From fcdbb83b0ff38132db4b14a7b89cfa2791f116b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: adam Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 19:25:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] slight update --- src/script.md | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/script.md b/src/script.md index 58cece9..8c0c437 100644 --- a/src/script.md +++ b/src/script.md @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Keep waiting. Your patience will be rewarded. Your efforts will pay off. Have fa Ok, for real. Deer exist, I know. I know because I have evidence. [alternate] BOLD statement. Have you disproved Godel, and developed a framework for determining truth that requires no axioms? have you out-logic'd renee descartes and proven anything at all, when you could be a brain in a jar? have you done what CGP grey is afraid to, and ventured through the "What Is True" dimension, returning unscathed? -Respectively; no, no, and not entirely but maybe a tiny bit? You can only *approach* 0 faith, like an asymptote. Acknowledging that gives you a heuristic to weigh the validity of evidence. +Respectively; no, no, and not entirely but maybe a tiny bit? You can only *approach* 0 faith, like an asymptote. Acknowledging that gives you a heuristic to weigh the validity of evidence. Kind of in a bayesian way. People talking about something's existence is not evidence. but I can buy some laughably overpriced venison in the store, right now. Although, that could be false advertising. This would be the same place selling some corn syrup in some sake labeled mirin. Not just mirin, but they specifically label their aji mirin as "hon" mirin. They sell wasabi as well, which I'm sure is horseradish with green food coloring. the fact that someone would lie to everyone and argue it's ok because it makes money is... really... how the world works. caveat emptor, bitch. All because one salesman proposes one thing via marketing material, and doesn't get interrogated. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Meanwhile, no one has ever been held accountable for contaminating every human a One of the inspirations for this episode was someone convinced that people dry their pets in microwaves, so those will be getting warning labels. [fact or fiction guy, john walker? john something or other?] -never happened. It's an urban legend. +never happened. It's an urban legend. if it ever did happen, it's so rare it might as well have never happened. [screenshot of Colyne] the myth endures, though. @@ -68,18 +68,17 @@ the famous one that we're all up to speed with by now - some company served some ### arbitration: the end of justice -[//TODO: fully explain this. I forgor, so surely you should assume most people don't know wtf you were on about, either.] however. In 2018, Epic Systems Corp (not Epic Games) engaged in wage theft - dollar per dollar the most common crime in the united states, every year, for many years - so Jacob Lewis attempted to start a class action lawsuit, in accordance with the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. -As usual, the supreme court decided that these pesky laws need to get out of the way of a corporation harvesting wealth from the peasantry (well it was 5-4, exactly the split you would expect). - +As usual, the supreme court decided that these pesky laws need to get out of the way of a corporation harvesting wealth from the peasantry (well it was 5-4, exactly the split you would expect). So the victim of wage theft didn't get to go to real court, and of course, arbitration court agreed: stop whining about wage theft. Ever since then, **every** user agreement has included an arbitration clause. You know. Because apparently real lawsuits are unjust, real courts are overburdened... So we'll privatize justice, that certainly won't create a kangaroo court. -[//TODO: effects of arbitration court] +[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-sue-wifes-death-agreed-disney-terms-service-rcna166594, https://www.epi.org/publication/the-growing-use-of-mandatory-arbitration-access-to-the-courts-is-now-barred-for-more-than-60-million-american-workers/] ...oh. -Well that's probably why arbitration clauses in contracts tend to also include some advertisement about how waiving your right to trial is actually a good thing. +Well that's probably why arbitration clauses in contracts tend to also include some advertisement about how waiving your right to trial "PrOtEcTs YoU, aCtUaLlY" -Justice is dead. And yet we're still afraid of some mythical hyper-competent litigation monster. +Justice is dead. And yet we're still afraid of this sliver of a chance of encountering a mythical, hyper-competent litigation monster. -For what it's worth, apparently the hyperlitigator stays within america. Other countries *also* think Americans can (and will) file (and win) any frivolous lawsuit. To those people, I say go ahead and rent an apartment. +For what it's worth, apparently the hyperlitigator stays within america. Other countries *also* think Americans can (and will) file (and reliably win) any frivolous lawsuit. +To those people, I say go ahead and rent an apartment. Odds are your landlord will do something illegal, and probably get away with it. ## the barrel-cracker-misser @@ -96,7 +95,7 @@ as usual, the soul has been sacrificed on the altar of capitalism. this sounds much more like something I'd complain about than your stereotypical maga fascist. but then again, cracker barrel is a restaurant that has a very "country" aesthetic. if we remember the "brad's wife" fiasco, the customer base skews boomer. The kind of people who aren't worried about a deep fried steak with a side of pork sausage cutting their life expectancy - they only anticipate another few years anyway. [//TODO: article links] I searched. Article after article, most maintaining a proper level of neutrality, but eventually - finally - paydirt. I found him. The ONE GUY who thought the redesign was soulless, and... **woke**. -That's all. He's it. I have not found anyone else. As far as I know, his world also thinks he's weird. +That's all. He's it. I have not found anyone else. As far as I know, his world also thinks he's an outlier. ## woolie vs archiving schemes