Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat

[zhaktronz]

I don't really dream much since I became a shift worker

this is like one of those writing exercises where the prompt is "one sentence sad story"

[Ralin]

A few years ago I dreamed I made my then D&D players battle a red lizardman with a scorpion-like tail who anally violated his defeated enemies to establish dominance. The dream was very specific about those things.

It was really awkward talking to them afterward.

[evilsoup]

christ
watching some awful film featuring the royals in ww2. They've got all the way up to VE day and they haven't mentioned the word 'Russia' once!

[The Spartan]

What's the title?

[RogueIce]

"No Russian"

[evilsoup]

dunno, sorry,

[RogueIce]

That's one of the oldest types of memes on the net, brah.

[evilsoup]

still funny

[adr]

lol so church today we were reading a page of a book around the room

the sentence i got

"We believe that people will be judged for their own sins, not Adam's transgression"

the room erupted in a roar of laughter

[evilsoup]

TEXAS

[The Spartan]

That was a total miscarriage of justice even by our standards here in Texas.

Since prostitution is illegal, he basically killed someone while committing a crime (indeed, in an effort to compel them to commit a crime) and should therefore be facing, under Texas law, the death penalty.

[adr]

ok let me put this together

he reasonably believed himself to be in the presence of a criminal (prostitute)... so he did what any reasonable person would do to a criminal who took something from them

[evilsoup]

Actually thinking about it I definitely shouldn't have gone lol texas. Though that specific thing wouldn't happen here, of course the underlying problems behind those laws and the attitudes that would lead to a jury buying that shit aren't limited to any one place.
But just, Christ, that's the most bizarre miscarriage of justice I've heard of. I thought American prosecutors were the most gung-ho, aggressive ones in the world! Why would they let idiotic arguments like that stand?

[magic princess]

That was a total miscarriage of justice even by our standards here in Texas.

Since prostitution is illegal, he basically killed someone while committing a crime (indeed, in an effort to compel them to commit a crime) and should therefore be facing, under Texas law, the death penalty.

YES. That is exactly what happened, and the reason why is basically one word: Patriarchy.

[adr]

of course the underlying problems behind those laws and the attitudes that would lead to a jury buying that shit aren't limited to any one place.

Yea, the concept of the jury has been entirely coopted by the system (indeed, it may have been from the beginning, but it seems to me like it might have been a revolutionary idea at one point). As I understand it, juries are basically lied to, told that their job is *only* to apply the law and *only* to consider what they are told on the record, which of course leaves a lot out.

This very often benefits the state and other elites, so they aren't really in favor of changing it. Sometimes they lose individual cases but often it lets them manipulate things to their advantage. (Indeed, in this case even, the state may have lost, but the whitemale won; the system is indeed "working" for the dominant class.)

The jury might feel that a law is unjust or a punishment excessive, but they are told that doesn't matter.


A jury surely is never perfect and can indeed bring their own biases to make things worse than the law alone would be in theory.... but when twisted by things like "the law says 'reasonable' and you must have no doubt" the main benefit of them - judging the law itself in a specific case - is totally erased, leaving only the bad.

[Dooey Jo]

after spending a weekend writing javascript, i conclude 95% of the errors i get are due to ridiculous things a proper language would catch at compile time, or the bizarre variable scope

i always find it funny that when a language apologist tells you "now you don't have worry about memory management/types/const/whatever" what they usually mean is you can't "worry" about those things when you need them, essentially taking away

your FREEDOMS

thank god i can use C++11 at work occasionally

and not have to worry about fucking trivial shit like "god i hope i'm not accidentally altering the state of the object in this method"

[Ralin]

I was just googling the time Scalia used Jack Bauer as an example of why torture is sometimes okay to quote in a paper and SD.net was one of the first results that came up.

If citing My Little Pony in a graduate level paper hadn't made my night then that would have.

[adr]

I support a guaranteed basic income

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014 ... -interview

[Darksi4190]

So I've got about fifteen pages of English assignments and a comprehensive history final to knock off by Thursday, and I've got about sixty milligrams of adderall to boost myself through it.



Fuck sleep. Let's do this shit.

[Ralin]

I resisted the urge to title my last paper "Why I Am Much Smarter Than Foucault" and instead went with "Why Foucault Was Wrong." I suppose that's progress.

Either way it's better than the previous paper where I described the objections the professor expected me to have to the book as things "a critic who was not as smart as me might argue," accompanied by a constant litany of mocking jabs aimed at his religion and politics.

But then, I've done that last one in every paper I wrote this semester.

One more to go.

[phongn]

after spending a weekend writing javascript, i conclude 95% of the errors i get are due to ridiculous things a proper language would catch at compile time, or the bizarre variable scope

Have you considered playing with TypeScript or Dart? Both of those languages compile to JS but have sane typing.

thank god i can use C++11 at work occasionally

My work is only finally starting to use C++11

and not have to worry about fucking trivial shit like "god i hope i'm not accidentally altering the state of the object in this method"

Drink from the well of immutability ...

[Oxymoron]

Urge to try 3d printing rising:

http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.php? ... 3D-Printed

[Gands]

I'm waiting for the 3D printable GW games.

[Ralin]

And I am now Done With Coursework for my master's degree.

Or at least I will be once my grade is posted sometime today. However you want to split that hair.

[Gands]

Congrats!

Is there now a research component, or is it all done?