Not sure if that's an indictment of me as an asshole or not. I suspect so. Please advise before I respond, I don't wanna infer and accidentally be a huge jerk.

I don't like it because when people are trying to be politically correct it really feels to me like the motivation is coming from a selfish place. By that I mean they are being PC to be viewed a certain way, rather than because it's common fucking courtesy to not be a shit.

Arthropods cannot be trusted. They're gross whether they are on land or at sea.

You can do that by taking a trust but verify approach. We give the accused the benefit of the doubt by granting them a fair trial, we give the accuser our faith by doing the work to find out what happened. We owe these things to both parties, and when you in any way break that covenant you are eroding trust in the…

Wait wait wait....is it any better that it was a fucking crab and not a louse? NONONONONO

Sigh, I expected as much. Trying to be a decent human being sucks, no wonder most people don't bother.

There's also the "right thing" from my own moral perspective which tells me that saying something is the better course of action. She certainly wouldn't be responsible for his actions but I do feel that if we can lessen the suffering of others we should at least consider it, even if that consideration results in no…

yeah, I responded to a comment on the initial post that didn't include that caveat, didn't notice it until the comment was already committed to Kinja

That's what I thought I'd hear. I've been doing just that but it's eating away at me to know that others will be at risk with this guy out and about.

Why is doing the right thing so fucking unpleasant?

I know full well it isn't atypical, I read and get depressed by the same news as you do. What I meant by that was not that it's atypical but that is an extreme expression of a good practice, that is taken so far that it's harmful towards the victims.

No I insist that we treat accused like that, it's to ensure that we…

Somewhat related to the topic, if anyone has advice I would love to hear it.

My friend shared her experience with me about a month ago, about how she was raped(she did not couch it in these terms) by her now-ex boyfriend. The issue was that he was initiating sex while she was sleeping, she would frequently wake up with…

And that is an example of people taking it WAY too far. The bar for evidence should be high, but not insurmountably so. Physical evidence should be where the puck stops.

No, I do not believe that 95% of accused rapists are innocent, I'm sure there are a few innocent people in there but I would have trouble doing the…

You're confusing easy for each employee with easy for the whole. And again, efficiency is also in no way a measure of difficulty, it's a different thing altogether.

The fact is that when a system becomes more complex you increase the possible failures points, there are a lot of challenges that mass production…

Or perhaps on the correct notion that we must always hold some skepticism for a criminal, it has its flaws but "innocent until proven guilty" has a very good reason to be.

The problem with testimony is the human in the loop, we know from experimentation that eye witness testimony is basically useless.

Thanks for sharing this, I saw it a few days back, a solid read

Just because it gets cheaper doesn't mean it gets EASIER, those are 2 different things

This is the first moment I have ever regretted sleeping in english class.

Well yeah, brewing at small scale is always going to be easier. This is just how scaling up production of anything, be it beer or toilet paper, works.

Sorry but no, brewers who refer to themselves as "craft" and disparage a larger scale operation are just assholes. Nothing is worse than the guy who will spend an hour telling me why his beer is better than mine.

Craft beer has made me hate this fucking beverage even more than the flavour already did.