Absolutely!

I’m pretty sure @[email protected] was meaning the exact opposite, that it’s more about educating perpetrators than taking vengeance or merely dishing out old-fashioned justice on them.

Apparently, it was required to be allowed in that state:

Reading a bit more, during the sentencing phase in that state people making victim impact statements can choose their format for expression, and it’s entirely allowed to make statements about what other people would say. So the judge didn’t actually have grounds to deny it.
No jury during that phase, so it’s just the judge listening to free form requests in both directions.

It’s gross, but the rules very much allow the sister to make a statement about what she believes her brother would have wanted to say, in whatever format she wanted.

From: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18471175

influence the sentence

From what I’ve seen, to be fair, judges’ decisions have varied wildly regardless, sadly, and sentences should be more standardized. I wonder what it would’ve been otherwise.

This has influenced my entire idea of spending money

How so, out of curiosity?

Exhausting? S3 was awesome and ST:TNG-like!

Perhaps; it seemed like they knew the decedent well enough to know that he would appreciate this, from everything that the article says. With that said, I also won’t be surprised if templates for wills or living trusts add a no-duplication statement by default over the coming years.

Thanks for sharing; I thought this was a fascinating read, especially since it ended on a positive note and not pure condemnation. It seems totally Black Mirror-esque, but I do wonder how many of the commentators here attacking it didn’t read the article. The family obviously didn’t make this decision lightly, given how much work it took to create it, and even the judge appreciated the novel approach. This is probably one of the best-case use scenarios relative to the abyss of unstoppable horror that awaits us.

When do they diverge in character? I went all the way to the mole dungeon and they feel entirely and identically bland.

I look forward to its eventual reclassification as a “ficklecoin™.”

Also PlateUp!

There’s a lot of unvoiced dialogue, which I could see as being a barrier to enjoyment

No, it’s more like the protagonists’ personalities being totally interchangeable. That made me stop playing after I realized it doesn’t improve.

… and the rest, greed.

Maybe they are in bed with ISPs.

omg you’ll be among the saviors of the world, given the way bees are going according to the news.

Wow, I had no idea that NPR had a text-only version. Cool! Also, I hope Eli loses.

*Not Bitcoin.

Why not? Otherwise, there are CBDCs purportedly under way, but I haven’t read about them in probably half a year or longer, come to think of it…

I have still quite literally found no other tool, even paid products, that can interior-crop the way IrfanView can (select row/column Y in XYZ if the entire image was XYZ, and crop out that inner part and auto-tuck X and Z directly against each other). And it’s had this feature for decades, I think.

I did not call people evil but the substance, and my stance has nothing to do with socializing (which is fine) but rather everything to do with the pain of drunk driving, abuse, addiction, permanent bodily harm, psychological scarring, and death that are all results of alcohol intake. Why play with fire? Let’s look at other drugs:

“According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol causes 88,000 (62,000 men and 26,000 women) deaths every year. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism tells us alcohol shortened the lifespan of those 88,000 by 30 years. That makes alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. All other drugs combined cause approximately 30,000 deaths annually.” - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-addiction/201601/which-is-more-dangerous-alcohol-or-drugs

I don’t even understand why I’m conducting this research right now; why are you disagreeing? Arguing against science is like saying the damage from leaded gasoline was all fine. That article was from 2016, so let’s find something more recent for relevance:

“A new study estimates that over their lifetime, more than a third of U.S. adults or 113 million people are harmed from someone else’s drinking while 46 million experience harms from someone else’s drug use. Among study respondents, 34.2% experienced secondhand harms from alcohol, 5.5% from cannabis, 7.6% from opioids, and 8.3% from other drugs.” - https://www.phi.org/press/new-study-alcohol-and-drug-use-cause-significant-harms-that-go-beyond-the-individual/

That was just from Nov. 2024. I hope I don’t have to go on. There are so many incredible and safer ways to have fun (and even ones that are as wild or wilder, when it comes to certain mind-altering substances). /c/stopdrinking exists for a reason, and I’m not gonna minimize their struggle in light of those ratios above.

Um, is there a Mothers Against Table Salt organization? Or are you saying that Mothers Against Drunk Driving is comprised of judgmental asses? I didn’t post that comment just because I’m a teetotaler. Maybe you haven’t seen the pain and suffering of those with severe alcoholics in their families like I have, in which case I hope you never do.

That works! And agreed…