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A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.
Is it true that the Ferengi were based on Jews? I suspected so, but then I also considered they may have been influenced by the Chinese.
However, if anyone taken in by his stories were to complain publicly (say, a book publisher or something), they'd be admitting not only to being a rube, but a rube to a liar who had already claimed publicly to be a scam artist. Even worse, that scam would be real and count as a success, restoring the scam artist's tarnished reputation from fabulist back to bona fide scam artist.
I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…
Wait I thought standard practice was to leave $1 to show that they were considered and purposefully removed from the will? Does that fail in court?
Then again, money. > A jury in New Mexico awarded $412 million to a man who sued over what he said were unnecessary erectile dysfunction shots that decimated his penis On the one hand, now you're famous for having a dick that doesn't work, on the other hand, $412 million. https://amp.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article296...
$412 million in actualized damages? That’s international dynastic money over a penis.
I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…
A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E... An example might be some person A saying "only an idiot with this set of very specific negative attributes would do this thing". And then person B came out in the public saying they had been slandered by person A, thus indirectly admitting to having those very specific negative attirbutes. Basically if person A invok…
A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E... An example might be some person A saying "only an idiot with this set of very specific negative attributes would do this thing". And then person B came out in the public saying they had been slandered by person A, thus indirectly admitting to having those very specific negative attirbutes. Basically if person A invok…
Where are the pictures to see what exactly is the problem?
While I say “not easy”, others might say “hard”. Both are fine - for all we know the problem might be both hard and not easy to see.
I'm sure South Park had no idea about any of this
It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?) I wonder if Peter Thiel took umbrage at how South Park portrayed him recently [0] and is lurking in the shadows planning Gawker v2 [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSOC6-G044 [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thi...
If you accuse someone (not me) of having a small penis (I don't) they (not me) don't have to show that they (not me) have a large penis (like me). Just the accusation they made (to you, not me) is slander enough. But I'd gladly drop-trousers in a court.