I'm sure some parents use it as a substitute to avoid saying "son of a removed" in front of their kids, if that helps

Sure, I mean pretty much by definition. What does that have to do with your question?

Are you under the impression that they don't?

Well, yeah. That's not really in the same category or ever really disputed

No, that's my evidence that it wasn't ubiquitous and typical.

Maybe not just your social circle, but social-circle-specific.

No, this was just your social circle. I know literally zero people who ever bought into any of that crap

Other than the vague "big bad gubbmint thinks you're too stupid for their SECRETS" vibe, I almost find this old school X-Files type insanity sort of adorable. They don't wanna hurt people, they just want a more interesting world

From England straight to Louisiana is quite a leap

It's actually the comptroller, but only if he attacks en passant

Which wouldn't have the potential if the larger sun didn't form first to create the gravity to allow the rest to form.

This is simply incorrect. The gravitational potential of the body would be there regardless of what else is going on around it. And either way, the OP's question was not about some hypothetical where the sun doesn't exist, it's about where energy came from in the real world.

Star != Sun is just pointlessly pedantic. You're not trying to learn anything, just be a smartass.

? The OP's question was literally "is there energy on earth that didn't come from the sun." I am not the one being pedantic here.

Nuclear materials were formed in supernovas. They wouldn't exist in the first place without a star.

Well, yeah, sure. But that star is not the Sun.

Earth wouldn't have coalesced without the sun in the middle. Otherwise we'd still be a gas blob.

I mean, sure? It wouldn't be a gas blob, but it would be a very different system. But that still has nothing to do with it -- even if the gravity of the sun influences how the earth coalesces, it's still not where the thermal energy of the core came from. That came from the potential of the dust itself.

The heat in the Earth's mantle and core comes from the gravitational potential energy of the original stellar dust clouds the Earth originally accreted from. So, geothermal energy mostly isn't. And there's also evidence that a few natural uranium deposits have undergone natural nuclear fission chain reactions. That one's a pretty negligible amount, though. Other than that, no, it all traces back to the sun.

Yes, your aunt has (probably) signed up for what's essentially a scam. This is their whole business model, they know timeshares sound better than they end up being, so they intentionally trick people into signing contracts that are very difficult to get out of, so they can't just dump it the moment they realize they don't want it anymore.

Like others have mentioned, there are various options (donations/sponsorships/grants) that larger projects will generally have some of, but for smaller projects (99% of what's out there, by project count if not usage), the answer is simply "it isn't." It's done as a hobby, as a resume booster, or with the hope of eventually becoming big enough to hit one of those revenue streams.

Sorta. I mean everyone expects there to be actual pumpkin, but that'd be gross. It's just all the stuff you add to the pumpkin in a pie to make it delicious

I mean, it's basically just cinnamon, cardamom, and clove. Yeah, it's great. One of those "ruined by its fans" things

Yes, of course. That's what keeps them bound together.

That's... An extremely bizarre take on what happened, and on whether selling would be a good idea. The stock market almost never has anything to do with electoral politics, and electoral politics almost never have anything to do with what your market position should be.

In 4chan parlance that just means she's calling herself autistic. Which in 4chan world may or may not be literal

Poes law and all, but this one feels like a troll to me

There's nothing to criticize, because there's no evidence being presented for consideration. You're just presenting a bunch of hypothetical ideas about how some other universe might work. It has no relationship at all to how anything in the real world is observed working, ever. This is not any different than the "world building" forums where fantasy writers ask for criticisms of their fictional magic systems.

Not that you're going to get any kind of constructive discussion here regardless, but it's worth noting that "liberal" in the US means something very different in the rest of the world (what we'd call "neoliberal" or globalist) and I don't really know which one you mean

I don't think of either of them as having any specific regional accent at all. I think they just have somewhat similar voices and mannerisms

You are so gullible

"Official" here meaning "some guy said it and his friend wrote a blog post about it on the Internet."

It's fun to pretend.

How in the world could that possibly work

A UCC-1 is a form that acts as kind of a public declaration that you've loaned someone money or property and they're indebted to you. It helps establish the relative priority of creditors in complex financial situations, and serves as a public record of liens on the collateral of loans. Something like that, I'm not an expert.

But it's just a public record of a debt, basically. That debt has to actually exist, though, for the form to have any meaning. These guys have all convinced each other that just by saying they're a creditor to the government or whoever via this form, that they can make it come true, and thereby conjure money or ownership rights out of nowhere.

Psychonauts 1/2. The first game literally takes place at a summer camp. Second one has basically the same vibe.

Do they? IME it's the tankies who have the waifu profiles

The MAGA crowd, including elected members of Congress, the Senate, Donald Trump, and J D Vance, constantly talk about arresting, imprisoning, shooting anyone who says or does anything they don't like — and they're not joking.

Yeah... And that's one of the things that make them the problem. So maybe let's not also be the problem?

I mean, they definitely teach it in history, so idk

Or is he taking it down from the inside?

I mean.... The cash is still the right choice, but you can invest the Minecraft earnings too

The Minecraft one is just an hourly wage job with an, at best, just ok pay rate and mind-boggling monotony...

What is the milk supposed to be in this metaphor

I almost hesitate to bring up the other problems with your plan since, obviously the total monstrosity of it. But that's anyway pretty well covered so I'll just throw in that blowing enough nukes to kill that many people would create considerably worse environmental disaster

Pretty sure this guy thinks that rules against holding foreign feudal titles applies to receiving a copy of his vehicle registration... Because they're both called "titles," and of course as a sovereign citizen he counts as a "foreign state".

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

While this is insane, museum archives are definitely a thing?

Dang, that's a true vent.

But just to ensure you're pointing your justified rage in the right direction -- YouTube is essentially legally forbidden to stop copyright trolls. The DMCA makes it impossible: it spells out extremely specific terms for what YT has to do when it receives a claim, including, basically, the assumption of guilt. The content has to come down as soon as they receive the claim or they're in violation of the law, even if it's obviously frivolous. And there's little to no recourse against those who abuse the system.

The DMCA and copyright law in general is just broken, basically