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It's called conservation of energy. The flame is hot and represents a local concentration of thermal energy. In order to concentrate this heat, thermal energy must be drawn from the outside air, greatly cooling it. This causes the air around the flame to appear black on film, as it is giving off much less light than the flame.
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It's just common sense. There's no shortage of federal land in mainland US to build camps to hold migrants in. It's a hell of a lot more expensive to fly people to Cuba than to hold them in some place on the mainland. This means they're actually deporting fewer people than they otherwise could by directing those resources to more immigration enforcement stateside. The only benefit of holding people in a secretive military base in Cuba is that it becomes very very difficult for the press and human rights groups to gain access to them.
I was a bit flippant about the Neuralink trials. But whatever they're doing to these people, it can't be anything good. Even just using them for cheap slave labor wouldn't require this level of secrecy. We do that to regular prisoners in the US all the time.
This should be obvious. You don't gather thousands of people, people with effectively no rights, in facilities that are deliberately difficult to keep tabs on them...unless you are planning on doing something horrible to them. If it's not unlicensed Neuralink trials, it's going to be something equally bad or worse. Why would you be surprised if a Nazi like Musk does Nazi shit? Once you decide a group of human beings doesn't count as human, there are few limits to the depravity you will sink to. Unlicensed Neuralink trials? Secret organ harvesting operations? Drug development and medical experimentation? Target practice for military drone development? Large scale forced sexual slavery and pornography?
When you stop seeing people as human beings, then there is precious little you cannot justify doing to them.
And they called me mad for doing the work I do. MWHAHA!
This fucker is going to start using these people for unlicensed neuralink trials.
That we all just...agree to this crazy idea called "money." And that we justify it to ourselves using wild ideas and myths we tell ourselves, like the alternative to money is using barter for everything.
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There are more things in Heaven and and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Are you trying to anger the gods? Below the fixed stars, there are seven great gods and their lights in the Heavens. And each has its appropriate day. Which two gods shall you so tempt their wrath by denying their day?
That does appear to be how words be.
"But I just cared about the economy (more than civil rights, democracy, the rule of law, or basic human decency.)"
Definitely that time the Secret Service showed up to my childhood home.
This happened when I had already moved out to go to college. I grew up in Iowa, home to the Iowa caucus. Part of living in Iowa is every four years you get bombarded by political messages, polls, people wanting you to donate and attend rallies, etc. I know this occurs to some degree everywhere, but it's a different beast in Iowa.
The 2008 Iowa Caucus season was in full swing. Ads were everywhere. Phone calls were numerous. One day my 13 year old youngest brother, with poor impulse control and developing mental health issues, happened to pick up the phone.
It's the Hillary Clinton campaign. They give the spiel, asking for a vote, maybe conducting a poll. He humors them and listens, frustrated though he is with politics. Finally, at the end, they say something like, "oh, and she's having a rally tonight. Will you be able to attend?"
He replies, "yes, and I'll bring my gun." And then hangs up the phone.
And that is how my poor mother, the nicest woman you ever meet, mother of 6 children, with 4 still living at home, ended having to answer the door to two Secret Service agents standing on her stoop.
My youngest brother didn't face any criminal consequences for that day. It probably helped that he had no criminal record then, was just a kid, and there were no firearms in the house. He got the sternest talking to of his life, and I'm sure there's still a record of him somewhere in the Secret Service archives.
I suppose it was an early sign of things to come. His life didn't get easier after that. He struggled through the rest of his schooling, never made a serious attempt at college. Was diagnosed with bipolar and used a lot of substances to self medicate. Stole a lot from friends and family, lived on the street for awhile. Served several years in prison for a completely pointless robbery of a liquor store. Drifted from job to job and never really got any traction in life. OD'd at 27, just another victim of the opioid crisis.
Miss you little brother, despite everything you did. Hope you're in a better place. At least you never had to see the world as it is now.
Fuck ICE. At this point, any ICE agent with a soul would resign. I pray they each have a heart attack.
Release the data on the public internet in an encrypted form. With the data, include a message openly admitting you're a time traveler. Include predictions of events that are relatively resistant to the butterfly effect and will have little effect on the time stream. For example, I would include a long list of future supernovae and other astrophysical phenomena. Such data would accelerate the field of astronomy a bit, but it wouldn't really affect life on Earth much. And it would prove that you're either a time traveler or someone with access to FTL travel technology. In your message, tell people the data is of vital importance to the future of humanity and that it will be needed in a crucial hour.
There will be enough people who preserve a copy of the data and pass it along to their children and grandchildren. Forget relying on technical solutions. This is one you can rely on people for. Unless there's some complete collapse of technological society, the data will be preserved.
Sure, in a one-party system like China, the one ruling party is always responsible for everything that happens. The fatal flaw in the system though is - how do you actually hold that one party accountable? If the Chinese Communist Party fails, the only way to actually hold them accountable is to start building bombs and killing people. There's no way to vote them out of office. The only way to hold them accountable is a total revolution.
Cat food isn't even any more expensive than canned tuna and other similar canned meats. You're not saving any money. You're eating cat food for no reason!
Any coders want to instantly have one of the most popular extensions for firefox, chrome, etc? It seems this would be the type of thing that would be relatively easy for an extension/add-on to fix.
The point is people actually practicing Christianity as it was originally meant to be practiced will inevitably end up in socialist bent. Jesus was a poor person. He hung out with beggars and prostitutes.
There are no rich men in the Kingdom of Heaven. There are no billionaires in paradise. Billionaires do not go to Heaven. In the end, every last one of them burns.
That is what I believe. That is my version of Christianity. I take the "eye of the needle" passage very literally.
Yes. It's called summarizing. Obviously it's a bit more complicated. I'm not writing an essay on the history of Linux here.
It wouldn't matter in this case. If someone violates courts enough, they can be actually indicted and charged with crimes for that. If someone was convicted on a charge of obstruction of justice, then the president could pardon them of that conviction.
But I'm not talking about charging people with obstruction of justice. Judges can't even indict people on their own without the cooperation of the executive. What I'm talking about is the enforcement powers courts have outside of convictions, the powers of contempt of court.
For example, let's say you come in for a traffic ticket in your local county courthouse. When your case comes up, you don't even try to engage with the judge. You just start calling the judge every name and curse word in the book, and you threaten to kill him and his family. The judge at that point can simply throw you in the court's jail cell. He doesn't need to convict you of anything. He can just say, "you know what, I'm going to hold you until you respect this court and agree to engage with the process." That kind of holding can't be pardoned. You can't be pardoned for that, because you haven't been charged or convicted of anything. This kind of hold is constitutional because you hold the keys to your own cell. All you have to do to get out is to stop being a jackass to the judge. A judge holding you in contempt of court can't be pardoned by the governor or president.
That is what I'm suggesting the courts do on a large scale. You don't try and convict Musk and his goons of anything. If they continue to violate court orders, you just round them all up and lock them up on contempt of court until they agree to abide by court orders. And again, this is constitutional because they can get out at any time, as long as they follow the orders of the court.
You might need to hold a large number of people this way, but so be it. Be creative. I'm sure the judges can work something out. Maybe the governors of Maryland or Virginia would be willing to offer spaces in their state jails to hold prisoners being held by federal judges on contempt of court charges.
Exactly. That's why my point is that there may be other mechanisms for courts to deputize or recruit people to serve as enforcers for the court.