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Obtuse1
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| Registered on: | 9/25/2016 |
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You do this and the bank will file a SAR instead. You don't want that.
That is what I was going to say. Anything that looks like willful avoidance will result in a Suspicious Activity Report. Secret reports to the government are always worse than the open ones.
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re: If there is no heaven or hell, does the purpose & meaning of your life change?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/30/26 at 7:24 pm to Cockopotamus
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The negative and other variations existed before. The positive did not.
Ah, the old silver vs golden rule discussion. The problem is that the positive did exist both in Confucius' teachings as well as the Torah.
re: If there is no heaven or hell, does the purpose & meaning of your life change?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/30/26 at 6:57 pm to Cockopotamus
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I acknowledged variations. The golden rule does not predate Jesus.
You are using a term from the 1600s to describe something in the Bible that was a basic tenet of multiple societies for millennia.
Yours is a distinction without a difference.
He's back. :lol:
re: Fat national guard soldier talks about his plans to scam the VA for disability
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/29/26 at 3:13 pm to Grievous Angel
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I think on the upper end it's 40/50k per month, for LIFE.
Are you suggesting the upper end of direct disability payments are $500k to $600k per year?
Where did you get that information?
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How would he have time to "personally" test each soldier's erection?
Middle out
You can only judge the value of any extended warranty in retrospect in the same way that you only know if going to the casino and pushing $2000 of chips onto black is a good or bad decision until the ball comes to rest.
If you never buy an extended warranty on anything your entire life you will almost certainly come out ahead because, like casinos, the warranty companies don't lose long-term.
The only way I would buy an extended warranty on a car is if I was not in the position to comfortably buy a new car if the worst occurs after the warranty is up. However, if you aren't in a position to handle major repairs on a car from a financial POV you shouldn't be buying a new car.
If you never buy an extended warranty on anything your entire life you will almost certainly come out ahead because, like casinos, the warranty companies don't lose long-term.
The only way I would buy an extended warranty on a car is if I was not in the position to comfortably buy a new car if the worst occurs after the warranty is up. However, if you aren't in a position to handle major repairs on a car from a financial POV you shouldn't be buying a new car.
re: Is there anything more invigorating then stepping in a pile of red ants to start the day?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/28/26 at 4:34 pm to TaderSalad
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I find it pretty satisfying to pop a red ant bite...
I can't not pop the pustules in the same way an alcoholic can't pass up a free drink, even knowing popping it will cause another big histamine release and a new round of itching.
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Are you allowed to call a do over? Because if you are, this is genius!
Kinda, sorta. There were probably more than 1,000 motions for PCR drafted by "jailhouse lawyers" filed across the country in the last week alone.
Even the ones with the best grounds are still Hail Marys, but Brian ain't got no Rocky to save him.
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that was outstanding. He's like the Latino version of David Puddy.
What is it now????
You need to watch his most recent shorts where he stitches a TikToker regarding gestational cages for pigs.
FWB will occasionally step on everyone's toes, so you can't watch consistently without being put upon, but Chris has some great content.
DOUBLE U DOUBLE U DOUBLE U
PCR on a guilty plea = flipping a coin and it landing on its edge.
re: Teacher arrested for clapping in favor of anti-data center speakers at city hall meeting
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/28/26 at 3:31 pm to Darth_Vader
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I’ve not followed the whole data-center controversy that closely. But I have to wonder, considering AI is supposed to be the most important industry of the next century plus, and (1) China supposedly is making great strides in this area and (2) the US is their only real competitor in this realm, how much of the anti-data center rhetoric here in the US is fuel and funded by the CCP?
How much of the fears about data centers is being drummed up by propaganda coming from China in order to retard the US? One has to wonder.
This is basically the argument I made here many times about EVs. China made sure it was a contentious issue in the US and allowed them to take control of the market. The global projected market for EVs in 2025 will likely hit 30% of the new car market this year and China now has 60% of that market. The US had a serious competitive advantage in the massive global market and we gave it away because we took our eye off the ball. We are in the same position in AI, and whoever is controlling the narrative gets their way we will lose our advantage in a second massive global market.
If we continue to let social media and unknown actors drive our opinions, we will allow AI to be run by Baidu et al instead of Alphabet et al just like BYD will own the EV market instead of Tesla.
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Anyone tried this service?
Bill Daurterive has
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Out of Louisiana?
Nope, Arlen, TX
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Im thinking about giving it a shot.
Just wanted some feedback from the Wise users of the OT.
Don't you will end up selling your lawnmower to Dale to $75 to keep up your $2000 a week cuddle habit.
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Within the 4 corners of your post
Now you are using first order logic
First-order logic is VASTLY different from first-order thinking; the fact you conflated them indicates... well stuff.
If you are applying logical thought to a statement you can only use the 4 corners of the post. You are using feelings and bias when you start manufacturing things they didn't write or at least heavily infer with what they wrote. I could make your statement accurate with just a few extra words but that is not what you wrote.
Your post was inaccurate. Both of the statements can, in fact, be true at the same time, period. All one needs is a single contradictory example to prove an always or never incorrect.
Read what you wrote carefully. If you can't see how both of those could be true at the same time you have something beyond the words you wrote in your head allowing you to still maintain your position is correct. Identify that condition or caveat and add it to the statement and you can make it logically sound. Sometimes when we write something we have further thoughts in our head that we don't get down on "paper" and without those our point fails logic. Sometimes when we reread them, our brain just continues to add that condition or caveat and prevents us from noticing the failure of logic.
This isn't a big deal you just failed to memorialize a full thought or just missed the flaw altogether.
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if he used that same program that the journalist used and just wiped the phone for 18 hours, is it really destruction? or just locking down what he didn't have to give them access to in the first place?
I didn't see anything to suggest they were the same, if he did use something that was temporary then it becomes a different question.
In that case the government would probably argue in part the exigent circumstances doctrine. The issue is if he did destroy evidence then he broke the law, whether that law is constitutional or not is a different story. As I pointed out before prior to getting your passport back you are still technically in international travel. Constitutional issues have a different lens when someone is not technically in the US.
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And also my post holds, under his 6-degrees logic
Within the 4 corners of your post, it was logically unsound; it is as simple as that.
If you want to come back and add conditions and caveats to make it logically sound, you can do that; however, that underscores the fact that your post lacked the necessary precision to be accurate as written.
Wittingly or not, Flats agreed with my post.
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He, apparently, doesn’t have to give them the code, BUT if he knowingly supplied them with a false code that would result in destruction of the data/phone, that could be construed as “obstruction”.
This is the correct legal analysis. Not giving a code is one thing covered by 5A; giving a code that results in the destruction of potential evidence is an overt act that constitutes destruction of evidence. Don't get me wrong, there are still arguments to be made, but the gaps to squeeze through just got a lot narrower.
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I think prior to passing through customs is a gray area?
Not really. Even if you are in an airport located within the confines of the US, until you pass out of the international area having been cleared by customs. When you are standing face to face with the customs officer and he/she has you passport you are not in the US. When they hand you back your passport and tell you welcome back or enjoy your stay then you "magically" are in the US. It is a legal fiction.
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You can't say, for example, Critical Drinker is weaponizing his audience to tank a movie and "review bomb©" it. . .and also say they don't matter for the success or failure of a movie.
But the media, and several on this board will hold both these opinions simultaneously.
Because of course they will.
Easier than thinking
I would say you are stuck in first order thinking.
While not arguing for either side the two of those things can absolutely be true.
Will could absolutely be edging his audience that way and at the same time The Odyssey could be a movie big enough and good enough to overcome any efforts.
Again not arguing the correctness of either viewpoint just that both things can be true.
I posted about methods to remove anti/review bombing from the numbers using IMBD's data. I explained how to see the impact of those over time as the n grows larger over time. The data is showing some classic signs of the impact on both ends. I will make a post about it when I have some time.
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Isn’t she the smart one?
Yes, but also very capable. She was a much smaller character in the books, but the books depended heavily on Reacher's inner monologue, which rarely translates to the screen.
I can see a show around her being good or crap.
I liked the TC movies, but hard to see him as Reacher because physically he is a 1/2 Reacher.
At some point, you have to realize she is a 1974 Mustang II. Even if you can fix her, you still have a Mustang II at the end of the day.
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