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Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010




Not sure what they mean by that ATF comment...and what's that about autism?



(Sorry for the image quality--my kid was leaning across me at a red light taking the photos at my request.)

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Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
A lot of gun owners don't like the ATF. I do. I got an automated call from them last week alerting me that an FFL license holder (I have one) just got a bunch of guns stolen from them and to remind me to lock them up.

I like that.

Anderson Koopa
Jun 9, 2006

Pennywise the Frown posted:

:allears:

I just saw one today that was NINAS VW and it was a Volkswagon. I also saw one of those support our troops magnet ribbons on a car but it was black and said "Pray for our priests" with some other antiabortion poo poo on the car. :confused:

Oh hey, one of my family members has that bumper sticker. I never understood why priests need prayers. I thought they were supposed to do the praying.

Late Fees
Jan 8, 2004
Your fees are valid.


Hirayuki posted:

Not sure what they mean by that ATF comment...and what's that about autism?



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499683/

quote:

Background

The term “weaponized autism” is frequently used on extremist platforms. To better understand this, we conducted a discourse analysis of posts on Gab, an alt-right social media platform.

Methods

We analyzed 711 posts spanning 2018–2019 and filtered for variations on the term “weaponized autism”.

Results

This term is used mainly by non-autistic Gab users. It refers to exploitation of perceived talents and vulnerabilities of “Weaponized autists”, described as all-powerful masters-of-technology who are devoid of social skills.

Conclusions

The term “weaponized autism” is simultaneously glorified and derogatory. For some autistic people, the partial acceptance offered within this community may be preferable to lack of acceptance offered in society, which speaks to improving societal acceptance as a prevention effort

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Rad-daddio posted:

that's insane.

Do you near some kind of internet meme portal?

I lived just outside of Cleveland, Ohio for about eight years.

So yes.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Weird! Okay. Thank you very much for this. It had us scratching our heads.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Lifespan
Mar 5, 2002
This one weird trick they don't want you to know!

Detective Thompson
Nov 9, 2007

Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. is also in repose.
Are they not just constantly getting pulled over for that license plate?

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Detective Thompson posted:

Are they not just constantly getting pulled over for that license plate?

Why would you pull him over if you know you're going to lose $1,086 a minute?!

binge crotching
Apr 2, 2010

I read through a bit of that case reference, and I have no idea how the hell it's supposed to be applicable to billing the police for pulling him over.

It's about a guy who was incorrectly tossed in lockup for refusing to sign a citation after getting pulled over. He ended up suing the city and won, due to injuries he received in holding combined with him having the money to post bail but never being offered a chance to.

Nothing at all relevant to him charging people for pulling him over from what I can tell, but I'm not a lawyer.

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
Clearly, neither is the SovCit...

TK8325
Sep 22, 2014



The Republic for the Sacred State of the ....

Can anybody make that out?

EDIT: Nevermind. I looked it up. It's The Republic for the SEVERAL States of the Union. It's in the Articles of Confederation.

TK8325 fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Apr 15, 2024

Detective Thompson
Nov 9, 2007

Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. is also in repose.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Why would you pull him over if you know you're going to lose $1,086 a minute?!

drat, I didn't consider that.

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

binge crotching posted:

I read through a bit of that case reference, and I have no idea how the hell it's supposed to be applicable to billing the police for pulling him over.

It's about a guy who was incorrectly tossed in lockup for refusing to sign a citation after getting pulled over. He ended up suing the city and won, due to injuries he received in holding combined with him having the money to post bail but never being offered a chance to.

Nothing at all relevant to him charging people for pulling him over from what I can tell, but I'm not a lawyer.

A lot of sovcit stuff is like that. They get some fine dismissed for an actual reason mixed with 12 minutes of magical word recitals and claim it’s because they are a free man on the land.

There’s a great video where a sovcit says he’s taking a running video camera into a court.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
I assume that’s the one that ends with him getting tazed

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






binge crotching posted:

I read through a bit of that case reference, and I have no idea how the hell it's supposed to be applicable to billing the police for pulling him over.

It's about a guy who was incorrectly tossed in lockup for refusing to sign a citation after getting pulled over. He ended up suing the city and won, due to injuries he received in holding combined with him having the money to post bail but never being offered a chance to.

Nothing at all relevant to him charging people for pulling him over from what I can tell, but I'm not a lawyer.

Well you see, attempting to create joinder without consent is an unlawful detainment against my free traveling person and as a free man on the land traveling in this personal noncommercial conveyance I have diplomatic immunity

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
I wonder sometimes exactly what mental illness predisposes people to think/act like their flavour of flat earth psychobabble is going to "Work"?

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Some sovcits are big legal experts and can give the courts a long runaround even if their overall premise is a total farce. Sometimes if you make enough trouble, people will just drop minor charges,

But a lot of surface-level sovcit stuff is about bluffing to make any prospective threat anxious enough that they'll just decide not to get involved in the first place. And it's hard to tell how much that works. Maybe some cops get scared of it, but also it's not like you'll get pulled over every day, so you won't really know if it's working.

The dumb belligerent sovcits that get tazed are fun, but the smart belligerent sovcits know how to waste everybody's time.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
I can't imagine a regular traffic cop wants to add sov cit bs to their day.

Otoh, you have some guy driving around in an unregistered vehicle with a magical printed license plate so you're probably obligated to get involved.

satanic splash-back
Jan 28, 2009

Rad-daddio posted:

I can't imagine a regular traffic cop wants to add sov cit bs to their day.

Otoh, you have some guy driving around in an unregistered vehicle with a magical printed license plate so you're probably obligated to get involved.

American cops are not obligated to do anything, not even stop crime in progress.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

They aren’t even obligated to try to stop crime in progress.

GentleReject
Jan 16, 2024
Stale news, but California is falling about. San Francisco is closing like every mall because of the looting gangs free-roaming the bay area. That's why they never made a Fallout game taking place in San Francisco: you can just go there IRL

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



satanic splash-back posted:

American cops are not obligated to do anything, not even stop crime in progress.
They are obligated to come home safe to their families, no matter how many people they have to kill to do it.

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
A tangled skein of bad opinions, the hottest takes, and the the world's most misinformed nonsense. Do not engage with me, it's useless, and better yet, put me on ignore.

I can understand someone maybe hearing about Hellen Keller and concluding that it was made up or something. But what drives a person to react so strongly to the Hellen Keller story that they need to put on bumper stickers and dedicate part of themselves to debunking the tale?

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

credburn posted:

I can understand someone maybe hearing about Hellen Keller and concluding that it was made up or something. But what drives a person to react so strongly to the Hellen Keller story that they need to put on bumper stickers and dedicate part of themselves to debunking the tale?

Mental illness + Texas.

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



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BEING
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Rad-daddio posted:

I can't imagine a regular traffic cop wants to add sov cit bs to their day.

Otoh, you have some guy driving around in an unregistered vehicle with a magical printed license plate so you're probably obligated to get involved.

A traffic cop’s entire existence is bs.

TuxedoOrca
Feb 6, 2024
If we get rid of cars, we get rid of traffic cops.

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Mental illness + Texas.

What the gently caress is the deal with Texas

That state has definitely produced more crazy people than any other state

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

rotinaj posted:

What the gently caress is the deal with Texas

That state has definitely produced more crazy people than any other state

Except Florida, the Home of the Crazy.

The state motto is "Whacked right out of his skull man! He ain’t never comin’ back!"

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Except Florida, the Home of the Crazy.

The state motto is "Whacked right out of his skull man! He ain’t never comin’ back!"

I am fairly confident that Florida has the same rate of crazy people as most of the rest of the union, they just have the journalism sunshine law letting Florida Man stories be written more easily

Texas, on the other hand… I am unsure if it is a holdover from being their own whackadoo country or at least overly fetishizing that time period and mentality, but drat.

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!
Helen Keller, while pretending to be blind, touched that guy in his naughty place.

Texas is huge so the crazy is more spread out. Much like Florida orange juice from concentrate, Florida is also crazy from concentrate.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

rotinaj posted:

What the gently caress is the deal with Texas

That state has definitely produced more crazy people than any other state

Texas doesn't produce crazy people, it attracts them. The whole branding of the state as cowboys and guns and shitass presidents gives ideas to a lot of people who may be faced with the prospect of uprooting their lives and moving, and the people who would be put off by all the bullshit decide no thank you (or if they still come over, they think to keep their heads down and not make waves) and the people who are really into that bullshit go down, buy a cowboy hat and boots, and go publicly jack off at the Alamo at how great it all is.

A lot of the biggest shitheads in Texas are from elsewhere. The Bushes are a great example, their family was big in the northeast and educated in Connecticut at Yale. Ted Cruz born in Canada. Joe Rogan is from Jersey. Corrupt criminal with trial pending Ken Paxton is from North Dakota. Elon Musk is South African and specifically came to Texas after a fight with the government of California (California ships a lot of their worst to Texas).

There are a lot of big cities with a lot of economic activity going on that provides the basis for normal humans to immigrate in, but all those cities vote mainly democratic and have to be heavily gerrymandered for the political balance to be maintained.

The worst Texas grows locally in the large empty expanses between San Antonio and El Paso are fairly typical for the people you get in small town rural places anywhere, nothing compared to what the bog people of Florida get up to. Although also back before Florida's Republican death grip, they used to really believe in government transparency, so they wrote laws that meant whenever the police have to go stop some dumb person from doing something dumb, it gets written up and published (but the current state government has been working to exclude themselves from the transparency process).

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
Nah, they breed them too. They're incredibly stupid people due to their education system.

In boot camp, a sailor at medical had everyone in my company from Texas stand up. Like 1/3 of the entire company stood up. He said "Everyone take a look at these recruits. They are going to FUUUCK you!"

I was 18 and laughed silently to myself. heh, what a joker. Nope. He was 100% correct. They were the dumbest people I've ever met in my life. Their incredibly stupidity made me suffer greatly. It was honestly shocking to me at such a young age. I thought "no way you can stereotype such a huge region of people." I was completely wrong.

I loving hate Texas to this day.

Bill Paxton was cool though. RIP

edit: I was watching a National Geographic program last night on how the US took the west by genocide and war. They had a full hour on just Texas. It was founded by radical extremists who invaded Mexico on their own, raping and killing at will, and put slavery into their constitution. It's a trash state filled with trash people. edit2: sorry that was rude, I'm in a bad mood today

Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Apr 17, 2024

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
texass

Valleyant
Jul 23, 2007

That darn catte

credburn posted:

I can understand someone maybe hearing about Hellen Keller and concluding that it was made up or something. But what drives a person to react so strongly to the Hellen Keller story that they need to put on bumper stickers and dedicate part of themselves to debunking the tale?

Hellen keller was a huge socialist, disability advocate, and co founded the aclu

InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan
lol the entire country is founded and settled by desperately insecure bitter failsons. some places just attracted more than others, mostly the money places.

Durf
Aug 16, 2017




credburn posted:

I can understand someone maybe hearing about Hellen Keller and concluding that it was made up or something. But what drives a person to react so strongly to the Hellen Keller story that they need to put on bumper stickers and dedicate part of themselves to debunking the tale?

the Qanon Anonymous podcast had an ep about it, and basically it seemed to start on tiktok as a running gag by zoomers, with posts confusing her history with Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, etc.

then older influencers either took it seriously and/or saw it as another trend that could be turned into a recruitment opportunity, and ran with it.

their audiences in turn took it at face value

Thesaurus
Oct 3, 2004


I saw this car the other day in Denver. I couldn't get a pic in time, but just found this article about the guy who just lives and breathes phantom or the opera for like the last 30 years straight.



There is a huge decal of the phantom's mask on th back window, but I can't find a picture of it.

quote:

Moore now has a huge mask decal covering the hood of his Miata with the vanity license plate OPRGOST – for “opera ghost.”

Octogenerian Dick Moore is nearing 200 performances of Webber’s masterpiece over 31 years

https://www.denvercenter.org/news-center/meet-denvers-legendary-phantom-phan/

I remember thinking, "man that guy must really like the phantom or the opera..." How right I was!

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dervival
Apr 23, 2014

i wonder how he feels about Love Never Dies

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