“The dossier adds that the public ‘may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.’”
New York doesn’t have the death penalty, but I am not surprised the prosecution may be looking for ways around that. The federal case may involve the death penalty. (Federal charge - murder by firearm - can include the death penalty.)
And of course they’re stalling on handing over the complete set of evidence. They (1) don’t want to provide proof that they mishandled the case, because some failures to follow normal procedures can get the whole thing tossed out, and (2) don’t want to hand over evidence that can be turned around and used against the officers and administrators who made the decisions to treat this like a media circus instead of an arrest of someone presumed to be innocent.
It’s a good time to remind everyone of jury nullification laws. Regardless of the evidence: The jury is allowed to decide he is not guilty.
(Note: if you on or being considered for a jury, and are considering using jury nullification, DON’T MENTION IT. It’s a right the jury legally has, but the courts don’t have to tell you about it, and they’re allowed to skirt the edge of outright lying about it. And they can and do throw people off juries for mentioning they know this right exists.)
“The dossier adds that the public ‘may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.’”
New York doesn’t have the death penalty, but I am not surprised the prosecution may be looking for ways around that. The federal case may involve the death penalty. (Federal charge - murder by firearm - can include the death penalty.)
And of course they’re stalling on handing over the complete set of evidence. They (1) don’t want to provide proof that they mishandled the case, because some failures to follow normal procedures can get the whole thing tossed out, and (2) don’t want to hand over evidence that can be turned around and used against the officers and administrators who made the decisions to treat this like a media circus instead of an arrest of someone presumed to be innocent.
It’s a good time to remind everyone of jury nullification laws. Regardless of the evidence: The jury is allowed to decide he is not guilty.
(Note: if you on or being considered for a jury, and are considering using jury nullification, DON’T MENTION IT. It’s a right the jury legally has, but the courts don’t have to tell you about it, and they’re allowed to skirt the edge of outright lying about it. And they can and do throw people off juries for mentioning they know this right exists.)
True. Most Irish people, as Norwegians do with Trolls, will happily let the ‘fairies’ be a thing to make tours for tourists and idle threats to make children behave. Most Irish people will have a very normal and mature explanation of fairies as a common folk mythology that expresses some dimension of Irish culture but are not, obviously, to be taken literally.
And most Irish people, if you ask them to move a stone from a fairy circle will immoveably, flatly respond with 'absolutely fucking not’.
Construction projects have had to halt and be abandoned for it.
At work me and a couple coworkers (black, white, and mexican) had a fun discussion on whether there are more ghosts at a hospital or a cemetery.
everyone individually took a moment to specify that ghosts probably aren’t REAL real. then weighed in on where and why.
for the record my position was that there’s probably way more ghosts in hospitals because that’s where people die horribly, but since you can only see ghosts in dark, solitary conditions, graveyards at night is where the majority of ghost sightings occur. hospitals are usually well lit and busy, so even if they’re crammed with ghosts the living are too damn busy to see them. meanwhile if a cemetery has even one ghost that followed her corpse there from the hospital, she’ll be spotted because that’s where all the ghost hunters go to look.
this theory was received as extremely sensible, and a coworker drew the conclusion that that’s why abandoned hospitals are even scarier than graveyards. once the place gets abandoned then you can tell how much ghosts got built up.
we all liked this explanation a lot and explained it to everyone else all night. and of course, none of us believe in ghosts.
Is this about the Walrus or the fairy knocking on your door?
Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.
contrary to popular belief not everyone has an innate sense of internal gender or care to have one or seek a name for it, some people go their whole lives without questioning their occupation in one of two gender roles, but for some people, if pressed, they don’t feel that internal sense of ‘i am a woman’ or ‘i am a man’, and in that case i feel the switch over to transgender vs cisgender relies on active identification of a gender other than the one they were assigned. if someone’s like ‘idk dude I just work here’ then that’s valid
A portion of people in the notes are like ‘but that makes you trans. That’s called being agender’ and another portion of people are going ‘this is how the majority of cis ppl feel and it’s NOT agender’ and personally I feel like both of them are missing the point here. Yes a lot of people identify as agender because of this feeling. Yes a lot of people with this same feeling still identify as cis. These are not mutually exclusive experiences and it doesn’t mean the agender people are secretly cis or the cis people are secretly agender. It just means they have very similar experiences of gender that they choose to conceptualize and label differently, and neither of them are mistaken or wrong to do so.
Don’t fall for the tolerance and respect for everyone’s opinion if they aren’t tolerant and respectful of your EXISTENCE.
Tolerance is not ethics; it’s a survival strategy. If people aren’t agreeing to cooperate with the mutual survival terms, they’re not subject to its benefits.
Shit man, this mech war is fucked. I just saw a doll shoulder its rifle and say “reality warp: black hole star” or some similar shit, and every mech around it cratered, radiated a ring of pure energy, and disappeared. The camera didn’t even go onto it, that’s how common shit like this is. My ass is firing anti-personnel rounds and buckshot. I think I just heard “nanomachines: skewer” two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.
