AssortedBiscuits

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

Treble of peace officers of the law underwent sudden unconsciousness after being subjected to force of sudden pressure wave of gaseous molecular nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide along with trace molecules most of which are organic in nature.

Heck r/TrueAnon had a whole thread about how dog owners are reactionary (can't find it now for whatever reason).

New struggle session just dropped.

There's only so much you could polish the "slavery is good for slaves" turd. You would think that people would wise up after nearly two centuries of repeatedly polishing the turd.

The Simpsons

I always remembered Abe saying, "And it'll happen to you!" instead of "It'll happen to you!" And the weirdest part is even when I see the actual scene, my mind always tries to insert the "and" for some reason lol

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm not a vet, but I've rubbed shoulders with plenty of vets.

  1. Every vet I know (10+) suffers from some physical ailment, be it tinnitus (very common), knee problems, back problems, and so. One dude I know is getting colonoscopies in his mid 30s because he slept right next to a giant pit where they burn their trash. And this isn't even considering the PTSD. And the really fucked up thing is that most of the vets weren't even deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq. Just being a MP in some random base at Louisiana was enough to give them brutal tinnitus or being a glorified truck driver in Germany was enough to give them knee problems because they jumped off a ledge that was too high that one time.

  2. The VA isn't going to do shit. At best, it's a completely underfunded byzantine system where you have jump through Kafkaesque hoops and basically know the right people who know how to game the system in order to actually get them to do what they should be doing. And every vet is going to have some physical ailment from their service (see 1).

  3. He will basically have no rights as a soldier. All that shit in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, not that we should seriously consider them, completely goes out the window when you enlist. To give you an example, in courts martial, you're guilty until proven innocent. And this is also not getting into the fact that fragging isn't just done for anti-war reasons. It's very scary to be surrounded by people with guns who all understand that dead men tell no tales.

  4. SA is completely rampant and being a dude is not going to save him from being SA by his superiors. And going through the proper channels will not save him from "accidents" (see 3).

I also briefly tried explaining some issues with the US military, but it's a bit hard to undo decades of american "education" in one conversation. He said "my moral code is also not nearly as strong as yours, and I have very little strong feelings toward very much at all outside of just trying to be a good person". I assume he reached out to me because he's having some doubts.

What branch is he thinking about enlisting? Not all branches are equal.

When you're definitely not padding the word count.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Qin Shi Huang stans. The actual dynasty wasn't that good since we're accounting for the reign of his son and most of the legwork towards unification under Qin was done by his great-grandfather Zhaoxiang of Qin.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Safe answer is Han or Tang.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

@grok give me a furry version of Musk's self-insert AI

This is what I would use https://stopice.net/

ICEBlock being closed sourced (and baffling only on iOS for some reason) is DOA for what it's designed to do. This looks much better.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"What's up? The sky, dipshit."

Uh aktually, what's up is the ceiling because we're inside a building.

"Your gender's just another excuse for you to cry when I roast your ass, princess."

Missed opportunity for Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess!

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 37 points 3 days ago

Still can't get over how the Black dude only agreed to be in this ad if we can't see his face lmao

 
 

"Mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be liquid at room temperature."

Uh aktually, gallium melts at 29.7646 °C/​85.5763 °F, which isn't even that hot.

 

Alternate title: Imagine getting owned by AI

 

Wait a minute...Statue of Beanis...That was our planet!

You maniacs! You blew it up! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

 

My HOA sent me gore photos after complaining about the AirBnbs.

These were included in a cease & desist packet threatening to sue me and several other homeowners for defamation after speaking out at City Hall about AirBnb businesses taking over our residential condo tower. After so many egregious incidents including a cataclysmic office fire, before employing THIS tactic, our HOA may have overplayed their hand to such a shocking extent that it could backfire and end the worst kinds of short-term rental (ie: AirBnb) business practices entirely.

After months of paying inflated HOA bills while also taking care of my elderly mother, my own financial situation is in serious jeopardy. After raising enough funds to get three months of savings back into my personal account, I will use proceeds from this fundraiser for large-scale collective legal efforts that will improve the situations of many, many people beyond just myself.

There's a very good chance that if we can escalate our related lawsuits to a guilty verdict and avoid settling, precedents will be set to ensure this never happens to anyone, anywhere, ever again. But the road there will be very expensive, including not just the lawsuits themselves but also potential foreclosures, receivership, and other as-yet-unknown but predictable hardships. After all, they did send us gore photos!

So if all goes well, the money we raise here will be paying for (in this order:)

HOA Lawyer Retainers: Multiple HOA lawyers who have experience winning against corrupt HOA's need a five-digit figure for their services to escalate these cases to the levels they should go. This GoFundMe will help fill in a big gap in the community's existing legal fund to get those lawyers paid and moving onwards faster.

Foreclosure Defense: Under Georgia law, HOA's have some legal authority to attempt foreclosures on households owing more than $2,000 in unpaid dues. Over the past few months, our HOA has been billing us a "capital budget contribution bill" and attempting to bill us special assessments whose prices seems poised to exploit that $2,000 HOA foreclosure loophole. The foreclosure process does allow homeowners fighting these bills several "second chances" to defend themselves, and I would like the most vulnerable of us, particularly the elderly, to be financially prepared for that possibility.

Defamation Defense: Intimidating C&D packets threatening to sue victimized residents for defamation are not rare in HOA disputes, but actually following through with a defamation lawsuit is. But after sending us gore photos, it seems reasonable for us to expect the worst. In the event that a defamation suit does happen, I would once again prefer for us be prepared for it with a healthy legal fund ready to go.

Receivership Survival: There's a chance the building will undergo a period of what's called "receivership," where state authorities briefly take control of incompetent HOA boards to get things back on track. However, this usually results in a period of increased expenses for the most victimized homeowners. In the event this happens to our building, this GoFundMe will be used to help our most financially vulnerable homeowners (especially the elderly) endure a period of receivership that will likely be much harder to endure for AirBnb investors who own multitudes of units, versus smaller homeowners who own one.

Insurance Fraud Survival: The HOA is currently being sued by two entities with alarmingly expensive cases behind them: a fire insurance company is alleging some kind of fraud over the January 2024 fire, and a fire repair company is alleging some kind of breach of contract over the work they were hired to do. In the event the HOA loses these lawsuits, the expenses may be end up being passed down to victimized homeowners who do not deserve to suffer for the incompetence of a HOA board whose legitimacy is facing so many questions.

Set Precedent & Reduce Temptation to Settle: In the event this GoFundMe becomes very popular, the funds raised may end up being competitive with expected settlement offers from our opponents. Reducing the temptation to settle by relying on GoFundMe funds to survive all this hardship will help ensure that these lawsuits get seen to their full completion, so that a final verdict will set a precedent that will be followed in future lawsuits against allegedly corrupt HOA's & short-term rental companies. This can effectively "change the laws" around how Georgia courts handle HOA & short-term rental matters, which could also snowball into those precedents being followed in other U.S. states as well, and perhaps even other countries on a global scale!

Funding Repairs & Maintenance: In the event this GoFundMe does become very popular and raises a large five or six-digit sum, and in the event control of the HOA board does return back to members who live in the building and are materially interested in improving the building for their own life's sake, these surplus funds will be donated back into maintenance & repair projects that will help ease the heavy wear & tear our building has endured over the past few years ever since the AirBnb business became popular.

Buying Back Equitable Shares of the Building: Last but not least, as a final fantastical pipe dream in case we raise seven-digit "property-purchasing" levels of funding, and in the event our opponents end up selling their interests in the building for some reason, large portions of these funds will be used to put ownership of the building back into a majority of homeowners, ensuring a more equitable distribution of property ownership and a more democratic system of decision-making over our HOA matters for the long-term foreseeable future.

 

Abby Martin speaks with Thiago De Ávila, steering committee of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition, as he sails to Gaza alongside Greta Thunberg and others, discussing the mission of building a humanitarian corridor and threats of another bombing attack by Israeli drones.

 

NOTE: Elon died on the way back to his home planet.

 

The Beanis that Couldn't Slow Down

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