wearywanderer

> They're not going to leave until it threatens their profit line,

It does.

> and even then others will grow to fill their place.

Filling their place will be family operated corner shops that charge 3x as much. I have lived in such neighborhoods and seen it myself. You can't gaslight me sudosysgen.

They should be imprisoned for theft and allowed to appeal their summary sentence later. Guilty until proven innocent is the way they like to play things, so give them a taste of their own medicine.

We'll save the moral panic for when those businesses inevitably leave the neighborhood and create "food deserts". You know, after the damage is already done.

> 50%

How do you even begin to quantify such a thing as intent? Not least when the best evidence for intent is a dodgy quote published years after the death of the man who might have disputed it?

Cops ask people they pull over if they have any weapons or cash in the vehicle, and people are either intimidated or naive enough to answer truthfully. The last time I was pulled over, years ago, I had about $50 in my wallet and the cop asked me if I had any cash. He was visibly annoyed when I responded with "uh, your asking me if I have a wallet?" and gesticulated with the wallet I already had in my hands to show him my ID. He could already see that I had cash in my wallet, but that's not what he was asking about.

No offense but that park looks like crap. Can't the city at least plant a few trees?

The quasi-fascist PAP has ruled Singapore with authoritarian force since the 1950s. They have the uncontested power to change any old British law they wish. If they haven't, it's because they've chosen not to. If you want to point fingers, all fingers in modern Singapore should be pointed directly at the PAP.

It's all part of the same deal for people living in Singapore. They don't get to pick and choose which aspects of the government they want (democracy in Singapore is a farce.)

It's obviously corruption. Corporate landlords get to offload their dodgy property to the government and run away with the cash, without the usual time and expense of selling each property on the market. By cynically cloaking themselves in populist language, they're able to easily manufacture the consent of the public.

> the hidden labor of a foreigner

You're technically not wrong, but from your tone and wording I think you have a misconception about the machine, or are trying to induce such a misconception in others, to inspire others to take offense at the premise. There was never a Turkish person hidden inside the Mechanical Turk. The "foreigners" inside were a variety of chess masters from Germany, Austrian, French and the UK. Not the oppressed immigrants a modern reader might imagine when speaking of Turks and unspecified foreigners. And I suspect the chessmaster operators of the original Mechanical Turk were not remotely representative of the demographics of modern Amazon MT users. A Frenchman participating in a scheme to bamboozle some Austrian princes is not exactly something worth getting bent out of shape over.

(Furthermore I think in at least some of the cases, the chessmasters were operating the machine in their home country and weren't foreigners at all.)

So, "No."

War is a continuation of politics by other means. But diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. And now verbal bullying is a continuation of violence by other means.

By the principle of explosion, I think we're on the precipice of everything being a continuation of everything by other means.

> [Influenza] might have gone extinct with the lockdowns

I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

There are a myriad of reasons why people think covid isn't real. But for the segment of that population who think it isn't real when they are dying of it, the perceived severity of their experienced symptoms is a big part of it.

Influenza is rare? Maybe rare for you if you habitually get the flu shot twice a year, but even then the efficacy of the flu shot can be as low as 50%. Influenza is very common, most people have experienced it.

> HIV at 100% eventual fatality

You are simply wrong about that. Even without any treatment at all, you are wrong about that. I'm getting the sense that HIV being the worst possible is some matter of ideology to you, as though you think rabies being worse somehow diminishes the importance of addressing HIV. I suggest you go read the wikipedia page for both of these viruses with an impartial attitude.

I find that very hard to believe. Who can honestly say they were never wrecked by a bad flu and coughed up a lung for a week or two? Certainly I have been, and everybody in my family has been, and I've certainly seen friends and coworkers sick as hell before too. Most people know what it feels like to be very ill.

If anything, the fevers, coughs and congestion caused by covid 19 are fairly mild, even though covid is quite lethal. That's why you have people who are dying of covid but think they aren't very sick, or even think the virus isn't real at all.

Somewhere on the order of 1-to-10% of people have an innate resistance to HIV. HIV, untreated, is very deadly, but not nearly as deadly as rabies.

"Specialized breeders" have zero sympathy from me; the only reason they have problems with their gene pool size is because of their own stupid breeding habits and objectives. Go get a mutt from the pound if you need to expand the gene pool of your dogs. The reason German Shepards in America are fucked up is not because import of dogs from Germany is banned, it's because American breeders of German Shepards are fucking idiots [generally speaking.]

A family member that you buy a replacement for every 10 years? I like dogs too, but please get a grip.

Rabies cases in America are rare specifically because the authorities take it seriously. If authorities stop taking rabies seriously, expect:

> An estimated 31,000 human deaths due to rabies occur annually in Asia,[2] with the majority – approximately 20,000 – concentrated in India.

Vampire bats specialized in drawing blood from sleeping victims without waking them. It is rare for them to find human targets, but it happens sometimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_bat#Human_health

In America [and most other countries that have done a similarly good or better job of suppressing rabies] the wildlife are the ones getting vaccinated against it. Vaccinating the wildlife by baiting them with an oral vaccine is very effective and can eradicate rabies from a region (vaccinating the general public cannot do that, since person-to-person transmission is not really the concern.)

There are so many dogs already in America, I see absolutely no reason to ever import more.

I think her real name must be generally known and associated with her nickname. I've never gone out of my way to learn anything about her [before today] but I knew who this was about just from the title. I think I must have picked up this knowledge through general pop culture.

> we already happily accept the use of other prejudicial information

False premise, I do not happily accept this. I begrudgingly accept it, only because I don't think I have the power to change it. But by speaking out against the automation of prejudice in other domains before those systems have become mainstream, I hope I might make a difference.

I think the cost of car insurance should be a function of your past driving history and the price of your car (if the insurance policy covers damage to your car.) Pulling race, gender, sex or age into the equation might make insurance companies more profitable, but I do not like it.

I think whether or not these methods are pseudoscience is irrelevant. Why?

Even if phrenology had worked most of the time, it would still be a terrible idea. Even if phrenologists could classify criminals with 99% accuracy from the shape of their skull, they'd still be screwing over a ton innocent people when their methods were applied to large populations. Putting somebody in prison because of the shape of their skull is a terrible proposition, even if you get it right more often than not.

This is probably heresy, but maybe they could make the sport more exciting by issuing corked bats for more homeruns. And then maybe they could rename the sport to Blernsball...

It may not be pseudoscience. But even if the methods are accurate, it is still prejudice.

> (countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.

> (countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.

From the article,

> "80 to 90%” of pitchers are using it in some capacity"

From wikipedia,

> "Several players have suggested that drug use is rampant in baseball. David Wells stated that "25 to 40 percent of all Major Leaguers are juiced"."

Juicing seems like a more severe issue to me, but I guess the article is saying that pitching substances are a "bigger" scandal because it's so prevalent.