You can compare this with a couple instances where felons serving life sentences had to be resuscitated and then went on to appeal that since they had temporarily died they had fulfilled the terms of their ‘life’ sentence. Benjamin Shcreiber and Jerry Rosenberg are notable examples if you want to read more.

In at least one story I’ve heard, a judge has dismissed an appeal on similar grounds because “if the defendant has served their life sentence, then they must be deceased, and the deceased are unable to file appeal.”

Basically they argued over the letter of the law while ignoring the spirit. That kind of thing only works if you’re a billionaire, and the rest of us schmucks have to accept that the spirit of a life sentence is that you are removed from society until you’re dead for good (or granted clemency or whatever).

I’m against capital punishment, but the spirit of the law is that Christa Pike is to be permanently removed from society and given her case history that’s something I agree with. But even if you want to argue the letter of the law: she was sentenced to execution and if the state failed to execute her, that means she hasn’t been executed.

I’m not a lawyer, but to my understanding the only legitimate avenue to appeal she has, and it’s still a stretch, would be on the grounds of her botched execution being a “cruel and unusual punishment.” However, if released today she’d have to go through life in the USA - which is also cruel and unusual

If there’s something funnier than a sad clown, I haven’t seen it

If your revolution requires you to prey on the most vulnerable and have them throw away their lives in a bid to further your agenda, then I fail to see how that’s better than the status quo

Jesus man, first of all, you might be an asshole

You waffle immediately from shaming someone for being mentally ill into advocating that they be violent.

We’d obviously all prefer that people aren’t suicidal, and yeah we want to help them. I know I want to live in a world where nobody feels they need to take their own life.

I don’t think suicide is automatically selfish though, you don’t know anything about this person’s life. Demanding that somebody continue an existence that they find miserable in order for you to not have your feelings hurt is pretty damn selfish though. Do you think that making somebody feel bad will somehow make them feel less bad?

Of all the things I gave up when I became vegetarian, I was surprised that candy was the hardest

Not only because I have to squint to read the ingredients, but now every time someone offers me candy I genuinely don’t know if I can eat it

Imagine being the diversity hire for the gay bukkake. Just going around the set handing out high fives and attaboys

I think it’s significant that in both of your papers the experiment is performed with 0-calorie snacks as the alternative to processed foods. Personally I think it’s kind of a “no duh” experiment (a snack with no calories has no energy to impart), but scientists still gotta do science to prove science.

I confess I haven’t read any of the papers myself, but there is a growing body of research that points to health risks from processed foods. And when you look at the ultra-processed food that’s cheap and readily available, you’re going to find stuff that’s loaded with sugar, palm oil, and who knows what kind of additives. The vast majority of those foods are also low fibre which isn’t great either.

Nutrition is both highly complex and really simple. It’s complicated because there’s a lot of systems at play within your body, and it can be difficult to definitively assess the benefits or risks of certain ingredients. But it’s simple too because we all know that eating good food is good for you, and eating bad food is bad for you.

I do think it’s excessive not letting the kids eat the snacks their parents give them. The administration will never know how food secure people are (a lot aren’t), and the children are especially vulnerable because they don’t have the autonomy to tell a teacher to fuck off. But at the same time, everyone knows it’s better for your kid to eat carrots than pop tarts.

There’s also all those people who are rightfully pissed about AI who then call out human creators because they draw / write like AI. All the while, actual AI gen is getting more passable with each day

The situation is super lame

I think my radicalizing moment was when diaper manufacturer Huggies posted record profits and then jacked up their prices by like 25%. Costs hadn’t risen, they just made a bunch of money and figured people would pay more anyway because what choice do they have? This was around COVID, either shortly before or during the epidemic. Although to be honest I’m sure it wasn’t limited to then.

You’ve got to be inhuman to gouge people on essentials for literal infants.

Because people keep paying for blatant scams, terrible deals, and shit we don’t need in general. It’s why everything keeps getting so expensive, INCLUDING our necesities, and they won’t get cheaper until people stop buying. It’s why companies are allowed to get away with ripping us off or doing blatantly evil shit, and they’re not gonna stop until people stop buying.

I’d argue the reason why prices keep going up is due to the parasite class at the top squeezing people more with each passing day.

What do you view as people being smart with their money, like investments and bonds and stuff? I can’t afford groceries, I certainly can’t afford a 401k. Likewise, it’s rational to save for retirement, but with WW3 escalating, the climate crisis, and a general feeling that you might not live to see next week - people are going to ask what’s the point?

Although I will agree that the blame for rampant consumerism outside of necessities must lie at least partly with the consumers. It takes two to tango after all

More to your question: I’ve never actually heard someone use that phrase, but I have encountered the sentiment that someone can spend their own money however they see fit. That’s entirely true, and you’re not going to change their mind if you take an aggressive stance. If you call people stupid for spending their money on their own happiness then you’re not going to ingratiate yourselves to them and they’re just as likely to spend more to spite you, further entrenching their own opinion.

Gentleness, empathy, and education go a lot further in influencing people’s behaviour. Their opinion of how they spend their money feels correct to them, just as your opinion of how they spend their money feels wrong to you. In any conflict you have to allow that your opinion isn’t correct just because it’s your opinion - either side usually does not have all the facts or perspectives

Truly

You’ll have people loudly telling everyone who will listen that zombies are a hoax even while one is eating their liver

Botting on youtube

Too many requests in a short period will get you an error 429 and blacklisted from youtube. If you’re not banned, you’ll be rate-limited because they don’t want people using up their bandwidth - ironic considering their business model

Alternatively, I’m pretty sure most Invidious instances will let you download any youtube video. You go to a website, search for the video, and click download. This is arguably easier if you’re not comfy on the command line

Definitely a mixed bag.

Today I submitted a project for a game jam. It’s the first one I’ve finished in a little over two years. Shameless self promotion

On the one hand, yes it’s absolutely what I wanted to do. Video games have always been a special interest, and I’d really like to be selling my own games. Plus a jam is a good learning experience and trust me: I’ll find all the ways you shouldn’t do something.

On the other hand, it’s a whole lot of crunch time racing against the clock. Sleepy, migraine, and basically wrung out. Plus the nature of a jam is that you’re inevitably shipping a buggy mess that only sorta works - it’s basically the antithesis to my work ethic.

But, it’s been a long time, I’m happy with what I made, and the stresses of the game have been a very effective escape from the stresses of real life. So overall: yeah, it’s what I wanted to be doing

A quick search shows it’s available on YouTube

I’m not sure of the legality / community rules for giving technical advice on piracy, but there are ways of getting your own copy

Mods are volunteers, and therefore will moderate however they feel like. The needs of the community might influence what that looks like, but at the end of the day it’s whatever they want.

Reacting in a timely manner but also requiring a majority are both things that we want to see, but they’re also conflicting ideals. Depending on the size of the community it may be an impossible ask.

If a moderator oversteps, the rest of the mod team could take action. If you can’t trust a single moderator to moderate, then maybe they shouldn’t be a moderator.

It’s not a perfect system, but things rarely rare.

To add an additional moral here:

In many of the retellings the first two pigs escape to take shelter with the third. When the wolf tries to break in through the chimney, it’s the three pigs together that are able to stop it.

There’s something in there about accepting refugees and coming together in crisis.

If you so much as show me a photograph of the sun, somehow I’ll end up with a sunburn

Insisting we eat on the patio means I’ll be uncomfortable for days, all for a novelty that frankly I don’t understand

Everyone who attends a party with a rented pineapple later remembers it as a classy affair. However, you lose the deposit on your rental

All of the reasons above, plus sometimes the character just doesn’t have a name

When I’m talking about They Live, the protagonist is literally unnamed. Rowdy Roddy Piper is credited as “Nada” but even that is never used in the film (Great movie btw, go watch it if you haven’t seen it)

Then sometimes the actor is far more famous than the movie was, or the character wasn’t very memorable, or whatever the case is. Particularly true if the actor is appearing as a cameo

I make video games on occasion. My portfolio is mostly jams and unfinished prototypes, and while I am working on something special, at this rate it will be a million years before it’s ready for release.

I catch my wife playing this one sometimes and it makes my heart happy

Sometimes I paint minis. These were a couple of characters I played where I made a custom figure

Kurt is technically a kitbash. I took a figure that was originally a bard holding a harp, cut out the harp and gave him some books. He was a gifted kid turned wizard-college-dropout, really pulling from life experience there.

For Robin I made a couple of additions with clay. I’m really bad at that, but it makes me happy