UmeU 2 days ago • 100%
Ok someone must be watching me.
UmeU 2 days ago • 100%
Really sounds like it starts with an N and not an M so I don’t buy the mispronunciation story.
Also there is the fact that neither immigrants nor migrants ends in ‘gger’
He prolly had a bet with a friend that he would slip in an N word.
UmeU 2 days ago • 100%
Insurance companies really do a great job of replacing those family heirlooms. They always over compensate for sentimental value. They also make it super easy to collect on a claim and they never raise their rates after paying a claim.
UmeU 2 days ago • 50%
Most single family homes are owner-occupied. Most apartments are not.
UmeU 3 days ago • 66%
Go to parts of Texas where they don’t have many zoning restrictions and you will see that they are indeed boiling horses into glue right next to a preschool.
Imagine buying a house and then next door they build a dog food factory.
Good zoning is required for good city planning.
UmeU 3 days ago • 50%
The landlord would sure prefer option 2.
The meth head neighbor fighting with the scary guy who is always mean mugging people, the shoddy repairs and maintenance done to the lowest standards, the ever increasing rent even though the building is paid off…
We have plenty of space, we just need an economy that allows people to afford a single family home. A sfh can be built with nature in mind… the earth has plenty of room for 10 billion people.
UmeU 6 days ago • 70%
Did you even read the post?
UmeU 1 week ago • 100%
But it’s all the sugar with none of the fiber
UmeU 2 weeks ago • 100%
I can solve a 3x3 rubix cube in under 60 seconds.
Just practice and memorization, it’s not that hard.
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Pepperoni, olives and pepperoncinis are my go-to pizza toppings, absolutely delicious. This pizza however looks kind of old.
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
The worst part of retail/food service is the inescapable feeling of dread when you stare down the endless abyss of being stuck in that job day in and day out, forever, until you die. Only by resigning yourself to that fate does one gain the perspective needed to truly sympathize with the working class.
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
What do you expect, for them to have sucked his dick?
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Arbor Day! Trees ftw!
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Because something has not yet been proven to be impossible does not make that thing possible.
Speculation alone does not make a thing possible. You cannot claim that something is possible until you have demonstrated that it is indeed possible.
All things that have not been proven to be possible have a default state of being impossible until their possibility can be demonstrated.
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Gibberish, absolute gibberish.
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
You are talking funny friend… we can NOT recreate the human brain. Maybe someday, but so far it has not been demonstrated to be possible.
You say that we can recreate the human brain because we know the human brain can exist.
The sun can exist, can we recreate the sun?
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Just because intelligence exists does not mean it is possible to artificially create general intelligence… we would need some evidence that AGI is possible other than ‘makes sense to me’
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Because intelligence exists, AGI similar to the human brain is possible? Your conclusion does not follow the premise.
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Would there be traffic though?
UmeU 3 weeks ago • 100%
Would be interesting to control for volume. How many people per 100k cars are in an accident, minor or otherwise, vs how many people per 100k riders experience and assault or some other crime. In a rough neighborhood, the bus is not safe at all.
UmeU 4 weeks ago • 100%
First suggestion:
Women are the most vulnerable in the world and the most vulnerable are the most affected by the disease and the most likely to be affected by it is the people who are affected by it
Middle suggestion:
Women are not allowed in this world anymore because of their own personal preferences
UmeU 4 weeks ago • 85%
What’s more reliable than NPR?
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
The headline says they make 250k, or around 21k gross. 17k was my estimate of net. Article doesn’t match the headline.
UmeU 1 month ago • 87%
Bringing in 17k+ per month after tax and cannot afford a home?? I call bullshit. A $750k home is 5k per month including HOA/tax/insurance. That’s less than 30% of their take home.
They could double their payment and pay it off in 5 years, with 7k per month to live on, then they live rent free for the rest of their lives.
This article feels like propaganda. Homes are over priced but 250k per year is a lot of money.
UmeU 1 month ago • 37%
YoU dOn’T kNoW wHaT lIBeRaL mEaNs
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
To be fair, there is a considerable amount of overlap.
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
His defense was irrelevant because by only charging 1st degree, and not including the lesser charges, the prosecution took on the burden of proving premeditation, which was not possible to prove in this case.
Even if they were able to admit the evidence that KR had talked about his desire to kill protesters only weeks earlier, the prosecution would still have had trouble proving premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt given this heresy evidence alone.
He was found not guilty because the premeditation was not established beyond a reasonable doubt.
The self defense argument only would have been relevant if he had been charged with 2nd degree murder, reckless homicide, or manslaughter.
In the case of reckless homicide, his self defense argument would have failed due to the fact that a reasonable person would have known that bringing a loaded rifle into the middle of an unpredictable and potentially volatile situation would have the potential of resulting in death.
His unjustified and inappropriate presence that night instigated the conflict, and but for the fact that he was incorrectly charged, he would be in jail now.
Keep in mind that the verdict only establishes that the prosecution did not meet their burden of proof, not that the jury believed the self defense story.
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
All of his shootings were legally self defense
Not quite… The jury’s decision simply indicated that the prosecution did not meet their burden of proof, not that the defense’s position was accepted as fact. This is an important distinction.
… at trial the jury absolutely decided his case correctly.
Agreed, but keep in mind he was found to be not guilty, which is not the same thing as innocent.
Because he's immensely, painfully stupid.
Immensely, painfully, and dangerously stupid.
But we really, really don't need to give him any more of a spotlight than he already has.
Fair enough, but I think that this case should be taught in law school as an example of prosecutorial negligence in that if he were simply charged appropriately, 2nd degree non premeditated and/or manslaughter, he would be in prison now for a minimum of 15 years but probably closer to 25 years.
The choice to only charge 1st degree, which took on the burden of proving premeditation, was the biggest legal blunder of our time… worse than Alex Jones’s lawyer sending the full cell phone copy to the prosecutor, which was an absolute joy to watch live as it happened.
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
He got off because of an overly ambitious prosecution. Had he been charged appropriately, with second degree non premeditated, he would have been found guilty.
He was only charged with first degree premeditated, and because the prosecution had no way to prove that this idiot kid intended to kill when he traveled to the area, the jury had no choice but to find him not guilty.
The prosecutor is at fault, not the jury.
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
Good job, we need more people like you, people who value the truth.
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
I watched every moment of the trial including the jury instructions. You are spreading false information. Please check your sources.
UmeU 1 month ago • 100%
They did NOT establish definitively that it was self defense.
The verdict established that the murders were not premeditated, which they weren’t.
For the charge of 1st degree murder the prosecution had to prove premeditation which they were unable to do, hence the not guilty.
For some inexplicable reason, the prosecution failed to also charge 2nd degree, which would have likely received a guilty verdict.
Please note the distinction: while the defense certainly argued self defense, the not guilty verdict does not prove the defense theory to be correct, it simply proves the prosecution did not meet their burden of proof regarding premeditation, nothing more.
In the US legal system, people are not proclaimed innocent, they are found to be guilty or not guilty. Not guilty of one particular charge does not mean that the defendant is innocent of all crimes.
I watched the entire trial.
UmeU 1 month ago • 85%
He wasn’t charged correctly.
Had he been charged with 2nd degree murder he would have been convicted.
UmeU 2 months ago • 100%
It’s almost complete… just need to add a camera.
UmeU 2 months ago • 100%
UmeU 2 months ago • 100%
Nuance has entered the discussion
UmeU 2 months ago • 33%
UmeU 2 months ago • 100%
Many things come from my anus
UmeU 2 months ago • 100%
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Boy am I ugly. I’m so ugly that when I was born the doctor slapped my mother.
My mother, she wouldn’t breastfeed me, she said she liked me as a friend.
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Then later as I was growing up, when I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
Boy I was an ugly kid. I had plenty of pimples, one day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
I met the surgeon general, he gave me a cigarette.
Then I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
I told my doctor I want to get a vasectomy. He told me that with a face like mine, I don’t need one.
I told my doctor, “Every day I wake up, I look in the mirror, I want to throw up. What’s wrong with me?” He said, “I don’t know, but your eyesight is perfect.
I tell ya, I know I’m ugly. My proctologist stuck his finger in my mouth.
You have six buckets all lined up in a row. The first three are filled with rocks and the second three are empty, so the starting pattern is ‘full full full empty empty empty’. You are only allowed to touch/move one bucket and for the one bucket you touch, you are only allowed to touch it one time. How do you make it so that the order of the buckets becomes ‘full empty full empty full empty’?
The year is 1985. You are on the ground floor of a four-story building. On the top floor there is a lightbulb. On the ground floor with you there are three light switches. All three switches are connected to electricity but only one of the switches controls the lightbulb on the top floor - the other two switches are not connected to anything. You cannot go outside, there is no one helping you, and most importantly, you can only go up to the top floor **one time** to check. How do you determine with absolute certainty which of the three switches controls the lightbulb? If this post gets any traction I’ll post the answer. The answer involves no wordplay, is not cheesy or impossible to figure out… just use logic and you should be able to come up with the correct answer.
Following up on my ‘Day 4’ post, today is four full weeks. The 14mg nicotine patch is the answer that works for me. Some days I put it on first thing in the morning, other days I wait until noon. A few days I have waited until 4pm. I take it off right before I fall asleep because if I forget to take it off, I have super intense dreams. I have taken precisely zero puffs off a vape pen. My heart and lungs feel significantly better. I have started exercising and I really feel like I will be off the patches soon. I am switching to 7mg patches tomorrow. I have read that it is a mistake to stop using patches too soon so I am going to do the 7mg for at least a month. If I start thinking about vaping too much, I’ll switch back to 14mg patches. I’ll give another update in a few weeks to report on the transition from 14mg patches to 7mg patches. If anyone reading this is considering quitting vaping or smoking, get the patches and throw everything else away. The patches eliminate strong cravings, and the occasional craving you do get is totally manageable. At least this is the case for me, and I was consuming around 1-2 packs of smokes per day worth of nicotine since I was a teenager.
I’m 36 and started smoking at age 12. I was over a pack a day for most of those years. I switched to vaping about 7 years ago. I have been going through about 1.5 - 2 pods a day (1.9ml 2.4%)… I believe this is equal to about 70+ mg of nicotine per day though my math could be off. My lungs hurt, my heart palpitates, I can’t climb a flight of stairs without being out of breath. Sometimes I think I am about to have a heart attack yet for some reason I can’t stop puffing that vape, even in the midst of a panic attack caused by heart palpitations. Switching from combustibles to vape was a big step for me. I was proud/happy to not smell like smoke but I didn’t realize just how much more nicotine I would end up consuming. Switching to vape was not too difficult and after a few years I could honestly say I didn’t want a regular cigarette anymore. I did however become horribly addicted to the vape. The past few years I have given a lot of thought to quitting but I keep putting it off. It’s a sad and depressing cycle of hating myself for how much damage I am doing to my health, while constantly puffing away on the vape. It doesn’t help that I have unlimited access to free vapes. 4 days ago I made the decision to quit and I am feeling really motivated. I took a sleeping pill to get me through the first 24 hours, which I think was a good strategy. On day 2 I bought some ‘step 2’ nicotine patches. These patches are 14mg slow release over 24 hours. Instructions say to keep the patch on overnight but I have been taking them off, and waiting as long as I can in the morning to put a new one on. The patch reduces the severity of the cravings. The cravings still occur, but they are manageable. I have noticed that the cravings come in clusters. I’ll get a real strong craving, that lasts for about two minutes. That initial wave of fear and anxiety tapers off but then comes back 5 minutes later. This happens 4 or 5 times over the course of a half hour or so, then a few hours go by without any craving at all. Day 3 was easier than day 2, day 4 has been easier than day 3. I am determined to see this through to the end. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I plan to go another 3 weeks or so, then switch to the 7mg patch. It’s amazing how significant the impact has been on my lungs. I feel like I have twice the lung capacity compared with how I felt yesterday. My heartbeat is normal, my breathing is normal. It’s weird how quick and significant the changes have been. I really like how it feels to not have a constant nicotine poisoning. This feeling is very much worth the short bursts of crippling withdrawal, and I know it will get easier. Not sure if anyone will read this, but I’ll try to update in a week or two. I’m also happy to answer any questions.