birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
23d ago
Maybe I'm reading it a bit wrong, bit it seems like there's a qualitative difference here.
The 9th circuit decision seems to suggest that not having access to an attorney after seven days is grounds for release. This San Francisco scenario outlined above suggests that a defense attorney who doesn't feel like they can make time for the client is grounds for release.
Am I making a distinction without a difference, or is this a different kind of argument?
birb_cromble
23d ago
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The San Francisco Public Defender's office has warned for months that it doesn't have the staffing necessary to deal with its increasing caseload.
There's a lot going on in this article. The San Francisco public defender's office is claiming that individuals must be released from incarceration if the office does not receive more funding to secure additional manpower. They also claim that this is due to frivolous cases being brought up by the DA, saying that their caseload has incr by 60% since 2021.
The DA claims that it is a cynical attempt to hold the city for ransom to secure more funding for the Public Defender's office.
It's interesting to me that the Public Defender's office chose 2021 as its metric, as I believe that represented the low-water mark of law enforcement activity in the US over the last decade.
Does anyone in the area have more context on this? It appears to be a very specific kind of infighting that seems very alien to me.
birb_cromble
23d ago
If the alternative is having my livelihood threatened if I don't submit to an unconstitutional medical procedure, I'll take the pig.
birb_cromble
25d ago
Can we safely assume that they will sit on this one until next summer, as per usual for any controversial case?
birb_cromble
28d ago
I think there was a suggestion for Harriet Tubman years ago. I think a gun toting Republican woman of color would please and enrage enough people that it would be a nice compromise.
birb_cromble
30d ago
Is there really not a single right-wing hacker competent enough to find whatever horrifying racist nonsense Democrat-associated activists say in their group chats?
Were you not here last week, where we discussed how Virginia politician Jay Jones was outed as wanting to see a political rival's wife wailing in despair as her child bleeds to death in her arms?
birb_cromble
1mo ago
A bad CEO can absolutely destroy a company
What's your opinion on the CEOs that seem to continuously get hired after driving companies into the ground?
I can't tell if there's some massive moral hazard involved, or just plain incompetence on the part of the board.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
For those of us who don't even recognize the name except as "Some Guy that the Motte talks about now and then", would you be willing to give some background on those accusations?
birb_cromble
1mo ago
At this point even important institutions are ringing the alarm bell.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
Those hills catch you by surprise. I definitely went into a barely-controlled skid to avoid smacking into a small herd of deer cresting one of those hills once.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
How does that work in situations where you believe the road would be empty, but a broken down car is right around the corner? Is there a test of reasonableness there, or is it a situation where the default assumption for a driver is that a broken down car is around every blind turn?
birb_cromble
1mo ago
He was cited for driving at that speed on Interstate 64 in New Kent County. From my travels there, I don't think that anyone could safely drive that stretch of road at that speed, regardless of their skill level. There are a lot of questionable sightlines.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
A Democrat joked
Respectfully, I think you might be extending so much charity here that it's obscuring the rest of the story.
Allegedly (per the national review), the legislator was so off-put by the texts that she called Jones for clarification. Once on a voice call, Jones doubled down, with a source reporting that Jones "wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views", prompting Coyner to hang up the phone in disgust.
If that's a joke, then I respect the man for his dedication to the bit.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
but not changes in policy, just different messaging. This is the problem, right?
It depends on your perspective. If you're a true blue Democrat, then your fundamental belief is that your party's platform is fantastic. If somebody doesn't like your party or its platform, then the problem can't be that your platform is lacking - it can only be that the person is unaware of how fantastic your platform really is. If that's the case, then messaging is really the only thing that should change.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
so who's to say whether the fantasy comes from Alan Moore's brain or something he heard, or both.
Interesting - I'd never considered the comparison even though it's blatantly obvious in hindsight.
In a way, it's not too far from Lot surviving the scourging of Sodom and Gomorrah. I guess it's just something deeply embedded in the human psyche.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
It's not uncommon for people around me to fail to notice that I'm less left wing than they are. Even if they do notice, they adopt a mindset that I'm "one of the good ones", like I'm some sort of vaguely civilized savage who won't cause any problems.
As a result, I've heard a lot about how me, my family, and people like me should all die. Usually it's in the context of COVID, but there are quite a few other reasons as well.
The part that really seems to turn their crank is the idea that Us Dumb, Ignorant, Cousin-Fucking, Science Denying Rednecks will have a moment of clarity at the Apex of our suffering and cry out to them for help in the moments before our agonizing demise. Something about the idea of self-inflicted suffering seems to absolve them of any sin associated with finding pleasure in the suffering of others.
What's interesting to me about this fellow from Virginia is twofold: first, he's a professional politician. I expect professional politicians to be sociopaths, but acting skills and a carefully cultivated persona are basic job qualifications. Did he not think this was going to leak? Did he not think it was a bad look? Or did he simply not think at all. I'm pretty sure I'd be fired if I wrote this and I'm not even a public figure.
The second part of this that's interesting is that it appears to be a much more active kind of desire than the desires of the University Set around me. They want to enjoy watching the life leak from my eyes as I plead for mercy from an unforgiving world, but they don't want to actually do it. Mr. Jones is a much more active kind of desire. Does it represent an escalation, or a difference in mindset between and adjunct professor and a prosecutor?
birb_cromble
1mo ago
I appreciate the clarification.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
You've reached a level of shitpost where I can't tell if you're ironically saying that WWII was civilized or sarcastically implying that it was not. Would you mind clarifying that a bit so that I can understand you better?
birb_cromble
1mo ago
And I'd feel bad responding to a long text, just to discuss a minor part of it, as that's just nitpicking or directing the conversation towards what interests me but which may not interest the other person.
Please don't feel bad about that. I frequently find that the most interesting content is 1 - 2 branches off of a top level post.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
First they came for the crazy people
It may not be part of the quote, but it sure was part of the process.
In 19th century America, being a slave who did not want to be enslaved was considered to be a mental disorder called drapetomania. In modern society, this would mean that a desire to be a human and not property would cost you your right to bear arms.
Fast forward to the Soviet era, where disagreement with communist politics would lead to being diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia, because no sane person would object to the Glorious Dialectic. In modern society, having misgivings about liquidating the kulaks would cost you your right to bear arms.
As late as the 1960s, police arrested Clennon King for having the audacity to try and attend college while black and confined him to a mental institution. In modern society, this would have cost him his right to bear arms.
Where do you think the line is? Do you find any of those acceptable? If not, how do you prevent those abuses under the framework that you espouse above?
birb_cromble
1mo ago
I think it's more likely that Zahi Hawass is throwing his weight around until he gets some credit for the find.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
Black bears will run away if you cough unexpectedly.
black bears also very rarely hunt people.
A friend of mine had a black bear break his leg years ago. He heard a noise on his porch and went out to investigate. He spooked a poor black bear so badly that it took off running and knocked my friend clean off the porch.
birb_cromble
1mo ago
My experience with rabid animals is that they don't really stop doing whatever they start doing until they get a new thought in their head.
I once had a rabid groundhog continue to violently attack an archery target for a solid 30 seconds after I put a .38 round into its neck. It only stopped because it bled out.
What do you mean "deal with"? Mine just kind of sit there and exist.
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