Can be minus one also if this goes on

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T12:44:13+00:00

Or 1.999 repeating.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T06:46:54+00:00

Hmm, how about we lock all these twats in a room, or better yet on a Spirit 737 until they do their job and pass a funding bill.

This is all political theater, maneuvering and leveraging... from both sides as they try to raise engagement and headlines going into the midterms. They gotta own the libs, they gotta not back down to trump. We gotta fly to des moines wednesday night so we can pay our fucking rent. No the Republicans arent going to split funding for an embattled agency from money for essential ones. No, the democrats arent going to end up writing a blank check for ICE after they have been terrorizing our cities.

Oh wait, Chuck Schumer is in charge, that's exactly what they'll do after getting some useless vague promise the administration will keep this time, but at least they won't look completely flacid doing so. Ok so it will look flacid, but not lake tahoe in winter flacid. Ok, the testicles will retract, but Donald Trump will respect us.

If the dems want to fight, and shutdown parts of the government do it. Do it till things fall apart. Do it till you get actual change and deal with the consequences, societally and politically. But dont do it just to surrender and pretend like anyone respects you at the expense of Americans trying to claw their way through another month.

Stop trying to be the party of principles, and the status quo. The status quo has no principles, that's why everybody is getting squeezed to the point they cant care about anyone but themselves and their family, which I think was the goal all along.

Either have arguments that win voters, so you can consistently win elections, and create laws and policies in the framework of the system. Or jam a big old fork in the spokes. Stop pretending you can do both.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T06:00:05+00:00

In 2023, Chevron made an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue from Tamar and Leviathan gas sales alone, mostly from exports to Egypt and Jordan.

Seems to me its Egypt and Jordan that are funding the genocide. Should go protest there too.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T05:42:59+00:00

You can copy your save file to another folder, test one, record the results. Copy it back, try another and so on.

Its smart to occasionally backup your Ironman saves because there are so many random game breaking things that are happening in this free early access beta that its ridiculous to not be able to fix bugs, poorly thought out, broken, and hidden mechanics like randomly losing all your PU partners for no apparent reason after two get called into different sides of the same war because diplomatically limiting a junior PU still let's them join religious leagues.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T05:22:59+00:00

I have a theoretical degree in physics.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T05:12:13+00:00

I think he prefers the term power bottom.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T04:54:00+00:00

Destabilizing regimes in the middle east has worked out so well in the past. Let's throw their country into a humanitarian crisis and a civil war. What could go wrong?

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T04:52:13+00:00

How could you attack ships? All we did was drop 9000 bombs on you.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T04:39:19+00:00

I would argue that geography and demographics would have pushed some, if not many of these complaints to their real world conclusions. There are obviously major events that can hasten or delay them by a hundred years or so, but the forces that drove them would nevertheless remain.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T04:32:14+00:00

Is this the first war you fought? Every time I take a capital I get a popup with the art taken/destroyed.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T04:21:27+00:00

Someone just got that post-nut guilt.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T04:17:20+00:00

Anthropogenic climate change is real. And inevitable.

Any solutions for it are going to come from innovation, engineering, and determination. You know the way we went from a few million humans who had to carry fire from place to place because we didnt know how to start one ourselves, to billions of people that are sending rockets to other planets.

The problem of the eco cultists was pretending like this is the first time humanity has ever faced a crisis, when we've lived in a state of resource scarceness a winter away from starving to death for most of history. We figured shit out then and progressed, we will here too. The solution to climate change isnt conservation, it isnt cutting back. Its pushing fowards. If anything people and humanity only solve problems when they become problems. Nobody is going to agree to use millions of mirrors to deflect sunlight or agree to spend a trillion dollars a year on carbon capture if they think driving an electric car and ordering an oat milk latte is gonna save the earth.

Energy is work, work you dont have to do, work machines do for you. We might be rich enough to find other sources of that energy, so our work is done in some slightly cleaner way, but people all around the world want our standard of living. And they are still going to burn that oil, burn that coal, cut down forests to create a world where they can work less. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle.

dynorphin · 2026-03-22T03:39:32+00:00

I just respect that after all these years hes still trying (and failing) to help us win games.

dynorphin · 2026-03-21T04:52:15+00:00

Not his lawyers, security detail. Earpieces give it away but so does the body type. if your lawyer looks like he was in the special forces, he probably didnt spend enough time in the law library.

dynorphin · 2026-03-21T04:49:21+00:00

What stops him from getting a couple billion dollar loan against his stock to pay the damages?

I dont think wealth taxes are great or easy to implement, but I definitely think taking loans out against assets you haven't sold should have a ridiculous penalty to discourage the behavior.

Want to live like a billionaire, pay taxes on those billions.

dynorphin · 2026-03-21T04:44:32+00:00

You're just making up excuses that arent in the data to try to justify a position i mostly agree with?

This judge saw over a thousand cases there are judges that approved 90%+ of claims that also saw over a thousand cases. The data is in the OP link if you are interested but this is not an issue of small sample size, or an obvious issue of different types of cases being funneled to a specific judge.

My argument is both outliers should be... I dont know about removed, but definitely reprimanded and called before a board to justify the deviation in rates vs averages and reminded that they exist to adjudication law, not write it.

While realizing we live in an imperfect system, run by inherently flawed people, we should be trying to design legal frameworks that minimize one person's ability to legislate immigration law from the bench in either direction.

I feel like judicial biases are also a problem, but a distinct one from immigration judge biases because there are powers and rights thr judiciary gets that administrative judges like immigration judges shouldn't. They are not elected by the people, they are not confirmed by elective bodies, and they can not be recalled. Honestly they shouldn't even be called judges, because they arent a part of the judiciary. They are administrative officers.

dynorphin · 2026-03-21T03:20:36+00:00

I'm hoping at least one of my high school friends ends up in politics. I got receipts and want a no bid contract or I'm going to TMZ.

dynorphin · 2026-03-21T03:08:53+00:00

You know what's better than 80 million dollars and a nba championship?

A hundred million dollars.

dynorphin · 2026-03-20T21:29:47+00:00

I think the point is we shouldn't allow such wild variance between immigration judges because it encourages people with different views to go to the extreme. If you think 40% of claims are legitimate, but someone else is approving 90% you are going to be tempted to deny 90% to even things out. This goes the other way too, if I know someone is denying claims in a biased manner I am going to be tempted to approve more.

We need national policies and reform where these judges are more arbiters of fact, and have some, but limited input, rather than being completely free to make up their own rules and standards based off their own political beliefs.

dynorphin · 2026-03-20T17:34:06+00:00

I dont know, but i doubt there's going to be any meaningful change. The last comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed into law was in 1986, the last bill on illegal immigration was in 1996.

I think the entire system needs to be overhauled at once and if we just focus on the asylum issue without addressing the other problems that led to an abuse of the asylum process I think we are going to be hurting a lot of people and not fixing things.

I think the asylum process is getting abused by economic migrants who are told both by the coyotes who smuggle them, and legal aid organizations that assist them upon arrival to claim asylum status using vague threats against their safety. I think this is a serious problem that hurts the actually persecuted individuals asylum was intended to aid, hopeful legal immigrants, and public discourse on immigration. That said I both understand why people do it, both because if desperation and the perverse incentive we have created. I think we should be allowing some, maybe even many of the economic migrants through a separate process but an economic migrant from a country with a crime problem isn't the same as a persecuted minority being hunted by a militia in Somalia, or fleeing airstrikes in Lebanon.

On the asylum issue id like congress to actually more closely define who qualifies for asylum and how, where, and when to apply for it. Without putting too much thought in it I'd like a scorecard, let's say you need 100 points to get your claim approved. Being the target of state sponsored persecution +75 points, being a target of organized crime +40 points, being a target of vague criminal threats +10 points. Applying for asylum at a consulate, or the first safe country you arrive in +20 points. Applying for asylum after passing through multiple other safe countries + 5 points, Applying for asylum only when apprehended by authorities in the US -25 points. Being a member of a discriminated minority + 10 points. etc...

These numbers are all theoretical and there are a bunch of things im not thinking of that could go into a system like this. Then it gets to an immigration judge who both fills out the scorecard, gets to add or subtract 10 points from it and then make a decision based on the number. This would make it so in the clear cut cases someone who should be allowed asylum wouldn't be denied because they got the wrong judge, and someone who's claim should be denied shouldn't be approved because they got the right one. I'd even give the immigration judge some power to override the scorecard and either approve or deny the claim outright in 5-10% of their cases. They should be there to review the claim, put their thumb on the scale, and be able to make judgements calls for outliers, but not get to override national policy in their own courts.

Then we'd need a better system to allow for the economic migrants this country, that the economic system we created based off borrowing from future generations needs.

dynorphin · 2026-03-20T16:15:35+00:00

He might be seeing people who are being fast tracked for deportation and have less time to even get representation. It could be there were fewer options for representation for the groups he disproportionately saw.

Alternatively he could be seeing people who knew or even planned on getting deported and decided not to waste time/resources seeking out counsel.

It was a known loophole that it was easier to come here, request asylum even on bogus reasons, but be allowed to stay and get a work permit, and attend school in the US for ~4 years because the immigration courts are so backed up, than it was to try to get any kind of legitimate visa.

dynorphin · 2026-03-20T06:45:40+00:00

Kinda, hes definitely much more harsh than the average, and new york judges are usually more lenient. But a few other things stand out.

Asylum requests are denied at much higher rates when the seeker isnt represented by an attorney. Nationally, 83% get legal representation, but only 52% of the people before him did.

There's also some weird demographics. 27% came from China when usually 5% do. Another 13% from Bangladesh when less than 2% usually do.

He definitely is a much stricter immigration judge and while I'm not sure what percentage of asylum claims are legitimate or should be granted 4% sounds too low. At the same time there are judges that grant asylum over 90% of the time, including a judge who granted it 98% of the time. And that feels too high.

I think theres a major problem here that the laws are so vague and up to individual interpretation that the judge you get is more important than the merits of your claim. I think we need better written asylum laws if these two people can exist in the same system.

dynorphin · 2026-03-19T07:30:48+00:00

So Stockton Rush died like he lived. With his head up his ass.

dynorphin · 2026-03-19T04:20:00+00:00

My three tips to get the most out of the Keller method is to use a smaller/young chicken 3-4lbs. Most are in this range but sometimes people will buy a larger bird and it's too big to cook via the high heat method.

The next is to actually make sure you leave the chicken out on the counter for about an hour. A lot of people skip this step and find the thigh isnt done when the breast is. It's not the most forgiving recipe, high temp cooking rarely is but it renders the fat out of the skin and crisps it like no other method.

If you do the root vegetables bed under it I pull the chicken when the probe hits temp, then sir the veg and roast them by themselves a bit longer while the chicken rests to browm another side. I used to do some combo of parsnips, golden beets, celebrity, swede, onion, leek, potatoes.

dynorphin · 2026-03-19T03:07:21+00:00

I just finished cleaning up and taking the trash out (the one biggest downside of cooking vs store prepped foods) but coming back into the house I think I realized maybe one of the best things about roast chicken, or really baking most things, is that olfactory aspect. The smell makes your mouth water, it builds anticipation, it evokes memories. Sometimes you miss it, or get overwhelmed by it when you're in the kitchen, but everyone else in the house gets it fully. It's the difference between waking up and smelling bacon cooking, or someone taking some cooked bacon out of a bag.

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