RIP discord.

Stealing profits that are already made by stealing? Yeah, I have no sympathy for that.

Tax payers already pay for this shit through federal funding of the sciences, just for the publishers to turn around and steal people’s time and money to view and peer review them. Publishers are thieves, so they can go fuck themselves.

I do the same, but not because of sales, but because it takes 2-3 years for the high seas to swell with jolly rogers.

Hell yeah

Fuck this shitty ass country.

I’ve got old phones that I’ve been considering for this use.

They both still work, minus the cellular data. So I’m having a tough time deciding between making my actual phone squeaky clean, or using the old ones have making it a bitch to get home from the airport with no internet to call an uber/friend/deal with airline shenanigans.

Redjard already explained this, the situation for Hungary is similar.

If only there was some massive ball of super heated plasma in the sky from which we could draw energy from, that also moved the atmosphere of the planet which would open another avenue of energy capture, which also happened to move vast quantities of heavy things like water uphill which would also be an opportunity for energy, or if the ground beneath us was warm enough to use for energy, or if there were shiny green rocks the ground that could be used for power.

Yup, surely there have been zero alternatives.

The lower your orbit, the quicker your orbit decays due to atmospheric drag.

That’s the problem here though, that effect is lessening. So they’re gonna stay up their longer, potentially past the limits of what they can do to avoid collisions. That’s going to create problems for lower orbits.

Not exactly. If it goes into full blown Kessler syndrome, it will become everyone’s problem, including at the newly “freed up” lower orbits.

Yeah, that’s why you don’t share this with fascists.

And for the most part, it’s generally not the case that fascists find themselves in the hot seat, because their buddies are cops, or themselves are cops. The rule of law was never truly applied to them in the first place.

A hung jury, where not everybody agrees is better than a conviction

Absolutely. Much of the time charges get dropped all together when there’s a hung jury, because it isn’t worth the effort to risk another hung jury.

You can disagree with laws, but that feels like a terrible reason to nullify a legitimate guilty decision.

No, it can often be a good reason. I disagree with laws that would make it illegal for trans people to use their preferred bathroom. They punish women for not being feminine enough, it forcibly outs trans people. It’s dangerous and stupid.

Anybody who votes not guilty in such a case is right to do so.

we want jury nullification to come from individual conclusions that this law does not apply despite the circumstances, and not because they know they can.

There is an ongoing shift towards fascism, and at least for now the courts still have power over whether or not people get to walk free.

So there is more to it than your letting on. We’re gonna see cases of people who have done illegal things because the fascists in power decided to make existence defacto illegal for people.

An example of this is the bans on transgender people from using bathrooms other than their assigned sex. If I’m ever a juror on a case like that, I’m fucking voting not guilty, and everybody else should too.

It’s also worth knowing how to do it, as it isn’t exactly straightforward.

https://beyondcourts.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/Jury-Nullification-Toolkit-English_0.pdf

If make it known that you know about it, or you are intentionally doing it, you could face legal issues.

I imagine a contributing factor is that most people who drop dead randomly are of an age where they generally don’t drive, or don’t drive as much.

I want off this planet.

Background checks can’t catch everyone.

The space race gave us space age materials and advances. It wasn’t for nothing.