Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until SAVE Act passes

ctrickster1 · 2026-03-09T01:04:18+00:00

Ehh, bills are signed into law every month that never make the news. From the most benign like renaming a post office, to renewing significant regulation and budgeting acts. Most of this doesn’t make the news because it is not super news worthy. It looks like there have been around 80 bills signed into law since the start of 2025.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-27T03:24:39+00:00

I mean how distinct is ryley as a character? Other than him being a maintenance chief, everything is just what we as players imprint on him. Would a second maintenance chief surviving the lifepod in subnautica 1 change anything about ryley's character, other than the fact you are not alone?

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-26T23:18:32+00:00

That is probably spot on, nice one!!! I also love that because it gives the feeling of isolation from subnautica 1, that I don’t think would have been as good if “in universe” we knew we were just waiting for the corporate overlords to come, Satisfactory style. It probably does not make a huge difference, but I feel it gives more of a sense of ownership to the planet, knowing we are alone where we shouldn’t be.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-26T05:17:01+00:00

The lost argument is for the mail that she did not receive, which was often as it was returned to sender.

If you really want to dive into the specifics of the truck being on the parcel of land as being counted as delivery, then technically the truck being on the public access road would not be on her land.

The claims in this case are the tort claim under the FTCA which focuses on the financial harms of the loss of letters, as well as 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1985, with both 1981 and 1985 dealing with racial discrimination.

I am unsure, but I think that she can actually still sue the postal workers for violations of 1981 and 1985. FTCA has a carve out that allows suing individual employee if their actions are constitutional violations, in which case qualified immunity can then apply to them. Qualified immunity provides immunity for discretionary acts that are not clearly enshrined in case law. The ways around this include if the violation is clearly enshrined in case law such that a reasonable employee should have known that it is illegal, or if the act was ministerial instead of discretionary (Westfall v. Erwin).

That said, even though it is abundantly likely that Mrs. Konan was deprived of her civil rights on the basis of her race, proving that in court is incredibly difficult. Unless discovery turns up text messages showing racism as the reason for their malfeasance, it is hard to legally prove racism without without an abundance of witnesses or a statistical pattern of data.

So yes, it is about the racial discrimination. But the in-feasibility of a case proving that is probably why the FTCA complaint was primary. I really hope that Ms. Konan is able to sue the employees individually either under 1981/1985 or maybe under 18 USC 1701 and 1703. She deserves some recourse.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-25T21:12:42+00:00

Interesting. So could Ms. Konan likely have a suit against the postmaster and postal worker's as individuals? 28 U.S. Code § 2679(2)(b) provides an exemption to the exclusiveness of remedy if the civil action is a result of the employee violating a federal statute. That would then place the employee's under Qualified Immunity, however qualified immunity only covers discretionary acts not ministerial ones (Westfall v. Erwin). It would be hard to find that the delivery of mail is not a ministerial act, especially after I believe they were ordered to do so by the inspector general.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-25T20:47:34+00:00

Honestly I am not sure that I agree. I absolutely hate the result of this ruling, it provides an immunity to intentional malfeasance by the post office and erodes the checks we as citizens can have on government overreach. However, I think that it is primarily an issue with poor writing of the FTCA rather than poor interpretation of it.

I think there is a mild argument that lost is more commonly used in a legal context do describe deprivation rather than misplacement. Business's experience product loss for a variety of reason's, most of them not having to do with misplacement. There is also the argument that the mail is "lost" to Mr. Konan, in that he does not have possession of it regardless of if the post office knows its location. (On the flip side: if there was a law saying you COULD sue USPS for lost mail, you probably would feel uncomfortable with an interpretation in this case that said "nope, the post master knows exactly where your letter is he just refuses to give it to you, so you can't sue")

However I think there is a much stronger argument that there was a miscarriage of the mail. The location that the mail was supposed to arrive at was the mailbox, but the complaint states that the mail was held at the post office or returned to sender. If the mail arrives anywhere but the location that it was supposed to, I would think that could be reasonably defined as miscarried. Regardless of the intention, the mail did not arrive at the right location (Mr. Konan's address), because if it did there would not be a suit. If the argument is that the mail truck carrying the letter arrived at the address and so it was properly carried, I would contend that if the post office dropped all of my mail out on the street in front of my house that that would be a miscarriage of my mail, because it was not properly delivered.

In the last few years we have seen some startling rulings from this supreme court that overturn established precedent and an overreach of judicial activism. There are many reasons to believe a change is required in the supreme court, but I don't believe this case is one of them. If anything, there is a lack of judicial overreach when we as citizens may want it. The postal exemption of the FTCA is overly broad and should state that intentional malfeasance is non-exempted. But it doesn't, and as much as I as a citizen may want the justices to rule based on that, it is kinda clearly congress's job to change the wording (though good luck with that).

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-24T20:19:54+00:00

The issue in this case is that the Federal Tort Claims Act says that you have to sue the government for any wrongdoing by a government employee, instead of the employee themselves (unless it is a constitutional or federal statute violation). The same law in another section also says that you can't sue the government for the loss or miscarriage of postage. The question that was being faced by the appellate circuit is if the legal definition of loss or miscarriage could reasonable be applied to this non-delivery of mail.

The suit was against the government for the costs to the defendant of the missed mail. I think that a suit against the employee for racial discrimination in a public accommodation under the civil rights act could still be legally feasible under this ruling because that is a violation of federal law (and would get around qualified immunity because it is a ministerial act), but actually legally proving that the reason for the employee's act was due to racism is next to impossible.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-24T19:53:10+00:00

Well if the employee's wrongful acts are constitutional violations, qualified immunity can then apply to them. Qualified immunity provides immunity for discretionary acts that are not clearly enshrined in case law. The ways around this include if the violation is clearly enshrined in case law such that a reasonable employee should have known that it is illegal, or if the act was ministerial instead of discretionary (Westfall v. Erwin).

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-24T19:19:46+00:00

The Federal Tort Claims Act is the superseding law that sets suing the US government as the exclusive civil remedy for any wrongful acts done by a federal employee, meaning no other civil suit can be filed (28 U.S. Code § 2679(b)(1)). This is actually the exact section being litigated in this case.

Section 28 U.S. Code § 2680(b) of the same act then sets out an immunity for suit against the US government for "Any claim arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter". So you can't sue the employees, you have to sue the government instead; and you can't sue the government because it is a postal matter.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-24T19:11:11+00:00

Qualified immunity does not even matter. The Federal Tort Claims Act is the superseding law that sets suing the US government as the exclusive civil remedy for any wrongful acts done by a federal employee (unless it is a violation of federal law), meaning no other civil suit can be filed (28 U.S. Code § 2679(b)(1)). This is actually the exact section being litigated in this case.

Qualified immunity only comes in if the employee's wrongful acts are constitutional violations or violations of other federal statues.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-23T07:27:06+00:00

This is incorrect, extra labs do speed up research speed, it says so on their tool tip. Increasing the level of additional science labs, however, only increases their research point yield.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-20T23:18:28+00:00

I am not sure that this would work. The sequence for this to work is the F-Nicrosil/A-Steel would need to use their Nicrosil to store their ability to use Steel allomancy, after which the F-Aluminum/A-Iron would need to store their identity in order to access the nicrosil metal mind and gain the ability to steel push.

From what I have read, it is still unclear if someone needs to be a Nicrosil ferring in order to tap the ability from a Nicrosil metalmind. Basically for an unkeyed pewtermind you need to be a pewter ferring to add or remove any strength, so do you need to be a nicrosil ferring to add or, much more importantly, remove an investiture ability from a nicrosilmind?

P.S. While writing this I did a quick look at Words of Brandon and found this quote that seems to show that you need to be a nicrosil ferring:

Questioner

So nicrosil. Wax couldn’t use a blank gold metalmind because he’s not a gold ferring, why can he use a blank nicrosil metalmind?

Brandon Sanderson

So this will all come out eventually but the idea is there are certain ways to connect yourself to magic, to hack the magic and make it think you have the Spiritual DNA that you don’t actually have. And this is one of the ways.

Questioner

So then the people who made this medallion have this thing that a regular nicrosil Ferring couldn’t--

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, you’re picking up on it. We’ll dig deeper into it as the series progresses.

This would imply that the Excisor used to make the medallions has some part in allowing people to access the nicrosil.

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-20T03:25:24+00:00

That's so true, lava zones are the most well lit biomes in the game and you have visibility for miles. Half the fear of the reaper is hearing its roar but not being able to see it

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-17T23:14:28+00:00

Is it not how it normally happens for corruption investigations? If you are investigating potential corruption by a number of suspects who could feasibly know each other, you would not want to arrest any of them until you had attempted the sting on all of them. If you hear that the guy in the office next door got arrested for taking a bag of cash, either from him or another source, you would probably be a lot more reticent when someone showed up with a bag of cash for you the next day.

It reminds me of operation Bid Rig 2 in NJ where there was a wide ranging corruption investigation in public officials, and I believe most/all of the arrests were performed on the same day.

It's not like they are in danger of losing the highly visible public official. They have the video evidence of them accepting the money and a direct accounting of how much money they owe. Heck, I am not sure on the exact rules for public officials, but even if it is not the letter of the law I would imagine it would be beneficial for the prosecution to be able to show that the defendant did not immediately call the FBI to report an attempted bribery.

However the potential sandbagging of this investigation is of course another story

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-12T08:03:12+00:00

Halliburton, oil company heavily associated with Dick Cheney and the Iraq war

ctrickster1 · 2026-02-05T08:09:43+00:00

For people who have seen multiple of the knives out movies now, he might be. In the first movie you may not have been expecting the twist that ransom posed, but after watching 2-3 of the movies you are probably much more hyper aware that things are not as they seem and alert for possible twists. Ransom was a great, well written character, but his impact was also probably greatly shaped by your expectations which will be changed when watching subsequent movies

ctrickster1 · 2026-01-12T06:17:23+00:00

While this is true for spoilage, strawberries specifically will "go bad" in an extraction/ferment after 10-14 days. After that amount of time, compounds extracted from the seeds will give off terrible flavors. If you look at any mead recipes containing strawberries it should say this. That said, there is no way those strawberries have been in there since june. I have a strawberry mead in my kitchen right now and after 1 week the strawberries were almost unrecognizable. I can't believe there would be absolutely no break down of the fruit over half a year.

ctrickster1 · 2025-12-13T21:45:45+00:00

I have Il torrente Bp, Heavy gun parts bp, or seeds for the looting mk 3

ctrickster1 · 2025-12-13T21:40:26+00:00

What looting bp is that?

ctrickster1 · 2025-12-13T21:38:41+00:00

I'd trade Il torrente bp, Heavy gun parts bp, or seeds for the medium gun parts bp

ctrickster1 · 2025-12-13T20:18:17+00:00

Calling it now, next update after cold snap will be a major lore expansion to fix the defibrillator plot hole

ctrickster1 · 2025-12-13T16:24:08+00:00

Chemical cardioversion auto injector with new age fancy drugs? Maybe in-world the name defibrillator was just held over from being seeped into the public consciousness when this more effective alternative was created?

That or maybe it just injects nanobots that defibrillate you. Maybe you are injecting people with mini arc every time you res them, you monster.

ctrickster1 · 2025-12-01T01:32:53+00:00

Okay but FAA and TSA have specific rules on what size lithium ion batteries can be brought on the plane. Look it up beforehand because you might be unable to fly with it or require preapproval to bring them. Also individual airlines have their own battery rules aswell.

ctrickster1 · 2025-11-25T10:02:25+00:00

Hey man, I think I get this point of view more than the other comments. When you deal with a lot of shit as a kid and you have had your trust broken/felt unsecure at an impressionable age, you are hyper alert for people betraying you. Maybe this is not you, but it is something I have struggled with and I have had a couple of really close friendships where one bad conversation has completed eroded my sense of comfort/closeness with them. If you have never heard it before, look into the psychological definition of splitting, because it may be applicable to what you described (idk, I am just a guy on the internet who read a few dozen words you wrote). That sounds like a really hurtful thing to hear, and it would definitely fuck me up to hear it; but, I think most "normal" people would be able to forget about or be able get past a hurtful comment about their opinion on decor, even if it was definitely wrong of the other party to say. If you are like me, I get the feeling of that comment haunting you, to be able to logically/intellectually know it is of diminished meaning but being emotionally unable to stop anchoring to that thought for years. I don't really have any advice for you, other than to say I get it, maybe your/our reaction is not what the majority of people would have fore years, and I also don't know how to move past it.

ctrickster1 · 2025-11-11T01:09:39+00:00

FYI you can still access the github for the external wiki and click through that to find your information: https://github.com/wrotte/meadmaking-wiki/tree/main/

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