9/ I've actually cleaned that up a bit to make it more comprehensible to sane people. The actual post would say "This is my house, it's just in my cousin's name because..." The first 10 times you see "it's my car but it's in her name" you laugh. But around time #11 >>>
-
Show this thread
-
10/ The smart thing to do is to stop laughing and to start analyzing. People apply the "homestead principle" ALL THE FREAKING TIME. "Finder's keepers" "Yeah but I lived here for 2 years" "But I drive it every day" "I touched it last" More and more I've been thinking that >>>
1 reply 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
11/ One of the DEEP QUESTIONS of governance / society building / etc is to make a glue layer that can bind to evolved human norms ("I've been carrying this bow for the last two weeks, and besides, I shot the rabbit you ate last night; OBVIOUSLY it's mine!") to formalism.
6 replies 0 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Stephen Fleming
12/ In my second novel I had a software override require that someone type in a sentence saying "I realize that this is a very bad idea". :Phttps://twitter.com/StephenFleming/status/1179045463061749760 …
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,
Stephen Fleming @StephenFlemingReplying to @MorlockPWhen we were planning to fly paying spaceflight participants (not “passengers,” since that term has a specific legal meaning), part of the informed consent process was to videotape them reading the disclosures aloud and answering questions about what they had just read.1 reply 0 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted
13/ Good mini thread, scroll up, but re this particular point https://twitter.com/ShitLordReflex/status/1179046648787288065 …
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,
This Tweet is unavailable.1 reply 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
14/ The two cruxes of my zoning dispute is that a clause in the zoning ordinance says "...a single family residence". The terms are defined elsewhere in the zoning code. Zoning board wants to disregard that definition and declare that "a residence is ANY structure". Whew lads
3 replies 1 retweet 14 likesShow this thread -
15/ Also, what's the plural of "crux" ?
14 replies 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
-
Replying to @random_eddie
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted
no, the mini thread was the embedded one, of length 3 https://twitter.com/ShitLordReflex/status/1179045794470477825 …
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,
This Tweet is unavailable.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MorlockP
I was just amused that the tweet that got the most replies (13 at the time) was the totally nerd-bait "what's the plural of crux"
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.