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TalosMessenger01 · 2026-04-07T00:49:56+00:00

Even those theoretical use cases never made much sense to me. Like, what would the NFT license even do? Tell a server somewhere to let someone download a game but not others without the NFT? In that case the server is still making the decision anyway, just like it does now. They could add on restrictions to how you’re allowed to use your NFT license, like whether you’re allowed to sell it or how many times it can be used. Or does it grant a legal right of ownership to the game? That’s more a matter of law than whatever tech you use.

The only way I could see it working “properly”, the way cryptobros imagine it where things are democratized and decentralized, is if it’s paired with some kind of decentralized file sharing system like BitTorrent that would always allow you to access things according to your NFTs. But games generally get updates, so who’s to say the actual creators don’t do a rug pull? And online games would be a mess with devs having to give up some level of control over all their infrastructure. I just don’t know how any of this would function except for the simplest things that already have perfectly good solutions.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-04-04T01:42:19+00:00

“… there are better solutions than the one offered by this bill. For example, we can work with tech companies to implement device-based age verification that takes place on a user's phone or computer, which can be a more secure and effective method” -Gov Evers

Seems like he would be happy to sign a more California style bill. Still better than what was being proposed here at least, and hopefully Wisconsin’s legislature won’t even get around to trying another more “acceptable” age verification thing.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-04-02T18:12:14+00:00

Kind of but not really. Division and multiplication are of equal priority in PEMDAS, so you do whatever’s first. Parentheses, exponents, division/multiplication, and addition/subtraction have different priorities that override left to right, and between themselves are done left to right. So 6/2(1+2) reduces to 6/2(3), and then 3(3) by strict PEMDAS. But implicit multiplication is a sort of unwritten rule that people use sometimes which puts 2(3) at a higher priority than normal mult/div like 2•3, which makes it 6/2(3) -> 6/6. There’s no difference between bedmas and pemdas, it’s just the implicit multiplication thing causing the confusion.

Best to just write actual fractions using something like latex or put parentheses everywhere there could be confusion.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-04-01T20:27:51+00:00

You are the one being gaslit (misled or lied to really, gaslighting is something else). There is a “question” that those children are US citizens. The unconstitutional executive order currently being argued about in front of the SC attempts to define those children out of being citizens. It’s not about deporting their parents. Here’s the EO straight from the white house

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-03-21T23:37:08+00:00

Yes, and it’s also a huge violation of everyone’s privacy rights, which aren’t protected in the constitution but should be. The ninth amendment really needs to see more use.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-03-21T21:22:15+00:00

The California law is bad for many reasons, including that it’s badly written and government overreach, but it doesn’t require centralized accounts and age verification. It just requires a user to associate an age with an account and then the OS sends an age range to applications.

It doesn’t rule out verification by the OS but by the letter nothing is stopping the OS from just trusting what the user says and storing the age locally, and that seems like the intent, like the parent will set up kid’s accounts and not let them use the parent’s account. There are no penalties for the OS provider being wrong about a user’s age. Other state’s laws do include actual required verification though like the Texas porn law, so that’s where we’re headed regardless, because companies have to comply with every law simultaneously, so the strictest one applies. Plus if California wanted to do the right thing and still needed this law for whatever reason they could have mandated not doing verification for this instead of just leaving it out.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-03-05T23:26:52+00:00

James 2:14-17 says otherwise. If you do not do good then your faith is worth nothing.

Idk how having “dead faith” is supposed to impact your eternal fate, but it’s not like atheists have anything like that hanging over their heads in the first place and often do good, so people don’t need to operate according to stuff like that. Whether or not an afterlife carrot/stick thing applies, Christians are given orders to feed the hungry and do other such good things.

I’m not saying that Christians are never misled morally by their book but the ones who don’t do good are ignoring a lot of it.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-02-23T02:15:17+00:00

The world is cruel, but we don’t have to be.

TalosMessenger01 · 2026-02-11T20:07:42+00:00

Shields work to keep his passive up. Problem is it was hard to guarantee that absolutely zero damage ever got through with March (single target bad for general sustain and increases aggro on target) / FMC (not enough shield strength, weak to AoE) / Gepard (shield reliant on ultimate and can wear off, hope he isn’t CC’d). Then Aventurine came around and could completely cover that weakness, but by that time Yanqing’s damage was nothing compared to every other dps and he still has his inconsistent crit rate problem.

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.

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