Share this page!

Enter Twitter Thread URL to Unroll

Needs to be the full URL like: https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on Twitter App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
FischerKing Profile picture
@FischerKing64
May 9 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Murder clearance rate in Japan is 95%. In Germany it's above 90%. In Detroit and Newark, it's about 31%. In Flint, Michigan it's about 18%. You've got an excellent chance of getting away with murder in certain parts of the United States.
Here is an excerpt from an article I was perusing from the European Journal of Criminology. Looks like they're having some trouble in Trinidad and Tobago as well, while South Korea and Finland are kicking ass: Image
Meanwhile: Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with FischerKing

FischerKing Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @FischerKing64

FischerKing Profile picture
May 9
‘Vietnam taught America you don’t fight a war because some intellectual tells you it might be a good thing. I don’t think you’re gonna get Americans to fight a war again unless it really means something.’ - Stanley Kubrick in documentary film ‘Kubrick on Kubrick.’ He was wrong.
This is a short, good film put out by Arte France. It consists of recorded interviews with Kubrick discussing his films, and archival footage of actors he worked with, and clips from his films. Recommend.
Couple other interesting points. He did the Vietnam war footage at an abandoned factory sight in England 9 miles from his home. He did most of the filming for The Shining in a studio near his home and never went to Colorado. He did all the editing of his films at home.
Read 5 tweets
FischerKing Profile picture
May 8
1/Regime/culture change is possible w/extreme brutality. If you kill all elites, lay waste to society, humiliate the culture, then rule w/iron fist - you can remake a society. But no one wants to do this now, and so all crusades to remake societies are fools errands.
2/Germany post WW2 is example of how this can be done. Firebomb the cities for years, kill all the best soldiers for years, rape every woman in sight, then hold every politician under your thumb for decades - and you can have a fat pliant woman like Merkel as the output…
3/Many other examples but they’re mostly ancient. Carthage obviously. But also examples of half measures - Athens lost in 404 but was back up causing trouble right quick…
Read 6 tweets
FischerKing Profile picture
May 6
For the Americans swooning over the pageantry of monarchy. Pick up a biography of any British monarch since about George III. These people are not really that interesting, not remarkable, don't have any involvement in actual government. They are tourist attractions.
To the extent that their existence generates tourist dollars and helps the British economy, they continue to justify themselves. But that's about it.
Edward VII was apparently useful in foreign policy, helped to bring about the entente w/France through his command of the language and charm. Maybe the monarchy could still play this sort of role. Maybe it even does, though didn't see much evidence of it under Elizabeth.
Read 4 tweets
FischerKing Profile picture
Apr 28
1/So here is a peposo (beef cooked in wine, pepper, aromatics) served alongside some simple mashed potatoes and green salad. This is very rich, takes some time, but is worth it couple times a year. Details… Image
2/I had roughly 5 lbs of Chuck, which I trimmed of fat, then cut into cubes. I salted them lightly, let them sit at room temperature for an hour. I prepared aromatics - 3 shallots, head of garlic, 2 carrots, handful of rosemary and 3 bay leaves. Onion would be good too. ImageImageImage
3/ you also need to grind up about 2 tbsp of peppercorns, and have about 2 tbsp of tomato paste, 1 tsp anchovy paste and a pack of gelatin. ImageImage
Read 7 tweets
FischerKing Profile picture
Apr 24
1/Computers have grown so strong at chess that world's best players have no chance. People can look at games computers play, and get ideas, but can't beat them. For years people kept saying chess was "dead," had been "solved." Really what happened is humans reached their limits..
2/Same thing has happened in Go. The neural network computer that beat the best players, teaching itself how to play, attacked the game differently, in ways humans had not thought of and maybe could not have come up with on their own. Humans have a horsepower ceiling, shown here.
3/When it comes to all this AI business, the interesting part will be where it shows human limits. So far, the Chat GPT stuff is either competent, can pass as human, or it makes obvious mistakes. It isn't doing anything with language that blows Shakespeare out of the water...
Read 7 tweets
FischerKing Profile picture
Apr 20
Linguistic note - modern German "atmen" (to breathe), derives from Indo-European root, as did Sanskrit word "atman," which means breath or essence. In Hinduism this word came to mean something like universalism of human existence. In German it never acquired religious meaning...
...there are hundreds of examples of in historical linguistics of words with an origin, splitting off in derivative languages into all kinds of different meanings, but the divergence maintaining a kind of logic...
...so "atman" in Sanskrit came to have something like the meaning of "soul" b/c Hindus placed a lot of emphasis on breath as something immaterial, something that stopped when the body died, so they tied it to an afterlife. Germanics just didn't do this.
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Send Email!

:(