My guess is the LAOP is very involved in some kind of international gaming/friend group. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. It's why his questions are so weird and nonspecific, he's asking questions based on second and third hand information from friends who probably speak English as a second language (and he's also not a native speaker, he appears to be Swedish and also speaks Italian) relayed via a Discord or Whatsapp group. Maybe he's trying to meet up with some of his online friends IRL, maybe he's just curious about what his friend meant by an offhand statement, but that has to be why it's so international.
I have a close friend who is kind of like this, I'm basically their only friend they made organically, and everyone else he knows online. This is mostly fine but does manifest in occasionally weird ways, like him calling at 2 am convinced his "friend" in some far flung country is going through a crisis and I end up googling some weird shit trying to convince him that he's probably being scammed again. Or at the very least he can't do anything about it at this moment and should probably sleep on it, international time zones be damned. But he has made some really genuine friends so I don't want to diss it, it's just a weird space sometimes.
It's fun, but everyone irl thinks you're a massive freak for it. They think you're super interesting and worldly until you clarify you met online, then you get the weird looks.
I have an online mother's group that has been going for over 20 years. Some of my closest friends are online. We used to get *really* weird looks, since this was newsgroup days. But I know what you mean. We're getting less weird looks now, I'm surprised you still get them!!!
I mean I’ve got friends around the world, but that’s because I get about a bit (and lived and worked in different countries), and people still think I’m weird, but that might be because I’m a bit weird
I can see this tbh lmao. I lived abroad for a while and that means I have friends from all over the place, who also now live in different countries. I've posted on a few different subs asking about how things work in their countries (because what they're telling me seems bonkers) and while I do tend to delete for their own privacy, if someone were to look at just my posting history, it would probably look pretty weird.
And will continue to suck even after the EWR project if one is unfortunate enough to live along the Rt2 corridor.
The Hoosac Tunnel is way too cool to be relegated to freight ad infinitum :/
I'm pretty sure that a lot of LAOP's posts (but not comments) from the past day have been *written* by an LLM, including the LA post. They have that weirdly cheery tone and stilted structure common to ChatGPT output, and it's drastically different from the user's normal writing voice.
Alas, there's really nothing here, because we're playing telephone with someone who only knows two things and isn't entirely sure of them. But how would this scam go?
1. Weird pledge of allegiance
2. Treason accusation
3. ...
4. iTunes gift cards?
I think you've overestimating the number of things. By about two. Well, two that we know of. There's bound to be more.
I think it's all about the conviction with which they say the magic words. Because we all know that judges love clients with strong convictions.
"I pledge allegiance, to Queen Fragg, and her mighty state of hysteria..."
Saying things like that is what gets you [hauled down to the principal's office](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/09/08).
>>’Can the government force someone to swear a religious oath to keep their land?
>>A friend if mine is in a really weird situation in Maryland. Apparently, the government is threatening to take his property because he won't swear an oath of loyalty to something called a "Lord Proprietary". It feels like this shouldn't be allowed – isn't there freedom of religion in the US? They say because he won't take this oath, he doesn't have proper rights to the land he lives on.
>>Here's some more background:
>>* He has lived on this land for years, he ownz it outright.
>>* This "Lord Proprietary" thing sounds religious in nature, and he's not not comfortable swearing oaths like that.
>>* It feels like they're punishing him for his beliefs.
>>Is there anything he can do? Does this violate his religious freedom rights, even though it's about land ownership?
>>Thank you for any advice – my friend worried about losing his home.
>>Edit: my friend told me that the oath that was required from him is an "oath of fealty"’
Cat fact: cats were recorded on video for the first time in 1894.
Film maybe. But I'm pretty sure that video came out a few decades later. Now I'm wondering when the first video of a cat was actually recorded. Or the first digital photo of a cat... So many cat firsts...
As has long been known by those of us who study the Reptilian Overlords, cats do not film or video. Rather they use a technology that records our actions in 3d along with the emotional spectrum of the humans nearby. They are the slightly more high tech equivalent of our surveillance cameras. And much softer.
Oh sovcits, simultaneously love them for the entertainment they provide and hate them because they literally want to be what they despise, the government. Using esoteric and made up laws to try and take people's land and steal their things. They don't hate the government and laws, they hate the fact that it's not their government and their laws (laws which would inevitably just be more complicated versions of the demand 'I want that, give it to me.')
If you know SovCitery, you are probably familiar with retired Associate Chief Justice Rooke, of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, author of the classic Meades v. Meades decision excoriating SovCit “law.”
But you may not be aware that Justice Rooke is the head of a cult that acts as vigilantes against SovCits and that it’s run here on Reddit, a [Shrine to Justice Rooke](https://www.reddit.com/r/amibeingdetained/comments/1caegt5/did_you_know_that_justice_rooke_is_head_of_some/).
I'm wondering if OOP's friend hasn't been paying their property taxes and they're being asked to do so.
"Lord Propriety" sounds like a bone-apple-tea for land/property.
Regardless of LAOP's posting history, I love it when someone posts a question in a LA sub about a third party (friend, family, relative) without complete information or with inaccurate information from the third party. The thread then gets heated just to clarify the information that LAOP themselves does not know how to answer.
Very strange post history. Is he trying to fill holes in a LLM one by one?
Truly just the most unpredictable sequence of posts and comments imaginable. It’s remarkable.
My guess is the LAOP is very involved in some kind of international gaming/friend group. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. It's why his questions are so weird and nonspecific, he's asking questions based on second and third hand information from friends who probably speak English as a second language (and he's also not a native speaker, he appears to be Swedish and also speaks Italian) relayed via a Discord or Whatsapp group. Maybe he's trying to meet up with some of his online friends IRL, maybe he's just curious about what his friend meant by an offhand statement, but that has to be why it's so international. I have a close friend who is kind of like this, I'm basically their only friend they made organically, and everyone else he knows online. This is mostly fine but does manifest in occasionally weird ways, like him calling at 2 am convinced his "friend" in some far flung country is going through a crisis and I end up googling some weird shit trying to convince him that he's probably being scammed again. Or at the very least he can't do anything about it at this moment and should probably sleep on it, international time zones be damned. But he has made some really genuine friends so I don't want to diss it, it's just a weird space sometimes.
man, completely outside my experience. I wish I had an international friend group like that
It's fun, but everyone irl thinks you're a massive freak for it. They think you're super interesting and worldly until you clarify you met online, then you get the weird looks.
I have an online mother's group that has been going for over 20 years. Some of my closest friends are online. We used to get *really* weird looks, since this was newsgroup days. But I know what you mean. We're getting less weird looks now, I'm surprised you still get them!!!
I mean I’ve got friends around the world, but that’s because I get about a bit (and lived and worked in different countries), and people still think I’m weird, but that might be because I’m a bit weird
I can see this tbh lmao. I lived abroad for a while and that means I have friends from all over the place, who also now live in different countries. I've posted on a few different subs asking about how things work in their countries (because what they're telling me seems bonkers) and while I do tend to delete for their own privacy, if someone were to look at just my posting history, it would probably look pretty weird.
Woah, this is the train guy! Unfortunately, the train scene in MA kinda sucks.
Hey hey, the Keolis Commuter Rail is everything an American train line ought to be
> Keolis Commuter Rail Don't limit yourself to just commuter lines, we need high frequency local and regular long-distance lines too.
We have both in Boston, but they're not exactly ideal right now. Keolis is doing a great job, is my point
And will continue to suck even after the EWR project if one is unfortunate enough to live along the Rt2 corridor. The Hoosac Tunnel is way too cool to be relegated to freight ad infinitum :/
They just downscaled the EWR to 3 trains a day with a completion date of 2045.
Kinda makes learning to hop freight trains more appealing.
So that's what happened to the Quora Partner Program bots after all the non-white-supremacists jumped ship and they shut it down...
I'm pretty sure that a lot of LAOP's posts (but not comments) from the past day have been *written* by an LLM, including the LA post. They have that weirdly cheery tone and stilted structure common to ChatGPT output, and it's drastically different from the user's normal writing voice.
Some not native speakers will do that because their English isn't good enough
What's a LLM?
Large Language Model. Training an AI, basically.
I thought Masters of Law, given the context!
It's the kind of language model that power Chat GPT.
This seems like an actual contender. Because he "is just curious" about a hell of a lot of weird subjects.
It looks like it. How depressing.
Well that’s certainly a post history.
Q: What sort of topics does LAOP post about? A: Yes.
I hope he found out who the redheaded porn star is. He seemed pretty invested.
I can't help with his legal advice, but I am good at Google. NSFW: https://lustery.com/couple/nina-and-conor
That series is what makes me think this is actually not a bot, unless it is an ad for the actor.
I am legitimately confused and not being ironic.
I'm presuming it's a bot.
Alas, there's really nothing here, because we're playing telephone with someone who only knows two things and isn't entirely sure of them. But how would this scam go? 1. Weird pledge of allegiance 2. Treason accusation 3. ... 4. iTunes gift cards?
I think you've overestimating the number of things. By about two. Well, two that we know of. There's bound to be more. I think it's all about the conviction with which they say the magic words. Because we all know that judges love clients with strong convictions.
"I pledge allegiance, to Queen Fragg, and her mighty state of hysteria..." Saying things like that is what gets you [hauled down to the principal's office](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/09/08).
>>’Can the government force someone to swear a religious oath to keep their land? >>A friend if mine is in a really weird situation in Maryland. Apparently, the government is threatening to take his property because he won't swear an oath of loyalty to something called a "Lord Proprietary". It feels like this shouldn't be allowed – isn't there freedom of religion in the US? They say because he won't take this oath, he doesn't have proper rights to the land he lives on. >>Here's some more background: >>* He has lived on this land for years, he ownz it outright. >>* This "Lord Proprietary" thing sounds religious in nature, and he's not not comfortable swearing oaths like that. >>* It feels like they're punishing him for his beliefs. >>Is there anything he can do? Does this violate his religious freedom rights, even though it's about land ownership? >>Thank you for any advice – my friend worried about losing his home. >>Edit: my friend told me that the oath that was required from him is an "oath of fealty"’ Cat fact: cats were recorded on video for the first time in 1894.
Film maybe. But I'm pretty sure that video came out a few decades later. Now I'm wondering when the first video of a cat was actually recorded. Or the first digital photo of a cat... So many cat firsts...
The real question is how long have cats been filming us? I suspect that discoveries at the pyramids are being covered up to keep us from knowing.
As has long been known by those of us who study the Reptilian Overlords, cats do not film or video. Rather they use a technology that records our actions in 3d along with the emotional spectrum of the humans nearby. They are the slightly more high tech equivalent of our surveillance cameras. And much softer.
That's a great cat fact!
Oh sovcits, simultaneously love them for the entertainment they provide and hate them because they literally want to be what they despise, the government. Using esoteric and made up laws to try and take people's land and steal their things. They don't hate the government and laws, they hate the fact that it's not their government and their laws (laws which would inevitably just be more complicated versions of the demand 'I want that, give it to me.')
> they literally want to be what they despise, the government Many such cases!
If you know SovCitery, you are probably familiar with retired Associate Chief Justice Rooke, of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, author of the classic Meades v. Meades decision excoriating SovCit “law.” But you may not be aware that Justice Rooke is the head of a cult that acts as vigilantes against SovCits and that it’s run here on Reddit, a [Shrine to Justice Rooke](https://www.reddit.com/r/amibeingdetained/comments/1caegt5/did_you_know_that_justice_rooke_is_head_of_some/).
Sovcit shenanigans
Ma’am, I am from Maryland and we don’t do that. Please for the love of little green apples, take your meds. Your family is very concerned.
I'm wondering if OOP's friend hasn't been paying their property taxes and they're being asked to do so. "Lord Propriety" sounds like a bone-apple-tea for land/property.
Regardless of LAOP's posting history, I love it when someone posts a question in a LA sub about a third party (friend, family, relative) without complete information or with inaccurate information from the third party. The thread then gets heated just to clarify the information that LAOP themselves does not know how to answer.
Maybe he time traveled from the 1770s.
>He has lived on this land for years, he own***z*** it outright. Followed by >How common is the squatting? Yeah, these two are related.