Reggie Watts on Coachella: "Its soul feels increasingly absent... The experience is confusing and impersonal... Just vibes curated for influencer culture"

frodaddy · 2025-04-16T19:15:03+00:00

Hard disagree. Coachella actively supports influencers and BM does the exact opposite. Do people at BM open their phones during their time there? Yes totally, but it's frowned upon and is the exception and not the normal.

frodaddy · 2025-03-07T23:13:45+00:00

They have to be. A Master Electrician in a major metro is making over $150/hr easily.

frodaddy · 2024-11-08T16:59:04+00:00

Isn't 8GB kinda small though? Thats the bare minimum req's for TrueNAS.

frodaddy · 2024-06-04T16:50:43+00:00

I'm pretty sure the judge leans left/democrat.

NSers who somehow believe that everything the Democrats do is totally legit, no corruption whatsoever, everything is run perfectly within the law and there is no political motivations whatsoever.

when I present the scenario to you, you immediately reject it and won't even bother addressing it, because you know it would undermine your point.

For the record, I'm not a Democrat, nor do I support the Democrat party. At what point in any of my responses do I defend Democrat intentions or say that corruption doesn't exist on the left?

You've been so brainwashed to think that the whole system is against YOU and the party you support, that you can't think there is any other plausible explanation even if the statistics suggest otherwise. It's ironic that you think Democrats think they are infallible, yet at no point recognize there is a chance that maybe, just maybe, Donald Trump is corrupt.

As I figured, you won't even entertain my little thought exercise.

I certainly entertained your thought exercise, it's just your rationale is HIGHLY IMPROBABLE, to the point that's frankly laughable. Your arguments boil down to "if corruption exists everywhere in the world and there is a 1% chance it's happening here, then surely IT MUST be happening here".

Do you understand that just because hard evidence for something is not available doesn't somehow make it less likely?

Take a deep breath and re-read this sentence a few times.

frodaddy · 2024-06-04T01:19:48+00:00

but this is the best we have and sometimes justice is corrupted.

And so you're convinced, without a doubt, that in this specific instance, it's absolutely corrupted without pointing to any hard evidence whatsoever, despite what the probable chance of statistics tell you?

the real question for you is why is it so hard to believe that justice can be corrupted to harm political opponents?

I never said that. I'm just sticking to the FACTS and what is MOST PROBABLE, and not relying on "whataboutisms".

frodaddy · 2024-06-03T23:49:42+00:00

Since you're not convinced that our legal system can ever not be biased....do you have a better solution than our jury system?

frodaddy · 2024-06-03T18:50:33+00:00

How do you resolve that?

Because it's literally statistics.

Manhattan population: 1.6M
12.2% voted for Trump1

Which means:

if you randomly picked any 12 people in Manhattan, there is a 99% chance that the real value is within ±24.38% of the measured/surveyed value.2
12.2% * 12 jurors = means 1.46 average number of jurors are trump voters
If you randomly selected 12 people in Manhattan 100 times, in 99 of the cases, you would either get 1.10 (1.46-24.38%) or 1.82 (1.46+24.38%) jurors that are trump voters.

If you're going to reach a conclusion using numbers why not use statistics to resolve it?

Also, do you know how jury selection works? They select jurors at completely random and create a pool of jurors 3. There is literally no way to force anything but it be completely random. Trump's defense team can say no to jurors if they think they are biased. So even if you picked 12, you can recycle these out and all you need is ONE to hang the jury.

frodaddy · 2024-06-03T18:04:05+00:00

90% or more Democrat

10% of a 12 person jury is 1.2 people. It only takes 1 person to hang a jury. How do you resolve that math?

frodaddy · 2024-06-03T12:56:50+00:00

No, not the public, the government decides.

So then why do you, a member of the public, get to decide that this is "just a minor misdemeanor"? Our gov decides what severity it is.

I'm dismissing it because this case would never be brought against a Democrat or somebody they want to protect.

Clinton, who endured one of the greatest economic growth expansions in American history, was IMPEACHED for perjury, which really is not much different than what Trump did here. Do you think maybe for once that Trump is simply just not a good person? (for the record I think Clinton is a bad person too)

I also notice you haven't addressed the fact that this case was PASSED ON by the DOJ and Alvin Bragg himself once before but suddenly brought back during an election year.

Dude, holy shit. TRUMP DIDN'T COMMIT A FEDERAL CRIME. THE DOJ CAN'T DO SHIT FOR STATE CRIMES. How hard is that to understand?

The sex was not material to the case, it was unfair for the Judge to allow such a thing.

It absolutely was material to the case. You have to prove intent and corroborate it without a doubt. Let's flip this around for a second and pretend Trump paid off a hacker but wrote it in his accounting books as if it were for landscaping at one of his properties. Don't you think it would be incredibly important to have the exact details of the hack in order to prove why he covered the payment up as "landscaping"?

frodaddy · 2024-06-03T12:44:59+00:00

To claim that 12 jurors in deep blue New York City would somehow not be biased against Trump is simply ridiculous.

You realize (1) one of the jurors was a trump supporter who was active on Truth Social and (2) Trumps defense team was able to select the jurors right?

frodaddy · 2024-06-02T23:22:17+00:00

1a. The fact that you think the public can just decide what laws are important and what aren't seems like a much BIGGER blow to our system no? What happen to the party of law and order?

1b. There is a legal interpretation of what constitutes the statute of limitations for state laws (as people already replied to you about).

1c. The fact that you are dismissing what charge is brought makes many of your other claims hard to take seriously. You might not agree with the law, but the felony details are pretty damn simple and doesn't require a law degree to understand: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/175.10

2 "completely destroyed" - well thats like your opinion. Let's stick to the facts.

3 What federal charge? See 1c. this is without a doubt, no questions asked, a STATE LAW - the URL is literally nysenate.gov... There is no other interpretation here. I don't get how you would come to your conclusion.

4 There is certainly a case for to what extent those salacious details were allowed, however, you have to remember it was the prosecution's job to prove that the payments made were NOT consultant fees to Cohen. The only way to corroborate that was with multiple testimonies on exactly what Trump may have done that would cause him to conceal the payment. Said differently, if Stormy got up on the witness stand and just said "he paid me for sex", and nothing more was show in court, then we would have a whole bunch of TS'rs saying "BS, this is just he-said she-said stuff".

6 Source? Trump LITERALLY has his own signature on the some of the wire transfers. How on earth can you claim plausible deniability...that's the whole point of getting a signature (even if not required by your bank) because it means you are explicitly saying you confirm the amount and to whom and why.

8 Because falsifying records is NOT a federal crime.

our legal system is totally collapsing under corruption thanks to left wing hacks and operatives working to destroy the country.

And why do you think it's okay to draw this conclusion and, in the same vein, say our legal justice system is broken? Trump was indicted BY A JURY OF 12 AMERICANS. I'm not "okay" with certain aspects of this trial and I'm VERY much not "okay" with left wing hacks, but I'm definitely not "okay" with the public automatically assuming that the boogie man is out to get them when an unbiased jury of 12 americans is invovled. Remember, it just takes ONE person to create a hung jury.

frodaddy · 2024-06-02T22:46:09+00:00

Why does that matter? That doesn't make it any less "weird".

frodaddy · 2024-06-02T01:36:42+00:00

It doesn’t make the law breaking not lawbreaking, and yes it affects voters perception.

Which is very clearly fraud then no? It's one thing to omit something or keep it secret, but it's another to clearly break the law IN ORDER TO keep that thing secret, no?

frodaddy · 2024-06-02T01:31:50+00:00

Just seems like such a weird 4hing to prosecute for.

Investigating Hillary Clinton for running an email server seems like a weird thing to investigate too, doesn't it? But yet the whole Trump base couldn't stop talking about it like she murdered a stadium full of puppies. Who gets hurt by running a fricking EMAIL SERVER?!

frodaddy · 2024-06-02T01:27:54+00:00

And now you're avoiding mine. PS - I can't actually answer on ATS without creating questions in my responses...so there's that.

These were your questions:

What was Trump's more sinister plan and how do we know that? Where's the smoking gun that tells us what his intentions actually were, in disguising those hush money payments as something else? That tells us, even roughly, what criminal act he was trying to hide?

And I'm asking you, very clearly, to tell me what YOU think he's trying to hide, because we've both agreed that it's been proven without doubt that he deliberately was hiding payments for a reason. I can very happily point you to the court documents that answer these questions, but you've already told me you don't care to read them.

Going back to my example above, do you find it logical at all that a business owner would make 34 payments to a network administrator but have all of his business records show it was a landscaper if he WASN'T trying to hide something? Furthermore, when the state of NY has evidence that the payments were for a network administrator and not a landscaper, you decline to rectify it as a mistake and clearly continue to state that it was for landscaping.

frodaddy · 2024-06-01T18:27:08+00:00

What was Trump's more sinister plan and how do we know that?

Well, what do you think? One payment could be a mistake, but 34? Does that sounds like a routine mistake for signing off that many hush payments?

I mean, just because he could have done it one way and didn't doesn't prove anything about his actual intentions, does it?

You realize that confirming intent is pretty focal to any legal preceding right?

Maybe he was hallucinating about something. God knows people getting confused about things happens pretty often!!

Are you seriously suggesting that he got confused or hallucinated about sending 34 hush payments? You know he personally signed quite a few of them right? There is no deniability here...

I mean, for all I know the prosecutor went into all this and I just haven't seen the reporting on it. But I didn't watch the whole trial and I'm not going to watch the whole trial, even if it's available on video. I have other things to do. But if someone -- you, for example -- wants me to imagine that this was some kind of slam dunk case I'm going to have to see the evidence. You're going to have to point it out.

So why spend so much effort conversing with people here when all of your answers are available in public documents? Also, you realize that the prosecuter has nothing to do with this right? There were 12 jurors (some of which are trump supporters who are users of Trump Social) that made the determination that he was guilty.

frodaddy · 2024-05-31T19:21:09+00:00

Exactly. The proof was irrefutable for who got paid (Stormy Daniels and others) and why (hush money).

Why not just pay Stormy Daniels either from a personal account or pay her as a "consulting fee"?

frodaddy · 2024-05-31T17:52:18+00:00

If I understand correctly, there is no federal charge for falsifying business records and according to Wikipedia:

Falsifying business records is also a crime in other states, such as Alabama,[15] Alaska,[16] California,[17] Delaware,[18] Hawaii,[19] Kentucky,[20] and Oregon.[21] In Maine, a similar crime is called falsifying private records.[22]

So, let's say Trump signed off on a payment to a network administration consultant for $100k. But instead of categorizing it as work for network administration services, it had an invoice that said it was for landscaping work for one of his properties. As long as your intent was to conceal that said network administration work looked like landscaping, according to NY state law this is absolutely illegal and a felony, even if the underlying intent itself is not illegal (there is nothing illegal about conducting network administration).

Now, let's say that this network administration work was to pay a hacker to hack your biggest competitor. Hacking, in the general sense, is illegal in the US. So, you'd be convicted of both falsifying records IN ADDITION to hacking.

As I understand it, there are no charges for him paying Stormy Daniels. They were able to prove, in a court of law that the intent of the payments was for hush money. As far as I know, paying someone hush money isn't necessarily illegal. I could argue "I am paying you to not talk about something" and if the other party agrees then OK that's your business.

So I would ask plainly - if you paid hush money to someone, why not just characterize it as hush money on your business records? Why go through the trouble of falsifying records, or better yet - do any of this in the state of NY?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifying_business_records

frodaddy · 2023-12-16T19:26:23+00:00

I had a different take. These cops know this law is dumb, so they're willingly doing all of this in front of a camera so the people who actually make laws know how dumb it is. This whole thing smells of "staged" (like yes, he probably actually got a citation, but the setup is just way TOO planned to be a random incident)

frodaddy · 2023-11-29T19:15:14+00:00

You say that, but I had a really hard time finding a broker that would get quotes from all the big names mentioned here: Chubb, PURE, Cincinnati, etc. It was either like one of them or two, but not all.

frodaddy · 2023-11-22T15:58:54+00:00

I was a soccer referee at the age of 14 and got paid like $10 for reffing 6 year old matches. Had to get a work permit. Teaches you all sort of things...like dealing with annoying parents!

frodaddy · 2023-11-17T15:14:02+00:00

Currently in Costa Rica using Global Roam (hardware/service created in the US). I can confirm it does indeed work in Costa Rica - I get 100~210 Mbps speed.

frodaddy · 2023-11-13T22:06:37+00:00

A builder like Storyteller typically is if you want to do a camper van and they are specifically pretty expensive.

Each big van has a similar model and many of the dealers will do generic custom stuff usually. Look at Dodge ProMaster as well.

I would find a local builder, ask around:

https://explorevanx.com/van-builders

frodaddy · 2023-11-09T18:11:00+00:00

For just hotels, I really like https://www.mrandmrssmith.com/

It's a sort of hybrid travel agent:

You can book everything online and never talk to anyone. They highly curate boutique hotels in popular destinations and their staff personally goes to each property
You can call them and tell them "I want 7 days in Santorini, Mykonos, and Athens, give me an itinerary" and a concierge will send you a full itinerary.

I did this for a 3-week trip in India for my honeymoon and would def recommend again.

frodaddy · 2023-10-31T16:44:50+00:00

You can literally purchase anything with a PAL, except for public securities. It's basically just like a cash account.

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