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by Pelerin
Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Hunter Biden Plea Deal
Replies: 625
Views: 403868

Re: Hunter Biden Plea Deal

Can Congress just subpoena anyone? Judicial subpoenas have all kinds of rules and checks and balances. It doesn’t seem like Congress would just be able to subpoena private citizens for the kicks. If that private citizen is linked to corruption involving the President of United Sates, they have ever...
by Pelerin
Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:16 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Hunter Biden Plea Deal
Replies: 625
Views: 403868

Re: Hunter Biden Plea Deal

Can Congress just subpoena anyone? Judicial subpoenas have all kinds of rules and checks and balances. It doesn’t seem like Congress would just be able to subpoena private citizens for the kicks. Who is going to stop them? Hunter Biden? I mean I could subpoena you but if you don’t show up at my hou...
by Pelerin
Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:21 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Hunter Biden Plea Deal
Replies: 625
Views: 403868

Re: Hunter Biden Plea Deal

Can Congress just subpoena anyone? Judicial subpoenas have all kinds of rules and checks and balances. It doesn’t seem like Congress would just be able to subpoena private citizens for the kicks.
by Pelerin
Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:45 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Public Displays of Affection (PDA)!
Replies: 23
Views: 145423

Re: Public Displays of Affection (PDA)!

Fancy you bring this up. Some years ago a man in a leadership position in his church often bragged about how great his marriage was, how his wife and him had no secrets, they had access to each other's cell phones and social account and so on. Guess what? Guy was a total dirt bag.... he was having ...
by Pelerin
Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:09 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Are Plain Catholics Anabaptists?
Replies: 198
Views: 45045

Re: Are Plain Catholics Anabaptists?

JayP wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:10 pm It is no different than my saying I am a Dieting Catholic.
Last time we had dieting Catholics things got a lot plainer but also a lot less Catholic.
by Pelerin
Mon Dec 11, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: GPT and LLMs: Good? Bad? Both?
Replies: 22
Views: 13180

Re: GPT and LLMs: Good? Bad? Both?

One problem I can see is that AI generated text is insanely BORING. The best way to get me to ignore a web page or forum post or anything else is to let it be obviously AI generated. I'm not saying it has no useful purpose. But it sure doesn't take the place of a human writer. Internet searches on ...
by Pelerin
Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:55 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Carbon Removal
Replies: 21
Views: 8132

Re: Carbon Removal

In their defense, I have wondered why people are going through all the trouble to invent carbon capture machines when plants already exist. If carbon capture were actually serious, all you need to do is build a giant permanent lumber yard. Ok, fine, you can get plants that grow (I mean capture carbo...
by Pelerin
Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:19 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Carbon Removal
Replies: 21
Views: 8132

Re: Carbon Removal

Did nobody step back and think about the fact that this is like burying plastic or fiberglass? Very curious what they’re sealing them with that is both impermeable to carbon dioxide and also does not decompose itself. Hmm… I do wonder what this “special barrier” might be? Folks, they’re shrink-wrap...
by Pelerin
Thu Nov 23, 2023 10:11 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Local repair shop justified in towing "trespassers"?
Replies: 85
Views: 21085

Re: Local repair shop justified in towing "trespassers"?

15 signs? Seems like this is the Assistance Office’s problem. You can’t completely blame people for doing what seems like the most obvious thing to do and it’s up to the Assistance Office to communicate with their customers. The Assistance Office should either offer to pay for a prominent sign at th...