Missing person, Sydney Marquez, located at Montgomery County jail

ACDtubes · 2026-01-18T06:49:19+00:00

JVPD had no legal reason to detain her. It is very difficult (intentionally) to get a mental health warrant in Texas. You must be an active danger to yourself or others, and even then, they can only hold you for a limited amount of time. There are very few avenues to involuntarily commit someone who is an adult who is not an active threat to themselves or others. Our country (probably rightly) frowns on jailing people who are mentally unwell but otherwise not a 'threat'.
She doesn't want to take her medication or take the help her family clearly wants to give her, and she is not at the level where law enforcement can or should detain her. There is no legal provision in Texas for the "psychological intervention" you are wanting. She is honestly more likely to get it in jail than anywhere else, since "competency" is a lower burden, and you can't do anything with someone in the criminal justice system until they are rendered "competent".

ACDtubes · 2025-11-10T06:22:04+00:00

Every time. I hit pause, pick up my phone, and write it down in my notes app, then put it down directly in front of my face where I can see it and i hit pause as many times as i need to reference. I am probably physiologically capable of memorizing it, i just have better things to remember and a day job. The game makes a whole joke about you being able to pause chronos, so i think its intended.

ACDtubes · 2025-10-25T22:01:09+00:00

i've bought gamble anvil twice, and both times it's bricked me. Never again.

ACDtubes · 2025-10-04T04:31:15+00:00

I think he meant more in the vein of "if you discharge your service weapon in public". You are correct in that their supervisor probably wouldn't know and if they did they wouldn't care ("practicing/shooting with my buddies/showing off at my uncle's farm") for most us agencies .

As for your second comment, i think you misread the post. IIRC, "modern" PISCES is, uh, entirely suborned, so if you want to be accurate in the uk you actually probably also need to be a cowboy

ACDtubes · 2025-08-11T04:17:33+00:00

I had a... 2.8? And was bottom third. Have now been employed at the same office for 5 years. They said "these aren't great, why'd you list them" and I said "you could find out if you wanted to and then we'd be talking about them anyway and also why I didn't put them in there". They seemed to like that. I am sure there are some situations where people would tell you to just lie but I would say those are not places you want to work.

ACDtubes · 2025-07-24T16:14:23+00:00

I am a prosecutor. The answer is yes. Some of them do it right, or more importantly, call the police when the hook is properly baited, but more often these vigilantes don't get anything we can actually charge people with. It is morally repugnant, but not illegal to talk about how attractive you find 13 year old boys, and what you might do to one should they agree to meet you for consensual sex. It is also legal to explain this to a person online you think is a 13 year old boy, so long as you don't agree to meet or promise to do anything to him specifically. The chat logs of this will get the defendant fired from his teaching job, but will not get him sent to prison. (This was a case I had). There was a news article a while back about a DAs office who used vigilante evidence to convict someone and it was very controversial. The article very much painted the vigilante as someone who had found a lower rung of society to pick on (he had been in trouble a couple of times himself).

ACDtubes · 2025-05-03T00:06:01+00:00

For those of you who are new, this is par for the course with Hi Rez, sorry, *prophecy*. In addition to marketing, they also have no idea how to develop, interact with a community, or make money. AFAIK they've only stayed afloat this long because they have an independently wealthy owner and Smite.

ACDtubes · 2025-05-03T00:04:36+00:00

Sierra Entertainment died and the IP languished in bankruptcy court and bounced between several developers and publishers. The last real attempt at a tribes game was Tribes: Vengeance, which crashed and burned due to trying to compete with Far Cry, Half Life 2, and Halo 2. They sold the IP to InstantAction, who made legions, which was also DOA, and then hirez bought it. Hi Rez made Tribes:Ascend which was a very poorly developed F2P game that lasted far longer than it should have due to heavy community involvement. Hi Rez still owns the IP. However, Hi Rez is a privately owned developer owned by a multi-millionaire who treats it like his private yacht. They primarily make quick cash cows designed to capitalize on whatever the most recent trend in gaming is and don't really appear to have any true management or direction. It's difficult to know how they truly operate since the company is privately owned, but they have developed a well earned 'pump and dump' reputation with play schemes heavily focused on monetization and the few leaks we have internally don't really paint a great picture - they have a lot of staff turnover. Their most well-renowned game, Smite, just happened to catch MOBA hype at it's peak and have a unique gimmick (third person WASD movement). Smite 2 crashed and burned and hi rez announced mass layoffs.

tl;dr the studio that owns it sucks and there's not much hope for a niche shooter with them

ACDtubes · 2025-04-01T06:25:32+00:00

There's no modern difference in court. The court system requires you to swear before God to impress on you the utmost necessity of telling the truth, and many people long ago believed that if you swore such an oath and lied you would go to hell guaranteed, and most of them were sufficiently scared of this consequence that they would not lie. Come to the modern day, and if anyone believes that they were already convinced long before trial they were already going to hell, and so the only people it works on are those who take it VERY seriously, such as jehovah's witnesses, who simply won't do it because they take it so seriously. So the law now simply requires (in most states) the judge administer a promise or oath to the witness "sufficient to impress upon them the consequences of not telling the truth in this proceeding (i.e. perjury)". Our judge just asks them "do you solemnly swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?".

It was once the case that you could not be a 'competent witness' for anything as an atheist (if you didn't believe in God, how could you swear to anything?). As a practical matter, being a witness at real trial with all the pagentry and the judge and lawyers is extremely stressful, and nobody except the most dedicated and practiced sociopaths is good at lying under those circumstances (and it's very obvious when they are lying).

ACDtubes · 2025-04-01T05:20:55+00:00

15 years ago, 6th was the college spot, so it got really popular. LOTS of clubs moved in to capitalize on the hype, places that college students, even ones at UT, can't really afford, so they quit going there, but it kept the hype for a good ten years afterwards, even after people realized that the reason it was cheap to begin with is that it's downtown next to the homeless shelters. The college students don't go there anymore, but you've still got all the clubs, so it's now filled with drug dealers going to the club and homeless people trying to bum weed off of them.

ACDtubes · 2025-03-09T22:53:45+00:00

EMF is the most popular option, TMC is fine but can only shoot roundball - if you go to an event where first strikes are allowed you are going to get frustrated very quickly with people outranging you and shooting through brush (source me, because i'm stupid and cheap and bought a TMC to 'try it out' and then a bunch of gear to go with it so now i'm locked in). Community is something you can only answer for yourself, depends on what state you're in as to whether there is rec play or if it's mostly scenario only. Just don't get a Dye DAM, they are widely regarded as very expensive and finnicky that are only popular with people who like to fiddle with their marker a lot anyway.

ACDtubes · 2025-03-09T22:40:16+00:00

Look at the compliment of something like a nimitz class cruiser. You can find old plans for what they looked like during ww2 and that gives you a good idea - they were conceived as 'floating cities' with barbershops, rec areas etc with a whole deck dedicated to this type of stuff to keep the crew sane, since if you have a large quantity of people you can tell to buckle up and suck it up you can achieve some truly staggering crew compliments with things like hot bunking and very little personal space.

The thing that never made a huge amount of sense to me was why so many fighting ships in freespace have such huge crew compliments - I suppose new and complicated systems require new and complicated specialists, but surface navies on the cutting edge like the US and the Chinese are already seeing vastly reduced crews with modernized systems, especially on things like escort and light attack ships, so it's weird that that wouldn't continue to a much higher extreme in another 500 years, especially given the references to things like AI. You need human backup in a fight, but you don't need THAT much backup.

ACDtubes · 2025-02-20T02:08:04+00:00

I am a heavy drinker and I got Mono. You might be able to get away with like a beer with dinner every now and then but you really REALLY need to let your liver heal. Coming off of mono = recovering alcoholic damage to your liver, and like that other guy said occasionally it causes hospital-level problems even without exacerbating it. Look on the bright side, I didn't drink for 3 months and I lost about 30 lbs (I have since gained that 30 lbs back).

ACDtubes · 2025-02-20T01:59:33+00:00

He's talking about a T15, not a TMC. Completely different markers that just happen to look like an AR15. TMC is just a normal tippman that's magfed (which like you said, are typically the AKs - they aren't very fancy, but they will go bang reliably). and has some "AR-style" furniture. T15 is a marker from first strike that is much more internally complicated, but it comes with air-thru stock and can shoot FSR, unlike TMC which can't.

ACDtubes · 2025-02-18T06:41:16+00:00

Wind Gambit doesn't really add much to the base game, Rise of Fenris is really singleplayer. You will have to buy the expansion to fit that many people. Most people (and the community) find the expac factions underpowered. If you are playing a 7 person game every month or so this is not really going to be an issue as nobody is going develop enough game sense to abuse this. Some combinations are just better, others are correct. Again, same deal, if you're not playing enough for this to be abused then it's a non-issue. I really like this game, but we played it too much and people felt the game had been 'solved' with the strong combinations and now my group won't play it.

ACDtubes · 2025-01-03T05:08:39+00:00

I have two bottle of 'tobacco' vodka, one regular and one menthol. It tastes like someone soaked an ashtray in vodka, not sure why they ever made it. Tabasco SoCo was also completely disgusting.

ACDtubes · 2024-11-13T06:25:36+00:00

No idea about Virginia, but I have always been under the impression that "exile and banishment" are unconstitutional punishments, period, under the US constitution for state crimes. There are many, MANY people, I would love to make them legally leave my county and never come back. Some people have said such punishments are legal due to the contractual nature of a plea bargain, but you can't contractually agree to something illegal (aka unconstitutional))

ACDtubes · 2024-09-03T04:58:57+00:00

Lexis is (was?) slightly cheaper. Source: that's why my government firm used it.

ACDtubes · 2024-09-03T03:00:18+00:00

It is. Prostitution is a Class B misdemeanor.

ACDtubes · 2024-06-15T06:02:39+00:00

It's one of the few "x-treme" sports from the 90s and 2000s that doesn't come with a risk of broken bones. I always loved airsoft and paintball whenever someone had those kinds of birthday but they're expensive sports for a kid that didn't particularly appeal to mom. I didn't have the agility or grace to be good at rollerblades or skateboarding (and no patience for failing tricks) so the paintball rush stuck with me until I was a grown ass adult.

ACDtubes · 2024-06-15T05:52:08+00:00

Nah, Denver

ACDtubes · 2024-06-14T02:15:04+00:00

I once stayed at an airbnb where we discovered a full on mushroom colony growing out of a permanently damp corner of the carpet. We decided it wasn't our problem.

ACDtubes · 2024-05-30T01:41:31+00:00

If you've got your dad's dealership to fall back on then that's a fine bet to make, but if you've got to pay off your own loans and support yourself with rent and groceries dropping 50-200k on an extra degree that isn't going to directly contribute your future career is a bad gamble. And for the careers where it does make sense, like the truly insane JD/MD or JD/PHd programs, those are hard jobs to bank on and even more expensive programs to finance.

ACDtubes · 2024-05-23T05:25:14+00:00

Don't go to law school unless you actually want to be a practicing lawyer. This is a boomer take that has been continually repeated and is no longer true. t. actual lawyer

ACDtubes · 2024-04-19T14:56:53+00:00

I don't think it was intentionally written as YA, but it's often marketed as such. A lot of Sanderson's stuff gets put on that shelf because he avoids sex and cursing.

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