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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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    Don’t get me wrong, ethically this situation becomes very complex, but let’s not kid ourselves: the evidence is unfortunately very strong. In fact this is one of the easier cases for the prosecution to try imo.

    To prove intent under the statute of Murder 2 in NY they have:

    • a weapon him
    • matching shell casings
    • video evidence
    • cellphone data linking him to a route away from the scene

    Cause of death is self-evident.

    There is no legal justification applicable here (self defense, …)

    There’s also a chance this will get a terrorism enhancement. Supporting evidence would be the targeted nature, the casings and manifesto.

    He can go for an insanity plea or extreme emotional disturbance, however this usually goes to the punishment phase and not the trial phase, making this almost irrelevant for the conviction.

    The one thing he has going for him is jury nullification. This is legally dubious and usually can and should not be argued, for very legitimate reasons; however the jury can make their decision basically without justification and therefore this is very plausible. The probability is a different question which is hard to answer.

    I do not like murder, but I sympathize a lot with him, however especially because of that I also have to keep it realistic and accept that legally the case against him is pretty strong.

    TL;DR there’s strong evidence against him, and if there’s no jury nullification he will most likely be convicted.



  • I switched during the third party app thing. I still Google “problem reddit” if I need good answers but Lots of stuff from reddit I never needed and some stuff was actually throwing me off. The insanely strict rules, mods on Reddit being assholes (there’s less of them on Lemmy I wanna think) and the depression inducing pessimism.

    I cut out politics from my feed (works 90% of the time) and always browse “new”. Good memes, some niche communities and a very diverse and interesting community. Sometimes a little bit too forceful in their perspective but I love all the lemmings on here.

    So how did I do it? I think it was a natural fit for me. But only browsing “new”, avoiding politics and joining some niche communities helped.

    Also no one is forcing you :)

    Take your time and maybe when the time is right you will wanna switch over completely. No one will force you on here, but I think that’s exactly why this platform is so good.


  • We all know some people who are clearly smart and some people who are clearly dumb

    I don’t. I thought maybe Elon musk is smart or maybe he is a good public speaker. Maybe he is charismatic or maybe he is just lying really effectively.

    With 20/20 hindsight it’s good to reflect and understand it was smart to be cautious about my judgement. I will never be sure if someone is smart or dumb, because there’s so much going on I can’t possibly understand.

    Even Einstein who clearly had a lot of very impactful and helpful theories and ideas I wouldn’t say is smart. I would only go so far as to say he is a great physicist.

    I also disagree that being smart is generally advantageous in life. All the people who seemed smart to me were deeply depressed at some point in their life, some even still and some even went a bit further with it.

    What I’m trying to say is the world is complex, and such generalizations only lead to wrong causal links.

    Maybe smart don’t give you money but money helps to learn and become smart. Maybe smarts don’t give you advantages in life but an advantageous life affords you opportunities to become smarter. Maybe being smart is the wrong way to think about it and it’s all just different patterns and behaviors of thinking. Or maybe your thoughts are more profound in some circles and people who think more profound appear smarter to us.

    Let’s just take a healthy dose of skepticism to such studies but also to all those “we all know it” ideas. I don’t. I’m fucking stupid but that leads to smarter decisions than the me who assumes a bunch of stuff.




  • God fucking shit it breaks me heart to hear that. I’m so sorry for your loss.

    My mom is quite pro science and my dad became a bit spiritual, conspiratorial and anti-science, but none of them were hit that hard. I feel like I’m in the opposite situation where I technically can try to convince him to change his mind every time I see him but he is extremely stubborn and there’s no way. In fact it will make him dig in deeper and the only way for him to change is by himself.

    Fuck this timeline I want a reroll.






  • To be fair it’s never clear cut. Government is made up of people in a democracy. Russia still labels itself a democracy, obviously it’s been somewhat hard take their word for it given the anomalous approval ratings and the long standing history of corruption as well as the oligarchic roots that are still running through the country.

    You’re both right and wrong, the government is an extension of the citizens as to represent them. However, this government might not be representing them realistically anymore. So if you say the average person is responsible, that means they need to risk their and even their families safety and freedom. I think that’s not fair, I don’t know if I would be capable of this.

    In conclusion (and because we know this from experience out of 1940s Germany) we need to burden them some responsibility for not revolting, but we can not punish them the same as government.

    This excludes the specific perpetrators. If they have actual knowledge of the crimes, there is an argument to be made for moral implications from direct culpability and thus their actions underly a heightened level of criminalization and ethical scrutiny.