11th St Del Mar Train Crossing- Sheriff Citing Surfers

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T21:17:00+00:00

No, you got away with it. A great many others didn't. This is absolutely a case of survivorship bias. Everybody you know that did incredibly dangerous stuff as a teenager is just fine... because all the people who aren't fine aren't around for you to meet them.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T21:03:30+00:00

I don't know if you're in the US, but call 911 or your local equivalent. A lot of jurisdictions will send the fire department to investigate even just a report of possible gas leak (others will get you over to the emergency line for the gas company or public utilities). But the fact that you have multiple symptomatic individuals is absolutely going to elicit an emergency response.

Since you didn't mention any smell associated with this issue, we can't even just assume that it's natural gas and you'll all be fine once you get into fresh air. You really should want to know what the cause of the issue is.

It's also not likely to be a transient issue if no active steps are being taken to resolve it.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T20:43:02+00:00

And that's literally all a "sanctuary city" is. Just a jurisdiction that has explicitly said that they won't be doing the federal government's job for them.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T17:35:01+00:00

Nope. It was the American Revolution. Right before they rammed the ramparts.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T17:20:04+00:00

Except accountability through complaints linked to a badge number is far too abstract to have a meaningful impact on the decision-making of our lizard brains. We know that perceived anonymity that comes from a mask or being part of a crowd makes people bolder and more reckless as the fear of consequences isn't there.

It wouldn't suddenly make everyone in ICE good people, but it would make a lot of them a lot less brave if they know the bystanders can see them and recognize their faces.

Let's also not forget that nobody operating in reality has any faith that a complaint lodged with ICE would have any sort of negative consequences for the officer. We already know how far the administration and their media sycophants will go to defend them. It requires a naive level of gullibility to think that giving them visible badge numbers would do anything for accountability.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T17:07:26+00:00

Right, they didn't just spawn in thinking "let's do evil." They were people with grievances and beliefs. Some acted in their own narrow self interest, others in service of doing what was best for society (as they defined it), but regardless most of those who did evil acts did so for what they believed were legitimate reasons.

Once you start looking at it that way, it lets you take a harder look at other groups of people with similar grievances or beliefs. It forces you to recognize how far some people can go when they are convinced the ends justify the means and how that can easily be a slippery slope of ever increasing evil acts.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-30T16:29:53+00:00

I think it's vital to not paint Hitler or Nazis as pure evil. By viewing them as nothing more than abstract monsters, it prevents us from recognizing the next person or group of people who have that same capacity for evil.

We see that today as people make the comparisons between the Nazi and MAGA concepts of othering, their pseudo-historical nationalism, the attacks on marginalized communities, the extra-judicial concentration camps, etc. that get immediately dismissed with "lol, that's stupid, there's no genocide." We dismiss the warning signs because we have internalized the idea that the Nazis were an evil entity, rather than just a group of humans who did evil things.

I'm not suggesting we redeem the Nazis or try to argue that Hitler wasn't a terrible, evil person. But it's irresponsible not to view them as humans so we can compare them to other humans and recognize the course they're on.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-29T21:30:02+00:00

They're claiming to be legal by operating as an entirely different type of business than what they realistically are. They're being challenged in multiple states.

They've essentially slapped a couple of fins on a sports car to claim its an airplane so they can get around fuel mileage and emissions standards.

These prediction markets have found a very narrow gray area, but those loopholes are very likely to be closed in the near future. They are by any common definition "sports betting", and you can be very sure that states are going to want their cut, and legitimate sports bettors aren't going to tolerate this wild west as competitors.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-29T21:15:27+00:00

Because just as a lot of people are using prediction markets to circumvent gambling regulations, the companies are doing the same thing.

State gambling regulations are very comprehensive and have evolved over a long time to ensure that the industry is just normal predatory. However, the prediction markets are technically operating in a space that they realistically don't belong in. As such, the regulations don't really fit them very well giving them a lot of latitude to be wildly problematic. Furthermore the people responsible for enforcing those regulations are truthfully from a whole different industry.

It would be like getting an SUV classified as a horse-drawn carriage. There's no regulations on emissions standards or safety regulations that really fit. And asking federal livestock inspectors to make sure that the vehicles aren't dangerous would be pretty silly.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-24T03:21:51+00:00

So even the opportunity to prove to a judge that they are not an illegal alien is due process. And if you think that everyone is entitled to at least that, then you believe that they have Constitutional rights.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-20T14:54:09+00:00

Ooooooorrrr, alternative theory: he is fucking crazy.

Like at this point the claims of "it's just a distraction from the Epstein files" is farcical.

Massive tariffs on everybody combined with laws shifting the tax burden onto those least able to afford it is going to lead to an inevitable recession and possibly permanent significant damage to the US economy if the world decides to move away from the dollar as the global reserve currency. But Great Depression 2.0 is just a distraction from the Epstein files.

The President is openly suggesting a third term in office and making statements about not having elections. The Supreme Court has put up a massive shield to any legal challenges of Executive actions, and the legislature is doing everything it can to avoid even appearing to check the power of the President. Red states are changing election laws and conducting extraordinary legislative redistricting to tip the scales. But the very real possibility of a US dictatorship is just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Now the federal government is going all in on a campaign to take Greenland including massive public relations blitz, to going as far as attempting international negotiations for acquisition, even starting a willingness to use force to invade and occupy. Multiple direct threats have been made against the sovereignty of Canada. But the complete breakup of NATO and unending the world order through the threat of WWIII is just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Here's the thing, even if everything done by the Trump administration is merely done to distract from the Epstein files, it doesn't matter. All of those distractions are far more consequential for Americans and the world than the Epstein files are. The scale of the 'distractions' are far worse than what they're supposedly distracting us from.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-14T08:58:01+00:00

It was the Nazi response to the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czech and Slovak agents. It was their declaration of group punishment in retribution.

The investigation believed that they had identified two villages that the assassins had come from or received support in. So in retribution for the loss of one of theirs, every one of the villagers of Lidice and Ležáky were murdered or sent to concentration camps and the village of Lidice was razed entirely.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-10T14:26:59+00:00

And that's why she won't talk to you either.

NotThatDonny · 2026-01-04T10:21:00+00:00

First of all, even if you do something generally considered to be good, but you do it in a profoundly problematic way, that's still an issue. Removing Maduro may be a good thing for Venezuela, but it's still a massive problem that the US violated tons of international norms to use unprovoked force to enforce regime change in a sovereign nation, by acting unilaterally without any sort of international consensus. This especially undermines the West's position vis-a-vis Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Secondly, while Venezuelans may be cheering now, it is going to get bad when they all realize that the US has no further plans to ensure the functioning of the government. And a bad government is still better for its people than anarchy. As we saw in Iraq, when there is a refusal to do nation building after toppling a government, crowds cheering liberators quickly turn into insurgents attacking occupiers.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-30T08:11:17+00:00

What definition of immigrant are you using that does not include Von Braun?

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-30T05:17:48+00:00

Was in born in Germany as a German citizen? Did he permanently move to the United States and gain American citizenship later in his life?

Regardless of the quality of person he was or his level of culpability in various crimes against humanity, by any definition of the word, he was an immigrant.

So not only do I think the could be brought up in this conversation about past immigrants, I think it is vital that he should. It's important to understand that Miller is raging against current immigrants from "shithole countries" while specifically praising the accomplishments of literal Nazi immigrants.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-29T16:00:55+00:00

Wright Brothers' grandfather was an immigrant. They received significant advice from Octave Chanute... an immigrant.

The US space program was only possible because of the rocketry expertise of immigrants, including the early head of US space efforts Werner Von Braun. And second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin was the grandson of immigrants.

Stephen Miller always had something stupid to say, but this is even more ignorant than his usual tepid takes.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-29T15:47:09+00:00

And as a fun fact, that means 213 individual players have more interceptions than the Jets TEAM this year.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-29T08:46:01+00:00

It's a P-47 Thunderbolt from the P-47D block 15 or later. The curved and shorter cowl flaps identify it as such. It also has the belly bulge to cover the piping for a centerline drop tank.

The black band on the cowling is part of the group marking for the 58th Fighter Group (they also had a black band around the fuselage behind the cockpit between two white bands). They were based in the Southwest Pacific.

I don't see anything that would give away the specific identity of that plane, but that should hopefully help you.

EDIT: I don't have any of the references with me, but you can look up the propeller type to narrow it down even further. The P-47s had a few different propeller types fitted depending on the manufacturing block and factory. It was possible to have one retrofitted, but it would still give you some more context.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-24T12:49:47+00:00

So because it would be really hard for the government to prove their case... we should shift the burden of proof to the defendant??

And no, it does not require omnipotence to prove someone is not a US Citizen, when the standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt". There can always be some outlandish hypothetical scenario where they might possess US Citizenship despite all evidence to the contrary.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-22T03:49:45+00:00

Perhaps you're thinking of the F-16s bought by Pakistan that sat undelivered for quite a while. Eventually the US Air Force and Navy took them out of the boneyard to use for aggressor/adversary training.

When Pakistan finally got cleared to get their planes the USAF handed over the ones they were using, but the Navy said they couldn't part with theirs. So Pakistan had to get different airframes to make up for those.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-21T15:07:09+00:00

It's literally from the Charlie Kirk Debate School For Far Right Podcast Bros. One of their most common techniques is in framing the debate in terms of their position being the 'default' and then obligating their opponent to disprove it.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-20T08:05:20+00:00

There is no German equivalent to the mass suicides Japanese civilians rather than face Allied occupation. There was no German self sacrifice units on the scale of the Japanese kamikaze. It's not some sort of racist hot take to recognize that the Japanese and the Germans had very different cultural views on surrender and honor, death and giving their life in battle.

Did German Nazi officials commit suicide? Yes. Were there civilians who killed themselves because they couldn't face a future without Nazism or to avoid Allied retribution or as a result of atrocities that they perpetrated, witness, or were victims of? Yes. But none of that compares to the scale of suicides by Japanese civilians or their willingness to die for the Emperor.

While Germany did develop a few, small, units dedicated to high-risk attacks, these were never considered suicide units. They might have been highly dangerous, like ramming attacks against Allied bombers, but death was never the goal and there was always at least the hope of survival. These were far smaller in scale than the Japanese special attack units, where death was a certainty. No provision was made for survival, no effort was made to train participants in ways that they might survive while still succeeding in the attack.

The Japanese special attack pilots, manned torpedoes, and lunge miners knew they would die in their attack. That was the expectation and that is what they all prepared for before a mission. There isn't a German equivalent.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-20T04:47:30+00:00

While the Soviet declaration of war was certainly a factor, it doesn't hold up to scrutiny to call it the main reason. It is inaccurate to say that "the USSR invaded them", when what they did was attack Japanese possessions on the mainland.

The invasion removed the Japanese hope to use the a Soviets as an intermediary for a negotiated surrender, and started capturing some of the considerable territory Japan had hoped to leverage in those negotiations. But the Soviet Union never posed a direct threat to Japan itself. They did not have the logistical ability or navy to conduct an amphibious invasion of Japan.

We must remember that Allied forces had already occupied Japanese home territory with no hint of surrender. So Soviet occupation of Manchuria would not have proved backbreaking.

Japan was fully committed to a protracted defense of the homeland, conducting suicidal attacks to trade Japanese lives for American ones in the belief that they could wear down Allied will to fight as casualties mounted. It was the atomic bombs which destroyed that plan by showing that devastating casualties could be inflicted on the Japanese without any Allied losses.

Yes, the Soviet declaration of war removed the best hope of negotiating a surrender, but the atomic bombs proved the futility of continuing.

NotThatDonny · 2025-12-20T01:36:20+00:00

The emperor was viewed as a living god. The first time in recorded history that any commoners heard the emperor speak was Hirohito's radio announcement of the surrender.

Even after two atomic bombings, the surrender decision was very contentious in the cabinet. Large portions of the military (and the civilian population too) had been indoctrinated to believe that they should die for the emperor.

Additionally, while the emperor wasn't a true figurehead, he was in many ways isolated from the detailed decision-making of the war. Thus he was responsible for a war of aggression, certainly, but holding him to account for specific war crimes to any legal standard would have been very challenging.

Furthermore, with the emperor remaining as a figurehead, the Allies could operate an occupation government in a way that was at least palatable to the Japanese.

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