I am not an American, but doesn’t America separate church and state? Like as one of the base rules? I know they are constantly pushing that boundary (for the “good” religions that is) but isn’t this just a “nope, state can’t send money to that.”

It’s seems pretty straight forward… What mental gymnastics are being used to get around that pesky fundamental cornerstone of the US Constitution?

A lot of comments here have what I assume are non-functional spoiler tags…" < ! " without the space…But they don’t make the bars appear, like some other spoiler tagged comments.

Ah yes. Makes sence I didn’t recall who he was fighting, just some simple tailor.

What about the shot that made it into the final cut where Worf and someone are fighting and he knocks a hole in the set and it’s just wood?

Even more straight forward and valid points.

I ‘get’ the “oh you are flying the wrong flag so you aren’t the boss of me” desperate misinterpretations of semi-related laws. It’s stupid, but it takes time to explain and honestly it takes a fair amount of trust in a system that usually is working against them (because they are deadbeat parents or idiots who don’t want to pay taxes).

The driving thing is so straight forward you could explain it to a 6 year old.

Right - those visitors either have a passport and were granted permission to enter for a set period of time, or they too would be picked up and deported back to their country.

There’s a lot of rabbit holes that I can see people with poor reasoning/logic getting stuck down, but this one seems pretty easy to explain…

So this was percolating in my brain for awhile, these dense people have a hard time understanding the law but it’s very easy to explain even if they magically are a sovereign citizen which means they don’t have to do all the regular things humans do in a society.

If you are driving on publicly funded roads that you didn’t contribute to with taxes and did not licence your vehicle to drive on, you are just trespassing. Your options are: pay the fee/fine for trespassing, and then stay off the roads you don’t own, or buy the “ticket” (pay your taxes and ensure your vehicle is licenced.).

What’s the response to that? Like I know they think a lot of weird and crazy stuff, but I get why they don’t understand some of it, bevause it is complicated and based on law and generations of social contracts. This isn’t that. This is “you can’t trespass, no matter how sovereign you are.”

Oh I’ll try!

I think he thinks by buying the car for $1000 it’s his, contract fulfilled he paid for it noone can take it away.

Ignoring how titles work and how you wouldn’t be able to get ownership transfered to you with the debt on the original vehicle purchase, he seems to think because he is in the clear (because he bought it legally for $1000) his friend won’t still be on the hook for the full price of the contract.

So in his Iala land he would still be screwing his gullible friend over.

I think that’s what he is saying…

Yep I do the email thing. And yeah, I know they all share everything, but at least I make them work for it.

I don’t know how much my privacy is actually being respected but I do go for the “use as many different services as possible so no company knows absolutely everything about me.” Approach.

I have a Garmin watch. I press a button on it twice, and within a minute or so a group of people I selected recieve an email with a live link, that shows my path and current location. Once I press the button again my live location ends but the list of people can still see my whole “activity”. I think that expires on 24 hours but I’m not sure on that.

It’s use is supposedly to show off exercising? I use it when I’m out hunting public land and might be wandering away from my truck or driving to several nearby trailheads in a day and don’t want to have to remember to tell my other half “I know I said I was going to Fish Lake but so got distracted and stopped at Deer mountain and then drove to Owlfield but I parked on the south side of the trailhead but ended up walking north 3 miles…”

A little glass vial?

Lol not when Charlotte dies or when the father raises the axe to kill the runt (Wilbur)?

That’s amazing. I loved him sucking back trash and then just free-floating on his own fatty body.

I had a real rat named Templeton after this great literary figure.

Oh what a ratly feast!

So I paid for nebula, but it seems totally vacant. I’m not mad, I’m happy to spend the money supporting small creators/any independent endeavour, but am I missing something??

Just make sure to do it from Walmart or Lowblaw or some other government teet sucking price gouging corporation.

That’s already very common and should be shut down, but usually it applies to the particular service you are using… Not whatever this bullshit is…

Very interesting take, Very Talented Technical Dancer. You really gave us all something to think about.

What makes you think these decisions were “ad hoc?”

What do you think ad hoc means? And what part of “we checked out this athelete and she met all of our criteria to compete in womans’ boxing” don’t you get?

What failing do you think the IOC commited in allowing a cis woman to compete in womens’ boxing?

Thank you.

Simple example from yesterday: My stupid pixel 8 phone has a green line on the screen. I look up how to get warrantee and think “wow, at least Google knowing everything about me will be helpful in this case” and after a few misdirects to garbage online user forum to try and get me to solve this problem myself I get prompted with “which device is the problem?”

Google pixel 8

Some camera I had but was stolen, and google knows this because they refused to replace it even though I went through the bother to report it stolen to police because they claim they will send a new one

So I click the phone next page says “this phone?” -serial number

Click

That you bought on this date from us?

Click

Good news it’s under warranty! Would you like to start the process?

Thought I’d already started it but… Click

Please enter the serial number or IMwhatever code. Click here for instructions on where to find this on your phone.

… Click back 2 pages, copy and paste the # they told me

WRONG CODE

take the space that was at the front for some reason

Great! Here are the next steps…

Me: wtf is this garbage…