RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
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RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
5d ago
to even ask for these things reflects an entire misunderstanding of how work works, of the whole idea of a professional. You don't get extra time on assignments, the assignments exist and you get them done. If you don't complete the work necessary in your allotted hours, you have to finish it outside of your allotted hours. If your allotted hours produce less work than the average worker, you are less valuable than the average worker. At no point in the application process did this young man seem to think of the problem as "I'm going to need to work more hours" but always in terms of "You're going to have to go easy on me." I know it's the government, but still, there's not even the illusion of caring about productivity or value for a dollar.
A friend in a big city indigent defense office was telling me about the office hiring 2 recently-licensed attorneys who had attended top-10 law schools. Both ended up being unmitigated disasters who could not handle the work (that other attorneys from mediocre schools could handle). It appeared they had been "accommodated" for many years to get by and being given actual work with deadlines, clients, etc. was too much for them.
[There is the suspicion that anyone from a top-10 school applying to a public defense office is not the best from the school, but quite a few students end up doing that (or a prosecution job) to get a few years of trial work and showing they care about the little people or whatever before moving up in the world, so I don't think these two were from the bottom 10% of their schools (and per my friend, they had impressive transcripts/resumes).]
The alarming part of the story is that one went to HR and HR sided with them, resulting in their caseload being reduced and moved to other attorneys. This person is now being paid the same as those other attorneys to do much less work, and because of the way it all went down, all those other attorneys are very aware of everything that happened.
This sets up an unsustainable race to the bottom where every attorney is now incentivized to get a diagnosis and claim a need for accommodations to get less work, and any attorney who does not will end up with much more work. The justice system creaks along rather poorly, and defense offices are usually understaffed already. Requiring twice as many attorneys because caseloads are being cut in half to accommodate them is not practical, and it wouldn't be practical on the prosecution side, either (I haven't heard of it happening, but it seems like a matter of time until the knowledge of claiming a need for accommodation spreads).
People talk about it, but I don't think it has really sunk in for many what the legal system (or other systems) are going to look like when the Boomers/elder Xers are fully gone and they're replaced with people like those I discuss above.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
despite eating bivalves (and roadkill, and caviar, and etc...)
Really burying the lede there.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
America's tent cities are full of such fent users. It is very, very cheap and easy to obtain. Far cheaper and easier than oxy or heroin. Like all narcotics, one can build up a tolerance.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
Reading has declined across the board, but it seems to have hit men harder for some reason. I don’t have the full answer but I think Jared Henderson has a video about this
I don't think this was intentional (if it was, kudos), but "reading is dying out, here's a video about it" is very on-the-nose.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
Shhhh, stop telling people about the few remaining unspoiled places...
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
As far as I know, almost no one intentionally takes Fentanyl, because it's not fun and it's pretty much straight poison.
You are incorrect. I have many clients who smoke 10-100 fentanyl pills (in the form of fake oxy pills) per day.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
There is actually a lefty woman who seemingly likes him, follows him around, goes on runs with him, but because she advocates for feminism and socialism, that's a red flag for him.
There is a reason the "lefty chick + most racist man alive" meme exists, and it's for this man and this woman.
The biggest issue is that he's in his late 30s at this point
It is not a good sign that he's in his late 30s and hasn't realized that a woman doing those things is flashing every green flag she can to tell him that she's willing to be converted.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
Conservative atheists are a dime a dozen honestly.
There are dozens of us!
Vegan-Conservative are much less common, but tend to be religious
Yeah, Seventh Day Adventists were the first to come to mind, but I guess many of them are vegetarian, not vegan (and they're obviously religious).
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
Perhaps Zorba built in an automatic filter for any post containing "vegan" and "atheist" within certain number of words of each other.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
Lucky makes some 100% cotton jeans. I forget which series I have, but they are soft enough to be comfortable around the house (but not as soft as premium jeans with some elastane, which you wish to avoid) and tough enough to be more durable and long-lasting than premium jeans (but not tough enough to survive a bunch of hard outdoors work). They certainly look good enough to make trips to stores or dinner.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
9d ago
Past a certain point, it starts sounding like "Who're you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"
What I hear is more "no one I know voted for Nixon!" As a guy who went around the block many times in his 20s and 30s, I can say that an awful lot of women voted for Nixon. But they move in different circles than you and your friends, and they certainly don't talk about voting for Nixon when they're around you.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
9d ago
It's surreal to sit in a popular restaurant which is completely empty of anyone actually eating there, just an endless stream of delivery drivers coming in to pick up bags of plastic containers.
There will sometimes be other diners there... mostly all staring at their screens.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
9d ago
Image search is returning photos of a woman I'd prefer to see with more clothing on, not less, so I must be misunderstanding who you mean.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
9d ago
My wife is pregnant.
Congratulations! And with the job no longer holding you in VA, perhaps it's time to consider exit.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
13d ago
Oh, and the Manson murders. 1969-1971 really killed any presumption of 'innocence' in this culture, didn't it?
The CHAOS book talks about it at length, but the cracks were already showing by '67 (one example he doesn't mention that I think is noteworthy is that Love's Forever Changes was recorded in summer-fall '67 and was already pointing out what a crock all the hippie stuff was). The LSD era gave way to the amphetamines and heroin era, but it took until Manson & Altamont for the fruits of that change to become apparent.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
13d ago
cuter children(the median Hispanic/white pairing produces white-looking children)
For some Latinas, priority #1 in life is children with light eyes.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
13d ago
Trivially, there are pretty significant costs to flight.
And I'm not downplaying them. His job, his wife's job if she has one, schooling for the kid(s), church, overall support structure if family is nearby... those are all significant considerations and make moving complex. However, if the alternative is seriously weighing armed rebellion, then perhaps relocation is a more realistic first step.
As to your other points, I don't disagree. There is no perfect escape at this point. To add to your examples, in Arizona, Daniel Shaver got killed by a cop while crawling along the ground, and there certainly wasn't any rioting when the cop was acquitted of murder. And that's Arizona, so what does that say about supposedly pro-freedom states? Even so, there are an awful lot of states I'd pick before VA or NJ.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
13d ago
That second part (disprove all other theories) is a common out less entrenched judges use quite often in minor cases (most judges in state courts get crappy assignments when they start, like in traffic misdemeanor rooms) so they can avoid being appealed following a bench trial.
I agree, I've seen it myself. But there is a difference between applying it in a misdemeanor to avoid an annoying appeal vs. a murder or multimillion dollar fraud case.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
Under this second step, we must “determine whether the circumstances proved are ‘consistent with guilt and inconsistent with any rational hypothesis except that of guilt,’ not simply whether the inferences that point to guilt are reasonable.”
I suspect "rational" in that standard is doing some heavy lifting, because otherwise the second step reads "not only must the State prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but must disprove every other theory as well (aside from aliens or Bigfoot)." That's a big hurdle depending on how strict "rational" is.
I also wonder, but don't care enough to research, how often that second step leads to vacating a conviction. All that quoted language sounds defense-friendly, but every case there (Silvernail, Palmer, Hurd, and Anderson) upheld the murder convictions at issue. It sounds particularly prone to vacating convictions in white collar crimes where a defendant claims they didn't know. Unless there are written declarations of "I know I am committing fraud by doing X," then saying "I didn't know, it was all confusing and overwhelming" could always be a rational hypothesis of the inferences.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
In conditions of full suffrage
This might be the key difference that I hadn't thought about it. However, even after full suffrage and that division fracturing for presidential elections, Dems basically controlled the house from FDR until Gingrich. That probably hid some of the realignment that was going on.
But these tend not to be stable long term.
The donor class of Team R still being management/bankers/owners who desire Big Line Go Up Forever while the base is increasingly anti-immigrant chuds (it's not a boo-light, I'm one of them) is definitely not stable.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
To my non-lawyery ear this sounds a lot like "vibes" and the jury should've known better nudge nudge wink wink.
I'm quite curious how this will shake out on appeal. In my state, setting aside the jury verdict after a finding of guilt is a one-way ticket to reversal. The judge can only act as the "13th juror" in the most rare of circumstances. It can't just be that the State's case was weak or relied on circumstantial evidence or "didn't rule out other reasonable inferences," but rather the evidence was non-existent.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
In some respects, it almost feels like a realignment might be creeping up on us. Is anyone else getting a similar feeling?
I get a similar feeling, but sometimes I feel like the Dixiecrat realignment never fully resolved and we've been dealing with it (Goldwater, Reagan, Gingrich, Trump, etc.) ever since. The movement from Dems = labor and Rep = management/bankers/owners into whatever we have now never seems to have reached a stable equilibrium.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
I currently live in a state with my Attorney General elect thinks I and my children should die because we're breeding "little fascist". His top priority is emptying the prisons into my community to see this done.
Please don't share more info than is wise, but out of curiosity, why not vacate that state? There are states with moderately sane AGs (and overall saner justice systems that try to lock up criminals), minimal gun laws, and lower taxes. And I don't mean places that many people dread like North Dakota or Wyoming, although the latter is a very pretty state in places and no one is going to put their nose in your business.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
This is all political. Competence has nothing to do with it. There is no threshold at which procedural pretexts stop being invented.
Getting US Attorneys confirmed by the Senate is presidentin' 101. This isn't some new, dazzling pretext--as Nybbler points out, this problem even hit the Jack Smith prosecutions against Trump.
If your intent is a gf, I have some bad news for you about that party.
Time to buy new jeans. Either buy oversized and have the waist tailored or buy jeans with some stretch (Barbell or the like).
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