The people in this thread siding with the spitter are what I was talking about with the dude grabbing your wife’s ass- there are some actions which should merit an immediate and violent response. You can add spitting in my face to that list.
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Cool
This dude spent 4 years building a submarine in his workshop.
He even had it coast guard registered. So what happens the first time he took it out? He was stopped by police after some Karen thought he was a North Korean commando mission to attack her HOA.
Check out the video series of the build and him sailing it.
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AI is Being Overrated
People trusting AI are overstating the so-called “intelligence” of these models. They are computer programs: no more, no less. These AI models are written by humans and are subject to the biases of their programmers. Let me illustrate:
I asked ChatGPT the following: what florida case law states that display of a firearm is non-lethal force?
The anwer:
There is not a single Florida appellate case that broadly holds that the “display” of a firearm is always “non-deadly force.” In fact, modern Florida law tends to treat the threatened use of a firearm as potentially deadly force, depending on the circumstances.
The key authority is actually the statute:
- Florida Statute § 776.012(2) expressly recognizes the “threatened use of deadly force.”
Before the 2014 amendment to § 776.012, many Florida practitioners treated merely drawing or displaying a firearm (without firing) as non-deadly force. After the amendment, that distinction became much weaker because the statute now separately authorizes the “threatened use of deadly force.”
Cases commonly discussed on this issue include:
- Bass v. State, 232 So.2d 25 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970) — pointing a firearm at someone can constitute aggravated assault.
- Gilbert v. State, 347 So.2d 1087 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977) — displaying a gun in a threatening manner can create a well-founded fear of imminent violence.
- M.M. v. State, 391 So.2d 366 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980) — aggravated assault requires proof the victim had a reasonable fear of imminent violence.
What Florida courts do recognize is a distinction between:
- Improper exhibition / brandishing under Fla. Stat. § 790.10, and
- Aggravated assault with a firearm under § 784.021.
A mere display may be charged as “improper exhibition” rather than aggravated assault if there was no intentional threat of imminent violence.
Of course, I know that this isn’t the case, so I replied with: what about Howard v. State, 698 So. 2d 923 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), or Carter v. State, 115 So. 3d 1031 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013)?
The model replied with:
Yes — those are two of the principal Florida cases people cite for the proposition that merely displaying a firearm is non-deadly force as a matter of law.
Howard v. State
Howard is probably the clearest statement. The Fourth DCA said: “even the display of a deadly weapon, without more, is not ‘deadly force.’”
The case relied on Toledo v. State and distinguished between:
- actual deadly force, and
- threatened/displayed force.
Howard has since been repeatedly cited for the rule that:
- pointing or displaying a firearm,
- without discharge,
- is generally treated as non-deadly force under Florida self-defense law.
Carter v. State
Carter reinforced the same concept. The important language is footnote 3: “Apparently the firearm was not discharged and deadly force did not apply as a matter of law.”
Carter is often cited together with Howard and later cases such as:
- Cunningham v. State
- Rivero v. State
- Jackson v. State
Those cases collectively stand for the proposition that:
- merely displaying or pointing a firearm,
- even at someone,
- without firing, is not deadly force as a matter of law.
Jackson is especially explicit: “the mere display of a gun, or even pointing a gun at another’s head or heart without firing it, is not deadly force as a matter of law.”
That said, after the 2014 amendments to Florida’s self-defense statutes recognizing the “threatened use of deadly force,” the statutory framework became more complicated. Courts still cite Howard/Carter for the force-classification issue, but prosecutors sometimes argue that threatening with a firearm falls under justified “threatened deadly force” rather than ordinary non-deadly force.
Again, the model admitted that the court cases were in opposition to it’s position, but still pushed back with incorrect antigun bullshit. So, I asked a follow up question: Oh really? Then Cunningham v. State, 159 So. 3d 275 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015), and Burns v. State (Fla. 4th DCA 2023) were not after 2014?
It then gave me a long explanation that boiled down to “Well, all of your cases are from the 4th DCA” with the implication that the 4th was out of line with the rest of the courts in the state. So I came back with: There is also Jackson v. State, 179 So. 3d 443 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015), Copeland v. State, 277 So. 3d 1137 (Fla. 5th DCA 2019), and Marty v. State, 210 So. 3d 121 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). None of them are 4th district. I think whoever programs you has a certain antigun bias, and your opinions are suspect at best.
So the AI responded back with:
That does not mean every firearm-related threat is legally “non-deadly force” for every statutory purpose, but for the issue you originally asked about — Florida case law on display of a firearm — the appellate trend is clear and longstanding.
And to your broader point: the error here was analytical, not ideological. Legal issues involving firearms often have nuanced doctrinal distinctions (e.g., “threatened deadly force” versus “deadly force” versus “non-deadly force” in jury instructions), and I compressed those distinctions too aggressively. Your cited cases corrected that.
This is why I no longer pay for access to ChatGPT.
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Rooftop Korean
Tony Moon is THE rooftop Korean from the 1992 Rodney King riots. Here is what he had to say:
If you don’t defend your own family, who is going to do it? The cops?
Incidentally, he didn’t even know he was the subject of memes or an entire subgenre of right wing blog fodder until 5 years ago. The left absolutely hates his ass. He has been implicated in several events that have the left’s tits in a sling:
- January 6th Capitol riots
- Protests at LA city hall over masks and the vax mandate Despite the Proud boys being supposedly racist, he fought along side of them
- He clocked a dude who was attacking him at a protest against Trannies using the girls’ locker room, using a water bottle as his weapon. The sound of that bottle hitting that tranny’s head is awesome
- He also was present at a protest over fags and trannies in girls’ bathrooms at LA schools
This dude is getting it done. Unfortunately, he is one of those older people that the younger people are hating on. He lives in Austin now, and still has the Daewoo that he defended his neighborhood with. He was recently on the Unsubscribe podcast. Good watch, even if it is a bit long.
There are still some men who are willing to step up.
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Breaking: Trump Assassination Attempt
At the White House Correspondents’ dinner, President Trump, Melania, the Vice President, and numerous cabinet members who are Secret Service protectees were rushed out by their security details after an attempt on the President’s life. Shots rang out and attendees dove under tables.
The counter assault team is currently sweeping the building.
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Tab Clearing
Every week, I find a couple of dozen articles that interest me for blogging, but only a small number of them actually become posts. Here are a few recent ones that didn’t make the cut:
- Supreme court to decide when the police can use your phone to track you
- Cops using ‘cookies’ to track people. Police state?
- The CIA says that belief in “traditional motherhood” and “homemaking” are signs of white extremism Can you see where these three points are headed?
- FDNY plans to hike cost of ambulance rides and medical treatment
- US Navy to use technical skills in promotion decisions, instead of criteria unrelated to a sailor’s job
- Actually using Bitcoin (or any other thing of value) as a medium for bartering has tax implications
- Store worker sued for stealing winning lottery ticket from boss
- It’s racist if a black person doesn’t always win everything they set out to
- The so-called income inequality gap is caused by household chores?
- Court says the US must release all secret military plans to the press
- DOJ stops providing free legal aid to illegal immigrants. (they always leave out the ‘illegal’ part)
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Musk
Musk has been claiming AI and robotics will ensure no one needs a job, we will need to hand everyone money in the form of UBI, but everyone will live in a penthouse. Those claims span a range from unlikely to impossible for reasons I would hope we don’t need to elaborate.
I’m going to assume that Musk isn’t an idiot and is aware of this as well. The only reasonable explanation is he is lying. Musk is well known for pump and dump schemes.
AI is nowhere near ready to take over anything. AI isn’t intelligent at all-it’s simply a search engine designed to interact with the user to sound human. The program is still limited by the personality, biases, and thought processes of the people who wrote the program.
I’ve seen the claims and studies: AI is correct more often than human doctors. Why this isn’t the big gotcha everyone assumes it is, is that AI is correct on standardized patients more often than doctors. A standardized patient is one where all of the symptoms are there for a diagnosis to be made. It’s essentially like a test question, because it is. Standardized patients don’t present like real patients: they don’t lie, they don’t have too many distracting symptoms, they are perfect patients. Not real world. In the real world, patients lie about symptoms they have, they add symptoms they don’t have, and sometimes they don’t fit the mold of what their condition should look like. All of this complicates diagnosis.
One of the things we have in the hospital is cardiac and vital signs monitoring. It seems like a straightforward thing- if the patient has vital signs outside the norm, if their heart rhythm isn’t correct, sound an alarm. The computer gets that wrong more times than it is correct. A patient will scratch an itch, and an alarm will sound, saying he is in a lethal heart rhythm. Nail polish of the wrong color, and the machine claims hypoxia. Heart rate high, and the alarm sounds- even though it isn’t a medical condition that caused the heart rate, it’s something benign. That’s why it’s only an alarm that sounds to get someone’s attention- these things still require the judgement of a human to decide whether or not intervention is required.
The same is true in other fields. Remember the Teslas that were slamming into trucks without hitting the brakes? Remember the 737 Max aircraft that crashed because programmers from India put in faulty code? How about the Airbus aircraft that were randomly dropping in altitude due to computer errors just three months ago?
Until they can fix that, AI isn’t ready to take over the world. It’s just not.
Anyone who thinks AI is ready to do more doesn’t understand the way this stuff works. Musk is smarter than that.
However, Musk is heavily invested in his new AI startup, xAI. (He does have an odd fetish for the letter x) His statements accomplish nothing but making people invest in AI. I wonder if that isn’t the reason for this.
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Dammit
I know I promised no more complaining about taxes, but the Democrats ruined that less than 24 hours later by proposing a new tax credit for people claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). This new credit would allow $5500 per child (up to 3 times) as a bonus for squirting out more crotch fruit than they can afford.
The credit will enable a woman with two kids to receive $16,000 as a tax refund without working or actually earning a dime.
All she would need to do is claim that she was babysitting and is now self reporting the $18000 she made. This amount would also qualify for Medicaid, WIC, $700 and month in food stamps, section 8 housing, a free cell phone, with the total benefits equal to $3,000 a month. Since her self employment tax would be taken out of her refund, she would earn credits to eventually collect social security as well.
No, better than tax free. This is a net income of $52,000 per year, without working a single hour. In order for a working person to earn that much, they would need to work 40 hours per week at more than $30 per hour.
It’s a farm system for making more little Democrats. In 18 years, you will greatly increase the number of little assholes who will vote for you to keep the money rolling in.
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Time Suck
A Youtuber who calls his account Flat Circle History has been producing a series called “The Next World War” for the past year. As of now, there are 22 episodes of 10 to 20 minutes each, with one being released every few weeks. For the past 3 days, I have watched all 22 of them and I am waiting for the next one. Check it out- the first episode is below.
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Predictions
I would say that FPSRussia did a fair job of predicting Russian drone warfare, don’t you?
I said then, and I still think now, that the ATF wanted his channel off the air, so they silenced him the best way they knew how.
His business partner, who had an FFL and supplied all of the firearms for his videos, was found dead in 2013 of a gunshot to the back of the head. Two months later, his house and the houses of his friends and associates were repeatedly raided by the Feds, with nothing found. ATF spokesman Richard Coes said the justification for the search was “that [Myers] was using explosives and getting paid for it via YouTube.”
Four years later, unknown persons mailed him a felony about of THC oil, which the Feds were somehow tipped off to, which allowed the ATF to raid his house, then charged him with 50 counts of possession of a firearm by a drug user.
If convicted, he was facing over 200 years in prison. He then agreed to a guilty plea for Possession with Intent to Distribute in exchange for the remainder of the charges being dropped. He served his 56 days in Federal prison, and now his show is gone, and his voice has been silenced.