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    This is actually true, but you have to do it at a crossroads on the Monday nearest to the full moon, turn counterclockwise 3 times, and throw salt over your left shoulder.

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        Specifically blues guitar, I found that out the hard way. I wanted to shred some metal, but now all I can play is delta blues. I gave it a go for a while, but it’s just not my thing, totally killed my drive. Looking forward to hell. What a rip.

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          Classic monkey paw scenario. You’re a guitar god…when it comes to 1920s Delta blues played exclusively on a shitty old resonator guitar.

          Sadly no market for that kind of thing.

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    As someone who would also love to divorce myself from inter-subjective realities like “government” and “money” and “time of day” I appreciate these folks’ dedication.

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      It just seems extremely stressful to me. They create a fictional world through word magic in an attempt to escape reality, and the real world will constantly interfere because it is actually real unlike their fictional one. This again requires them to come up with even more word magic in a vain attempt to counter it, and so on until the real world interferes so concretely with them that they end up in jail.

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          Conspiracy, really? Are you saying that you actually believe those LIEntists at NASA that we’ve got all these giant fucking rocks just floating around in the sky?

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            what the fuck do you think the rockets are for? they put the rocks up there because otherwise it’d be trivial to disprove.

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              They’re going to hit the glass dome one of these days and then we’re all fucked, that’s what caused the great flood in the bible and it’s also how the dinosaurs killed themselves. The only thing to learn from history is that we don’t learn from history, SMH.

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    Yes the leprechaun has to sell you his house for 10 silver coins but only if you have 2 witnesses

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    Buying a house for coins and a special handshake sounds like something you’d overhear in a remote jungle village that’s never made contact the outside world, yet it’s coming from some guy on the fucking internet.

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      I suppose you could buy a house for whatever 10 silver coins are worth. The important missing variable is somebody willing to actually sell it. Sovcits seem to strangely think other people are onesidedly bound by contracts they invent.

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      Sadly, access to technology doesn’t make someone intelligent.

      Kinda’… begs the question about how “AI” could ever be smart, either, even if it did “think”. Cannot wait for the day when those services start to intentionally gaslight people… (oh wait! it already happens without its own thoughts. Like how Grok tows a few Nazi lines these days…)

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      The reason this is so funny is that in Sovcit logic, “conveyance” is a term to invoke a “right to travel” that supposedly makes vehicle licensing and insurance requirements unconstitutional.

      By saying he intends to live in one, he’s completely undoing that logic. He can’t even Sovcit properly.

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      Buncha idiots.

      Sea-going vessels don’t have restrictions on commercial use. Conveyances do. So, take your conveyance down to the boat ramp, position at least one wheel in the water to demonstrate it is a water-going vessel. Remove the “conveyance” placard, affix a “vessel” placard, and you now have a self-portaging vessel, free of the encumberences upon land vehicles and conveyances.

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    I know you’re probably tired of all the AI paranoia, but I have a feeling this is from chatgpt…

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    Is a common law attorney someone who legally becomes your lawyer after you’ve lived with them for a certain amount of time

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      I assume you know and are joking, but in case you (or someone else) doesn’t know - sovcits commonly argue that courts have to operate under Common Law or Admiralty Law. They frequently try to get cases thrown out because that’s not a thing so courts obviously refuse to call themselves either.

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            And of course both in the case of US and Canada it is a legacy from the UK, which also have Common Law (unlike the rest of Europe).

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            TIL. I knew Louisiana had a French history, but not that it maintenaned it in anyway, let alone through the legal code.

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              My sister won’t take the bar anywhere else, I assume because she had to learn a ton of arcane Louisiana nonsense that doesn’t translate anywhere else

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      Everyone thinks that’s how it works, but you have to call them your lawyer, and they have to call you their client. You both have to behave like you’re in that level of relationship. It’s not automatic or forced just because you live together and have sex.

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    I’ve heard you can apparently buy a house with 10 silver coins, the original deed, 2 witnesses present and 2 secretaries present is this true?

    Yes, this is true. Provided the seller is a dumb dumb who will accept 10 silver coins (~$400 USD) for a house while 4 of their friends watch in awe.

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      I thought you were mathing wrong since I’ve rarely seen it above $25 (not that I’ve checked in a loooong time) so I looked up the current spot price. Damn, nearly at $40US/ozt.

      … I should sell some of these silver coins I inherited.

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      Only if those are coins of a full ounce of silver, even. Nothing is specified so they might as well be dimes instead.

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        I was gonna give this fake seller the benefit of the doubt. Surely he’d request American Eagles at least.

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      It’s likely worse than that, even. “Silver coins” in sovcit often mean silver in color, i.e. quarters.

      Dude wants a house for $2.50.

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        There are silver content quarters, pre 1964 I think? These are the ones they use, or attempt to use because it’s all bullshit anyway.

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          The thinking is that there’s real value in silver. The ones made today aren’t actually worth thier face value in materials.

          Isnt gonna get a house, but i like the sentiment that my physical money has real physical value.

          Course. We need to hasten the apocalypse, so why not just make up numbers in the cloud instead

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    I kinda feel bad for this person. They’re either incompetent or delusional to the point that they basically have a disability.

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      I don’t.

      IRS sending in letters about 21 years of scam back taxes I apparently owe them

      Taxes are supposed to exist as a way to provide upkeep for infrastructure, government services, and social safety nets. Refusing to pay them while also still benefitting from tax-funded infrastructure and services is just being a parasite on society.

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      I don’t. I know people like this. They’re stupid, stubborn, selfish, lazy, egomaniacal jerks.

      Just the worst Karens ever.

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      I’ve got to be honest, I might feel bad for them if SovCits weren’t such massive pricks, but being a stupid piece of shit isn’t equivalent to insanity to me.

      Your Aunt is a lizard person? Insane. You think that you can increase your personal power and spiritual essence by consuming other living beings (insect-to-human cannibalism pipeline; I’m not joking this has been observed, codified and studied) to absorb their souls? Insane. Think that random family members, strangers and people on the TV are threatening you or compelling you to murder? Insane. Thinking that you don’t have to pay taxes, obtain or use a driver’s license for driving vehicles, etc. because you’re not a legal scholar or even lawyer, and base your whackadoodle dumb-fuck interpretations of antiquated legal statutes sourced from Youtubers & Facebook posts? Not insane - You deserve what’s coming to you, not because you’re a ‘bad person’, but because you’re too stupid to function in society and too arrogant to listen to anyone contradicting you for your own benefit.

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        This is like those people who argue about whether or not supernatural beliefs are insanity. You can be sane and believe all kinds of crazy shit as long as there’s a community of people who also believes in that crazy shit.

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          Bingo. If I’m not mistaken, it has as much to do with perceived social good as much as the size of the community supporting it. Established religions often have considerable resources at their disposal which they can put to use defending the legal rights of their adherents (or establish, depending on the point in the timeline). Small, siloed conspiracy communities don’t have that same centralized organization to coordinate efforts, let alone the financial means to challenge a country’s legal system in the larger sense.