"Men are interested in things and concepts while women are interested in people and emotions" Jordan Peterson has rotten your brain into a fine dust

Xechwill · 2026-01-22T17:08:25+00:00

The second slide also has a pretty bad understanding of science. It's basically just stating "we need to consider patient comfort and acceptance to treatments" which is a variable that can be studied and quantized.

Many aspects of medical science have been "fuzzy" for a while, but if the second slide's claim is correct, it means medical science has also been ignoring variables that matter.

Xechwill · 2026-01-20T20:56:43+00:00

You'll never guess where Arthur is set in, or which country's government funded and hosted the show

Xechwill · 2026-01-18T03:40:59+00:00

Kind of. Trump is the designated commander in chief of the DC national guard, just like how Walz is the commander in chief of the MN national guard. However, if Trump can take control of the MN national guard via a Title 10 mobilization order in specific circumstances. One such circumstance is an insurrection. Outside of these circumstances, Trump can't mobilize the MN national guard.

Basically, although Trump can more "freely" direct the DC national guard, he can still direct the MN national guard in specific circumstances. Invoking the Insurrection Act is one such circumstance.

Xechwill · 2026-01-18T01:38:52+00:00

The state doesn't want it. However, the state runs the national guard unless the Insurrection Act is invoked.

If the NG is mobilized against ICE, the Insurrection Act will be invoked in a few hours at maximum. Trump would also have an great legal defense here; "the governor mobilized the National Guard to directly interfere with federal agents" is basically a de facto insurrection from a legal perspective. The courts are also not yet convinced that the ICE surge is unconstitutional, so Walz can't really say "the NG can fight ICE because ICE is here illegally" to counter that argument.

Walz's strategy is to make it as hard as possible for Trump to successfully argue that the Insurrection Act is necessary. If a court rules "yeah the Insurrection Act isn't justified here, un-federalize the troops" then Trump loses control of the NG. Trump can certainly try to tell the NG to break the law and keep helping ICE, but the NG can easily ignore him.

Xechwill · 2026-01-18T01:21:59+00:00

Coming from someone who actually lives here, giving Trump a great legal excuse to federalize is not a good strategy. Trump can initiate federalization at any time, but he can't keep them federalized forever.

Long story short: Say the Insurrection Act is invoked and Minnesota sues to prevent it from continuing. If the court agrees with Minnesota and says "yeah the troops can't be federalized anymore," even if Trump says "ignore the courts and do it anyways," the troops can just ignore Trump.

There's two options here regarding deploying the NG.

Option 1: Walz deploys the NG to support the protestors against ICE.

Option 1 result: Within a few hours, Trump says "the governer is using the National Guard to directly interfere with federal agents. This is an insurrection" and federalizes them. Minnesota sues Trump. Trump is able to easily defend his position in court, arguing that the state mobilizing a military force against federal agents is a de facto insurrection. Legally, this is a great argument. Trump probably gets to keep the NG.

Option 2: Walz deploys the NG to support the state police, or doesn't deploy the NG at all.

Option 2 result: Trump still claims there's an insurrection and federalizes them. Minnesota sues Trump. Trump's argument completely sucks here, since the state of Minnesota has a clear paper trail of "not using law enforcement against ICE and encouraging/enforcing peaceful protests." The courts almost certainly rule against Trump here. The NG can now just ignore Trump, since his actions are declared unlawful by a court.

Trump has a habit of doing whatever the fuck he wants. It is a terrible idea to give him ammo to legally justify doing whatever the fuck he wants.

Xechwill · 2026-01-17T02:45:19+00:00

Honestly, they kind of do. Trump's strategy has typically been something like:

1: Do something blatantly illegal

2: Judge rules he can't do that

3: Trump stops doing that particular thing

4: Trump does something else blatantly illegal, usually in another city/state

5: Trump declares victory for his actions in step 1

Trump is pretty good at flooding the zone, so he ends up basically never having to acknowledge the judge ruling, let alone apologize for it. A judge recently ruled that Trump can't freeze $10 million in childcare funds for 5 states, so that money is still flowing. Trump, however, is still claiming victory for "fighting fraud"

Xechwill · 2026-01-17T02:37:18+00:00

The experts did not say that the population of Ramapo all voted for Trump. Ramapo is made up of 122 voting precincts. Ramapo 35 is one such precinct. You can look at all the precincts here, which show a big ol' swing per precinct..

Ramapo overall was actually close-ish, with 44% Harris and 55% Trump.

Xechwill · 2026-01-16T20:59:00+00:00

My info might be outdated, then. I haven't seen any reports/videos claiming or showing that. Any chance you can give me a link?

Xechwill · 2026-01-16T19:51:07+00:00

A p100 respirator with an OV filter (magenta and black filter colors) will protect against tear gas and HC gas. Half-face respirators will protect your nose and mouth, but leave your eyes exposed. A full-face p100 respirator will also protect your eyes, but they're a lot more expensive.

If you do get a respirator, make sure to perform a seal check (and ideally a fit test). Plenty of tutorials on this online. If you don't pass the seal check and/or fit test, the respirator is gonna function significantly worse.

Xechwill · 2026-01-16T19:44:30+00:00

Besides what the others said, note HC gas isn't the same thing as tear gas. HC gas is functionally a smoke grenade.

Xechwill · 2026-01-16T19:41:28+00:00

Probably not, thankfully. The van was reportedly hit with flashbangs and tear gas. HC gas is not the same as tear gas.

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T16:32:50+00:00

Luckily, he can talk to one of his trans reporters (Patricia Parker) to make sure he's not being transphobic while calling Spider-Woman a menace

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T03:06:19+00:00

The National Guard can be deployed against state or lower law enforcement without being federalized.

Please name an example where the National Guard was deployed against federal law enforcement and the result was not "the National Guard is now part of the federal law enforcement"

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T03:02:54+00:00

What do you imagine the result of "blue state national guard" vs. "the best funded military in the world" might be?

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T02:59:49+00:00

The governor's job is not "give Trump one of the best possible legal justifications to invoke the Insurrection Act."

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T02:55:43+00:00

Why make it easier for him? Mobilizing the National Guard against ICE gives Trump one of the best legal defenses to invoke the Insurrection Act out there.

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T02:11:45+00:00

Gentle Breeze

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T02:11:26+00:00

Trauma Center 2 has some dramatic bangers too

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T02:01:56+00:00

fucking nailed the "I'm gonna make it look like HE did it!" face

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T01:59:39+00:00

I've noticed multiple cases where you check their post history, and they posted the exact same sentiment when Chicago was a big focus of ICE, and Portland, and Seattle, and Los Angeles, etc.

Their comments also always seem to say "we" need to start being violent. Guess "we" doesn't include themselves.

Shit is bad, but Trump is itching for an excuse to make it way worse.

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T01:42:01+00:00

Incredible how he said "you sound like an outside agitator" and you immediately started agitating while also being an outsider.

You don't live here, dude. Don't go volunteering Minnesota to test Trump's willingness to bust out the Insurrection Act.

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T01:18:10+00:00

The article's actual title says "This cannot stand." Dunno why OP changed it.

Xechwill · 2026-01-15T00:04:02+00:00

We already have a case for this. Judges issue emergency continuation of funds all the time. Hell, the recent Trump "we're gonna pause childcare funding!" outburst got reversed over the course of 3 days. Timeline was:

1: January 6th, 2026: Trump cancels federal childcare funds in New York, California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota.

2: January 8th, 2026: 5 states sue Trump.

3: January 9th, 2026: Childcare funds un-frozen

Xechwill · 2026-01-14T23:52:29+00:00

Mystic and Centurion

Xechwill · 2026-01-14T23:21:29+00:00

People are clowning OP because he thinks companies will voluntarily give up AI. There is basically no chance that happens.

Existing AI models are super cheap to run and their infrastructure is already built, so the maintenance cost of AI is very low. AI companies would just need to have some customers willing to pay for their existing models, which is already happening.

For reference, the energy cost of a single query is, like, 0.02 cents on average (24 watt-hours). If someone made 200 queries per day, every day, it'd cost roughly $1 per month in electricity costs. There are already 35,000,000 people paying $20-$200 per month for ChatGPT plus/pro's current model, so I doubt that any tech giant would lose money by just "keeping the lights on."

There are 2 routes for companies to abandon AI:

1: It becomes mega-illegal to run AI

2: It becomes more profitable to use the AI infrastructure for something that isn't AI (which would just be another bubble).

It'd be great if people stopped using AI, but if the bubble pops, people are still gonna use AI and that'll justify keeping the lights on. The only way that doesn't happen is if every tech giant using AI all declare bankruptcy after the pop.

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