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ToaKraka
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3hr ago
Hold on, isn't this just "involuntary or voluntary admission"?
No.
If for some reason this involves mundane outpatient interaction with a psychiatrist
Yes.
Applications for permits to purchase a handgun and for firearms purchaser identification cards shall be in the form prescribed by the superintendent and shall set forth the name, residence, place of business, age, date of birth, occupation, sex, any aliases or other names previously used by the applicant, gender, and physical description, including distinguishing physical characteristics, if any, of the applicant, and shall state
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whether the applicant has ever been confined or committed to a mental institution or hospital for treatment or observation of a mental or psychiatric condition on a temporary, interim or permanent basis, giving the name and location of the institution or hospital and the dates of confinement or commitment,
whether the applicant has been attended, treated or observed by any doctor or psychiatrist or at any hospital or mental institution on an inpatient or outpatient basis for any mental or psychiatric condition, giving the name and location of the doctor, psychiatrist, hospital or institution and the dates of the occurrence,
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For the purpose of complying with this subsection, the applicant shall waive any statutory or other right of confidentiality relating to institutional confinement. The application shall be signed by the applicant and shall contain as references the names and addresses of two reputable citizens personally acquainted with the applicant.
Filling out the form falsely is a strict-liability felony.
Any person who gives or causes to be given any false information, or signs a fictitious name or address, in applying for a firearms purchaser identification card, a permit to purchase a handgun, a permit to carry a handgun, a permit to possess a machine gun, a permit to possess an assault firearm, or in completing the certificate or any other instrument required by law in purchasing or otherwise acquiring delivery of any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machine gun, or assault firearm or any other firearm, is guilty of a crime of the third degree. [Note the lack of the word "knowingly" in this paragraph, even though it is present in other paragraphs of the same law.]
So, if you were "attended, treated, or observed" "for any mental or psychiatric condition", but you can't give the name, location, and date because you don't have the records, then you can't get a gun.
ToaKraka
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12hr ago
You say this isn't an example of AI writing
I won't go so far as to directly accuse you of composing this essay wholly with AI
No, he said:
not one-shotted into an LLM
I endorse this essay
I worked on this.
I interpret those statements as meaning that the comment is wholly LLM-written, but the result of multiple rounds of "working on" prompts rather than a single "one-shot" prompt, especially since "endorsing" something is basically an explicit statement that the endorser didn't write it himself.
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14hr ago
American law enforcement is often described, lazily, as a single institution—"the police"—but it is actually two distinct institutions wearing similar uniforms. One, the sheriff, is nearly a thousand years old and answers to voters. The other, the municipal police department, is barely two hundred years old and answers to a mayor or city manager through an appointed chief.
Shouldn't state police be mentioned somewhere?
Because Atlanta is almost entirely incorporated territory, the Fulton County Sheriff's Office doesn't patrol city streets in the way a rural county sheriff would patrol unincorporated land. Instead, its role is concentrated in the classic sheriff functions inherited from the bailiff/shire-reeve tradition: running the Fulton County Jail, providing security for county courtrooms and judges, and handling warrant service and civil process.
It may be worth noting that this situation also prevails across the entirety of those states (including Massachusetts and New York) that have incorporated all (or almost all) of their land into municipal governments.
Possibly relevant is this court decision regarding whether New Jersey's governor has the power to temporarily, but unilaterally, take control of a municipal police department. The state supreme court dodged that general question because, after the takeover occurred, the legislature explicitly blessed this specific takeover without passing a law to govern the general case.
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18hr ago
I believe this "destroy records as part of storing them more efficiently" controversy already happened decades ago with microfilm, so Vinge was just calling back to that experience, not necessarily being prescient.
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20hr ago
A slightly more solid number (Ctrl-F "commercial value"): As of year 1998, only two percent of copyrights with age of 55–75 years retained any commercial value. That is, after 55 years, 98 percent of copyrighted works are forgotten and worthless.
ToaKraka
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21hr ago
The 32-page legal decision
Court documents, including the full text of the judge's opinion
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1d ago
Grok tells me
Wikipedia, citing a paywalled scientific study from year 2019:
| Category | Proportion of Jews in Israel (%) |
|---|---|
| Mizrahi | 45 |
| Ashkenazi | 32 |
| Soviet | 12 |
| Beta Israel | 3 |
| Mix/other | 8 |
ToaKraka
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2d ago
This fanfic was written and uploaded on the traditional homeland of the Anishinabe people.
This is cheating, though. Front matter (such as the copyright information, the dedication, or the summary on the front flap of the dust cover) is not part of the novel proper.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
Well, why didn't you say so in the first place? Now you can just tell this person: "Sorry, this is a based and redpilled roleplaying group. Very stable geniuses only—no mentally-ill people allowed." Problem solved. (This specific wording is a joke, but the underlying meaning is not. However, I don't know whether the other members of your group would agree with this meaning.)
the question is how to handle it in such a way as to not scar this already likely friendless young adult
There's no saving that, and I'm not inclined to try.
These two statements seem contradictory. If the person is already scarred, why do you care so much?
ToaKraka
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2d ago
Source? I see a 2026 poll saying that people think cloning is immoral (64 percent for animals and 86 percent for humans), and a 2002 poll saying that people think cloning humans is possible (76 percent), but no poll saying that people think cloning is impossible or impractical due to accelerated aging.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
If she dislikes crude jokes, she can leave on her own, without needing others to remove her.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
You could always hand her a stack of printed booklets warning her about the dangers of technically-legal-but-practically-danger-fraught romances with large age gaps. (This is approximately one-third a joke.)
ToaKraka
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2d ago
the suspect uses his left hand to grab the Taser from the officer
No, he uses his left hand to push back one of the first three officers. The fourth officer keeps hold of the Taser, and continues to point it at the suspect (though she presumably has emptied it of ammunition at this point with her two shots) even while the three gunshots are being fired.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
The video isn't playing for me in the UK
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3d ago
The Maryland autopsy's toxicology test found "a small amount" of alcohol but no drugs.
Another possibility is that Branning had a heart attack or otherwise dropped dead
The Maryland autopsy actually noted that his coronary artery had 50-percent occlusion, which was unlikely to be the cause of death.
Is stealing a corpse kidnapping?
Abuse of corpse (which he was charged with and convicted of; I just omitted it from my summary in light of the more major charges)
ToaKraka
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3d ago
The actual statute says the same thing (16, or 14 with a Romeo-and-Juliet span of three years).
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3d ago
Manufacturers' manuals (1 2) indicate that reverse-osmosis systems can make water acidic enough to corrode copper pipes. But water softening is not reverse osmosis.
This document from a (biased) trade association cites studies conducted by the US EPA and the UK Water Treatment Association for the conclusion that water softeners do not increase corrosion in copper and steel pipes. It also says that lime scale does not protect against corrosion.
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3d ago
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3d ago
The US Supreme Court says otherwise.
1989:
The "reasonableness" of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight. The Fourth Amendment is not violated by an arrest based on probable cause, even though the wrong person is arrested, nor by the mistaken execution of a valid search warrant on the wrong premises. With respect to a claim of excessive force, the same standard of reasonableness at the moment applies: "Not every push or shove, even if it may later seem unnecessary in the peace of a judge's chambers [or a Redditor's bedroom]", violates the Fourth Amendment. The calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving—about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.
2025:
That inquiry into the reasonableness of police force requires analyzing the “totality of the circumstances”. There is no “easy-to-apply legal test” or “on/off switch” in this context. Rather, the Fourth Amendment requires, as we once put it, that a court “slosh [its] way through” a “factbound morass”. Or said more prosaically, deciding whether a use of force was objectively reasonable demands “careful attention to the facts and circumstances” relating to the incident, as then known to the officer. For example, the “severity of the crime” prompting the stop can carry weight in the analysis. So too can actions the officer took during the stop, such as giving warnings or otherwise trying to control the encounter. And the stopped person’s conduct is always relevant because it indicates the nature and level of the threat he poses, either to the officer or to others.
It is well known that drugged-up suspects sometimes shrug off Taser applications and continue to pose a threat to officers. It seems from this Redditor's bedroom that this particular suspect did not shrug off the Taser application, so the officer was overzealous in shooting. But the prosecutor or the jury may think otherwise.
ToaKraka
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4d ago
A bystander video is available here.
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Three officers struggle to subdue the kneeling suspect. It looks like they've got his legs and his left arm. From the camera's perspective, his right arm is hidden behind his body, and whether it is restrained is not clear.
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Multiple officers shout, "He's got a knife" (presumably in his right hand).
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The first three officers back off, making room for a fourth officer to arrive and use a Taser. The suspect has risen to his feet with the weight of the first three officers removed, but now stumbles back to the ground (lying on his side).
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Of the first three officers, two get back on top of the suspect, but the third instead pulls out his gun and fires three shots.
So it's not totally unreasonable to question whether the gunshots were necessary when the Taser already seemed effective in taking the suspect to the ground.
ToaKraka
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4d ago
he has to be able to explain the car
Two guys go missing at the same time, their positions are plotted on the same route, one ends up dead? You can't just waltz away with "nothing to do with me, no sir!"
Not under the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. If Branning's estate were to sue Stark for wrongful death, maybe it would be able to collect under the "preponderance of evidence" standard. But that's civil, not criminal.
ToaKraka
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4d ago
She's ugly.
Who would ever go to war for that creature?
There's no need to exaggerate. Lupita Nyong'o is not Leslie Jones.
Personally, I like to make all the headings have the same font size, and to denote section/pseudo-section hierarchy with padding/border/margin on the left. Example (also using the nonstandard
helement, but with the proper accessibility attributes added)You can do something like
section:not(:has(h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)) h1{font-size:inherit;}. But Markdown doesn't have provisions for section elements.More options
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