tpaine posted:

that sounds awesome, dr.what

i am going to pretend you're serious and reply

a lot of it was just liberal really and the guy who ran it was kind of bad at comedy but all but one of the acts were good. and i laughed until i cried at stewart lee himself. would lol again, 4/5

toutvabien posted:

i am deeply jealous as a person who loves Stewart Lee

Same.

getfiscal posted:

the current liberal ideology of law is that everything forms a sort of internal logic that is elaborated through cases. so they see lawyering as trying to anticipate legal risk and intervene in a way consistent with the logic of the system. and if the system is operating illogically in a particular case then you have all sorts of opportunities to iron them out through further interventions. and they think this framework is essentially complete insofar as any judge could read extant case law and come to a reasonable conclusion to a case that should satisfy the requirements of justice. so they honestly think that being able to do logic problems is a high predictor of success in that you can elaborate the logic of a case. this is because law school involves wading through a large number of cases where you have to quickly sort through arguments based on competing weighted principles.

in reality the internal logic probably largely refers to the ongoing functioning of the mode of production tempered by some democratic rights won by various classes, although not in a crass way that everything refers back to this completely. if anything lawyering, in my limited knowledge, seems like it tends to rest on tolerating absurdities insofar as they relate to smooth functioning. like there may be good legal reasons why you can't have a right to squat a house if you are homeless based on how it would create "absurdities" in the housing market and property rights situation, even if in reality housing shouldn't be a commodity. i think a large amount of petty-bourgeois thought revolves around "the way things work" such that relatively modest reforms always sound insane. which is my experience with moderate leftists in canada, they don't think radicals are just an exaggerated form of themselves, they think they just don't know how the world works and would just sabotage all institutions.

Pretty much but I would take this even farther and say the lsat exists mainly to reinforce the mythology of the "law" being something that's objectively measureable and not just basically police work by white collar knowledge workers.

A computer program spat out a score predicting the likelihood of each committing a future crime. Borden — who is black — was rated a high risk. Prater — who is white — was rated a low risk.

Two years later, we know the computer algorithm got it exactly backward. Borden has not been charged with any new crimes. Prater is serving an eight-year prison term for subsequently breaking into a warehouse and stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of electronics.

Scores like this — known as risk assessments — are increasingly common in courtrooms across the nation. They are used to inform decisions about who can be set free at every stage of the criminal justice system, from assigning bond amounts — as is the case in Fort Lauderdale — to even more fundamental decisions about defendants’ freedom. In Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin, the results of such assessments are given to judges during criminal sentencing.

Rating a defendant’s risk of future crime is often done in conjunction with an evaluation of a defendant’s rehabilitation needs. The Justice Department’s National Institute of Corrections now encourages the use of such combined assessments at every stage of the criminal justice process. And a landmark sentencing reform bill currently pending in Congress would mandate the use of such assessments in federal prisons.

Northpointe’s core product is a set of scores derived from 137 questions that are either answered by defendants or pulled from criminal records. Race is not one of the questions. The survey asks defendants such things as: “Was one of your parents ever sent to jail or prison?” “How many of your friends/acquaintances are taking drugs illegally?” and “How often did you get in fights while at school?” The questionnaire also asks people to agree or disagree with statements such as “A hungry person has a right to steal” and “If people make me angry or lose my temper, I can be dangerous.”

tpaine posted:

something

it's You.

animedad posted:

engineering school is different than industry work, because school is so heavy into research and exploration (which gives you kind of a footloose and fancy free feeling) , and when you get out there you'll find old grumpy engineers that don't want to teach you with no power ( pretty high wages but no union) saying "yes sir" all the time and working very long hours. eventually you realise it's just a job like the rest of them and your shut mouth and do it and hopefully have good things to do in spare time that isn't boozing and going home to a well appointed and well empty apartment

please stop with the doxxing