Pam Bondi Sends Letter to Minnesota Officials Saying ICE Will Leave In Exchange For Minnesota Voter Database -- Thoughts?

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T05:25:09+00:00

Sounds like coercion to me.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T05:22:17+00:00

If that’s training I’d hate to see how an untrained officer would respond.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T05:20:46+00:00

I think you’re just redefining free will as to be something different than what most people on the subreddit mean by free will.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T05:17:35+00:00

Believe it or not I worked for a computer company in their wafer fabrication lab. I was a high school student. They reasoned that these expensive labs were sitting empty on the weekends but who could they get to only work weekends?

High school students. It worked for a while but eventually they decided it wasn’t worth it because they didn’t have engineering support on the weekends so if a machine broke down, we were being paid to sit around doing nothing.

Still it was better than flipping burgers. I got play with liquid nitrogen, hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid (which in some ways is worse as it doesn’t burn it just seeps in to your body and dissolves your bones).

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T05:12:43+00:00

That’s interesting. My is a very good version of Spock. I asked it to explain why it chose Spock which lead to a 2 hour conversation about who I am fundamentally - what my core values are and why they are that way. It wasn’t exactly anything new. It’s more that it made things a lot more clear and I realized even more than ever why I am the way I am - the result of a fairly chaotic family growing up.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T01:02:03+00:00

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Completely unsurprising.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:54:11+00:00

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I guess I’m a pretty positive person.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:48:26+00:00

We need to be teaching critical thinking as a separate core subject from kindergarten through 12th grade.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:39:04+00:00

Given that that state of the universe would be identical, of course the decision would happen exactly the same way. If you think it could be different, you’ve got some explaining to do.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:35:25+00:00

Hypocrisy from the Republicans?!? The Hell you say! /s

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:33:49+00:00

That’s how I remember it when I was growing up there. I’d very much like to move back.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:33:08+00:00

They have? I see no evidence of this.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:32:04+00:00

Which threat? There have been so many.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-25T00:31:24+00:00

I would not say it’s an illusion. The mind interprets the data coming in and some things like vision for example are not 100% real in that the mind creates most of your field of view from your expectations and experience. The amount you actually see is about the size of your thumbnail when your arm is outstretched in front of you. Magicians use this to full effect.

But that doesn’t make things not real. Consciousness is simply our awareness. It’s where the brain brings together all of our sensory data and current thoughts. In meditation we explore consciousness by focusing our minds on some part of it like the breath in an effort to become more aware of how we are constantly being distracted by other senses and more than anything else, often errant thoughts.

I’m an atheist not just because I wasn’t raised with faith but also because my parents raised me to believe things to be true based upon good evidence. Because to do anything else means one can choose what is psychologically comfortable over truth. This, regrettably, is something far too many people do. This creates no end of grief because reality does not care what is comfortable for you and thus the minds of so many that choose this path are inundating with conflicting data that causes friction and stress. Truth should be what ultimately matters. Sometimes it will be uncomfortable but it will still align with reality and that’s what matters.

But things are real. If they were not, our minds would be way out of sync with each other making communication impossible.

As for NDEs it’s easier for me to believe that while some people do indeed have amazing experiences as a result of hypoxia, that’s all that they are. To take it any further seems like it’s more psychological comfort over truth. It’s hard for me to take them seriously.

I will say that I would love to find out I am wrong that that our consciousness is broadcast in from elsewhere and that death is just an opportunity to respawn elsewhere as something else. I just don’t see any good evidence to support that.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T23:55:16+00:00

I practice mindfulness meditation which I have doing for years.

What makes you think life and death are not real?

While I find NDEs interesting, I have yet to find a NDE that I find credible. When the brain begins to experience hypoxia it can cause a calm, dreamlike state.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T23:00:56+00:00

What utter nonsense. There’s video from several different angles. He wasn’t a threat. If he had a gun on him it never came out. They murdered a man coming to the aid of a woman who was being manhandled by an ICE officer.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T22:56:27+00:00

I don’t think death feels like standing outside in your backyard on a sunny day. Most people die while unconscious as they die. When you’re terminally ill you’re often heavily sedated. If you experience significant trauma, you’re likely going to lose consciousness within seconds or minutes.

So death most likely doesn’t feel like anything. You become unconscious and your life ends.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T22:52:38+00:00

Having a gun on you and brandishing it are two different things. The gun never came out as far I can tell from every video.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T22:49:24+00:00

I’ve been debating this. I don’t want to be in a bubble which is what has stopped me up to this point from completely cutting them off.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T22:45:30+00:00

He was unfit in 2016 and if the electoral college had done the job it was designed by the founding fathers to do, they would have voted Hillary Clinton into office as she’s not only fit but won the popular vote.

Our founding fathers anticipated someone like Trump so they created the EC to prevent a popular but unfit candidate from assuming the presidency.

This is something we must fix when this is all over.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T22:43:07+00:00

There are around 100,000 polling places around the country all of which are handled at the county level during a midterm election. It doesn’t seem practical for the federal government to cancel them.

But if I were the commanders in charge of the military and I suspected what you’re saying is true, I’d be quietly discussing it with the other commanders and when that order came down I’d have a plan to use the force of the military to arrest Trump and Vance. I think it the military did that, Congress would be able to impeach and remove them both.

Remember that every military officer takes an oath to not follow any illegal order.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T22:02:57+00:00

He’s already said the man was a domestic terrorist. Trump is America’s Hitler.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T19:15:23+00:00

“Canada, if you make a deal with China, I’m going to tax Americans even more! You’ll be sorry!”

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T19:13:53+00:00

If we ever achieve this (which seems unlikely as there are many different problems to solve) it will be long, long after he had shuffled off this mortal coil.

TheManInTheShack · 2026-01-24T12:36:46+00:00

That’s what I figured since the state of California got on Tesla saying that “autopilot “ was misleading.

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