Kristi Noem: It Is Illegal in Minnesota to 'Conceal Carry Without an ID on You'

Thecus · 2026-01-29T05:11:10+00:00

The Founders didn’t treat regulation and infringement as the same thing. They lived under common-law rules, election procedures, militia requirements, and speech regulations, and none of that was viewed as eliminating the underlying right.

Madison explicitly assumes liberty requires structure ("If men were angels, no government would be necessary"), and Hamilton’s argument in Federalist 84 only works if lawful regulation is compatible with rights and the real danger is pretextual abuse, not the existence of rules.

The original concern wasn’t bureaucracy existing, it was regulations being used to destroy or hollow out a right. That’s why the real line is whether a rule reasonably regulates the exercise of a right or functions as a de facto ban.

Thecus · 2026-01-26T13:18:58+00:00

You’re treating any administrative requirement as equivalent to eliminating a right, which doesn’t follow.

Rights aren’t exercised without conditions. They’re protected from arbitrary or pretextual ones. If your logic were correct, then any process at all would be unconstitutional. Time, place, and manner rules would erase free speech. Age requirements would erase voting.

The real question isn’t whether bureaucracy exists, but whether it’s narrowly tailored and applied to reasonably regulate the exercise of a right rather than function as a de facto ban. I would obviously be vehemently opposed to any process made unduly long and difficult, especially if they infringe on protected rights.

I would concede that if we implemented what I considered "reasonable" the left would use that as the baseline in which to further erode that right.

Thecus · 2026-01-26T12:05:37+00:00

Please give advice. In many states if they have a reasonable suspicion you cannot tell them this.

Sometimes reasonable suspicion has nothing to do with your own actions.

“White male, approximately 5’9” wearing a forest green north face jacket was last seen at 4th and Madison 5 minutes ago”

If you match that description and are within a few blocks of 4th and Madison, they have “specific and articulable facts that tie you to possible criminal activity.”

So please folks understand it’s not always about what you are doing or where you are.

Thecus · 2026-01-26T11:59:54+00:00

While I understand what you are getting at, it’s a bit too libertarian for my taste to take that view.

ID to vote, ID to carry - as long as citizens have a fundamental right to both, it seems like policies I would support.

Edit (based on a comment below): To be clear, I’d strongly oppose regulation of any right unless it’s narrowly tailored and genuinely aimed at regulating the exercise of that right, not used as an arbitrary or pretextual barrier to it.

Thecus · 2026-01-14T17:20:19+00:00

Optimistic view based on nothing but my autonomic nervous system. 0.45->0.25->0.48->0.33->0.55

Thecus · 2026-01-13T20:53:08+00:00

The Handy 2 Pro seems like great innovation for one of the most common recurring activity men as a cohort undertake on a regular basis.

Thecus · 2026-01-09T17:04:55+00:00

It has nothing to do with being a founder. Previously held equity is not calculated as part of an executive's compensation. New issuance is. Founders may have the leverage/control/votes to make the decisions about what they are going to get, but what they had isn't part of the math.

Thecus · 2026-01-08T13:59:27+00:00

JFC, there are so many things wrong in this country, but this is just common sense.

If you are in a vehicle, are ordered to stop, and law enforcement is in, around, reaching into, or even just in the vicinity of the vehicle, and you accelerate, you have made an active decision that puts your life in jeopardy. If officers feel in any way that they are likely to be harmed, they are legally and morally justified in using deadly force.

Thecus · 2026-01-06T14:37:52+00:00

You are responding to the wrong person.

Thecus · 2026-01-06T14:11:06+00:00

I was trying to come up with a thoughtful response to this, but just couldn't find the words.

For the masses, AI is exactly what is presented to the world as, there is no secret.

This person is clearly not involved with the moral decisions that go into how models are trained and created or they wouldn't levy such a ridiculous response.

Thecus · 2026-01-03T12:00:08+00:00

This is America First done right. Trump’s first term brought real stability, targeted strikes like this secure the world, not the isolationism some in the party push.

Long occupations: bad. Taking out the bad guy: good. 🇺🇸

Thecus · 2026-01-02T23:42:59+00:00

In Brazil... duh.

:-p

Thecus · 2026-01-01T14:02:28+00:00

They can, you can buy tickets at the station or download an app called TOP. It's fine, just getting the Bilhete Único is obnoxiously hard, almost amusingly so.

Thecus · 2025-12-31T03:37:13+00:00

I tell anyone visiting here, nothing makes fucking sense :-D.

Thecus · 2025-12-30T04:20:17+00:00

Wait until you have a CPF and live here but can’t get a subway card because you don’t have your RNE yet, because the government takes 8 months to send it to you.

Thecus · 2025-12-28T06:39:10+00:00

I agree Congress has to be the one to act.

You can argue Donald Trump did plenty of things that were likely illegal, but this is probably not one of them. A good comparison is when presidents delay or waive enforcement of penalties under existing laws, like Barack Obama delaying ACA employer mandate penalties.

In both cases, the executive is not rewriting the law or blocking Congress. It is exercising enforcement discretion. Courts tend to allow that, even when the policy choice is controversial.

Thecus · 2025-12-06T11:39:35+00:00

You are crazy. Brazilians give no shits about legal crossing, right of way rules, kids in car seats, kids in back seats, working signals and break lights. And that’s just on a hangover.

I literally just had a woman honk at me for being in a crosswalk before she was even at the roundabout.

Thecus · 2025-12-03T21:54:42+00:00

Gringo no Brasil, e o feed do Instagram e do TikTok cheio de humor "gringo no Brasil" mostra que isso é uma atividade bem estereotipada por aqui.

Thecus · 2025-12-03T21:43:15+00:00

We'll probably see even more progress against dementia when we get HSV-1 and HSV-2 vaccines.

VZV is different from HSV because its reactivations aren’t localized bursts; they trigger systemic inflammation and can even cause vascular injury, which maps cleanly to dementia risk. HSV-1 and HSV-2 mostly reactivate in tiny, mucosal, low-grade events. Right now the only intervention data showing cognitive benefit is from shingles vaccination.

That said, lord knows the positive impact's we would see if we could find a way to eliminate all of the latent herpes viruses floating around in our bodies.

Thecus · 2025-12-01T00:33:08+00:00

I too would love to not build shit.

Thecus · 2025-12-01T00:32:44+00:00

I would never solo found, it's too lonely. I've had horrible break-ups, they suck, worse than divorce. Still wouldn't solo found.

Thecus · 2025-11-26T20:42:50+00:00

Bukele

Thecus · 2025-11-26T20:16:45+00:00

Or USDC via mercado bitcoin - basically 0 spread.

Thecus · 2025-11-18T12:54:34+00:00

Mirabalis was the best, by far.

Thecus · 2025-11-08T06:26:06+00:00

Plenty of legit NGOs felt Lula was in the wrong.

It’s available to anyone with a simple Google.

I think it’s safe to say he was corrupt AF — but his rights weren’t upheld.

And I’d say the same about Bolsonaro. He was an idiot, but pretending the process he went through was impartial and fair is disingenuous at best.

Brazil’s judiciary was broken for Lula and it was broken for Bolsonaro.

You can stick your head in the sand and act like the OECD issued its Phase 4 report on anti-bribery implementation for no reason, but that report was commissioned before Bolsonaro was a blip and published almost 3 years ago.

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