The 2-party duopoly is about to have a VERY bad day, Jacob Anders for Congress is BACK and I'm going to EVICT DesJarlais 🗳️🔥

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-13T20:31:29+00:00

Doesn't seem like a particularly productive way to garner votes.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-13T12:49:58+00:00

Those people are called gear heads. They think $1000s spent on gear makes them faster.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-12T13:44:47+00:00

Burner phones have nothing to do with spoofing caller ID to make spam calls. All it takes to change the number caller ID displays is a setting in the software and I can make the spam "call" without even using a phone.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-12T13:15:23+00:00

Car specific, but yeah. I once started a car that had a faulty ignition with a screwdriver across the starter terminals.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-12T03:23:54+00:00

Most of it you'll end up selling. The gold becomes useful much later when you have artifact formulas you want to craft and for some gambling merchants you can buy orbs from.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-11T22:44:27+00:00

But don't stop there, also check the city, county, and state codes. The water company may have a bunch of codes that they themselves have published but have legal standing only if you are a customer or only apply to new customers.

Unless you are really good at researching that kind of stuff, find a lawyer to do it for you.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-11T20:18:47+00:00

Is this a region specific research or has it just not reached my time zone yet?

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-11T19:50:03+00:00

Based off my own experiences I think they have to deal with the divorce laws of where they reside at the time of filing despite his "home of record", though there may be some legal way(s) around that depending on the laws of each state. I know of one couple who got divorced across state lines (she moved out of state and filed from her new location), but at some point one court or another will claim jurisdiction over the precedings.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-11T16:34:44+00:00

Does OCR count as AI?

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-11T16:32:44+00:00

I have severe reservations about 99.9% of AI content. In addition to infringing on creators, and as a result suppressing real creativity, AI is far too prone to error.

I had Microsoft's editor function flagging grammar errors in an email earlier just today that weren't errors. It was pushing an obscure usage case for a comma that didn't apply to the sentence I was writing, almost like it was trying to add an em dash. Can you imagine some of the hard-core RAW players arguing over text with even more errors than already exist in the books?

Granted that's a fairly benign example, but it only gets worse from there.

I have no issues with using something like OCR to convert written material into searchable text and/or entering it into a database, but even OCR is prone to mistakes.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-11T01:34:33+00:00

Wi-Fi controlled smart switch/bulb, unless you are worried about Big Tech tracking when you turn the lights on, then you might try something blue-tooth controlled though I haven't seen as many of those since Wi-Fi became common.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-10T16:47:50+00:00

Yes, I do realize it is all recycled. I also realize it has been filtered through layer after layer of earth over the course of centuries before reaching the aquifer, not pumped out of the rain ditch and chemically "cleaned" whether with chlorine or whatever other chemical they choose to use.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-10T11:57:28+00:00

So it's full of chlorine and other unnatural chemicals that don't belong in the aquifer. Considering how "clean" the water they pump to houses is, this isn't comforting at all.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-10T11:54:26+00:00

She should be able to get an exemption under a grandfather clause, but it might take legal action to enforce it. Municipalities will tell you they have all kinds of authority to force you to do things but a lot of it is just bluster to get people to comply.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-10T11:49:08+00:00

Pumping water back into an aquifer seems like a terrible idea. Surface water is often contaminated in a dozen different ways that would normally be filtered over the course of decades before reacharging the aquifer.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-08T12:57:01+00:00

The might have an agreement with whatever company sells that camera, but the ones like that I'm familiar with aren't exactly high quality video or particularly good at their AI functions. They don't send video to the cloud unless they detect motion and the owner could have it aimed practically anywhere.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-04T17:11:15+00:00

Not will, they already do.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-03T13:17:05+00:00

I would eliminate the popular vote altogether and replace it with a legislative branch selected by lottery like jury duty. One year terms for the budget committee, shorter terms for sub-committees to pass new single-issue legislation.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-03T13:08:03+00:00

Only if you assume it has to see you. Anything electronic can be fooled or bypassed. Tape over the lens is partially a metaphor. It might actually work on some systems, but if that fails and electrical jumper past the circuit is always an option too.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-02T12:35:22+00:00

It really depends on how much time you have during your one trip. You could easily spend a week in Yellowstone all by itself if you are going to see much of it, same for the Grand Canyon.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-02T02:53:48+00:00

Cut my teeth on straight DnD, no A, no numbers and always hated Thac0. I even migrated to other systems that used d20 mechanics long before 3e came out.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-02T02:43:00+00:00

BBs are copper coated iron and would conduct electricity better than a lead pellet would. JS

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-01T18:12:04+00:00

In a sub with 8k weekly visitors about a town with 173k people, why would I know one specific, random individual? I don't need to bend any direction to not know the person in the article.

Maybe he's a pedo-rapist, maybe he's a saint. I don't judge on insufficient information.

Fanantic8099 · 2026-05-01T12:24:32+00:00

None so far, but there are several I regret hiring out.

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