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  • Court costs are different than a fine.

    If a random guy sued you for a nonsense reason and you had to show up to court and pay a lawyer hundreds of dollars just to basically say “this lawsuit is frivolous and the ruling is self evident”, it’s reasonable to expect that ransom guy to pay your court costs. The alternative is being sued itself would be like a fine. If some dude with a vendetta sued me 10 times over that I’d be ruined no matter the result.

    So frivolous, ungrounded lawsuits have a cost to them that actually has nothing to do with the courts getting money, it has to do with making it right that someone has wasted your own time and money.

    This guy did that, and has to pay for not only his own lawyer (if he brought one, I expect he didn’t) but also the lawyer for the city/police department.

    Some areas do have an actual fine for wasting the court’s time, so the lawyer thing might not be the only thing going on here, but no matter what, the guy gets to pay more for losing at court when the matter is considered obvious to everyone else and it seems he only wants to argue to avoid a perfectly legal fine.






  • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemistake rule
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    No it was “God doesn’t make mistakes, therefore you must deserve to suffer.”

    But that’s also what ive heard from Christians about anything gay/trans. They dont say its fake, they say god made things the way they are on purpose and those urges and desires are temptations. They make it into a test of their faith.

    “Oh you have CF? You must have sinned a lot.” (My friend, who is atheist) “yeah, actually. Dont really care though”. “Oh well if you pray every day and atone and blah blah God will save you, hes just waiting for you to reach out to him.”

    “Oh you wanna dress like a girl? No no, this is a test, god wants to know you’re faithful. Repent for these thoughts and pray every day and atone […]”.

    Any failures or faults are sin, at least with the Christians I know in my area. Gay, trans, genetic disorders, cancer, whatever.

    So these ones, at least, admit gay/trans people exist. One of them even openly admitted to having those urges “once” but said he prayed the gay away.

    I got a strong feeling he secretly hates himself in a few ways. The alcoholism was a big hint.

    The short of it is “It’s not a mistake if it’s a test.”



  • Linux is perfect for that.

    Mint is great, I use it myself.

    They collect no secret data, but do obviously know, line, when you download an update from their servers, etc.

    They don’t keep track of anything as part of the OS itself. Mint doesn’t “phone home” like windows phones home to Microsoft, just to keep tabs on you. Any time any data would be sent to them, it has a clear purpose, and is stated upfront, and it never includes user files, anyway. They don’t want or use your files and would actually prefer not to have them, based on this.

    https://www.linuxmint.com/privacy.php

    Other distros have similar policies, too. Linux is open, so a given distro COULD do this kind of thing, so if you go another direction besides Mint, double-check, but I’d honestly need to try to find a distro that did snoop.

    Linux source code can be checked, and shitty behaviors can be noticed.

    Linux is safe. Linux minds its own business.




  • While you’re right, first I wanna say, “unskilled labor” tends to be cashiers, stocking, waiting on tables, that sort of thing. Any job where you’re an apprentice for any length of time, thats skilled labor.

    “skilled labor” vs "unskilled labor would be named best as “credentialed labor” and “on-the-job training labor” in my opinion. There might be a better word, but the meaning of those is more accurate.

    I was great at my call center job, I had skills that got me promotions, but many those skills could’ve only been taught at that job, and they only applied at that job. It’s not that that job didn’t have skills, it’s that you couldn’t arrive with all the skills you’d need to succeed.

    This is also true of “skilled” labor, but to a much lesser degree.




  • Maybe the poster thought there was a countdown. Not this one though, so you’re absolutely right.

    It works better when both gunners care about innocents. Imagine the ranger couldn’t find hits hideout, a big enough place it wasn’t easy, and Texas red didn’t wanna shoot up the place he was living.

    The ranger might get a message saying a time and place, so they can meet without causing a bunch of damage or risking innocents.

    Of course, the moustache-twirling sort of villains wouldn’t work with that at all. Just can’t trust them. But there’s plenty of room for this to make sense sometimes.


  • Pretty sure it’d fry the power supply. Thats my first bet, is that it wouldn’t even get through it.

    If it did pass through, it could fry your electronics. A USB killer is a short pulse, and not at all strong compared to main, so I expect that it’d act more like if a neutral was floating, than an actual surge at the voltage a USB killer usually gets to.

    No idea for sure though and I’m not an electrician.




  • You show that you are dominated by sight even as you say you aren’t.

    Losing your hearing or touch would remove peripheral senses, yes, and certainly that would be unnerving, but think how much worse it would be to lose sight. Hearing wasn’t even a factor for you beyond your peripheral, because what you can see is so much clearer, so much more comprehensive, than what you can hear, that hearing is negligible where you have sight.

    Hearing is a backup sense. Something you lean on when you don’t have sight, but its fidelity is poor enough in people that we rely nearly wholly on sight, when we can.

    Losing that cone of vision impacts us far more than our hearing, although of course losing either is massively detrimental.