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As she confessed to the murder of her three kids, it's just a question if she goes to jail or the psychward. There's a strong argument to be made that she's basically insane but also mishandled as mental patient (IE. her carers are responsible for the incident is the argument they want to make). That said, I don't think being able to plead insanity should relieve one of culpability. It feels like a loophole to get away with murder, and it does get used like that broadly speaking. I also think that because she's a women she gets treated with kid's gloves, as if women aren't capable of responsibility. It's weirdly sexist and infantalizing. Like, they want to make the case that it was largely the fault if bad psychiatry and that she's basically not culpable. Idk man. A man in the same court room would have a much harder time garnering sympathy. Sorry for going there.

But it's not blind. It's relative to serious crime with a high burden of proof. Beyond a reasonable doubt. Like Breivik. There's no doubt about Breivik's guilt and morally there's no reason to not kill him in my opinion. The game the Norwegian government has to play to keep him locked up, as the maximum sentence is 21 years, is ridiculous. It's not an accomplishment to keep a mass murderer in jail indefinitely. If Lindsay Clancy is found guilty I see no reason why not give her capital. It would be more than fair in that case.

It's not just cosmetics sold in an official capacity, but also stuff like gold or accounts. The value applies to within the game itself. An immutable asset is only practical for speculation. It's not in of itself relevant to people playing a game and whatever market sprouts around it. And making nfts that can be used across different games is bs. Different games have different code and assets. You can't just port stuff in. It has to be made specifically for that game. At that point it doesn't make any sense to not make people buy thing separately.

NFTs took off entirely as a speculative market. When the rug had been pulled and people realized that you couldn't use NFTs for anything it crashed.

I feel like blockchain stuff and nfts are just a solution looking for a problem. There exist already successful digital markets long before nfts where a thing, like Runescape and CSGO. I don't see why you even need blockchain technology in the first place. Backend doesn't make a commodity any more valuable.

Magical thinking. The real answer is that war and carnivory is caused by finitude. The lack of resources. If you can decrease finitude, you take away the reason for war and carnivory. It's probably not possible to do that maximally though. Your better off accepting reality for what it is than for what it should be, metaphysically.

Social media used to be an escape from life. Now reality is an escape from social media.

Whenever I play as Franklin, cops start shooting me when I walk past. I think that's pretty realistic.

It's relative to class. Actually hispanic, black and native americans are the least educated in the US. White people are among the most educated on average. Maga is an exception because they are poor.

I think it's an extremely bourgeoisie standard to require many years of education for non-specialized work. Especially when you have to pay for it yourself. It's like elitist gentrification of the job market.

It's not a high bar to not kill someone. It's really like you care more about the murderer than the victims. 21 years is nothing compared a life. It's a liberal dogma to think that death penalty is inherently wrong. There's no real reason why it can't be worked with.

Technocratic delusion. The world operates on feelings and intuition. You don't want to live next door to a child murderer. You don't want Breivik to be your children's school teacher. Releasing him after 10-20 years on good behavior is completely unacceptable, even if technically he'll never kill again. The community themselves will kill him. He would get curb stomped at Majorstuen station by a drunk bearded middle-aged man

No, that's stupid and overly idealistic. With that logic you can kill people and be released again on good behavior. It completely shits on the victims. 21 years is nothing compared to a life. It's a joke. This liberal compassion undermines the victims of serious crime.

I think the west in general is overly soft on crime. Especially when it comes to serious crime. I think murder should lead to capital in most cases. Like the perpetrators feelings are more important than the victim. Won't somebody please think of the child murders feelings?

I'm quiet introverted and I can experience anxiety interacting with people, but I've found that usually I handle conversation quiet naturally. Often I realize that I didn't have to think about what to say or how to respond. It's natural. It's more about your inner state. How comfortable you are mentally.

Norwegian jails are fruity as. They have to play games to keep Breivik locked up.

I think that's mostly a K12 problem. But the whole system is so bourgeoisie. Statistically you have to be preppy to make it regardless. And that largely only happens for upper-middle class children. And 4-5 years for a degree, my god. It's so slow, beurocratic and expensive, just like learning a real life skill.

Preserving elite status would be one of them. But yes, it's mostly people's attachement to their royals that is the deciding factor. You don't need them, but they need you.

There's no guarantee of length if your institutionalized. They assess you every year and release you if your clear. She could be released 5 years from now. Especially if you think she's lying, because she's not actually insane then. Being institutionalized is not punishment. Shows again how binary Massachusetts insanity defense is.

It's just set up such to be overly binary. It's impossible to prove what went on in someone head. Not having to prove insanity is basically taking someone's word for it as far as I can see. It's exactly why most of the US got rid of that standard after some dude that tried to kill Ronald Reagan got aqcuited on insanity.

It's funny, because degrees are at the same time both required in a lot of ways but at the same time highly over-evaluated relative to what it actually does. Probably due to over-supply of workers relative to available jobs. About 80% of a degrees value is signaling. It's the main reason to get one, to not get filtered. Degree filtering is insanely practical for businesses swamped with applications. I think this is quiet problematic for society, and not just because I'm salty. We are getting more educated than before just to get a job. We are working harder, delaying adulthood for longer (hello fertility) just to stand still in terms of socio-economics (hello Starbucks employee with a masters degree). And higher education has failed meritocratically for the most part, as class is the biggest predictor of educational attainment (even when it's free). Which isn't really surprising, considering that university as an institution has always been about reproducing elite status from the start, back when they produced priests and shit. And it doesn't even create workers that necesarilly benefit society that much either, outside of certain high impact roles. Like, during covid we saw who we consider "essential workers". Not the office rats with their fancy degrees. Bus drivers and grocery clerks contributes more to society than most people with degrees. And we look down on them. I've thought about this a lot.

I studied philosophy for a year and ixd for about one semester before dropping out. Absolutely hated it. Never really wanted to go in the first place. Never believed in the promise of university and thought of it as over-hyped. Still do. Studying academic philosophy did equip me with some rationality skills, though I haven't retained an iota of philosophical history, which was about 70% of the degree. Like Kant and shit. Not that I care to remember. If anything, philosophical history disgusts me. It's a waste of time except for the soft rationality skills you might learn. Academic philosophy as a discipline is very much up it's own ass. Correction: academic philosophy is more like 90% philosophical history. It's largely a scholarly degree. That's exactly what people don't want to do. University is the closest we have to a rail road in life. Get a degree then work for someone else. Boom.

I mean yeah, but also, you can't know for certain with our current evidence what went through her head exactly. Best you can do is estimate, and I personally estimate that she's culpable, IE. she knew it was wrong.

Betting on AI right now is very bold.