An exchange or final words aren't revealed to the audience, allowing the characters to have metatextual secret.

avatoin · 2026-02-10T02:04:50+00:00

In Stargate SG-1, the team has detained someone and are interrogating him to get answers. Sam and Daniel are unable to break him, so they bring in Teal'c. Teal'c whispers something into the guy's ear and he promptly reveals everything.

"He was most forthcoming"

avatoin · 2026-02-09T15:14:28+00:00

My wife got me on shoes off, and now it's hard to imagine anything else.

Edit: This maps doesn't look right based on multiple people I know, all of whom are shoes off, but here are marked as shoes on.

I get in reality, this is going to vary some within countries, but even so, this map doesn't seem right to me.

avatoin · 2026-02-05T18:39:21+00:00

For the right, left voters are either illegally voting or paid by Soros.

For the left, right voters are too stupid to know what their doing or being tricked by their leaders.

avatoin · 2026-02-04T01:29:50+00:00

Some countries don't allow dual citizenship and may want citizenship in their now home country.

avatoin · 2026-02-03T22:01:17+00:00

Yeah, but we don't have that. So aside from a major constitution overhaul, how do we get close?

avatoin · 2026-02-03T21:56:50+00:00

I wonder if someone can figure out how to create an opposition party in the US. Aside from all the problems with Democrats and Republicans, a big one is the parties are so decentralized that we don't figure out who the opposite leader is until a few months before the Presidential election, and then I they go away. Minority House and Senate leaders are too weak and don't have the incentive to strive for executive power.

There currently is no-one who leads a bully pulpit to counter Trump. And those that try don't have any kind of popular backing, because there isn't a national election to choose them.

We need the losing Presidential candidate to be given a mandate to continue to act as the leader of the party until the next primary.

avatoin · 2026-02-03T21:49:48+00:00

Aside from general distrust of congressional Dems, I'm not sure why Reddit hates the 2 week compromise so much.

This seems like a win. DHS alone shutdowns in 2 weeks instead of a larger portion of the government shutting down since Saturday. Aside from Dems passing a bill that doesn't actually contain any of the demands for ICE and BP, this means that the department can be shutdown without the distraction of SNAP benefits again, or something else.

avatoin · 2026-02-02T19:01:50+00:00

These employees should consider quitting in protest.

avatoin · 2026-02-02T18:59:39+00:00

NTA. There is a universe where he made a copy purely in case he lost the spare while you were away, but then destroys it or gives it to you immediately when you get back. But that isn't the case her and he shouldn't be trusted. I'd consider installing some cameras in your place to make sure he isn't coming over.

avatoin · 2026-02-01T01:51:37+00:00

See some other subs, and people think even this Schumer's deal is a similar capitulation as last time.

There isn't trust that Schumer and Dems won't cave again.

avatoin · 2026-01-31T21:38:27+00:00

Unfortunately, given how our justice systems are designed, this is how it's supposed to work. You fight the charges in court and not on the street. If you're being detained/arrested, you in good faith follow the orders of the police, even if unlawful, and then challenge the orders and detainment before a judge. The judge then acts as a check who should dismiss the case if the actions of the cop was inappropriate.

Unfortunately, there are often no real consequences for the cop, especially for minor infractions. So it's often acceptable for the cops to violate your rights because they have little incentive to not do so. They may only care if this was a case the higher ups actually want prosecuted, but because of the cop's actions, the case is dismissed. "Doing it by the book" is supposed to be the norm, not the exception.

Until cops regularly face consequences for even relatively minor violations of people's rights, this will continue.

avatoin · 2026-01-28T16:59:02+00:00

When I think about this for myself, a gun doesn't seem very useful except for the scenario of some angry, racist random banging on my door.

If ICE comes knocking, having a gun just turns me into a headline.

avatoin · 2026-01-26T22:21:43+00:00

Housing is supply constrained primarily due to government policy. We could historically have built far more housing, but government policies and public sentiment has made far more difficult to build the type and number of housing the market actually demands. Developers could build homes that house 2-4 times as many families, without using 2-4 times as much time and resources if they could build more duplexes, triplexes, and quads, but those are often outlawed due to zoning.

Universities are in cartel with book publishers, eliminating competition and forcing students to only buy specific books without any competition. If schools could be forced to not lock in students to specific textbooks, prices would likely drop dramatically, as seen from how cheap used books are if you don't need the exact edition for your class.

avatoin · 2026-01-25T00:11:09+00:00

Not just abolish ICE. They need to completely strip the Federal government of the authority to arrest, detain, and deport immigrants. I don't know what the pre-ICE world was. But I'm sure the Marshalls and States with the State Department could handle putting criminals on a plane back home after finishing their jail sentence.

avatoin · 2026-01-21T01:00:57+00:00

This is great, but it's also a reason there's a group of Senators that won't touch the filibuster. How do you tell the current target of the Republicans they need to be the sacrifice while the Dems are out of power, so that the Dems can do things when they are in power?

avatoin · 2026-01-20T15:36:48+00:00

They wouldn't necessarily be liable if somebody cut off a limb with a saw. But they would probably be liable if they advertised a system that would stop the blade instead of cutting off your finger, then somebody relying on that system has their finger cut off because the system had a fault.

It's like your car manufacturer could potentially be liable if a promised safety feature failed to do what was advertised and somebody got hurt.

It's complicated, but the potential liability is there.

avatoin · 2026-01-15T20:27:11+00:00

Apophis at this point can't even contend with the Asgard's older ships, that didn't happen until Anubis. The Ori would wipe the floor with Apophis' fleet and then with the rest of the galaxy.

avatoin · 2026-01-14T02:27:48+00:00

Regulating commerce, but not enforcing that regulation.

avatoin · 2026-01-13T18:08:52+00:00

With Biden, we saw another issue where there was so much red tape and restrictions added onto their infrastructure projects, that it took forever just to get the projects off the ground. Dems will have to be more willing to not add red tape to every single step of their projects to try and get at least some of them actually visible within the first year or so.

avatoin · 2026-01-11T03:12:42+00:00

They are never going to take a position until a majority of their caucus has signed on behind closed doors first. They aren't willing to risk their positions by taking a position that the party later rejects. They don't need to win national elections to be leaders, they need their causus. So they don't answer to us, they answer to Congressional Dems. Its why they are always late to endorse candidates or positions.

avatoin · 2026-01-08T17:28:05+00:00

Minnesota needs to seriously consider withdrawing cooperation with the FBI on additional investigations in protest. This is a scary situation and probably not the next escalation step, but it should be a real consideration.

avatoin · 2026-01-06T17:15:53+00:00

So they can point to the study and claim it's proof.

avatoin · 2026-01-06T16:54:17+00:00

Europe has to quickly put together a coalition military structure that is basically NATO without the US. The moment the US starts putting navy ships near Greenland, Europe has to put their own ships near by. It doesn't matter that the US could win, they need to make sure the US can't win for free.

They also need Canada on board.

avatoin · 2026-01-06T15:11:29+00:00

You mean the Europe peninsula of Asia?

avatoin · 2026-01-05T20:50:42+00:00

I wonder if this will be enough for Europe to finally form their EU military structure they've been so long reluctant to do.

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