We already have safety rules, but those are ignored!
If you cycle into grocery store, you may get chased and attacked by dangerous dogs. Many people gave up cycling and jogging for that! And in grocery store more dogs and excrements! There are rules against all of that, yet it is widely ignored.
Lidars will get vandalized pretty fast, because they will impede flow of traffic. Or thugs will use it to stop passing vehicles to make kidnapping easy!
> thugs will use it to stop passing vehicles to make kidnapping easy!
We already have this thing, it’s called a red light.
Is there a name for this, when people come up with a plausible sounding scenario for crime driven disaster, but it does not actually have basis in real world? The ‘razor blades in candy’ scares parents every Halloween but is completely made up and has never been reported.
Peter Thiel had a similar moment on Joe Rogan podcast where he explained his elaborate social theory based on how chimps behave, but got the basics of chimp behaviour totally wrong
TL DR: tech people suck at predicting human behaviour
People do get kidnapped at traffic lights. Here's an incident of it happening in Florida a few months ago.
The ability to arbitrarily stop vehicles would be very useful for this kind of crime because it could be done in less crowded areas. And criminals could more readily select for expensive vehicles, young women or whatever else they're wanting.
But the comparison we are making is different - do people create a fake traffic light, because that is really easy; and I have never heard of it happening.
Ofcourse there are places where vehicles have to stop naturally, you can’t avoid that.
A convincing set of fake traffic lights requires a meaningful amount of time and equipment, as well as a plausible set of crossroads or roadworks.
To steel man your position though, a fake police costume would probably be just as effective at stopping vehicles arbitrarily. And despite being cheap it's a relatively rare occurrence.
> Is there a name for this, when people come up with a plausible sounding scenario for crime driven disaster, but it does not actually have basis in real world?
Also I agree with ChatGPT that it's midway between these two things:
> Urban legend: This is a widely circulated but false story or belief that often serves as a cautionary tale. The "razor blades in candy" story is a classic example, as it's a narrative that spreads fear but lacks evidence.
> Moral panic: This term refers to a situation where public fears and anxieties about a perceived threat (often related to crime or social issues) are exaggerated by the media or other influential sources, even though the threat may be minimal or non-existent. This can lead to widespread but unfounded concerns, like the Halloween candy scare.
> Is there a name for this, when people come up with a plausible sounding scenario for crime driven disaster, but it does not actually have basis in real world?
Hunka (it was just one person) was Waffen-SS, not SS -- and yes, there's a major difference between the two. From Wikipedia:
Non-Germanic units were not considered to be part of the SS, which still maintained its racial criteria, but rather were considered to be foreign nationals serving under the command of the SS. As a general rule, an "SS Division" was made up of Germans or other Germanic peoples, while a "Division of the SS" was made up of non-Germanic volunteers and conscripts.
Also, Ukrainians were forbidden from becoming Party members.
There was similar case with another SS member in Canadian Parliament a few decades ago.
> was Waffen-SS, not SS -- and yes, there's a major difference between the two.
Poland asked for his extradition. They seems to have different opinion.
From wiki:
Elements of the Waffen-SS Galizien worked alongside one of the most brutal units of Nazi Germany, the SS-Sonderbattalion Dirlewanger,[119] which had carried out brutal anti-partisan activities in Belarus and Poland, and had taken part in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising.[123] The Waffen-SS Galizien destroyed several Polish communities in western Ukraine during the winter and spring of 1944.[124] Specifically, the 4th and 5th SS Police Regiments have been accused of murdering Polish civilians in the course of anti-guerilla activity.
Of course they were also bad and on the wrong side, and all that.
But the distinction is nonetheless very significant, for obvious reasons -- and the fact of Poland having considered such an action doesn't change this fact.
It may also be driving the fact nothing seems to have come of the internal extradition effort so far. In particular, there's no sign that Poland has actually asked for extradition, only that they were publicly considering it in the aftermath of the scandal.
And that in turn -- could likely be because the sole fact of his being a member of that division (given how its status was decided at Nuremburg) does not present them with sufficient grounds to do so (absent any other signs of criminality).
Being as, unlike other Waffen-SS divisions, foreign-born divisions such as his were specifically exempt from the additional criminal charge of being "an integral part of the SS" that the native-born divisions were. That's because legally and administratively they weren't (nor were its recruits subject to SS or even NS indoctrination, for the most part).
They were also intrinsically less involved in the Final Solution, unlike the regular Waffen-SS, by and large (in particular they were not involved operating the camps, nor did they contribute to units of the Einsatzgruppen).
This is why one can't just use the labels "SS", "Waffen-SS" interchangeably.
Or assume that the latter is simply a subset of the former.
BTW this isn't about nitpicking. It's very, very important to understand that one of the main reasons the Final Solution was so successful was that it didn't require all of its willing helpers to be fanatical, drooling Nazis (or even to care at all about its ideology or aims, let alone be members of its registered organizations).
By and large they were regular folks, "fighting for their country" or so they believed. Or doing what they thought they had to do to survive.
Waffen SS was not part of regular army (Wehrmacht), like you are trying to whitewash. From wiki: "the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the German Nazi party".
It was separate army, directly under Nazi party. Many members were German. They have different weapons, their own logistics, separate chain of command and so on.
> They were also intrinsically less involved in the Final Solution, unlike the regular Waffen-SS, by and large (in particular they were not involved operating the camps,
There were atrocities outside of West Europe as well.
So, you're making a very particular point, in such a way that it is easy to misunderstand. Normally, just saying "women" or "men" is fine, but in this instance, sports generally refer to biological sex, not social gender, because biology discriminates. Individuals with biological male sex have higher bone densities, more ability to gain muscle, tend to be taller, larger, etc. "Women", as in gender, not sex, should not be slower, this is true, but "women", as in sex, will be slower due to biology.
The physical disparity is not a social issue, it's biology; the social component can be argued, however. How we choose to categorize within sports is in our control and opinions will go either way - in my opinion, the separation of men's and women's sports was done to try to correct for that physical disparity caused by biology, if that's undone, I think the top records will be dominated by individuals with biological male sex, regardless of gender, in all categories.
> If your issue is a barking dog or hypodermic needles in the park, then let’s talk about that. But don’t say, ‘This particular person’ or ‘This particular dog.’ We can’t fact-check that, and you could totally destroy someone’s reputation.”
But we can fact-check that. Many people who complain about dogs have video evidence, and weeks of records.
We had similar local forum. I complained about off leash dogs attacking children, and shitting in children playgrounds. Our city has strict leash-laws. I offered to provide video evidence for everything.
But "politeness" rules went out of the window. I am "horrible" and "unhappy" person who hates dogs. And somehow it is children fault, they get attacked by illegal dog, while playing at designated dog-free area! They "provoke" and "trigger" dogs, by sitting, walking or riding bicycle. Usual gaslighting!
> After going overbudget by more than 60%, several bad-faith charges, and with a product still in preproduction, DEF CON issued a stop work order.
My reaction was "only 60% over budget"? This is a low volume custom computer. The way Defcon pushes promotion and recognition, I do not think they paid full commercial price.
We all don't know how the contract was structured.
EE claims, they stayed in Budget while also claiming they did not receive the agreed upon payment.
DC claims, EE went 60% over budget
A run with 30k badges is not that small and eight months is not that short of a timeframe.
Somewhere I read about a $20 target price all in which I find realistic for PCB parts and assembly, but not if the cost include injection molding ($10k / mold and $1/pcs I guess) and especially not if it contains hardware and software development cost
If you cycle into grocery store, you may get chased and attacked by dangerous dogs. Many people gave up cycling and jogging for that! And in grocery store more dogs and excrements! There are rules against all of that, yet it is widely ignored.
Lidars will get vandalized pretty fast, because they will impede flow of traffic. Or thugs will use it to stop passing vehicles to make kidnapping easy!