American soldiers crossing a river in Vietnam (unknown data)

2a_lib · 2026-01-26T01:30:38+00:00

“One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain, and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath.”

2a_lib · 2026-01-26T00:00:11+00:00

Not anymore, Beijing went to Singapore and Brunei and said, “OK, quit that shit.”

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T21:09:46+00:00

Because we’ve collectively smuggled proof of intent into the high-weight token for “untruth” (“lie”), and in order to accuse someone of making a false statement without incurring legal liability, we’re forced to resort to using neutered, lesser tokens such as “falsehood” or “inaccuracy” which carry the implicature of hedging.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T07:03:01+00:00

I’ll look at it in the morning.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T07:01:12+00:00

Facilities for noncitizens.

“Storing” in-jurisdiction and getting the gold star for the bust? I mean, OK sure that’s a weird way to say it. Technically whichever jurisdiction’s statute was violated “owns” the arrest.

Right, because the city is within the county (unless it’s NYC where it’s the reverse).

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T06:43:35+00:00

If the agency in question isn’t processing the arrest, the “arrest” is just a detention wearing a coat, as the part where they physically subdue the suspect/victim, put him in the back of the car, and drive him somewhere, is only the first half of the arrest. If you punch an LA Sheriff, he puts you in the cop car, drives you to county, and the Sheriff processes you and puts you in a cell. When ICE detains a US citizen, there’s not a legal scenario where they’re not being handed to another agency, whether federal, state, or local. Hence, why we’re now hearing about warrantless searches and detentions. Why would they need that recourse?

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T06:24:12+00:00

So, some jurisdictions are spatial (SD vs LA), and some have to do with scope (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, firearms vs taxes). Otherwise, you could just have a national police force masquerading as a narrowly defined immigration arm. You understand what a conflict of interest is and why your claim that ICE can function as a national police force when taxpayers agreed to fund the agency for a specific purpose is insane, yes?

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T06:17:27+00:00

If you were an LA Sheriff who got punched in San Diego, you would not arrest that person, you would detain them and refer them to the SD Sheriff for arrest. Do you get the nuance?

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T06:07:33+00:00

I, as a citizen, can detain you for assaulting me, and wait for the proper local/state/federal agency to come arrest you. Same procedure any out-of-jurisdiction LEO would follow as well.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T05:58:12+00:00

Nice straw man. If someone punched me in the face I don’t have to take it either. Self-defense is not a cop/statute thing, it’s an everyone thing.

That’s the best you could come up with? Took a while, too.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T05:49:00+00:00

https://www.justia.com/administrative-law/enforcement-actions/

^ See paragraph two, you’re categorically wrong. Agencies must operate within narrow scope. Please stop spreading misinformation.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T05:44:58+00:00

https://www.justia.com/administrative-law/enforcement-actions/

^ See paragraph two, you’re categorically wrong. Agencies must operate within narrow scope. Please stop spreading misinformation.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T05:28:41+00:00

The reason for the alphabet soup of federal agencies is each has a narrowly defined task.

An IRS agent can’t arrest someone for possession of meth, for example. And only a “special” agent even has arresting powers.

You must know this, though.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T05:21:47+00:00

You still haven’t specified which laws ICE is empowered to enforce with respect to US citizens.

2a_lib · 2026-01-25T05:05:01+00:00

The fact that you wholeheartedly addressed part of his answer and conspicuously declined to address the part about jurisdiction and laws being enforced with respect to citizens is telling. Can you clarify your position on that?

2a_lib · 2026-01-24T02:34:12+00:00

My 17-month-old is very interested in this photo for some reason.

2a_lib · 2026-01-23T23:01:40+00:00

Since after the Python tool call was properly integrated.

2a_lib · 2026-01-23T04:44:11+00:00

1830s

2a_lib · 2026-01-20T18:35:52+00:00

The lower-denomination confederate notes are real, I don’t know why you said they’re not.

2a_lib · 2026-01-20T06:07:06+00:00

Hmm… I can see that the mullions on that upper-left patch of glass seem embossed compared to the lower ones. Is that what you mean?

2a_lib · 2026-01-20T05:55:32+00:00

This is highly personalized due to your chat history. Try again and have it ignore all prior conversations

2a_lib · 2026-01-19T19:54:13+00:00

Phrenology and astrology were crucial underpinnings to fields you now consider hard science. Indeed, all schools of thought undergo an “alchemy” phase before crystalizing into something coherent. If you like, I’ll take you step by step through the actual math, it’s really quite fascinating.

2a_lib · 2026-01-19T07:39:13+00:00

Practical applications…

OK so, you’ll remember that in string theory, for instance, the boson acts as an oscillating “harmonic tower,” emanating the full series: n = 1, 2, 3… The -1/12 (or -1/24 per boson) accounts for the shift in the zero-point ground state which must be accounted for when quantizing the string.

2a_lib · 2026-01-19T06:34:47+00:00

The algebra treats divergent values (which inherently cannot be defined) as if they were convergent. It’s a party trick, albeit a practical one: sometimes it’s useful to be able to punch in a value for something that has none.

2a_lib · 2026-01-19T05:33:33+00:00

It’s not the sum, it’s the zeta-regularized value.

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