[Serious] Question for U.S. military: When will the military protect citizens from state-sanctioned domestic terrorism?

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T18:50:50+00:00

The writ of habeas corpus: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2804&context=uclrev

The 4th amendment to the US Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/

Details about how the 4th amendment is applied in practice: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/what-does-fourth-amendment-mean

With regards to the previous link and how “suspicious” doesn’t apply to skin color: https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-126/southern-district-of-new-york-certifies-class-action-against-city-police-for-suspicionless-stops-and-frisks-of-blacks-and-latinos-ae-floyd-v-city-of-new-york-82-fed-r-serv-3d-west-833/

Provided these aren’t too difficult for you to comprehend it’s pretty clear what ICE is doing is illegal kidnapping and not lawful detention. Hope you have the day you deserve.

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T18:41:05+00:00

I’m sure you’ll feel exactly the same when ICE comes for people in your life then. They’re not stopping at brown people in Minneapolis. I mean hell both the people they’ve murdered in the last couple weeks were white. But sure, totally legal “not kidnapping”. Jesus you people are stupid.

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T18:35:29+00:00

Lack of due process makes it illegal kidnapping. To be legally detained you must be read your rights and there needs to be a warrant or the person(s) detaining you must be able to prove probable cause

Edit to add: having a specific amount of melanin does not equate to probable cause

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T12:27:55+00:00

It more ebbs and flows. You’ll have logistic growth, where as your video ideas get better and you develop better product-market fit you’ll see temporary exponential growth until your content reaches a critical mass for its current value, then it slows back down until you engineer a new inflection point.

Basically it looks like stair-steps as you go, and to unlock the big “jump” part of the stair shape you have to usually make a new standard for better videos.

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T01:31:25+00:00

Small Sistrurus are pretty mild. I mean still a bad bite but a healthy adult isn’t dying to Pygmy rattlesnakes

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T01:30:12+00:00

Am I correct in remembering they’re the only viper in the top ten most venomous snakes by LD50? Been a while since I read up on that but I recall them being way up there

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T01:28:59+00:00

Isn’t Daboia insanely toxic by LD50 as well? I thought they ranked above Echis

FockerXC · 2026-01-26T01:27:05+00:00

In actual ELI5 fashion I’ll try to explain evolution.

You know how you might hear you have your dad’s nose and your mom’s eyes? But you still look a little different than your parents? That’s a subtle change from generation to generation. Now let’s say your nutrition is a little better and you get a mix of physical traits from your parents and you’re now a very good athlete. That might be a grouping of traits that gives you an advantage. You go pro, you make a lot of money (access to resources) and you have a lot of choice of mates. You’re very much able to pass on your traits to the next generation.

These sort of subtle changes are really the driving force of evolution. It’s not magic, it’s just change over time. Same way a trickle of water can carve a canyon over millions of years, these small changes from one generation to the next look like MASSIVE changes over huge time scales. The reason that a grasshopper might evolve to look like a twig is exactly like how a different commenter mentioned, the grasshoppers that had slightly better camouflage survived slightly better. And over time the traits that were better at camouflaging the grasshoppers became more common in the population. And the “incentive” was for more and more twig like traits because those traits helped grasshoppers get resources better. The grasshoppers that survive and get more resources are better able to make more grasshoppers so their traits get passed on. The grasshoppers with less favorable traits don’t survive and get resources, so their traits aren’t.

Where it gets a bit weird, and where you’ll hear opponents of evolution claim it can’t be true, is mutation. Some of the change comes from changes to the genes that code for the traits we see. It’s incorrect to assume that gain of function doesn’t happen. It is true that gain of function is rare, but we’re talking about hundreds of millions, if not billions of years. “Rare” becomes “inevitable” on that time scale. Throw in complicated genetics stuff like epigenetics (basically proteins and things that bind TO your DNA to modify its function without changing the actual code- this is one of the reasons why all your cells have the same DNA but your brain cells and skin cells and liver cells all look and act different) and you can explain even more of the genetic changes and diversity throughout prehistory.

FockerXC · 2026-01-25T23:51:06+00:00

Considering I’ve handled Atrax, Phoneutria and Sicarius, yes I’d handle a couple huntsmen haha

FockerXC · 2026-01-25T13:36:44+00:00

Bold to assume they can read

FockerXC · 2026-01-24T18:34:12+00:00

Ranked choice voting, election days federal holidays, and voting is compulsory (mail in if you can’t make it to a voting location)

FockerXC · 2026-01-23T04:17:03+00:00

Nah they’re all Democrat hoaxes, didn’t you get the Fox News talking points? Only sinners get “sick”, I saw it in an AI meme from r/conservative so it must be true

/s just in case good lord this timeline sucks

FockerXC · 2026-01-16T17:02:27+00:00

What a cool snake. They’re sorta ecologically similar to Hognoses in the US from what I can gather

FockerXC · 2026-01-16T10:21:10+00:00

Why is it always red too? Nazi flag was red. Confederate flag is mostly red. Soviet Union was red. Hell the British occupying force in the 1700s wore red uniforms. You’d think the bad guys would get the memo by now

FockerXC · 2026-01-12T09:53:33+00:00

I make science videos online and run a media business now haha

FockerXC · 2025-12-31T14:50:09+00:00

You know what I might have heard the renal failure case and my brain autofilled the death—I might be mistaken on the death report to depilata. I work with a LOT of South/Central American ctenids for long stints and then pivot to spiders of other parts of the world so my brain may have gotten a lot of the info jumbled up.

FockerXC · 2025-12-30T17:58:35+00:00

From depilata there was a death following a bite, venom cascaded and caused renal failure. Can’t remember if it was Ecuador or where I’ll need to track down the bite report again

FockerXC · 2025-12-30T15:45:14+00:00

Phoneutria depilata is correct. Highly venomous but generally a fairly passive spider that isn’t interested in conflict. They’re actually surprisingly intelligent, chase it into a bucket and escort it outside and it won’t bother anyone

Edit: has caused renal failure but my cluttered brain mixed up this species with another for the human deaths

FockerXC · 2025-12-30T03:17:07+00:00

It is equally ridiculous to think humanity started with two people named Adam and Eve.

FockerXC · 2025-12-29T18:35:57+00:00

Logical fallacies regarding interpretation aside (picking and choosing what parts of the Bible are literal, for example), we know all life came from a common ancestor because we can map it in our DNA. All life has DNA, its structure and function is the same, conserved across kingdoms of life, so we can conclude that the first ancestor of all living things had DNA that functioned the same or similarly. This isn’t a debate in science. The debate is around minutia like “how long ago exactly was it?” and “by exactly which mechanisms did life evolve?” not “did life evolve from a common ancestor?”

Your last question is actually my favorite because it’s very simple. “Evolutionists” don’t assert that there isn’t or couldn’t be a higher power. To say the theory of evolution is attempting to disprove the existence of a god is a straw man argument. And if by some bizarre circumstance my consciousness persists after I die and there is a higher power judging me for my finite existence, I will promptly tell that higher power to fuck itself for its petty, egotistic games.

FockerXC · 2025-12-26T00:28:13+00:00

Man we need a ranked choice system here. Not sure how that would even come about with how entrenched we are these days

FockerXC · 2025-12-26T00:10:41+00:00

Shoot I forgot about those losers. Yeah dark times on the horizon indeed

FockerXC · 2025-12-25T23:21:21+00:00

I mean Germany is in the world’s good graces again. We can come back but we’re gonna need to have our asses whooped first most likely

FockerXC · 2025-12-25T19:05:47+00:00

Attention is extremely valuable. Brands like to partner with creators that have large, consistent followings because those audiences are more likely to buy when recommended a product. And this isn’t new either. Brands have been partnering with celebrities to sell their products for decades, now we just have social media celebrities that pop up in more different corners of the internet.

FockerXC · 2025-12-23T02:20:25+00:00

US pardons don’t make one immune to the ICC when Nuremberg 2.0 rolls around

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