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ToaKraka
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38m ago
cute and funny [child-molester] stories
I resent this characterization. I do not glorify child molestation*, find the enjoyability of loli hentai inversely proportional to the realism of the girls' depictions**, and definitely am not a pedophile or a child molester.
What was "hilarious" about it?
I already explained that here.
*I find it hard to believe that the behavior depicted in this particular case would inflict any permanent psychological harm on the children involved, but I haven't done any research on this topic and do not have a strong, evidence-based opinion on it.
**Skinny = unrealistic = titillating, chubby = realistic = not titillating.
ToaKraka
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3hr ago
That's as good an excuse as any to end the whole series, then.
I originally started it because I had a bunch of free time at work, court websites seemed like a browsing target that the IT people wouldn't be able to complain about1,2, and the funny and interesting opinions that I found were a good karma farm3. After retiring, I continued it out of habit and for more karma. But I'm not going to post expurgated summaries just to satisfy some whiners.
1Especially because I actually found opinions directly relevant to my civil-engineering job every few months or so.
2My coworkers never got censured for browsing stock-market and news websites on their own work computers. But better safe than sorry.
3Though of course this website does not actually list a user's total karma anywhere, so perhaps the concept of "karma farming" is not applicable.
ToaKraka
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6hr ago
I don't know what circles you're running in if you hear that joke "all the time"
4chan. I think it was also featured in Not Another Teen Movie back in 2001, so my impression is that it's a totally mainstream joke.
you're talking about the theoretical sexual abuse of a dog and conflating it with the actual sexual abuse of small children
There are degrees of "sexual abuse". I don't think this is any more extreme than how people laugh about underage boys who get the opportunity to have sex with female teachers.
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6hr ago
Hentai or no, these facts aren't hilarious. Especially since people like me don't even really know what hentai is and thus have no frame of reference for what you're talking about.
I strongly disagree. People joke all the time about how women allegedly coat their vaginas with peanut butter in order to trick their dogs to eating them out, and this is practically the same thing. It isn't as if he caused severe injuries to the three-year-old by inserting his penis into her vagina.
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6hr ago
I checked all the opinions posted by New Jersey courts in the past week, plus some Pennsylvania appellate decisions, and came up with three opinions—one that was funny (supermarket), one that was interesting (developer), and one that was both funny and interesting (honey). I decided to add a judicial-adjacent newspaper article that I happened to have read, and to hold over for next week three non-judicial items that I also wanted to post. You can believe that or not.
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8hr ago
I said "hilariously hentai facts". I would not be surprised to find a similar storyline in a literal hentai manga.
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8hr ago
A woman is standing in front of a supermarket shelf, contemplating a purchase. An employee comes up next to her, kneels on the floor with one leg sticking out behind him, and starts stocking the shelf. The woman notices the employee's presence. Nevertheless, 30 to 60 seconds after the employee's arrival, she walks away, trips over the employee's outstretched leg, and sustains injuries.
The woman sues the supermarket, but the trial judge speedily dismisses the case.
[The court] has stretched in every direction to determine how, in the absence of a case, rule, regulation, manual or anything else, this can be determined to be a dangerous condition created by the [supermarket] with which thus would have caused the injury to the plaintiff. And the court just simply cannot reach that conclusion.
A genuine issue of material fact must be created for a jury to consider. This strains the definition, in the court's opinion, of a genuine issue of material fact. This is a normal interaction in a supermarket. There are shoppers that are coming and going. Shoppers that could be kneeling down trying to obtain an item on a lower shelf. Shoppers moving back and forth. Employees moving back and forth, moving things onto shelves, off the shelf. Nothing here appears to be outside the normal operation of a supermarket, as the court would understand it or know it.
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The appeals panel affirms.
By her own account, plaintiff was aware of the employee's presence and activities for a significant period of time before she turned to leave. She was thus under an obligation to exercise reasonable care after retrieving her item and walking away.
Moreover, we agree with the trial court that the employee's extended leg did not create a dangerous condition subjecting [the supermarket] to liability because it did not create an unforeseeable risk of harm and there was no defect in the property itself. Plaintiff's failure to heed the presence of the employee who was performing a routine supermarket activity—where there were no visual or lighting impairments—does not create a dangerous condition of the premises.
Court opinion with hilariously hentai facts but also an interesting legal issue:
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One evening, defendant was sitting on the couch watching a movie with his daughter, age three, and son, age eighteen months. Defendant's daughter adjusted her position and brushed up against defendant's genital area. He became aroused. Defendant went to the kitchen pantry, put honey on his penis, and returned to the couch with his penis exposed. Defendant then allowed both children to lick the honey off his penis.
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The three-year-old informs the wife. The wife confronts the husband, and he confesses to her. The wife informs the couple's pastor. Both the wife and the pastor urge the husband to confess to the police. The wife and the pastor inform local police. Simultaneously but separately, the husband confesses, first to a 911 dispatcher, then to a municipal police officer over the phone, and finally to a state police officer in an extended in-person interview. The standard Miranda rights aren't read to him until he gets to the state police.
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The husband is charged with seven felonies, pleads guilty to two of them, and is sentenced to 15 years in prison (with the possibility of parole after 13 years). He appeals, arguing that the dispatcher and the two officers misleadingly implied in their interrogations that he was not a criminal suspect and would be able to escape with merely counseling rather than prison.
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The appeals panel rejects this argument. (1) "We emphasize at the outset that defendant was not in custody when he called 911 and spoke to the dispatcher." "The dispatcher's comments that defendant was 'doing the right thing by coming forward' and that [the municipal officer] would 'get [defendant] the best help' simply do not rise to the level of the repeated, explicit assurances made in [two cases where this argument was accepted]." (2) "Defendant is hard pressed to argue he did not believe he was a suspect in the crime that he had already confessed to. Furthermore, [the municipal officer]'s assertion that he was 'not familiar with the whole situation' was, in substance, true. And, finally, at the risk of repetition, this conversation occurred via phone. Defendant was not in custody." "Like the dispatcher's statements—and quite unlike the detectives' assertions in [a case where this argument was accepted]—[the municipal officer]'s reply does not constitute an affirmative representation that defendant will not face criminal charges or penal consequences." (3) "[The state officer]'s words do not in our view constitute an affirmative misrepresentation that somehow undermined defendant's waiver of his right against self-incrimination or was otherwise inappropriate, warranting judicial condemnation." "By comparison [with three cases where this argument was accepted], [the state officer]'s remarks are innocuous."
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A person buys a defunct group home, converts it to a six-bedroom single-family house, and rents out the bedrooms. The building has a sprinkler system, as the code requires of group homes, but the system is broken. The owner spends 4 k$ on repairs, but the system breaks again, and he declines to spend another 6 k$ on more repairs, since a sprinkler system is not required in a single-family house.
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Municipal code enforcement cites the owner for failing to maintain the sprinkler system. It argues that, once a sprinkler system has been installed, that system must be maintained and cannot be removed, even though it would not be required under the current use.
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The owner appeals, arguing that code enforcement's interpretation is wrong. The code-enforcement board agrees with him and rules that the sprinkler system can be removed.
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A developer buys a defunct golf course and submits an application to redevelop it with two warehouses. The municipal zoning officer denies the application, because (inter alia) it does not show all the existing steep slopes on the land. The developer appeals, arguing that the manmade steep slopes of the defunct golf course are not included within the "natural resources" that the municipal zoning code requires an applicant to identify.
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The zoning board denies the appeal, and the trial judge and the appeals panel affirm. "Natural resources" are defined in the municipal zoning code as "existing natural elements relating to land" and to include "steep slopes". The plain dictionary definition of "natural resources" includes manmade environmental features such as parks. And, under state precedent, any law that applies to "steep slopes" applies to both manmade and natural slopes unless the law explicitly states otherwise, since whether an originally manmade slope becomes "natural" 10, 30, or 100 years after its creation "is the sort of 'thorny bordering on philosophical' question best avoided by courts and left to legislation and policymaking".
Medicaid-subsidized nursing-home care has an asset limit of around 2 k$ (plus house of around 550 k$). Medicaid-subsidized health insurance has no asset limit at all.
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10hr ago
Google, citing two pages that are unavailable at the moment and are not in the Internet Archive (1 2) and one page that is available, indicates that "the Estate of Dashiell Hammett" does still exist (managed by a literary agency).
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11hr ago
I can't tell whether you're joking. If you aren't, see Baneposting.
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11hr ago
low-income adults utilizing expanded Medicaid will be required to demonstrate 80 hours of work per month starting in 2027
I feel obligated to point out a loophole that people constantly fail to mention: you alternatively can demonstrate monthly income equal to 80 hours of work at the federal minimum wage of 7.25 $/h (580 $/mo, 6960 $/a). This allows many "unemployed young men mooching off the system" to still qualify on the strength of the dividends from their investments. See § 71119 of the text.
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1d ago
I assume it means multiple groups each comprising fewer than 100 people. The government response was quite large:
Iranian security forces halted and clashed with the protesters at the Istanbul intersection on December 29, according to Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)-affiliated media and geolocated footage. Iranian security forces also launched tear gas and clashed with protesters on Boali Street in southern Hamedan City on December 29. A BBC Persian journalist reported that economic protests also occurred in Malard City, Tehran Province, and on Gheshm Island in the Persian Gulf, but did not provide footage of the protests at the time of this writing. Tehran merchants announced that they will continue to protest on December 30.
Also, that article is from Sunday, and the protests have escalated since then.
Protests continued to expand geographically across Iran on December 31. Small protests broke out in Tehran on December 28 and have since spread to 17 out of Iran’s 31 provinces.
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1d ago
One article says:
Small-scale protests demanding that the Iranian government address the devaluation of the Iranian rial and high inflation rates have continued for the second consecutive day in Tehran and Hamadan City, western Iran, on December 29, amid a rapid collapse of the Iranian currency since November 2025. The value of the Iranian rial has deteriorated rapidly after November 2025, though its value has fallen for years due to sanctions and Iran’s general international isolation. Protests initially began in Tehran on December 28. Groups of less than roughly 100 civilians, who were reportedly Iranian ”businessmen”, marched from Lalezar Street toward the Imam Khomeini Square on December 29, demanding that the Iranian government intervene in the economy and address the high inflation rate and devaluation of the currency.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
You choose to join a group of 100 people. These 100 people can live anywhere, it's just the group you're a member of. You can leave your group if another is willing to accept you.
It might be slightly more practical to say:
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A normal-size group comprises 71–140 people.
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An undersize group comprises 51–70 people. Within one month it must become a normal-size group, by either merging with another group or taking on new members individually.
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An oversize group comprises 141–200 people. Within one month it must become a normal-size group, by either splitting into multiple groups or bleeding off members individually.
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2d ago
Small City
Ackchually, according to the United Nations you don't hit "city" status until 50,000 people, so this would just be a mid-sized town.
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cahonez
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mandate browsers usable in their country not respect that part of the unicode spec
The PRC has been actively participating in these technical discussions. See, e. g., document N2893 on this page, in which the PRC expresses the position that Han+Hangul characters can be kept in the existing CJK Unified Ideographs block, but Han+Bopomofo, Han+Hiragana, Han+Katakana, and Han+Latin characters should be moved to a new CJK Hybrid Characters block.
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3d ago
This is a joke, right?
It's maybe half a joke. It's far from impossible that the next version of Unicode will add the "⼴K" character, and then somebody in the PRC or in Japan will try to register that as the name of his child.
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3d ago
Transnational culture war: For at least a decade, Chinese-speaking people who identify as "nonbinary" or "agender" have been using "X也" and "TA" as makeshift gender-neutral pronouns, replacing the original default "他" ("人" = "human", nowadays interpreted as "male" in this context) and the female-specific "她" ("女" = "female") that was invented only a hundred years ago as a result of contact with the West. Now (actually, back in September), activists have successfully gotten Unicode to codify a new hanzi for this purpose—a combined version of "㐅也". (At the time of writing, the actual character won't show up on your screen properly since it hasn't yet been added to the fonts on your computer, but it is "".) The parallel to Western neopronouns like "ze" is obvious.
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Kiwi Farms compilation of background information, including technical discussion of weird multi-script characters like "X也" and "⼴K" "⼴O"
Characters that combine Han components with Latin, kana, or other scripts challenge the fundamental definition of what counts as a “Hanzi”. China has repeatedly emphasized this point: while such hybrids may function as ideographs in practice, they exceed the established understanding and technical definition of Han characters. Including them indiscriminately in the CJK Unified Ideographs (CJKUI) would blur the line between alphabetic scripts and Han, undermining both sinological theory and practical assumptions in computing.
The discussion of script-hybrid characters highlights both the practical needs of users and the importance of maintaining a clear scope for CJK Unified Ideographs. These characters do exist, but their inclusion within CJKUI raises unresolved questions of definition, procedure, and implementation.
Creating a separate block is the most balanced and forward-looking solution. It allows these forms to be encoded without altering the Han-only scope of CJKUI and gives space for tailored procedures to be developed.
Leaving hybrid code points unmapped in GB 18030 [the PRC's separate copy of Unicode] could serve as a pragmatic fallback if hybrids are nevertheless placed in CJK extensions. This would keep China’s implementation consistent.
Two new entries in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names incoming:
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People's names are written in any single script.
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Okay, fine, a person's name may contain characters from multiple scripts, but surely no single character in any person's name contains multiple scripts within itself.
I'm not saying that the story itself is funny. I'm saying that the similarity of this story to a hentai plot is funny. I don't recall reading any hentai manga with this specific plot*, but I definitely have read both hentai manga and ArchiveOfOurOwn erotic stories (example of the latter) that use the victim's obliviousness to trick her into giving a blowjob. And, again, no physical harm was done here.
*I do not seek out loli stories while filtering recent uploads on Exhentai, so it's very possible that I missed some.
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