Goes for local politics as well.

Police in some states are actually self-insured, though not backed by a pension fund.

I don't need blame to hunt an animal for food or slam someone who's biting me.

I don't need blame to swat a mosquito that's trying to live, to remove a cobra from my living room, or to quibble about fine print with someone in such an annoying way that I eventually get what I want.

It seems to me that this is a parental responsibility. Understandably, we have shifted increasing amounts of those on to the state. However, there are fireplaces, stoves, drills, and other power tools at home. Is the state responsible for children getting into those?

> It seems to me that this is a parental responsibility.

That's the point of the California law and similar laws in other states. It requires operating systems to implement a simple mechanism that parents can use to specify an age range on a child's account, and to provide a way for apps that that need to know if they are being used by children to ask for that information.

The idea that you can't admire people you're fighting is ridiculous. You're forced to admire them. If you don't admire where they win, you lose.

I disagree. It's very hard to admire a direct enemy, even if you can see their strengths, you'll rationalize them in your head as being the evil sort of strength, which comes not from virtue but from their total lack of morality or whatever you can conjure up. We see that everywhere in history and even in contemporary conflicts.

We do?

Where, like Totila and Belisarius?

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin?

The death of Taira no Atsumori?

Byrhtnoth and the Vikings?

The Black Prince and King John II?

The Song dynasty's opinion of the Mongols?

David Hackworth saying that the US Army had to out-G the G?

GWOT instructors telling you that when you're out partying, the Muj is sharpening his knife?

When are moral justifications not facades?

When they benefit others more than you and your in-group.

Did you mean Vietnamese supremacist?

Nope. I meant white supremacist [1]. Notice I didn't say smart white supremacist.

[1] https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5e8cc7922300005600169bd...

They hired weev? Can you point out to where he founded or worked for the company?

I've generally held this position, but assume a sufficient combination of models could do a lot more than was possible before.

I requested it and did not get it, for whatever that's worth.

What was the appeal? Were there favorable career implications? Or you personally found the environment would agree with you?

I heh'd out loud