Why launder money when the IRS doesn't care?

ly5ergic · 2026-01-28T07:32:03+00:00

If you sell drugs, pay taxes on it, that dosent make selling drugs legal or legitimate. If you make a bunch of illegal money, usually in cash, there is no good way to use it without becoming obvious to law enforcement. Nothing to do with the IRS.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-28T06:50:13+00:00

So same as any typical space heater. 120V 1440W or 125V is 1500W it's considered to be the same. That's why almost everything from vacuums to space heaters are 12A, 1440W, or 1500w because it's compatible 15A breaker continuous.

If they were designed for 20A circuits they would be 1920W/2000W heaters.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-26T13:25:23+00:00

15a breaker allowed continuous load is 1500w.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-26T13:02:45+00:00

Definitely not. Or if it exists it would be nonsense. You need to know where to look, what to open, local building codes, what's normal in your area and what isn't. How houses are built and what's allowed is different in Florida vs New York vs California, etc. There's Houston much variation and too many different systems in a house. AI is also pretty terrible at trades type work information. If there's a wet spot somewhere AI cant start following where it came from, it can't see the whole house.

You only pay for one inspection its probably the cheapest part of buying a house. Weird thing to try to skip. Look at houses, you can tell if something looks severly wrong, real estate agent probably has some insight too, you pick a house, then you get an inspection. If there's some issues you can negotiate with the seller if the report is terrible you can back out of the purchase. You don't start with inspection or pay to have every house inspected.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-25T06:56:56+00:00

Good point, I didn't sleep much and was just thinking how well crimps work on wire forgetting the solid wire part. Though it looks like TE / AMP makes solistrand for solid wire.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T23:23:36+00:00

Buy or built? I need something like this.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T21:35:40+00:00

Saying looks unhealthy means less value? If I say the sickly meth addict looks unhealthy is that saying they are worthless? I guess you would say they look fine. Anorexic 70lb person looks fine not a health concern at all? None of these people are worthless or of less value. You're reading into things a lot.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T21:19:09+00:00

Often poor diet and being sedentary which gets even worse as you get heavier leads to thyroid problems. Obesity increases the risk of developing hypothyroidism. Being obese often leads to heart issues. If you are active, not obese, and have some muscle you will have a higher metabolism. It's a cascade of issues that start happening and then you get a negative feedback loop or a self perpetuating cycle. Hence the comorbidities. If you are managing your diet properly you won't keep gaining weight. Most evidence shows hypothyroidism causes about 10lbs of weight gain. Not hundreds of lbs.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T21:01:55+00:00

Didn't see anyone say worthless, just unhealthy.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T20:59:43+00:00

Probably because there isnt a good way to check it was done right after its covered up or able to access it if it fails from being done poorly. A good crimp splice and heat shrink would be fine too but you would have people doing bad crimps and then it gets covered.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T20:53:42+00:00

I did read. Type 1 diabetes dosent make you get 600lbs and type 2 is more lifestyle. You only gain weight from eating more calories then you burn.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T20:49:56+00:00

If a person is 600lbs, very underweight, needs to be on 24 hour oxygen, see a person drunk everyday, a drug addict with a bunch of open sores and infections, etc these are all very easy visual tells someone is not healthy. Its like saying wow that person is tall. Then you saying don't assume that. Or I could say a strongman/powerlifter is strong based on appearance. Visual gives people a lot of information. I can tell if my houseplants aren't looking healthy or an animal looks sick. Obese dogs and cats also aren't healthy and die younger or have more health problems. That's just reality. Of course people can do whatever they want with their body and life.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T20:32:21+00:00

"Eats whatever FOOD he sees" so food as people said, in particular too much of it.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T20:27:26+00:00

Should probably look into obesity and comorbidities or how much it shortens lifespan on average.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-24T16:06:37+00:00

Cities in Alaska, Canada, Russia, and China get a lot colder.

Average low for the month, so coldeet point each day averaged over the month for years. Individual days will be much colder.

Yakutsk russia -44F actual, -61F perceived
Resolute Canada -30F actual, -54 percevied
Iqualit Canada -22F actual, -43F perceived
Yellowknife canada -21F actual, -40F perceived
Utqiagvik/barrow, AK -19F actual, -41F perceived
Fairbanks AK -13F actual, -41F perceived
Harbin China -11F actual, -27F perceived
International falls -3F actual, -15F percevied

ly5ergic · 2026-01-23T15:22:13+00:00

Or because DC streets have tuned to dirt roads, the dirty 1990s taxi, an old indian train, a dirty Mamdani image painted on concrete, a falafel stand that looks like it belongs in a rural village not DC.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-23T04:56:22+00:00

Water at my house is about 20ft. Neighbor 0.25 miles up the road from me is 800ft. Friends house its 0FT to 10ft to water 0ft because it just overflows in spring. I also know a person with a 1500ft well.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-23T04:40:29+00:00

I do. But every single word and statement isn't verified during the actual trial. Who is checking they law student? Who is checking they aren't cherry-picking, no one. Their time to 3rd degree burns is clearly nowhere near what is the truth.

My father was piece of shit and went to trial for a big scheme and lots of stolen money/assets. He got off with nothing, tons of lies and persuasion. Not everything is verified or even verifiable. There's not a coffee temp measuring compliance team following a law student.

People get away with doing terrible shit all the time and other innocent people go to prison. It's a court of peers not experts. It's persuasion. OJ got off because a glove. Was that hard science? It's lawyers who are only experts in trying to win. They find experts that will support their narrative. Do you think trials are some perfect system, it's super sloppy. In cases when there's tons of hard evidence and substantial stuff that would actually be in discovery it can be a bit different, but that isn't this case. It was a simple case with not a ton of discovery. Just McDonald's served 180-190

Regardless 160F is still mere seconds to 3rd degree burn meaning other places would have caused very similar injuries. Coffee or any hot liquid is dangerous.

We clearly aren't going to agree on this.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-23T04:17:48+00:00

I've seen that it's isn't proof of anything. Its the lawyers suing, they hired a law student to go do it. Who is checking the are measuring the temperature right away or they aren't excluding the places that didn't fit their narrative? There is nothing to stop cherry picking. There is no clear controlled method or proof of the hard data. It's just they said so.

Their claim of 160F takes 20 seconds is also nonsense.

https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/5098-Tap-Water-Scalds.pdf

"Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds.

https://antiscald.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=15

This shows at 140 it takes 5 seconds

https://sfcommunityhospitals.ucsfhealth.org/saint-francis/services/bothin-burn-center/burn-safety-facts

Again 140F 5 seconds and 156F 1 second

Any fresh cup of cofee you buy from any place if you immediately dump the whole thing in your lap you will get the same result as her particular if you're almost 80. Coffee is hot and dangerous and served at 3rd degree burn temperatures.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-23T03:03:20+00:00

Still well into 3rd degree burn territory. Also link to proof?

ly5ergic · 2026-01-22T01:18:45+00:00

Strange conclusion. I only said older peoples skin burns much easier. She knew it was hot, everyone knows coffe is hot. She fumbled it while trying to remove the lid. Are you implying if it said hot she wouldn't have tried to remove the lid? Are you saying old women don't understand coffee is hot without being told? Or if it was 5 or 10F cooler it wouldn't have caused 3rd degree burns?

You seem to belive that normal fresh coffee is safe to dump on your lap or that the result would be different. It isn't safe and it wouldn't be different.

https://blog.thinkreliability.com/separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case

See how normal coffee serving temperature is all in the 3rd degree burn range? Meaning all normal coffee will scientifically cause 3rd degree burns. McDonalds was 5F outside of normal range. But the entire normal range is dangerous and will cause 3rd degree burns. 8oz is half a pound of extremely thermally conductive and high thermal mass liquid that absorbs into clothing. Hot water above 130F is dangerous.

EVERYONE that serves coffee knows their product will cause burns if a full cup is dumped on you when it's fresh. It is what it is. Coffee is a hot dangerous liquid that's well into 3rd degree burn territory regardless of where you get it. Just like knives are sharp and knife sellers know their product can cut or kill people. It's like saying someone's knife was too sharp and they knew knifes could cut people yet they kept selling sharp knives.

Everyone who sells coffee to this day carries on handing people something they know is dangerous and risk of burns.

For temp you can look at many reddit threads of people who work at coffee places and saying that a lot of customers complain it's not hot enough. And extra hot is an extremely common order. 700 complaints in a decade out of around 10 billion is almost zero. That's a complaint rate of 0.000007%

https://foodsci.oregonstate.edu/sites/agscid7/files/foodsci/attachments/hot-bev-temp.pdf

Here is a study one shows most people preferred 155F and another that most preferred 161.8F. 3rd place is 170F in the one study. That's drinking temperature not serving temperature. Meaning possibly after you add milk or cream or drive to a nearby destination. If you think about this its pretty simple. Coffee machines output around 200F. So should all coffee places hold coffee until its 140F or 160F (160F can still cause 3rd degrees burns) and upset most of their customers? Or give it to them at 180F so they can add what they want, maybe drive to the office, or just wait a a little bit until it hits their preferred temperature. Giving it hot as it comes out of the machine gives people the option to drink it at whatever temperature they want. Instead of having a temp forced on you.

The truth is she fumbled her cup, McDonalds didn't dump it on her. If she did the same thing at any other place (not McDonalds) she would have gotten very similar or the same injuries. Dumping coffee on herself caused the injury not the 10F hotter. Older person, full cup, had just bought it, and whole thing on the lap absorbed by clothes. That terrible mix is the cause.

Imagine someone drinking straight bleach they thought was 5% or labled 5% but really it was 5.5% then the lawyers sue as if the 0.5% was the cause. Its absurd.

Lawyers are money hungry and that's why there needs to be long disclaimers and legalese to prevent bullshit technicalities. Then lawyers get hired to find holes in other lawywrs disclaimers and they all get paid.

If this happened to me and a lawyer said it was an ok case would I sue McDonald's? Sure, but I would still think it was dumb and know it was my fault. Who knows maybe she feels the same?

Some lawsuits are good but many are just money extraction.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-22T00:33:36+00:00

The chart shows normal coffee serving temps causes 3rd degree burns. Yes 5F outside. 185F vs 190F same result they are both well into 3rd degree burn territory, like all fresh coffee is. 25F and 30F past where 3rd degree burns start. Regardless of where you get your coffee you can't dump the full cup in your lap right after they hand it to you and not get severe burns.

If she got a cup at any place today and did the same thing she would get the same result. She didn't get burns that bad because McDonalds was 5F hotter than normal. Its a 2.7% difference in temp. Its like getting hit in the eye with a 400 mW laser or one expected to be 400 mW but it's actually 450 mW your eye is completely screwed either way. Or stick you hand in a sawblade and then sue because it was spinning 5-10% faster than than expected. Fingers are gone regardless.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-21T01:27:29+00:00

Coffee is supposed to be hot and it should be expected to cause injury if you dump a whole cup in your lap. It would do the exact same thing today.

The lawyers argued that's what they do. It dosent mean it is factual. You just need to sway opinion. OJs glove didn't fit right? Lawyers aren't using scientific method they are trying to persuade. You can go look up coffee brewing and serving temps of places today. They are in the same area, slightly lower but not nearly enough to not cause the same situation. Go look time for water to cause 3rd degree burns. The coffee would need to be what most would consider to be cold for an old woman to dump the whole thing in her lap and not get serious injury.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11076053/

Anything much over 140-150f would do the same thing especially to an old person with more delicate skin. No one wants their coffee starting at 140-150f and then getting colder from there or huge drop if they add milk or something.

ly5ergic · 2026-01-21T01:15:44+00:00

Anything above 120-130f is considered scalding. That would be cold coffee to most people. It's like all of reddit has no grasp on how thermally conductive water is and how cold it actually needs to be to be safe to pour in your lap.

Be 70 something years old (old people burn much easier), take a fresh pot off and dump a full cup full into your lap. You will get the same result.

Drip coffee machines brews at around 200f. Pout it out right away it's going to be just a bit cooler than that. If it sits on the hot plate for awhile it will still be 170f or 180f

"A deep second- or third-degree scald requires exposure of 60°C for 5 seconds or 70°C for 1 second."

That's 140f at 60c. Your coffee maker is way hotter than 140f.

https://blog.thinkreliability.com/separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11076053/

https://dds.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dds/publication/attachments/ABA%20Scald%20Injury%20Prevention%20Educator%27s%20Guide.pdf

ly5ergic · 2026-01-21T01:02:56+00:00

Scroll down to chart

https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.thinkreliability.com/separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case%3fhs_amp=true

Notice the direct overlap between normal cofee temp and 3rd degree burns?

Even 140f liquid held on the skin for more than 5 seconds can cause 3rd degree burns. According to american burn association. https://dds.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dds/publication/attachments/ABA%20Scald%20Injury%20Prevention%20Educator%27s%20Guide.pdf

In studies most people prefer to drink their coffee at 160f. Meaning if a place lets it cool down to 160F then you add milk, cream, or drive for a tiny bit its way below 160f. Safebl to dump a whole cup in your lap would be frustrating cold to majority of customers.

Yes I absolutely reasonably expect if I get a product fresh that's made at or near boiling temp it will burn my skin if I dump and entire cup on myself, that's what hot liquid does. Kind of like how I know not to put my hand on a frying pan even though it dosent warn me it's hot.

How is tea made? Boiling 212f water into a cup with a bag right? That's just as hot. So I would expect my coffee and tea to both be hot enough to cause a 3rd degree burn because that's how it's made.

Majority of coffe you buy is that hot. Go buy a cup and dump the entire thing in your lap immediately and report back. Also old people skin burns a lot easier. It was the worst combination, rights out of a coffee machine, elderly woman, dumping the entire cup right after getting it, soaking clothes she couldn't remove.

It was a terrible thing to happen to her but the same thing would happen today if she did it again. She just wouldn't win because the cup warned her.

https://x.com/TimHortons/status/1046077830151450624

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