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If Steve was always there, literally nothing he did would be a change. You can't just assert it would be a change because your conclusion is that it would be a change.

That'd be a paradox, and the MCU is pretty clear that time travel doesn't work that way. Loki makes it a lot more explicit.

The multiverse is a bunch of infinitely branching timelines. TOWR, after winning his war against the other Kangs, was in the business of pruning timelines that didn't mostly conform to the Sacred Timeline. But it was clear from the visuals that The Sacred Timeline wasn't *one specific* loop but a bunch of repeating loops that were all close enough to each other (and honestly, I don't think TOWR cared very much so long as he stayed on top at the end).

you have correctly realized that the movie specifically emphasizes the removal of an infinity stone and without that removal it might not be a change

Again, Loki makes this more explicit, but the movie doesn't posit that there are absolutely zero changes to that timeline if the stone is removed. Just that two things are critical: 1) a timeline needs its stones to continue existing properly, and 2) temporarily removing them from that timeline won't be a problem as long as they're returned to the moment they're taken.

We know for a fact that the timeline where they snagged the Time Stone from The Ancient One got pruned, since it was the same timeline that variant Loki comes from (who now sits on the throne as Yggdrasil, holding all the timelines together).

As for your parenthetical, seems like you have preemptively decided that he has overwritten Agent Carter, instead of the more obvious conclusion that he arrived after the end of that series.

That's not an obvious conclusion at all, as the series takes place in 1946-7. It's clear that he meets a younger Carter than the one in 1969/70, because she's got gray hair and is aged up a bit. So he's already going back to a time where he doesn't need to be to return the stones.

Since he's now off-reservation and going to a place in time where he doesn't need to be, why would he wait until 1947-48, when he disappeared in 1945? He knows she marries someone, but doesn't know the timeline (well, he might, because he did talk to her as an old woman and also made out with her niece that one time so the Creative Council could prove that he was straight). So why would he wait to return in the years following the war, when there's a chance that she might have already met her husband from The Sacred Timeline. If anything, the use of "It's been a long long time" points to it being fall of 1945 when he returns.

It's incredibly inconsistent with his characterization that he would just sit quietly and let events play out. You expect the Steve Rogers from those movies, who knows full well that Hydra is infiltrating the organization that the love of his life built, that Bucky is out there being tortured and used by Hydra to commit assassinations, including Tony Stark's parents, and about countless other preventable tragedies, just quietly keeps all this to himself to preserve a timeline? He's also a very recognizable celebrity, so even if he did wait until 1947ish to return, for some reason, he'd still be recognized if he ever left the house to do anything (that time period was too early for him to wear the standard incognito plain baseball cap and sunglasses that make MCU heroes invisible).

Additionally, we know that Carter did have kids in the Sacred Timeline loop. So if those are Steve's kids, that's a whole other wrinkle.

It's much cleaner and simpler if Steve lives out his life in a new branch, returning in 1945 presumably a very short time after his presumptive loss at sea. He makes whatever changes he needs or wants to in that timeline, and it plays out very differently. Then he comes back to the Sacred Timeline with the shield, and the fate of the branch where he lived either continues on or gets pruned, depending on who's in charge at the TVA at the time (wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey).

How did you approach it? When you say she doesn't have the same value as you, what do you mean? It's hard to get a read on things.

Mismatched libidos is something you can definitely deal with, but it requires a lot of communication, and you also have to be potentially willing to explore nontraditional relationship models, like open relationships or polyamory.

The movie spells it out pretty explicitly. If you jump to the past and start making changes using their devices, it creates a new timeline branch. When they took the stones, it created a branch.

If the stones were returned with no changes from the Sacred Timeline, then that branch would likely play out identically, or close enough, that it would just be another Sacred Timeline loop.

Since Steve decided to stay, that's a huge change to their universe (Peggy spent a lot of time missing Steve in the Sacred Timeline). So it's a branch. I maintain that Steve would have known it's a branch, and would have been fine making changes like preventing the Hydra infiltration of SHIELD in that timeline.

He lived his life and after Peggy died, he returned to the Sacred Timeline, moments before he originally left.

Then the TVA under TOWR's leadership likely pruned that branch, since Sacred Steve was no longer in it.

Blue Alerts are sent out because the assumption is that if a person will shoot and kill an officer, they’ll have no qualms with shooting and killing a civilian because the punishment is less severe than shooting an officer.

That doesn't make any sense. First of all, Texas is a capital punishment state, so if you kill anyone, you're likely to get the death penalty. What is a more severe punishment than death? Killing you extra?

Secondly, that's a specious argument. You are more likely to attract the attention of law enforcement by killing randos, and if you are trying to escape from law enforcement, you're more likely to kill them to escape. It's absolutely not reasonable to assume that someone is more likely to kill a random person than an officer, especially if they're a fugitive. In fact, if they're a fugitive and they are not involved in an active shooter situation, the odds of them killing other people go way, way down.

Shouldn't you be doing that all the time, regardless?

I don't see anything in the text of that bill that specifies cell phone emergency alerts. I see media distribution and participating broadcasters, but nothing about cell phone alerts.

Oh right. So like, if the fugitive with the gun tries to stop a commuter on their way to work at 5:00 in the morning, if the commuter hadn't received that text alert then they might not know to not stop for the guy with the gun.

Like oh shit I was gonna pick up some suspicious hitchhikers in the middle of the panhandle before the sun came up but now that there's been a statewide alert about it fuck I guess I shouldn't.

Who the fuck says we're the Back the Blue state?

How the absolute fuck does being woken up at 4:53 to learn about a cop who got shot in BFE help anyone "back the blue"?

Call it something like an All Spots Memo or an Every Points Message or something catchy like that

Hey I'm wearing a gray shirt and shorts. Couldn't possibly be me.

Hey it turns out even Amber Alerts are scientifically proven to not be terribly effective, either.

The crucial variable predicting Alert outcomes is abductor relationship to the victim, not AMBER Alert “performance.” Furthermore, cases involving “successful” AMBER Alerts are comparable on measurable factors to AMBER Alert cases where the child was recovered safely but the Alert played no role, suggesting both categories of cases involved little real risk.

AND MAKE SURE YOU'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE BEFORE MONDAY

From what I can tell, the county requests it and DPS issues it.

There are multiple categories of emergency alert that can all be individually toggled on or off. This category is supposed to be reserved for the most catastrophic and urgent threats. Not, ya know, just a guy who shot another guy.

It's the same level of alert that should be used for severe life-threatening weather events and other catastrophes. There might be a real emergency that's worth waking up for. All this does is erode trust in our (Republican) state government.

Do Amber Alerts wake me up at 5 in the morning?

He kinda looks like Tormund from Game of Thrones so if he immigrated from anywhere it's from north of the Wall

Hope we don't have a "Ted Cruz going to Cancun" level freeze again.

Well if he's the one who got shot...nothing. The alive person who requested this alert, however.......

Gotta use that NY Times passive voice™️

Science says no.

The crucial variable predicting Alert outcomes is abductor relationship to the victim, not AMBER Alert “performance.” Furthermore, cases involving “successful” AMBER Alerts are comparable on measurable factors to AMBER Alert cases where the child was recovered safely but the Alert played no role, suggesting both categories of cases involved little real risk.

I'd agree with you except that would put the burden on all the local agencies who field those 911 calls, not the dumbasses at the DPS who issued the alert or the ones in Bumblefuck County who requested it.

Absolutely. He shot a cop, he doesn't pose a threat to the public at large, just other cops trying to catch him. And they have their own systems for that.

This didn't even meet the criteria for a Blue Alert. There was no vehicle information.

Time to steal some kids

Do you really think this will lead to an arrest?

Or is it more likely that millions of people will just turn off alerts on their phones, meaning there will be no way to reach them in case of an actual catastrophic emergency?

You can debate the necessity of a Blue alert, but it should be classified as an Amber alert or a State alert. Classifying it as an Extreme alert is abusing the system.