🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Yes, though they got lazy at times. I remember one episode where they got captured by some guy who made minature models. He'd made tiny houses and cars just the right size and wanted to keep the crew captive. How did they escape? By speeding away in one of the tiny cars, seemingly with a to-scale internal combustion engine. Even as a kid this made me frystare.
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Awesome. Discourse apparently supports .webp images in the preview but not in the actual post. I LOVE IT.
Converted to PNG for people not on Chrome.Seems like the problem is the image is served with
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
andContent-Disposition: attachment
and the browser doesn't like that.
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I forgot how fucking ugly their spaceship was until I just recently Googled it.
I can't remember the premise, what stopped them from just taking off and going back to Earth at any moment?
EDIT: Oh I guess according to Wiki, their ship was just sub-orbital, transferred to the Planet of the Giants via what might as well be magic. So it wasn't capable of returning on its own power.
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Converted to PNG for people not on Chrome.
I'm using Chrome and I couldn't see the picture.
Except if I clicked on it, I could see it in the lightbox. Yay Discurse!
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/13/woman-sues-nephew-says-his-exuberant-greeting-led-to-fall/
Suing an 8-year-old for saying he loves you and hugging you.
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Suing an 8-year-old for saying he loves you and hugging you.
I say the bad idea is a world where you can't do this!
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In this series the actress was pregnant, the characters she played weren't
This trope gone mad: Bewitched. Every time Elizabeth Montgomery was pregnant in real life, Samantha wasn't, and they had to keep finding ways to hid her condition. When they got around to writing story arcs where Samantha was pregnant, Liz wasn't, so they had to pad her costumes.
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Does anyone other than Google?!
Look, I don't give a shit if Discourse supports them or not but:
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If it supports them, it should work in BOTH the preview and the actual post
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If it doesn't, it should show some kind of error when I upload one instead of showing me a perfectly fine preview
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Live streaming yourself driving drunk.
The police in Lakeland, Fla., said that 911 dispatchers started receiving calls Saturday from viewers who were watching a woman broadcasting herself while apparently driving drunk, using the live-streaming app Periscope.
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Missouri dumbass tries to p... Well you get the idea.
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Wow. Well, at least he's smart enough to know that every insurance company in America would literally laugh in his face if he tried to file a claim on that.
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Wow, that dude has a really cleared... Exactly which cavity is being shown here???
In any case, it seems like the "*simulated image" doesn't match the anticipated setup depicted.
Filed under: Why would you fake that anyway?
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I like how the dude at 1:20 is just sitting there at the iMac's login screen doing nothing.
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Not making sure your skill update notes are posted in a way to avoid the clkittenic mistake of content filtering:
Sneak Gyro needed a cooldown that was longer since it would otherwise have potential 100% uptime, so it now has a cooldown of kitten , up from 30s (its 30s duration remains).
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/engineer/Post-BWE3-Scrapper-Changes
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For those wondering, like me, what probably happened was the filter replaced 45s, which looks like ASS if you look at it funny.
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BAD IDEA: Police cats
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What for? Catching cat burglers?
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-- Mr Snuffles, in this department we play by the book!
-- Bye book.
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*nudges book off the desk*
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I figured someone must have at some point written something called "cat cop" and they did and here it is:
SUFFICIENTLY MET MY EXPECTATIONS.
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Another time, they said that they fixed a bug with people clipping through the kittenpit in one of the personal story missions, and I really wish that wasn't a censor thing because clipping through a cockpit is a lot less funny than clipping through a kittenpit.
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The Cat Fist (nekoken) technique:
EDIT: Damn, that link doesn't work inline either... hold on...
The relevant parts start at 5:50
Filed Under: Which way is it to the Nyannīchuan? I'd really like to know...
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Brings back memories of one of my favorite shows, which is much more recent than that. Half the characters are merpeople, and are terrified of cats. Even tiny kittens. One of the characters summons a wave of cats once to immobilize them.
Seto no Hanayome. One of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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I'm a Free Inhabitant under the Articles of Confederation, you have no authority over me!
https://youtu.be/3zHRQn_IShwI'm not sure why she's called a feminist here, aside from the obvious insanity and her yelling rape when the deputy puts her in cuffs.
There was no evidence of any flags, gold trimmed or not, that I saw or heard in the video.
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That's... just... was she even listening to herself at any point during all of that? "the rights of US citizens but don't have to follow any of the laws"... wat? :WTF:
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It's a variant of the
delusionconcept known as 'Sovereign Citizenship', which makes various untenable claims about the US Constitution and the applicability of penal law. The specific variant she seems to be spouting off about is probably from The Organic Law website, which holds (among other things) that Federal law only applies to the actual property of the Federal government, that the Constitution didn't replace the Article of Confederation but only clarified them, and that all you have to do to avoid all legal obligations is declare yourself in writing to be a Free Inhabitant (which they incorrectly state was a principle in the AoC).There is also this, which is more of the same. Basically, it is the same argument that anarchists Lysander Spooner and Benjamin used in the 1860s that the Constitution is a contract, if you weren't personally a signatory of the Constitution, then the contract doesn't apply to you.
Good luck with that. It didn't work for me when I said that the government was a figment of its own imagination, either, though admittedly I never tried to get out of a speeding ticket with that argument.
A few typical examples of a 'Sovereign Citizen' getting disabused of his flights of fancy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyy9Vns4Ias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCozh_vbYdM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPXcbb53vr8
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I'm... somewhat familiar with that idea. Just don't understand how it's possible for someone to take it to that extreme without being impressed by a clue-bat somewhere along the way.
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Worst WorldStarHipHop video I've ever seen. Zero sucker punches.
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Man, that was awesome. I've never seen a female sovereign citizen before. I'd like to ask that dipshit if she went to Mexico or Canada or Russia and tried that "I'm not subject to your laws" line how she thought it would work.
I'm all for allowing people to declare themselves Sovereign Citizens or Free Inhabitants or whatever the fuck they want, and then escorting them right out of the country until such time as they don't come back in until they have a visa and/or passport from an entity the US applies.
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It didn't work for me when I said that the government was a figment of its own imagination
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FWIW, most of those were repeats of the "freedom to travel means I don't need to show you my license or insurance unless you have reasonable belief that a crime was committed" excuse. Which, obviously, doesn't work. (Side note, has anybody ever successfully used this argument to get out of a ticket, or the more likely arrest for not cooperating? Why do people use it?)
"I'm not a person/citizen, your laws don't apply to me" is just a whole 'nother layer of stupid.
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Oh man those guys are awesome. So ridiculously awesome. I love Sovereign Citizens.
I like the one where they think if their name is written on a form in all-caps, it's not actually THEM but a corporate entity the federal government set up.
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Then there is this guy, who claims to be the head of state (and sole citizen) of the Marrakush Empire, and hence has diplomatic immunity... he and his friends have dozens of YT videos of his courtroom BS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CriJmEBgWQ0
He spouts a version of the ALL CAPS thing, too.
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So does this mean I can declare myself the High King of the People's Republic of Foxland and have diplomatic immunity everywhere? If so, I think I'm going to see about allying with Petoria and establishing a pipeline from my house to his using American tax dollars. Then he can send me fresh-caught clams. \o/
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So does this mean I can declare myself the High King of the People's Republic of Foxland and have diplomatic immunity everywhere?
Give it a try, and when you get back out of jail, let us know how it worked out for you.
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The last bit of the second video ("sovereign citizens getting owned") is in Addison, TX, where I work. I couldn't quite recognize where it happened, though.
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Addison is a nice place. I go there every year. :)
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I'm... somewhat familiar with that idea. Just don't understand how it's possible for someone to take it to that extreme without being impressed by a clue-bat somewhere along the way.
If only there were such a thing as a clue-bat. Sadly there is not: people can believe any fantastic, inconsistent, BS that they want.
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Sorry for the double; relevant.
DOJ Creates New Domestic Terror Position
Carlin said local law enforcement officials he talks with consider their top terrorism concern to be people who call themselves sovereign citizens. Followers believe they do not have to answer to any government authority, including police or courts.
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Fight stupid with stupid, that will work.
From what I've seen of them, the only physical threats a Sovereign Citizen poses to law enforcement is the risk of throwing out your back when carrying their tazed bodies to the cruiser, getting paper cuts from their legal briefs, and busting a gut from laughing at them.
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I'm guessing they're more worried about the kind of "sovereign citizen" that gets a bunch of friends and lives with them in a heavily fortified compound in the middle of the forest.
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Well, it's true there's not all that much outright violence, though there is some. See Violent clashes with sovereign citizens across the U.S.: Interactive map. The biggest things are wholesale fraud and theft.
A good example of both is Cliven Bundy--though he's not "fully sovereign" and still "respects" the state of Arizona, he clearly holds a lot of the sovereign citizen belief system: his assertion that the federal BLM cannot own land in Arizona and his fraudulent clams to some of that land, lead to armed confrontation that would have turned small-war violent if the government hadn't backed away from it.
(His beliefs apparently hold that the federal government has no authority and the BLM land he claims belongs to the state of Arizona. But it's just a short step to full "sovereign citizen"; I figure he'll take that step the first time Arizona government tells him something he doesn't want to hear. See the article section "Bundy's worldview".)
For a broader view of sovereign citizen activities, see (PDF): The Lawless Ones: The Resurgence of the Sovereign Citizen Movement--LIST OF RECENT SOVEREIGN CITIZEN INCIDENTS, BY STATE
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Hey, I'd rather have (often violent) idiots be classified as terrorists than an entire religion of people who would like to stop having their hospitals bombed if that's all right with you.
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Yes, please.
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