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Nov 2 • 40 tweets • 15 min read
Somehow, it's already November 2022

That means it's time for a new AMA 😆

Ask Me Anything...

curiouscat.me/tgd
Prior AMA Threads –

2022:

2021:


2020:


2019 and earlier:
You are the only reason this month's AMA thread started on time, I thank you 😄
No, they both sound miserable
Doubtful 😉 for now I'm telling folks to add me on LinkedIn and follow the foodraiser.info repo for future Foodraiser details
Yes. I voted a straight D ballot last week.

GOP delenda est
Not directly, I was adopted 😆 you may be related to my dad though! Any family in Massachusetts?
Been to Lynn many times growing up, pretty much all of my dad's family lived there -- he was one of 11 kids I think? Some very large number 😂 High likelihood y'all are related somewhere
Here's Biscuit hiding on the kitchen counter for no discernible reason, sleeping on the bed soon after, and being a jerk bothering Oliver at night
IMO the "value" of it fluctuates too much for it to ever be a replacement for fiat currency, and until it becomes something one can exchange for real-world goods and services (without being at the mercy of exchanges freezing $$ withdrawals), it's functionally worthless
Littering, at a minimum. But I'm not aware of any offenses in Chapter 20 that would cover this sort of thing
👤: What would it take to actually close the potential “Self Pardon” question? Why do you think Congress hasn’t acted on that yet?

👴🏼: To definitively close it: a Constitutional amendment

To maybe close it: pass a statute outlawing it, dare a POTUS...

curiouscat.me/tgd/post/12940…
👤: If you got a chance to write an entirely new constitution what would be your new top 5

👴🏼: I'd leave most of it the same, but make the following amendments –

Art I:
➡️ Hard-code Wyoming rule
➡️ 3 Senators per state

Art II:
➡️ Curtail self-...

curiouscat.me/tgd/post/12902…
👤: I was watching Ty ... he said the 2nd amend petition was not part of the TCPA filing & should have been exempt from the Rule 11 thing ... True?

👴🏼: The Rule 11 agreement isn't why the petition was excluded, it was excluded for violating Rule 63

curiouscat.me/tgd/post/12886…
👤: If Spiderman wanted to sue someone for defamation would he first have to prove he was Spiderman, and could he rely on others to prove he was Spiderman? Does the fact that there are shapeshifters/magic users/etc make it impossible?

👴🏼: "Prove" in a...
curiouscat.me/tgd/post/12908…
👤: How is in-house lawyer life (currently in my final semester and sitting in evening IP class...)?

👴🏼: F*ckin' GLORIOUS! My team is amazing, the pay is good, and the work is interesting. I should have switched sooner tbh

curiouscat.me/tgd/post/12969…
👤: Mastodon?

👴🏼: Don't know yet. Currently monitoring the situation.

curiouscat.me/tgd/post/12969…
Unfortunately it's going to depend on what exactly was conveyed to the responding officers and whether there was any indication (or should have been an indication) that it was a SWATting attempt. Def recommend talking with a §1983 atty, but qualified immunity makes it tough
Talk with an attorney first about the wording. The act of filing the complaint in itself wouldn't hurt, but things said in that complaint might

Sorry you had to deal with this 😔
That one would really vary by how a state has worded its laws on both ballistic weapons and on jamming equipment

You'd also run into issues w/ federal firearms laws too, which is "any weapon ... which will or is designed to ... expel a projectile by the action of an explosive"
Oh it'll be awhile. You've still got the remand for the bonus sanctions hearing, then the appeal of that, then the request for en banc review when the ruling is affirmed again, etc etc etc
My recollection is that the FCC's jammer regs only relate to interfering with over-air radio communications. I guess most "robots" would be radio-enabled, but didn't interpret the initial tweet that way
I was taking it more as a Terminator / autonomous AI thing 😂
Not yet. It's 45 days from denial of the motion for reconsideration. That order was entered on September 29th IIRC, which would put 45 days at November 13th, and since that's a Sunday they'll instead have until November 14th
"Wellness check" is a bit of a euphemism, the same way we now call pedo cops in schools "School Resource Officers"

In most jurisdictions, "wellness checks" trigger large armed responses. Which is why the person "checked" often ends up dead
Silly sh*t. The federal government and most state governments allow unsworn declarations in lieu of notarizations (see, e.g., the federal version at 28 USC §1746: law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28…)

The whole plan was an onion of stupidity
Both parties have stipulated to it, basically akin to a settlement. So there's no compelled speech issue

Document is here: int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
My 100% purely speculative guess is that the other judge wouldn't have signed on to the majority if the stuff from the concurrence was still in there

I'm not sure I can recall ever seeing that happen before
Great movie, have it on DVD
Yes. But they're going to do that anyway

It's like impeaching Joe Biden. We all know they're going to do it long before it happens, because that sort of troglodyte reflexiveness is baked in
Your tweet would be 1A-protected speech, you actually shouting it would be actionable (because you'd now meet the Brandenburg test for intent + likelihood + imminence!), and the protected tweet would still be admissible evidence of intent
Brandenburg says that speech is protected unless all 4 things happen:
1️⃣ the speech is intended to cause
2️⃣ and reasonably likely to cause
3️⃣ imminent
4️⃣ lawless action

In your hypothetical, you already hit 1, 3, and 4. That only leaves 2 as a question mark

2/
 @PSUbowler300
So if you go to a random crowded theater of panicky people and shout "FIRE!" it would probably be criminal

If you go to a theater of First Amendment attorneys and do it, it wouldn't be (regardless of your intent) b/c we'd all assume you were joking

3/3
 @PSUbowler300
If you're 100% sure they're already dead, lawyer

If there's even a glimmer of possibility they're still alive, ambulance then lawyer
Worst case:
➡️ Senate goes 53 R - 47 D
➡️ House goes 242 R - 193 D

Best case:
➡️ Senate goes 51 D - 49 R
➡️ House goes 220 R - 215 D
It's still illegal, the question is just whether someone prosecutes

Using the FIACT hypo, for example: there's no requirement people *actually* panic and stampede. A judge / jury just has to decide it was "reasonably likely" to happen based on the circumstances

1/
Fighting words are another example

A basically-lawless judge (who'd rubber-stamped #SilentSham) decided "do something, bitch" and "you only got one eye, bitch" were illegal words, even though the words themselves didn't produce any conduct

2/
 @stvngrdy

indyweek.com/news/northcaro…
Unfortunately there's a litany of 💩 at the trial court level that ends in conviction even without any real conduct resulting from it

It depends entirely on whether you end up drawing the attention of a busybody cop or prosecutor

3/3
 @stvngrdy
I'm trying to figure out if it's dumber that you thought a 2020 tweet was a gotcha of some kind, or if you thought this particular tweet was a gotcha when it's of a cop car on a sidewalk running over pedestrians on a sidewalk (which is where pedestrians walk)
Yep. Disorderly conduct / battery / assault / etc

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