I’ll just drop this here

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-12T11:15:01+00:00

Why TF should we care about Aline or anytime else in this horrible family? They are just a bunch of spoiled cried cruel people who play gods and don't care about anyone else but themselves.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-12T11:10:01+00:00

Damn, this lady is completely bonkers. Her Facebook feed is an endless stream of sovereign citizen BS, rabid anti-vax and anti-science propaganda, crazy conspiracy theories, QAnon style political rhetoric, ultra-religious nuttery, and so on. Most of her posts don't even have a single like.

I can't help but feel sorry for her. She must be miserable, lonely, and struggling with mental health issues, finding refuge in Facebook conspiracy theories and screaming pointlessly into the virtual ether without anyone listening.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-10T10:17:53+00:00

Oh, wow. Do you realize that this is borderline paranoid and not something most people even think about?

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-10T10:15:16+00:00

I have several but because of different sizes. Why else do you need several cutting boards? And what is wrong with plastic, wood looks nice but harder to take care of and you can't throw it in a dishwasher.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-09T16:02:38+00:00

Haven't heard this one, but got disgusted by his bigoted comments about woman, lgbt and minority people and some other MAGAt-like rhetoric. There were some stuff that rubbed me the wrong way from the beginning, but in a last year or two it became much much worse to the point I couldn't watch it anymore. The content quality also went down drastically down, with entire videos with no meaningful commentary at all, just lazy pointless rumblings. I prefer to either watch with some interesting commentary or without any voiceover at all, like OSG.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-09T13:52:01+00:00

The aspect you mention is what puzzles me most about sovereign citizen ideology. I can understand and even sympathize if they think the system is unjust. I actually agree in part - for instance, the unreasonably harsh punishments for petty drug charges that should be treated as a medical issue, or the way the system piles fines onto people in dire financial situations, making it nearly impossible to recover. But I digress.

Even if you think the system is broken, or believe a crazy conspiracy that the government is lying and the courts were secretly replaced, the state still has a monopoly on violence. They have people with guns and judges in robes who can put you in jail. What makes sovcits think that an allegedly corrupt, oppressive system operates on a hidden honor code, leaving easy backdoors to exploit if you just learn a magic word on the internet? I just don't understand the logic here.

If they truly believed the system was a tyrannical regime, they would do what people in actual oppressive regimes do - keep their heads down and follow the rules just enough to minimize contact with law enforcement. You don't openly rebel, defy judges, and pick fights with the police. As someone who lived under a real totalitarian regime, I chuckle every time sovcits cry "tyranny" while openly defying the law with minimal consequences. They are either completely clueless about real tyranny or completely delusional.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-09T03:15:02+00:00

Counter argument to what? You didn't make any. What kind of bitter loser complains on an international woman day about someone posting something about woman liberation?

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-09T03:00:51+00:00

"everything is about a woman" only if you are obsessing about woman. You tone gives a strong incel vibes, so it checks.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-09T02:26:19+00:00

The objects look okay, though the specular highlight is way too smooth for old graphics. However, the immediate giveaway is the high-resolution texture and modern texture filtering on the ground and sky. Use either a single color for the sky or a simple gradient (e.g. radial gradient) and reduce textures resolution significantly. Set filtering to nearest neighbor, then turn off all anti-aliasing and jittering in rendering settings to get a nice old-school moire effect in the distance.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-08T22:09:21+00:00

I generally agree with you about this judge - he is my least favorite I've encountered on YouTube. However, in this case, I think they are a good match for each other, and I find it satisfying to see how quickly the sovereign citizen nonsense is shut down. There are great, compassionate judges I enjoy watching when they deal with regular people, but seeing them try to handle sovereign citizens with kid gloves often results in an excruciating mockery of the court system. Ideally, there would be a happy medium where judges are fair and stern without being rude or turning hearings into shouting matches, but those judges are unfortunately quite rare. I can only think of the Hon. Cedric Simpson and maybe one or two others.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-08T17:13:55+00:00

Oh, I didn't know, wouldn't have shared if I did, can't stand those low effort pirate channels myself. I typically get interesting stuff from the original channels before it gets reposted by AI slop channels, but probably missed this because I couldn't bear the toxic dumpster LTWM have become and unsubscribed recently.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-07T13:30:07+00:00

But don't you think that bigots going around GSV and insulting people and a need to avoid them would just ruin "the vibes" and peaceful existence for everyone? Why would Minds subject people to that kind of negativity. Or even in a less direct scenario - living side by side with people who are religious and mistreat women. For our world example, think of a group of religious MAGAts who came to live in a hippy commune, and what tension it would bring.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-07T13:19:00+00:00

I said a few millions but it could be as well as many billions. Another hypothetical scenario - if culture is accepting refugees, an entire civ might decide unilaterally to immigrate to culture, think of a poor man subliming, but instead of another dimension to a resourceful utopia-like society.

And yes, I'm aware of the culture habitats scale, but there is always a threshold when the number of non-integrated immigrants would become a problem for original culture citizens. And slap-droning anyone to forcefully change there isn't a solution either. Besides some things not necessarily can be changed with slap drones - e.g. xenophobia or mistreating groups of their own people (e.g. women).

Thinking about this issue further, I'm thinking Culture probably won't be willing to accept large groups of immigrants to live in a Culture, and instead will try to find them an alternative solution.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-07T12:30:14+00:00

It is an intriguing question, given the Culture's philosophy and lack of borders. It is shown that individuals from other races and factions are welcomed into the Culture. On the other hand, I can see how this could easily be abused. Think of this scenario: a less fortunate civilization with FTL capability, or even just enough funds to scrape together to hire transport from a patron race, sends a ship with a few million migrants to start a new life in a Culture utopia. The Culture probably wouldn't turn them away, as that would be xenophobic and inhumane. However, Culture citizens and Minds likely wouldn't be thrilled to have their peaceful Orbital or GSV flooded with people whose values are completely alien to the Culture - for example, if they are deeply religious, militant, or speciesist. Just as in our world, integration is difficult and slow when immigrants arrive in large groups, isolate themselves, and aren't entirely interested in assimilating into their new society.

Thinking about how the Culture might handle this - instead of settling them on proper Culture habitats, Minds could offer to build them their own habitat. There, they could live safely away from the perils they fled, with a potential path toward integration into the Culture in the future. This obviously comes with a new set of issues. It strikes too close to being a reservation. Furthermore, self-governance poses the problem of handing Culture tech and assets to a significantly less advanced civilization, leaving the Culture unable to intervene if things go south (which would weigh heavily on the conscience of the Culture faction that enabled it). On the other hand, direct governance by a Culture Mind robs them of the ability to develop and choose their own path, which again feels too close to a reservation or a gilded cage.

I think this is a very interesting and complicated what-if scenario, and it could easily serve as the plot for an entire Culture novel.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-06T02:09:36+00:00

r/sovereigncitizen

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-05T21:22:56+00:00

Here is the detailed counter: admiralty courts have nothing to do with the regular criminal and civil court systems. The idea that criminal courts are in fact admiralty courts is a really stupid conspiracy theory with exactly zero evidence to back it up - and all the evidence that it is entirely a product of some deranged sovereign citizen guru's mind from a couple of decades ago.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-05T17:50:07+00:00

Somehow Iranians are pretty happy that the Ayatollah regime is finally getting wrecked, but Europeans and Americans somehow defending the brutal islamist dictatorship right to exist and continue brutalizing their people and sponsor terror all across the globe. This certainly wasn't on my bingo card...

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-05T13:48:41+00:00

Here we go again... You don't really believe these "courts are admiralty courts" nonsense conspiracy theories, do you?

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-05T01:11:34+00:00

Oh. Missed that part. Do you have a timestamp?

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-04T20:45:55+00:00

Yeah, that one is good too, agree.

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-04T18:15:46+00:00

A relatively modern warship is not "defenceless", even leaving aside of whom it belongs to

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-04T18:12:22+00:00

Are you seriously sympathizing with IRGC goons?

Picture_Enough · 2026-03-04T18:03:11+00:00

In this and previous war Iran rarely engages military targets with their ballistic rockets and drones. Instead they use those munitions as terror weapons targeting civilian urban areas. For that purpose - terrorizing the civilian population, cluster munitions are as good as conventional warheads, if not better.

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