there's some story in superfreakonomics, which i was reading on teh toilet the other day, where they suggest drunk walking is more likely to get you killed than drunk driving, sadly
― D-40, Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:52 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha my roommate was listening to the freakonomics podcast last night and they were talking about this. it seems super flimsy to me, also as they pointed out you can't murder one or multiple innocent people if you're drunk walking
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds like a challenge
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
off topic guys but freakanomics is utter bullshit dont pay any attention to it plz
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i mean i heard this by accident and it sounded pretty "eh?? eh????" trolly and nonsensical
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
in an alternate, better world, freakanomics is economics taught by big booty professors in thongs to a Miami bass beat
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
we have some down there in our middle schools i think
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they started off by using multiple regression in a absurd way and have since just kinda become promoters of counterintuitive bullshit climate change skeptics etc
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah but if chris brown kills somebody ELSE it doesnt really qualify as 'karma' does it?
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah was v disappointed when i actually opened it up. superfreakonomics sounded even more promising
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
are they wrong abt drunk walking being deadlier than drunk driving tho
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
they must be right, i mean theres no way
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
when u drunkwalk ur much more likely to bump into someone starting a fight which ends up in a deadly knifeduel
― buzza, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
"if we assume" = yeah right
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 February 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
the classic take down of using multiple regression in a freaknomics type manner http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/mythsofmurder.htm - the scary thing is w/super freaknomics they even abandoned this half assed level of scienceing and just found fascinating crazy people to talk to
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm not arguing this mr. smarm
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
freakonomics is about the only text related to economics that i've ever understood
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
it was readable but didn't seem especially insightful
― D-40, Friday, February 24, 2012 1:40 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
maybe im not arguing it
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
if you say so, mr. smarm
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Keaton's worst movie IMO
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
thats mr. smarm to u
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
thank you for the link on multiple regression, it is a very enjoyable read
so did anyone hear about how chris brown stole a fan's iphone
― teledyldonix, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
It would be funny if he ends up in jail for taking an iphone, and not for smashing someone's face in. And by funny I mean infuriating.
― Nicole, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Bullseye.
― thinveneer, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
totally infuriating, not that i won't take it
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/02/threatening-chris-brown-is-not-helpful/253541
This information isn't offered to make anyone more lenient on Chris Brown, or to excuse his actions. It's offered to point out that Brown's capacity for abusive violence didn't materialize out of thin air. And when threatening him with more abuse, it's worth thinking about how this all began. When you threaten Chris Brown you aren't fighting abusive violence. You are speaking his language.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I had heard about the CM Punk thing, but didn't hear how horrifyingly racist it was.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-02-24/the-soapbox-facts-about-rihanna-and-other-abused-women/
this is a good article, though a bit beginner's 101 wrt domestic abuse psychology and it's assumptive like everyone else is -- are we all just assuming they're back together romantically, now? no one knows that. but still, if they were, the article is helpful reading.
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Friday, 24 February 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
they're obviously making a lot of public gestures of spending time together and people around them seem pretty certain they're at least hooking up, so whether they're once again in a completely monogomous relationship is kind of a moot point (CB still has a girlfriend who is reportedly fine w/ an open relationship)
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
of course she is!
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
if only we all had sig others who were fine with having open relationships aka fucking our ex girlfriend rihanna
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 February 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
my wife never lets me even hang out with rihanna just to catch up on old times :(
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
if they're not actually together again the song is even more distasteful tbh cuz then it really is purely using the abuse narrative to get attention.
zach w/all due respect i think most people itt are v aware of domestic abuse psychology, victim-blaming and so on; rihanna of course has the right to make whatever decision she wants but going out of one's way to defend those (stupid, distasteful) decisions is a different thing. and finding her actions depressing isn't the same as blaming her, much less blaming her instead of CB and the music industry.
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, February 24, 2012 10:18 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dude you post like everything i say is completely straightfaced chillax bro
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
tbf you post like that as well
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I promise that if im calling someone "mr. smarm" i'm not thinking "man I just zinged him but good"
your style is hella jr. high school al
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Oh good we haven't had one of these in awhile.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
also another thing on rihanna - theoretically i am totally 100% against the idea that pop stars "should" behave like role models. but in practice her actions do have an effect!
In the days following Rihanna's 20/20 interview, calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline rose by 59% – with the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline seeing a 73% increase.
i mean...that happened. we can handwave away her responsibility as much as we want and we probably shouldn't place any onus on her to behave in any way, but that happened, and as she acknowledged at the time she knew that would happen.
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
As long as al can still ital posts to imply smug condescension I'm not sure these will ever end
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
why do they keep returning to this abusive relationship
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
CM Punk said he was straight edge in that clip, i wonder what sxe bands he likes?
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
obv Minor Threat
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
deej i'm obviously just trying to earn my own catchy and cutting nickname like "mr. smarm"
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
may i suggest "smuggy mcsmuggerson"?
smarm & hammer
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
lemme smarm it
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
so my takeaway from this is that if we pull [i] out of the available BBCode, these fights will stop
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link