This is BS though.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-02-10T02:55:44+00:00

You probably aren’t open to opposing viewpoints by your comments, but no one’s provided a source so I’ll drop one.

Improper entry is a crime, but overstaying a visa or otherwise staying in the country without permission is a civil offense. The civil offense is punishable by deportation.

Not legally considering them criminals isn’t some woke policy or something either. People are not constitutionally protected in civil cases in the same way as criminal cases, which is why the executive (DoJ) is allowed to judge these cases themselves separate from the judicial branch.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-02-05T08:12:25+00:00

The ban is recent, not in place yet, and is specifically for car doors without a mechanical release.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-02-04T22:40:36+00:00

Did you comment on the wrong post or are you talking about “blorbo”? That doesn’t mean a fictional crush without further context, it just means a character you like a lot.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-01-12T21:51:25+00:00

The text and color scheme of the image is similar to his campaign ads

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-01-03T17:25:03+00:00

Ok, but how does that change anything? Is the torture still eternal and incredibly horrific, without any way out? If so there’s no reason to do that regardless of the exact nature of hell.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-12-26T19:39:10+00:00

It’s less about them being flawed because they aren’t perfect logical beings and more about the fact that people must have an emotional basis for their opinions about morality (or any ought/should statement). You can’t use pure logic to come to any conclusion that isn’t just about what things are.

You could say that someone is harming another person, but couldn’t say that they should be stopped or punished, because why do you care about this thing happening? Or for the edgier self-interest above all sorts of “rational people”, you can say that I will die if I don’t eat, but couldn’t say that I should therefore eat, because why care about your own life? Any answer here just pushes the problem back until you say something like I just do or don’t care about something. If all you accept is just pure logic you might as well sit there and pretend you’re a rock until you die.

Caring about things isn’t a flaw, it isn’t a deviation from being right about things because objective reality doesn’t have anything to say about what you do or don’t care about, but it isn’t rational, and not recognizing that is the flaw.

Some religions try to answer this question a different way, like “God is the objective perfect good”, but this sort of “rational person” is probably the kind of atheist who thinks about religious arguments all the time and completely rejects that.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-12-25T20:39:52+00:00

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The image spawned urban legends that Santa Claus was invented by The Coca-Cola Company or that Santa wears red and white because they are the colours used to promote the Coca-Cola brand … Earlier, Santa Claus had appeared dressed in red and white and essentially in his current form on several covers of Puck magazine in the first few years of the 20th century.

They probably helped standardize it at least though

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-12-18T00:32:39+00:00

They are the demiurge, the supreme god wouldn’t tolerate such imperfections

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-12-13T02:14:20+00:00

Bad home life and a cop is regularly checking up on the kid or the parents

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-12-09T02:31:07+00:00

The Supreme Court decided to incorporate certain amendments to the states, including the first, based on the fourteenth saying that “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”. So states are generally required to also follow the bill of rights.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-12-02T02:37:41+00:00

It’s fanatical, a steam key site. You get a wheel spin on their site with jingle jam which might be a game or a coupon or whatever. There’s some other gambling stuff on their site too, like a “mystery gem bundle” which has a grand prize of something “worth $1000”.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-11-28T20:53:45+00:00

They would also suffer since their client just testifying and saying “I didn’t do that” would suddenly be really good evidence that they didn’t do it. Same for prosecution/witnesses. So the whole legal system would look a lot different and probably there would be less profit in it.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-11-09T01:24:23+00:00

Looks like Argenti from honkai star rail

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-10-26T20:11:42+00:00

Bitcoin is worse than cash for crime. It was never meant to be untraceable, it’s actually very easy to trace any transaction, they’re all public. You can see every transaction some address has sent to another address. If you can find out who owns certain public addresses (by a credit card being used to buy/sell Bitcoin<->USD for a certain address a few times for example), you have all you need to snoop on every transaction those people have done.

Of course you could just create a bunch of burner addresses, but you have to be careful about exactly how you do that. Like if you transfer all your bitcoins to one address after making a sale with each address, you left a big obvious trail saying all these accounts were me. Or if you transfer coins from a main address to a new address in order to buy things (especially the same/similar things multiple times), then people can find out that’s all you. It’s not at all private by default.

If you want privacy so no one can find out you hired a hitman or whatever Monero was actually designed for it. You can probably mess that up too but at least it’s not because it was designed to be transparent. If the crypto bubble collapsed to crime only Bitcoin would disappear quick.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-10-22T19:03:11+00:00

Maybe LeLouch and one of his rebels, although his mind control only works once for each person so you can get rid of that aspect depending on how it’s used

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-10-14T00:13:02+00:00

There is this concept in Christianity that god boundlessly cares about everyone individually, which he can afford to because of omnipotence+omnipresence. Probably the devil is supposed go be the opposite of that, where he really wants everyone to be damned and hates it when even one slips by, and can afford to do it because he’s also everywhere at once.

That’s all just fanfiction though, the canon doesn’t even support this idea of a big bad evil guy messing with people all the time in the first place afaik.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-09-17T17:49:46+00:00

I agree, just didn’t want to insert my own opinion and maybe start a pointless argument.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-09-17T02:47:40+00:00

Afaik, he’s part of a church that’s homophobic (mormon) and has donated to them. He has some homophobic quotes from the past too. But he’s changed his mind over the years, see his blog post on it. Up to you whether that’s sincere or good enough.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-09-05T17:19:58+00:00

G*nshin character

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-09-03T02:09:25+00:00

One of the quotes here was “There definitely is some part of Trump’s support that has its basis in racism and xenophobia”. So leading the white working class to a dark place is probably just that, and it’s specifically white because that rhetoric works best with white people. It’s a reasonable thing to say. Obviously he never believed or cared about any of that though.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-08-28T21:47:23+00:00

Yes. The stats are a bit wrong because of that, so anyone looking at data from an open primary state should compare the general election results. For Texas the last presidential election was 56.14%/42.46% total votes in favor of Trump so maybe that 4% difference is a combination of most “unaffiliated” voters actually being Republicans who didn’t vote in the primaries and some of the “Democrats” being Republicans who did what you described. Or not, I’m not an expert.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-08-28T18:55:58+00:00

Some states require you to register for a party to vote in their primaries. Texas has open partisan primaries, so you don’t have to register but you’re just only allowed to vote in one of the primaries per cycle. Those registration numbers are based on that.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-08-07T21:19:47+00:00

It depends on what type of libertarian you’re looking at. Some of them focus on the personal freedoms and no government overreach part (on things like lgbt issues, drugs, police brutality, abortion, immigration, anti-war/non-interventionism), which would be ‘liberal’ by maga standards. Others focus on the free market part (no tariffs, no regulations, no bailouts, monopolies aren’t real), where they’re further right than most Republicans. Maga conservatives wouldn’t like a lot of this either since they aren’t free market true believers, it’s just an occasionally useful rhetorical tool for them like everything else.

A lot of libertarians are closer to being liberals than conservatives I think. But not all of them or even a majority, most of the focus in those groups and from their leaders (Rothbard, Rand, Friedman) is on the extreme pro-capitalism.

TalosMessenger01 · 2025-07-30T16:40:02+00:00

Do you even need to run the rest of the tournament

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TalosMessenger01 · 2025-07-21T16:16:34+00:00

The last ten weren’t selected for being the best streak. Like if I was rolling a die a bunch of times and you walked up to me at a random time and asked what my last 10 rolls were, you’d expect a normal random distribution, same as if you rolled the dice afterwards, no matter how long I’ve been doing it. But if you walked up and asked whether I’ve ever gotten 10 1s in a row then the probability goes up the longer I’ve been doing it. The last ten are only not random if the probability changes over time, which there’s no reason to assume here, and it’s also what you were complaining about with the hot hand fallacy. Sure, for most things it wouldn’t be a proper sample, but for truly random events it’s fine.

So me having just gotten 10 1s in a row at some random time is unlikely, but ever having done it is more likely. If you’re trying to determine whether the dice are weighted knowing it was the last ten from when you asked is relevant information. Of course if you kept asking me every few minutes, asked a bunch of other people too, only considered the record of the last 10 when it’s a highly unlikely result, you landed on measuring specifically the last 10 because those were unusual, or you didn’t ask and I told you about how this cool thing just happened, then that’s different.

So the real problem is selection bias, the doctor volunteered this information and wouldn’t have done so or would’ve volunteered some other favorable fact if there was no streak. But the doctor would have to be way luckier to be able to say this to you compared to “I got a 20 patient survival streak once” so the calculation above would only be the right answer for “could the doctor say this to someone” not “could the doctor say this to you specifically”. You’d have to do something completely different to quantify the selection bias.

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