer turned out to be SIMPLER than the investigators thought.

Very often in mysteries, there's a moment where the investigators realize there was something simple they overlooked the whole time. Maybe they rush to stop the bad guy and barely make it in time.

They can't make the cops hyper-competent without losing drama. Which is always ignored.

Bottom line: This is a stupid claim made up by the sort of people who call everything with cops "copaganda".

[aardvarkingmad]

Yeah, even if most criminals are stupid, stories about catching stupid criminals are boring. The only way to make it interesting is the way Colombo did it. (Note: I'm not saying the criminals Colombo caught were stupid...though they did have a real tendency to overthink their schemes. They were clever.) Colombo pretty much *immediately* zeroes in on the guilty party (just as would happen with a stupid criminal), but the show is all about how he dances around the bad guy, often for days, slowly and methodically picking apart his oh-so-clever ruse to avoid being found out, until he finally demonstrates that he knows exactly how it was done, and can prove it, and arrests the guy.

Also, real world cops with even just a few years on the job, will have VASTLY more experience dealing with suspects, ferreting out lies, and manipulating the suspect into incriminating himself, than most suspects will ever have trying to talk their way out of trouble. The cops do this EVERY DAY. The suspects, frequently, have little or no experience trying to lie to the cops. Or they do have it, because they're long-time criminals, and the cops are probably aware of that fact, and so even more suspicious of their lies even if they're practiced liars.

So we get stories about clever criminals because they're more interesting. Generally. I personally am sick to death of the genius serial killer trope, who is always three steps ahead of the cops until the last minute.

[vintage-tigre]

[animeandcatholicism]

Guys, this is gonna get people harmed either by the electrical shorts or by data center security who are going to most likely employ lethal means.

[jdeko]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

More pragmatically, it's going to make a lot of anti-AI people look like luddites.

[bookwormdan]

Well a lot of them are luddites, besides that this is just going to get people both working In the data centers and the luddites hurt. Bad all around

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[jardinssteve]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Like I've said about some people's attitudes to UK flag displays; if this is a right-wing thing, it really says more about the left than the right.

[sawbuckplus]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I'm guessing "transfemicide" is defined as "a trans woman got murdered, even if we have no motive it was a gender issue." Just like regular "femicide".

[unpeeled-human]

[unpeeled-human]

[nocturnal-necromancer]

Hello?? Can anyone hear me???

[johannestevans]

Children near a magical wood catching bugs and their family are like. Please do not catch pixies and small fae and bring them into our home. They are sentient and they are intelligent

And the kids are like "but they get into our bug traps" and "we didn't catch him he followed us home"

And their parents are like. Please i do not believe that 6 fucking pixies smuggled themselves into our garage on the underside of your bicycle saddle and then set up shop in the old dolls house. These are living beings they're not toys it's not kind to treat them like this

And the kids are like we are NOT treating them like anything you said we're not allowed to trap them and they always get into our traps so we always run away when they see us and then they follow us and get inside our backpacks and stuff

And the parents are like

Stop lying!!!

And then they set up wildlife cams and not only can pixies apparently do all of that and are very desperate to hang out with these human kids (who have fun life-sized toys and are covered in wonderful things like glitter and are a free source of fresh bugs and pop tart crumbs)

But they can also like. Fully just pick locks and shit.

Setting up little cameras and having to come to terms with the fact that not only are these small fae initiating every interaction with the kids but have also taken their cat's side in the war against pigeons and keep riding it into battle

[doccyuk]

The fae quickly realise the camera is a camera, and just as quickly invent silent movies

Each intertitle card has been crafted from words cut out of other writing, so a piece of paper looking like a ransom demand states "BuT Hoo wil SAVE the Dams3l?" is pulled away to reveal a doll tied to train tracks

[gsirvitor]

What is a Man

A miserable pile of secrets.

A featherless biped.

Swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon.

Water - 35 liters. Carbon - 20 kg. 4L - ammonia. 1.5kg - lime. 800g - phosphorus

Voting ended onMay 29

[anamericangirl]

The only right answer

[joinsideke]

Any time someone says "let's get down to business", my brain thinks it's a call and response. Which isn't great cos this only really happens at work.

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

[silent-calling]

Oh my god, I did something very similar as a kid to aerate the steam out of the bathroom after I showered, or my glasses would fog up so much I couldn't see.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I usually just open the passgenger windows and wait a few minutes. Or get moving.

[vomitdodger]

Based

[skulki-d]

It also makes the rest of the room more useful. Multiple small spaces are less accommodating than large spaces.

[vintage-tigre]

[animeandcatholicism]

Guys, this is gonna get people harmed either by the electrical shorts or by data center security who are going to most likely employ lethal means.

[jdeko]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

More pragmatically, it's going to make a lot of anti-AI people look like luddites.

[talking-fox-actual-deactivated2]

I upset a few people in my intro to western philosophy class with this one.

[missouriangothic]

[furbearingbrick]

[freelyunder]