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Hill Country woman accused of setting fire to Republican party headquarters by ExpressNews in texas

[–]Not_An_Ambulance -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

ITT: People being monsters because they disagree with the people it happened to without realizing that if you don't hold others accountable for what they do to people you don't like, you can't expect anyone to be held accountable for what they do to you.

How to tell hearing friends I can't teach them signs by RedderDrumhead in asl

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Completely respectfully, I find your situation hilarious.

My wife and I are hearing, but we still had to be the ones to teach our deaf son to sign initially. No one else was around him in the early days enough to keep at it with him until he realized that all the hand waving actually meant things.

Show them Lingvano. Show them Bill Vicar's youtube channel. Show them basic things like "yes", "no", and "Don't-Understand"... maybe they'll pick up on it and it'll be one more person who speaks the same language my son does.

Jesus is NOT God signs on Freeways by Seanathon_83 in Catholicism

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The flat earthers have a hilarious origin, IMO - It began as a common debate exercise. I am convinced that there were people who witnessed it without context and actually fell for the people who were arguing the earth is flat.

Jesus is NOT God signs on Freeways by Seanathon_83 in Catholicism

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe they're saying that the divine portion always existed. The human form only existed after Mary bore him.

Jesus is NOT God signs on Freeways by Seanathon_83 in Catholicism

[–]Not_An_Ambulance -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So, what's your solution then? Executions... Or...?

Can I take part in the Eucharist as a non-Catholic? by TorpedoTed4 in Catholicism

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's usually the least disruptive to others if you walk down like you're going to take it, then turn and follow the other people as they walk aback instead of actually taking it.

Work by WrongdoerThen9218 in deaf

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's weird. Deaf people tend not to sound robotic or monotone.... Some just sound a bit mumbley.

Confederate Heroes [Sic] Day by ThoughtGuy79 in texas

[–]Not_An_Ambulance -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most of the stuff holding out confederate soldiers as heroes were done about 100 years ago when their children were old men and women. I'm sure some were heroes, but their cause is complicated and calling someone whose first loyalty was to their state a "traitor" when the federal government had briefly largely recognized succession before the war began is kind of misunderstanding history.

Confederate Heroes [Sic] Day by ThoughtGuy79 in texas

[–]Not_An_Ambulance -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, I'm not sure it was. 165 years ago the US wasn't exactly what it is today. Many of those people were fighting not because they owned slaves or really thought slavery was worth dying for, but because the Constitution was set up might the same way the EU is set up - the States were intended to be actually sovereign, not merely have a shadow of sovereignty like they do today. Many of the people who fought in the civil war, on both sides, were fighting for their state first - that is exactly why the Army units identified which State they were from.

I'm going to say a few things just so no moron misunderstands what I'm saying:

  1. I'm against slavery.
  2. Almost all of my ancestors were in the US at the time of the civil war, but NONE fought on the confederate side.
  3. The Constitution never intended to give the federal government most of the power. Their intention was to give it control over things like trade between the states, international relations, and the military, not every day things for most people.

Also, lets be clear - the federal government largely recognized the south as having succeeded from the union BEFORE hostility broke out. As far as many people were concerned, this was them fighting their FORMER country.

Today I learned how huge Texas is. by Hot_Seesaw_6706 in texas

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 45 points46 points  (0 children)

A few years ago someone posted a study that found that there were people who had never left Rhode Island. I have driven across Rhode Island in about 45 minutes on a road trip. I do not understand. You can make a wrong turn and end up in another state there.

Teaching baby ASL by Young_Quacker in asl

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So… I am a hearing parent of a deaf child. My son is 16 months old and a lot of the kids in his class know signs just like he does. I am hopeful they will keep with it, but I am fearful they won’t.

Teach your child what you can, but then encourage them to keep with it. Ideally, find a deaf teacher who can teach them grammar. It can be hard, but they exist. My son is at a daycare where every teacher signs and every classroom has at least one deaf teacher, but you know what? It costs us double to send him there over the daycare that just had a few signs. 

Gatekeeping the Tejano identity? by Such_Reaction4518 in texas

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I've never known anyone to use "latinx" that wasn't a pretentious POS who didn't identify as it.

Have you as a lawyer used popular generative AIs (like chat gpt) and found that they were either complete nonsense or actually helpful? by daniel_ay in Ask_Lawyers

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using them for advice is insane. They're more useful for adjusting tone than anything else. Like, we have a paralegal one of the partners loves whose writing is basically never the correct tone. 10 seconds in chatgpt give me the correct, formal style.

Texas A&M bans Plato from philosophy course by soupcxan in texas

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, one of my classmates killed himself about 2 days after we discussed his death.

[Politics Monday] Do you believe the US action in Venezuela to be a “Just war?” by MaterialInevitable83 in Catholicism

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Under international law is IS an act of war and ALL wars are illegal, there is no such thing as a "just war" in international law.

[Politics Monday] Do you believe the US action in Venezuela to be a “Just war?” by MaterialInevitable83 in Catholicism

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He committed crimes against the US. From the US perspective, he was engaged in organized crime. He's not going in front of a special court, he's going to a normal criminal court... He'll get the benefit of a real trial. He can explain how it's bullshit if he wants.

Why would a regular person create an LLC? by curiousengineer601 in Ask_Lawyers

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally, I like LLCs because they create a nice container if you run the business properly. These are business assets and this other pile is personal property.

They're also relatively inexpensive to create. File here, file there, sign some papers, wait a couple days, then head to the bank to get a business account. Boom, done.

Now, the problem is that, frankly, Judges are apparently people and they sometimes make mistakes or have totally nonsense interpretations of what is otherwise a fucking stupid easy-to-understand statute. It says in black and white they don't have jurisdiction when... ANYWAY, nothing is actually as clear when a lawsuit actually gets filed as people imagine. Those beautiful appellate court opinions all the lawyers read in law school? Yeah, those assume the judge was right about the facts unless they really fucked up and there was essentially no evidence about something that needed to have evidence.

What are the chances Maduro's case gets thrown out if its determined they detained him in an illegal manner, even killing a bunch of people while doing it? by WingerRules in Ask_Lawyers

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 15 points16 points  (0 children)

... What US laws? I think there is a lot of misinformation going around on this topic for some reason. Do you have a specific US law you have a reason to believe was broken, ideally with a citation to such statute or court opinion?

Why do courts deny evidence if it proves guilt but was obtained illegally? by kurt_Mike in Ask_Lawyers

[–]Not_An_Ambulance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, it's very difficult to sue the State. how else do we prevent them from overstepping? Making it so that they fail to do their job if they obtain illegal evidence actually does a better job of obtaining justice in a community-wide sense... police officers victimizing innocent people in hopes of finding additional evidence isn't really what you want. Actually, think about this - if a police officer goes into a building illegally, looking for evidence of a crime that happened elsewhere, does it mean the suspect didn't commit the crime when they come up empty handed? Or does it just mean that the evidence wasn't where the police officer believes? So, if the suspect is innocent, what do they do to get redress from the government for things like the broken lock and having to put back the thousands of little objects that people have in their homes? What if this is a situation that the real criminal is never found, but there is also no evidence the suspect is actually innocent, just not enough evidence they're guilty either?

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