The only thing weirder than people still using reddit, is when they think other people give a shit about reddit…

Realistically in this situation are you legally justified in shooting if they barge into your home without a warrant?

In some states, it’s explicitly legal to shoot a cop if they break in due to mistaken identity…

Not just breaking into your home, if ICE tried to snatch a US citizen out of a vehicle in Indiana, the US citizen is legal allowed to us violence up to and including shooting them to death.

Obviously tho, ICE would murder the citizen for it immediately, but technically the citizen wouldn’t have broken any law.

The amendment to Indiana self-defense law permits citizens to use force against unlawful intrusion into their homes, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicles by any person, including public servants. This law altered the landscape of the Castle Doctrine by extending legal protection to those who would use force against the police.

https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/the-castle-doctrine-and-indianas-controversial-new-law-FRxbimuYLTKSgBFB/

Reduced volume, but it will be because of Trump’s tarrifs anyways, with no extra money for the companies selling or the country exporting.

Putting their own export tax/tariff, increase per unit profit to make up for lowered volume.

Like, it’s a thing…

Just because you haven’t heard of something or thought it thru, doesn’t mean it’s pointless…

I don’t know why other countries don’t respond by passing their own export tax/tarrifs…

If trump wants to double the price of your goods, fuck him and get your own slice first.

You still get paid for everyone shipped to America, but the importers only get paid when it sells. So that’s getting business to go after Trump to lower his tariffs.

Exactly, you old fucking centrist fart.

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I get insulted a lot for my political beliefs, but that’s a new one

Eh, I can’t remember the last time I saw trump flags/signs around me…

And they get nervous when the topic comes up.

They’re not gonna start protesting trump, but they’re also likely to stay home instead of vote

Can’t believe it took so long for the obvious reason:

“The survival and growth of the bunker ‘colony’ through the years, without producing own offspring, was possible owing to continuous supply of new workers from the upper nest and accumulation of nestmate corpses,” the team concluded. “The corpses served as an inexhaustible source of food which substantially allowed survival of the ants trapped down in otherwise extremely unfavourable conditions.”

They kept falling in, and the ones that died got eaten by the ones who didn’t.

Once they could climb out, they all just climbed out as soon as they fell in.

Pretty hard to call it a civil war when one side is the government killing and abducting people with impunity, and the only example of an ICE agent getting hurt or anything resembling consequences is he slipped and fell on the ice…

promise to keep this account so I can just block you and move on with my life.

Can you do the same?

Because you’re more annoying at this point then they are, and apparently just made your seventh account to do this shit.

Like, I know you’re just thinking of it as “giving them their own medicine” but that’s because neither of you are thinking about anyone else.

They post a couple random articles, you derail any comment chains

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Is the author ignorant that Venezuela was also an ally until we invaded and kidnapped their leader?!

Like, is it ignorance or racism because this time it’s a “white country”?

which may partially explain their divorce

Pretty sure her and Bill have said it’s because Bill couldn’t stay away from Epstein…

Like, he’s admitted it was a factor, she says she told him multiple times to stay away from him and he just wouldn’t…

That level of wealth fucks with anyone’s head. I highly doubt there’s a single billionaire on the planet who isn’t into something so disgusting we can’t even imagine it. Even Melinda, but she might still not like international child abuse rings.

Hell, her only issue might have been how public those two were, I just can’t give any billionaire the benefit of the doubt, because if they weren’t a piece of shit, they wouldn’t be a billionaire.

His arguments are „we don’t know how brains work, we don’t know how conscience works, but we also don’t know how quantum mechanics could enable conscience, so it’s definitely the thing”.

You could have just said “I didn’t understand what he said” it would have been faster and there’s no shame in it, although it brings into question why even leave a comment…

Everything good Gates does is for PR and paid for money that should have went to taxes anyways.

If he was really a good person, hed have used most of his wealth to fix shit the second he got it. Same for every billionaire, even the ones in office with a D by their name.

Penrose is like 90+, but he never stopped doing speeches and lectures, there’s a shit ton on YouTube now because he’s (rightfully) been doing a crazy long victory lap the last couple years.

This is a pretty good one that also has Sabine Hossenfelder (leading physicist) and Slavoj Žižek (Eastern European philosopher who’s a little crazy) as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzXbIW9kxY

But it’s from Institute of Art and Ideas, and they routinely post amazing lectures about relatively broad topics.

It’s always about insanely complicated topics, but the speakers are usually good at breaking it down, even tho the people in attendance are all specialists in whatever field they happen to be talking about.

If you think NED needs to be defunded…

In February 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency under Elon Musk blocked disbursement from the Treasury of the NED’s congressionally-mandated funding;[15][16] in August, the NED was granted an injunction to allow access to its funds.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy

Congrats, you agree with Elmo and DOGE…

For decades Roger Penrose (the “brains” in the duo with Hawking who finished up Einstein’s work) had been saying there has to be a quantum component to consciousness.

Dudes probably the smartest living human, and has devoted like 30 years to understanding consciousness.

No one believed him, because quantum anything is hard to maintain in nature, specifically in the brain where it’s “warm and wet”.

About 2.5 years ago tho, a different researcher using recent tech breakthroughs was able to prove microtubules form basically these little fiberoptic cables in our brain, and inside of those little cables, quantum superposition is able to be maintained. Which is like wishing you could afford a hard boiled egg in these trying times, then winning the powerball.

Just far and above what anyone dreamed of finding.

Because of that, we don’t have to try and come up with a convoluted way for neurons to be able to produce consciousness. Which is why prior theory on neuron mapping tried to force the assumption that they had to follow the most efficient paths.

Weird…

I googled him and a month ago he announced retiring on 1/17/26, which seems to be when he was murdered.

Might not even be connected to being a judge, or maybe someone really didn’t want him off the bench?

No, it’s because if someone makes an account for just one post, they’re most likely trolling, banned from the community on their main account, or just have such consistently terrible takes that they always get heavily down oted and they care too much what people on social media think.

If you stick to the same account and keep posting, people will block you, which gradually increases the amount of people who see your post and agree with it.

If you keep making new accounts to complain about shit, the same people are going to keep down oting you, because they can’t block you.

It’s really not complicated, but a very very small amount of people just can never understand it.

Albert-László Barabási says that “it’s very costly to build wiring.” Scientists long thought that neurons would maximize their efficiency by minimizing the length of their connections, but observational data contradicted this hypothesis.

Because prevailing theory is still catching up to the reality that neurons aren’t the main part…

We kept trying to make a neuron system be fast enough to account for consciousness, which just isn’t possible. But because that’s not what the neurons are doing, they don’t need to be hyper optimized for shit they’ll never be tasked with.

It’s wild people think:

1. Our nukes matter to aliens

2. Aliens would just ignore an actual threat

3. Aliens would ignore a planet that will eventually be a threat but isn’t one yet

4. The few centuries we’ve been noticable is enough time to feel confident no one is out there.

And still think they know more than anyone else and need to comment on it…