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2024-05-11, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-11, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Deer are as majestic as a regal forest nymph, and as stupid as a raccoon who broke into a candy store. Wonderful creatures.
There are so many layers to unpack about that lady. The fact that she genuinely thinks that's how it works, the fact that she has hit THREE deer in that exact same area that makes it wrap around from "sad accident" to "lady this is directly your fault", the sheer balls to call in to a radio show to be like "I need to tell people about this". It is fantastic.
Impressive. I've never been shushed at a library and I take it with a bit of pride- though truthfully "be quiet so others aren't bothered" is like, the barest minimum level of politeness one can expect.
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2024-05-11, 11:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
The main reason I've never been shushed at a library is the fact that reading takes lots of concentration. Even the Warhammer club I briefly attended didn't get told to keep it down, although when we started on Dark Heresy we quickly relocated our sessions to be polite.
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2024-05-11, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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She. Also, she did get a library card from them so she feels on the whole it was more than worth it.
Because the conveyance of free and unfettered communication is seen as invaluable in, and this is the key here, very few and highly specific circumstances, all of which have exceptions under which testimony can still be otherwise compelled. And, again, it is one of the few circumstances in which the state cannot compel one to testify but does not prevent one from willfully testifying anyway.
Same, and same for her before this. The Library of Congress is different from most other libraries, though, and it was just another tourist who did it. But it's still funny for both of us (and, i presume, anyone I tell it to).Last edited by Peelee; 2024-05-11 at 12:01 PM.
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2024-05-11, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-11, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Imean, i literally just said why in that post. Because the free and unfettered communication (in this case between spouses) is considered to be worth more than the value in forcing to testify, and even then, it's structured such that they still can testify if they wish (unlike with doctor-patient or attorney-client privelege).
If you want to argue that it should be done away with the the entirely, then regardless of anything, I'm wary of any plan involving "give the state more capability to act unilaterally and compel its citizens to specific action" without good reason.
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2024-05-11, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Because it's a deprecated feature
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2024-05-11, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-11, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Well that shouldn't be a requirement either if what people are saying here to defend marriage is even a little bit valid valid. If it's about insurance or getting a green card or not testifying then why should living together matter.
The institution is already pure entitlement
I don't know. But something enough to cancel out the social obnoxiousness that remains even after the pointless legal entitlement is removed"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2024-05-11, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Stable families typically help form stable communities, which is good for society. Marriage is encouraged to help form stable families. This can easily be multi-racial, same-sex, or poly, because in all examples people coming together typically combines resources and, among other benefits, enhances purchasing power, stimulating economies, and helping the community develop. In the parlance of the youth today, "apes together strong".
This is very basic social studies stuff, and again, something pretty much every society has figured out is something that should be encouraged because it helps build strong societies. Notably, no successful society that i have ever heard of penalized marriage.
Well then think, friend! How can we punish people for getting married? You came up with the idea, surely you have some thoughts on it!Last edited by Peelee; 2024-05-11 at 01:23 PM.
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2024-05-11, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
luxury tax?
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2024-05-11, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-11, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Only if they have the kid on purpose
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2024-05-11, 02:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
The place I grew up in, when someone new moves to town, the community teaches them what to do WHEN you hit a deer — not if.
There’s a reason our neck of the woods has a deer hunting season.
As for the lady calling into the station — listen, they put up signs for railroad crossings, so obviously SOME of them are premeditated! Or are you suggesting locomotives are wild animals, too?
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2024-05-11, 02:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-11, 02:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-11, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
1. I have some rather radical views on marriage that I thankfully cannot and, therefore, will not share here, so I'm good to leave it at that.
2. WHY DOES ANYONE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN YOU COULD ALL BE TALKING ABOUT A VERY POLITE BIRDY?!
I'm somewhat saddened to hear that the customer never got their pizza, though. Fortunately, these guys are extremely resourceful (and also probably very happy (my first ever exposure to seagulls was hearing them vocalize in unison from a hotel room; for a moment there, I was absolutely certain a group of very loud people were laughing together for some extremely nefarious reason)), but it's still rude to ignore someone like that.
Very much. Loved those pictures too!
Has anyone else had weird encounters with animals like that? It's not super uncommon up here since animals are all over the place- there's also a lady who has perfectly tamed a raven so that it always sits on her rearview mirror as she drives, and that **** feels really notable.
Sadly, no matter how much I adore them, the crows around my place don't interact with me much besides occupying the nearby high ground and bombarding the garden with walnuts. I saw two of them dogfight a kite once, though, albeit quite evidently purely to troll the poor birdy of prey. Oh, and I met one who was being chased about by a very fat magpie too. I think that was the result of a quarell over who gets to steal the food of the neighbour's dog, incidentally.
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2024-05-11, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
That's a very generous way to describe the racket those beasts make. I had to put up with them regularly in my previous apartment around summer when flocks of noisy seagulls would sometimes suddenly appear, attracted by food tossed out by some [insert unkind words]. I tell you, I do not miss that.
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2024-05-11, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Apropos of nothing, do y'all know how to tell the difference between a crow and a raven? The quickest and easiest way is size. If you see a black bird and think, "is that big enough to be a raven?", then it's a crow. If you see a black bird and think "HOLY **** that's big", it's a raven.
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2024-05-11, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-11, 03:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Why can't marriage be both a ceremony and a contract?
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2024-05-11, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-11, 03:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-11, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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It is a lovely sound, isn't it! Very loud and rambunctious and awful if you don't want to hear loud honk noises, but if you do wanna hear it it does absolutely feel like laughter, yeah.
Thanks! I try to take a lot of pictures when I'm out and about. I still need to finish transferring all my photos from my trip to the States and stuff...
Don't worry the raven holds on really tight and our speed limits are sane. Though that does remind of an anecdote my dad told of meeting her once; out on the ice road during winter, he saw her drive past really quick... with the raven in hot pursuit. When he next saw her she was parked and the bird back in place receiving scritches. She was, as it turns out, "walking the dog" for lack of a better term. Exercise is important even for corvids!
Corvids in general are super duper smart, so them teasing a Kite (a predator that is non the less not really going to be able to get them) and getting menaced by a magpie makes sense, cause they love causing mischief and shiny things.
On that note if you want to try and become friends with a raven, carry bird feed and shiny objects on your person, greet them gently, and give'em snacks and shiny baubles. They will quickly come to appreciate you.
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2024-05-11, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-11, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
The thought occurs to me that Zodi's seagull was basically forming a cargo cult.
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2024-05-11, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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That kind of happens in the Bobiverse!
Also, now that I'm all caught up on it, Rater, never read those books. I think they might send you into full-on metaphysical crisis anaphylaxic-esque shock.
ETA: Free wifi on the flight home.
There is a non-zero chance that i have opened Strava and set it to record a run that as of this word has 20 miles in 2 minutes and 32 seconds.Last edited by Peelee; 2024-05-11 at 04:20 PM.
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2024-05-11, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
yeah crows are really intelligent, the stories I've heard are things like one trying to give money to a food stand seller for food, and another story says they gather around a corpse of crows to investigate it like a murder.
birds man, most likely animal to become sapient next.
I've finally finished FFXIV Stormblood yesterday leveling Samurai, switching to Dark Knight to level up to hopefully play Shadowbringers as that class one day, but I'm not sure if Shadowbringers will ever become free, programming will take time to learn and I don't have a source of income yet. love the red samurai outfit I got the end of the class quest though, really makes that classic ronin look work.
other random thought I've been having today: cyberpunk as a genre seems to oversimplify the world into megacorps and random criminal gangs on the street, which doesn't really match up with what I see of our world which is full of organizations and people outside of that paradigm with their own beliefs and concerns, but maybe I haven't read enough cyberpunk to know it beyond its steroetypical depictions.
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2024-05-11, 05:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-11, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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