Notices by cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz), page 3
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That happens too, but they don't just pocket the cash, they file some papers called "Civil Asset Forfeiture" and then it becomes property of the state, which then is given as a bonus to the police department, and then becomes a bonus for the cop.
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Americans have this super weird relationship with the idea of Freedom and the idea of Law and Order. So they think it's going to be like some drug kingpin's airplane that gets seized, but instead it's their fishing boat...
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I think it's a statute that says what happens (i.e. proceeds go to the police budget). There's no manual intervention by the governor or bureaucrat.
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Americans also have a weird relationship with the idea of police. Democrats want to de-fund all police departments and let madness reign. Republicans will lick the boot WHILE it's kicking them.
Since no one in the general public has a sane opinion of what police should do, nobody is really there to negotiate their mission and so their actual mission is defined by what the mayor wants.
Since cities are typically broke, the mayor generally wants them to go out and raise money by issuing fines. Sometimes there is some kind of bonus for putting people in jail, I'm not sure how all of this works.
Then they are also somewhat restrained by the lawsuits, but those are only generally from pro-black NGOs so they only worry about being sued if dealing with black people.
That's what I'm aware of...
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Someone will form a commission to write a report, and by the time they have a plan, the next president will quietly kill it.
France is the Nothing Ever Happens capital of the world.
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You're right about France in the past, and in the future, who knows... But what I can say is that the government as of now basically never does anything.
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The way France works is every 5 years or so, someone says WE'RE GONNA BAN BITCOIN or something crazy like that, and then it goes to discussion, debate, bill fails, re-introduced, debated again, there's a protest, and then at the last minute before they're going to pass it, the government collapses and they call snap elections and the whole thing is forgotten.
As far as I can tell, the whole thing is a huge scam to rip off international lobbyists. But I've been here for a decade, and I'll tell you straight up: Nothing EVER happens here.
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> Statue of Liberty changed her mind...
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Yes, the whole system is so fucked. The super-wealthy power elite have either abdicated their responsibility to protect society, or acted with express malice to destroy it. In either case the tree of liberty needs watering.
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CC: @Humpleupagus
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Are you trying to claim that human DNA was "compiled" from some source language and that whoever wrote it didn't provide the source so it's not GPL compliant?
That sounds like quite a stretch...
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Lets roll with it, lets imagine it is.
So then lets imagine I wrote a piece of software in C, and compiled it to a binary, and gave people the binary code *to do with what they want*, I abandon / disclaim any intellectual property right, CC0, public domain, etc.
That's obviously not GPL compliant, but how can you reasonably use the word "proprietary" to describe it?
The root word of "proprietary" is "property", so to be proprietary in the normal sense of the word, something needs to have an owner. But what owner can possibly exist if the only person who ever had a reasonable claim to it has explicitly disowned that claim?
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With Federal cooperation, they wouldn't even make it into the courtroom. Again, if I was illegal I'd tell the NGO lawyer "nah bro, I'm good".
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Oh yeah, there's a money laundering angle to this - "prove that you're actually renting an apartment and not receiving illegal funds".
> It'll probably get knocked down
Well, to actually get it struck down, they will need to enforce it against someone who is prepared to fight. And I mean, if you're a landlord, do you really want to go to war with the state government? End up with the board of health doing surprise inspections on every one of your units, etc..
And then for everyone else, if you rent to illegals then it's regulatory uncertainty and if you don't then it's not...
I think the real risk for Tennessee is that a malicious DA will bring a trash case against someone who has nothing to lose just for the purpose of getting the law overturned.
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I get it, I mean the average person who is unable to show ID is up to no good. But it's kind of like the privacy argument... Good people have nothing to hide and criminals don't, so might as well give up privacy too...
But each new rule creates a tiny little bit of additional friction for everyone, a little bit more distrust, and it chips away at social cohesion (if that's still a thing) until everything feels like a shitty government school.
IDK what the answer is, it's self-evident that a hell of a lot of people need to be excluded before a high trust society will ever be possible, but the goal should always be that people who CAN be trusted should live in a society where they are.
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It didn't used to be that way, and back in the 90s "Papers Please" was a reference to the German Gestapo.
ID to drive, ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol, ID to enter a bar has basically changed all of that. It has become de facto required to carry papers at all times, and show them on demand. Nobody makes the "Papers Please" Gestapo reference anymore.
Like I said before, I think Tennessee has the right idea, make it illegal to rent to illegals. The landlord is already vetting the person, so he can ask them to establish their legality and take the time to look over it. Bust a few of the most egregiously non-complaint landlords and let the rest of them do the vetting.
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I think Tennessee has the right idea, just make it a crime to rent a house to illegals and they can arrange their own deportation in whatever way suits them.
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> As for WTC 7, it had been burning for hours, with no sprinklers or anything. Then was shaken up by the horrendous shock of the WTC 1 & 2 collapsing, which damaged several buildings in the area so badly that they had to destroy them, in the aftermath. First, the penthouse fell into the inside of the building, showing that the internal structure had collapsed. Then the entire structure fell in on itself. Again, with ZERO evidence of explosives. So yes, logic dictates that it collapsed on its own.
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Time for Musk's Big Beautiful Party
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Another banger from everyone's favorite cringeposter !
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