Basman

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  1. 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.
  2. They are just getting more and more expensive now. Even the old consoles are getting price raises new in the box. The whole market is shifting. Honestly, just get a decent PC and emulate (just buy legal copies). It's the overall best value I believe. You can play a lot of games on your phone too.
  3. False dichotomy. If you come with some good faith arguments I'll respond seriously. It's still light relative to mass murder or serial rape. And I'm sure there's still room for parole and early release under such a system, like due to crowding or a pandemic. Also, why not just kill them at that point if you have sufficient evidence? It's not so much about revenge as it is about fairness. Even monkeys understand fairness. And even then, who you are you to say people aren't allowed to want revenge or feel anger about a crime? Your saying people shouldn't feel upset about a horrible crime. Its again this liberal tendency to empathize more with criminals than victims. Liberals just ignore the whole fairness aspect to make a technocratic argument as if that is not in of itself a partial stand. It quickly becomes very armchairy and ideological in my opinion.
  4. The internet is full of echochambers, to the point where the opposite is the exception. It takes intentionality to not become one in a lot of cases. Here you can freely discuss in good faith the intersectionality between incest taboo and culture without getting banned (true story). They can't handle the spice.
  5. Just wait and buy second hand. You don't need to play on release. It's an old game you already played before with a new coat of paint.
  6. Success is the culmination of constructive habits. Without knowing the right principles and concepts you won't get far. Genetics alone can't teach you.
  7. Rat genocide. A fun little outing for the whole family. Good exercise for the dogs and its poison free and humane 😊
  8. I like and live by a large amount of Leo's framework which he has represented over the years. It's hard to point at any one insight because I hardly remember. I take a lot of this stuff for granted. One of my favorites though is that finitude is the root cause of conflict. It explains so much.
  9. Read my previous comments. You could probably release Breivik tomorrow and it would be fine in terms of him not killing anyone anymore, but that would be unacceptable socially and politically when he's a known mass murderer. Justice is not purely a technical question of safety. People expect and want the justice system to deliver a degree of fairness when people commit crimes. Good luck convincing people otherwise.
  10. Destiny streams are some of the laziest content I've ever seen when he's not debate lording. He just plays some video for minutes straight while playing some game and occasionally says something . People work harder just to get up in the morning.
  11. You will be less lonely when your busy developing your talents and absorbed in working on projects. It can be more meaningful than socializing if you find something fascinating and important to strive for and your building a big ticket item over the long-term. Being alone is a fact. Being lonely is a subjective feeling. It's a kind of present moment FOMO. You can be lonely in a crowd.
  12. I have a nose for BS. When I first saw him going viral I immediately resisted watching any of his content. I only seen some analysis of him, who have all been skeptical of his claims. If something is worth knowing it'll eventually circle back around to you a lot of the time. No need to get swept up by the algo.
  13. I believe it's a constitutional thing, but I think Americans should perhaps stop televising court cases, at least with maybe high profile ones. With high profile cases like this it turns too much into a circus and it biases the jury too much. Unpopular jurors get stalked and harassed, which chills the prospect of being a holdout juror in the future.
  14. I'm not going to satisfy your autistic need for specifics. It's silly. I've been pretty clear, and if you don't understand them that's on you at this point. I'm done repeating myself and going in circles. The death penalty is a workable solution. It's group think all the way down. Very typical of leftoid circles. Especially relative to trans stuff, because they flip flop between advocating womens rights to later advocating trans rights at the cost of womens rights. Like trans in women sports or doctors calling women "person with uterus". Or trans in women bathrooms, etc.
  15. Yup. It's culture war. They are treating this case for what it represents politically to them at the exclusion of the case itself. I think if she strangled 3 dogs to death instead of babies they would want her hanged.
  16. The Hellen Keller of animals. And just like Hellen Keller, super obvious in hindsight to be fake. Obviously a gorilla doesn't understand what a climate change is, or the concept of human emotions like sadness or greed. Obviously the trainer is being extremely generous with interpreting Koko's sign language. Gorillas don't even have the finger dexterity to entirely do human sign language. It's pretty damning too that the lab who had Koko never let anyone outside near to do controlled studies. A good example of business incentives corrupting science. Koko turned into a feel-good mascot, just like Hellen Keller, and earned them millions. It might not even be entirely intentional. These animals trainers get roped up in their own excitement of thinking they taught their beloved pet to speak, not noticing their own influence. Eventually It's just becomes the path of least resistance when it makes your career. Hooks you up with celebrities and shit. Bad science. Bad.
  17. Irrelevant appeal to authority. The technical minutia doesn't really matter to the spirit of a good standard. Basically, when there's zero doubt, which I believe is indisputably possible.
  18. Hit em right in the ego. They are used to feeling untouchable, which is why it feels surreal when a mass terrorist attack happens in one of their major cities. American exceptionalism and all that. Worse things have happened since in other countries. I really believe it is national ego.
  19. I contemplate my parents death at times. It's sad but realistically not that far off. I try to cherish my time with them but it's easy to take your day to day for granted. You'll thank yourself later if you go out your way to make some memories with them. Time flies.
  20. Whole ass of question begging. I gave you a reasonable common sense standard. I'm not repeating myself again.
  21. It's expensive to work in Europe. Between transport costs, high taxes and various other costs and more taxes. Often almost half your paycheck is gone before you get to pay rent. Someone gotta finance the welfare system. In some countries like Belgium where welfare is overly generous, many people prefer being on welfare to working as the effective income ends up being quiet close for them.
  22. With a high enough bar for evidence you should be able to determine guilt for capital. There's no doubt about Breiviks guilt, or the Columbine shooters, or Shoko Ashara (who did get capital) or various other murderers. Why do you act like there's any doubt that they didn't kill/injure 100s? You keep going in circles, bro.
  23. I didn't say any of these things. I just think this softness on serious crime is unserious and pathetic. Giving murderers a slap on the wrist because anything harsher would hurt your own feelings. You don't even want to see how that's unfair. It's simply cowardice.
  24. Didn't watch, but Lindsay case is really similair to the OJ case in that supporters focus on what it represents politically to them at the near exclusion of the actual case. For OJ it was revenge for some different police brutality case, and here its about support for post-partum depression as far as I understood. It's either way dumb how a case gets coopted by culture war like that. It does a disservice to justice.
  25. The most popular songs are about break ups and sex. Mainstream stuff is going to be shallow most of the time. Almost everyone gives the advice to focus your creativity on a particular niche that you excell in. Don't try to appeal to everyone. Necesarilly that will cost you your soul.