wolfkin

wolfkin, 8 months ago

@TheOneWithTheHair good lord what happened to just punishments. Even if this was something to punish (which it isn't) anything more than a detention is kinda extreme? Ya'll taking away scholarships? That's a future by some measures. You're saying it's okay to take away her ability to get a bright future because she was at a party on her own time?

wolfkin, 8 months ago

@Coasting0942 @sara ooooooh. This is a religious scholarship? or a religious school? Alrighty then at least that makes sense.

wolfkin, 8 months ago

@TheOneWithTheHair

"They had other people dancing in that video who were on the dance team that nothing happened to. He said she was punished because she is the 'hood ornament' of the school."

Based on the NY Post pictures it was probably awkward teenage white girl twerking too. This whole thing is just a nothing burger and it doesn't even seem like a private school. what the heck?

https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/honor-student-loses-scholarship-after-twerking-video-surfaces/

wolfkin, 8 months ago

@JasSmith @FlyingSquid it was a public school. And they cited religious beliefs as for why they were so offended. That's a clear violation of church and state and while it's certainly not new or unique it's not defensible or right.

wolfkin, 9 months ago

@sholomo @Lightor I think you're wrong but It's an interesting argument. Why is this shooting seen by many as more reasonable than the guy who show the kid knocking on his door. For my money it's the justifiable confusion. A kid knocks on your door and your first response is to shoot doesn't make sense. You had room and barriers to make decisions. In this case the dude was in his face and wouldn't back off. IMO they're incomparably different. But yeah guns are a problem in both cases.

wolfkin, 9 months ago

@sholomo That's a perfectly fair point. Now while I do not support how he reacted and it's one of the many reasons, I don't think people should be allowed to have guns willy-nilly, I will maintain that. There is a huge difference between something unexpected showing up in your doorstep and a man intensely yelling at you in your personal space. Extremely close doing things you are not able to comprehend who refuses to back away after repeated attempts to step back.

wolfkin, 9 months ago

@sholomo in my opinion his reaction was correct. It's his owning a gun that was wrong. The problem is when you have a gun you're supposed to use it. And I mean that in the prescriptive sense, not a descriptive sense. There's no point in having a gun and then still resorting to fists. If you're in danger and you do not know what's going on, you reach for the strongest weapon you have around you and you use it to defend yourself. Govt should prevent that weapon frm being 2 deadly. Guns r 2 deadly.

wolfkin, 9 months ago

@Decoy321 @TheJims It was definitely a real controversy for months a while back. He won and his opponent iirc accused him of having a vib to help him cheat.

General concensus is that it's unlikely. The sheet complexity of communicating movements via vib patterns alone makes it a stretch.

Plus... ya know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCDc4I0cSQ

wolfkin, 9 months ago

@Pietson @TheJims @Decoy321 that wasn't what I heard but I didn't look too too far into it. I read a few of the light articles that discussed the viability of the butt plug cheat device, but aside from that I didn't really go back to the source or anything.

wolfkin, 9 months ago

@KidsTryThisAtHome direct replies include anyone in the thread chain by default. It's like Twitter in that way.