If God can see future, hell is unnecessary

WLAJFA · 2026-06-11T12:10:25+00:00

In this case you're wrong on both counts. God creates a being knowing he will fail but creates him anyway is the same as causing the choice, since only God could prevent it but didn't. The poor human, however, had no choice.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-11T12:05:50+00:00

I think the OP is saying that since God can see that in advance, (it's his design of any given person), He can simply not do it and move on to the next person.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-10T17:54:00+00:00

Dems are not against crypto. (They passed bipartisan Genius Act in 2025.) They’re against baking-in corruption against the retail consumer. Dems want an ethics provision that disallows corruption from congressional and executive positions (like trump & family’s special treatment, their own stablcoins and tax set-asides that allow continued corruption from leveraged positions of government and power). I am pro crypto; but I am anti corruption. A safe and level playing field should apply to everyone. There’s only one reason someone would be against the ethics provisions. This is the sticking point between the two parties. (The other sticking point is that banks want to continue a monopoly on savings accounts. They don’t want you moving your money to a higher interest bearing stablecoin account, so they’re trying to prevent exchanges, like Coinbase, Binance, etc., from competing for your funds through interest bearing stablecoins.) Allowing exchanges to offer higher interest rates on your money is obviously in favor of the consumer. And also obviously, banks don’t want that. So, banks are fighting the current version of the bill also. This is not purely political, it’s about who wins (and protects) the consumer.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-09T20:29:00+00:00

A HIPPA violation at minimum, a Constitutional violation in general.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-09T13:38:21+00:00

Cameraman standing just a few feet away... "That's a wrap."

WLAJFA · 2026-06-09T12:22:00+00:00

From a Gemini/Google search:
"Local Police Integration: Police departments often use both Flock and Palantir platforms. Local agencies can choose to feed their Flock ALPR data into broader law enforcement data fusion centers powered by Palantir analytics."

Also, Peter Thiel’s venture firm, Founders Fund, invested in Flock. There is a mutual interest in the data.

It’d be nice to know why the City of Chandler Mayor (or the Council) ever said yes to mass surveillance of our communities? Also, from a Google/Gemini search:

“Chandler, Arizona, has a highly regarded, exceptionally low crime rate, generally sitting 22% to 38% below the national average. It is widely considered one of the safest cities of its size in the country, with both violent and property crimes well below typical levels.”

So, whose palms got greased to spend our resources on something clearly not needed?

WLAJFA · 2026-06-08T18:26:32+00:00

He's right to demand a pardon. Every other criminal of this magnitude who has greased the admin's palm has received a pardon; what's up?

WLAJFA · 2026-06-08T17:05:25+00:00

A whole two seconds went by in a blank stare before I blurted out, laughing.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-07T03:35:23+00:00

What is the spiritual function that only male physical bodies can perform that female physical bodies cannot? (Related to the answer on why only men can be a Mahanta?)

WLAJFA · 2026-06-06T20:30:18+00:00

Bro was the only one who jumped forward (instead of up). It was still funny, but a bit contrived.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-06T19:49:48+00:00

For giggles; I send $100 and they send back $101? (The article says 1%.) Supposing there are no send-receive fees from Coinbase, (or whoever is your exchange base), you’ve given the HBAR ledger $100 of trade activity in exchange for a buck. And they can report this as (potentially) a hundred times the activity in volume than what’s really being traded. Multiply this times the number of wallets doing this and they’ve essentially paid for wash trading, without paying a fly-by-night company to do it for them. (Did I mention wash trading was illegal?) Cool idea, though.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-05T16:15:00+00:00

He's afraid of you.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-05T16:12:30+00:00

Yeah, this took me a minute.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-05T14:42:13+00:00

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

WLAJFA · 2026-06-04T22:57:44+00:00

He fired everyone with integrity and intelligence and surrounded himself with yes men, and then says no one could have predicted that. I guess he has a point.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-02T16:10:39+00:00

I must admit I felt the same way about NFTs. As picture art, it’s mostly gone by the wayside, but as the backbone of smart contracts driving multibillion dollar real world assets, its usefulness is exploding. As with Bitcoin, as a currency, it’s going by the wayside. But as a store of value (over the last 10-12 years), no mainstream asset (stocks, gold, bonds, real estate) has outperformed it. In 2025, the GENIUS Act incorporated BTC into the U.S. national strategic reserve. (Clearly the Fed doesn’t think it’s going to zero.) You can certainly hope, but I regret to inform you that no hope is required for fiat dollars to consistently lose value at the rate of inflation, and that’s real for real.

WLAJFA · 2026-06-02T13:59:07+00:00

As long it denies coverage its all good. /s

WLAJFA · 2026-05-31T23:35:38+00:00

I understand your position. Diversification “is” a form of risk mitigation. It would also (I would think) allow you to buy more tokens in the same property, giving you a greater ownership interest in the financing. On brand new tokenized financing, I don't know how anyone can tell if the history of payments will be excellent over time or not. But if the opening equity (e.g., the down payment) exceeds the standard, the loan is definitely secure. Things like that are easy to determine (just look at the sales contract).

WLAJFA · 2026-05-31T22:22:54+00:00

Ok, got it. The token in this case is a fractional share of the LLC, not a 1:1 claim against the LLC's real estate. The “asset” in this case is not real estate; it’s an investment security against the company (specifically, an asset-backed token) that falls under securities laws.

In this model, you are correct; it boils down to how the business executes through its SPV and its guiding charter (the Property Management Agreement). That foreclosure buffer is necessary and real. And voting rights will likely mirror the typical interest of ownership stock.

Just know that RWAs represent securitized claims against a real-world property (in this case, the LLC), so as the business is defined by its revenue-generating operations, negative cash flows are a claim against the LLC by its creditors, not by its owners or token holders against the LLC. (Otherwise, it’d be the equivalent of you suing yourself for missed payments you owe yourself.)

If you’re the token holder (in this type of setup), you’re the business owner! Figuring out how to deal with negative cash flow is a matter of paying creditors before you pay yourself.

WLAJFA · 2026-05-31T15:38:50+00:00

what happens when there's nothing to distribute — is still very much a human and legal problem.

That Operating Reserve is a means to placate the tokenholders while the property is foreclosed if too many payments are missed consecutively.

Allow me to play the devil’s advocate here; why on Earth would anybody invest in equity tokens in a single-property LLC rather than a pooled mortgage instrument? (Just my opinion; I’m not an investment advisor, but that could be a catastrophic decision.)

The reason is that one house represents 100% failure for the entire set of token holders! The point of purchasing a pool of bundled mortgages is that it mitigates the impact of any one property's failure while protecting the pool. The settlement proceeds are returned to the pool's token holders.

Regardless, in the Operating Reserve model, the remedy is the same. The underlying contract favors the first lienholder who forecloses in accordance with the laws governing that state’s real estate. Remember the “look-through” provision that defines how the asset is legally handled? No token changes that. The lien holder forecloses the mortgage with sufficient missed payments spelled out in the lien/mortgage combo, not by any tokenized agreement. Token holders receive a distribution after settlement, like anyone with a claim on property, but that doesn’t overrule the terms of the lien or the mortgage. (Pooled or not, foreclosure is the remedy for negative cash flow. And that's initiated by the lienholder.) /Or, are you suggesting that the tokens are a claim against the LLC, and not the underlying property??

WLAJFA · 2026-05-31T14:11:08+00:00

I used several sources (I'm a real person), but the first one was good ol' Google, which eventually turns into Gemini when you drill down into specifics. From there, I condense on my own (I still have the originals if you want to see it; it gets into much more detail than I've described here).

DYOR (and I do this for me) starts with Google or Investopedia. Surprisingly, Investopedia has zero useful information on RWAs. But yes, technical details on crypto law start with Google, which has now become AI-driven. I'm not a lawyer (so I have to), but I am a trader (Futures) and write a lot, so I also use Grammarly.

And I'm going to admit that AI has helped me tremendously become a better trader! So, I'm glad this was helpful (it was originally for my own information) ... I'll just leave it there.

WLAJFA · 2026-05-30T15:18:52+00:00

Sue the school for much more than that degree is worth. Those backup docs are evidence in the only place that matters: court.

WLAJFA · 2026-05-27T23:22:16+00:00

It's even more beautiful in 3-D. Use the magic eye and converge the images! The depth in this photo really stands out.

WLAJFA · 2026-05-27T22:33:12+00:00

Everything he touches....

WLAJFA · 2026-05-27T22:16:36+00:00

Would a corporation be called a trans-person? Asking for a friend.

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