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@Kshi_nippon This exists in the rural parts of Northern California.

One thing many foreigners find unbelievable about Japan 🇯🇵 In some rural areas, people sell vegetables through unmanned stands. No staff. No security guard. You simply take what you want and leave the money behind. And somehow… it often works. Could this exist in your country?

@Lord_Talbot64 @WEschenbach I disagree. I think the prosecutor is hedging the: what if the jury doesn't all agree to convict with murder, but may agree with a lesser charge of manslaughter.

No, the judge has not downgraded or dropped the murder charge. Vickrum Digwa remains on trial for murder (which he denies) at Southampton Crown Court. The judge simply directed the jury, as is standard and required in every appropriate UK murder trial, that they may return a verdict of manslaughter as an alternative if they are not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant intended to kill or cause really serious harm. This is expressly provided for by section 6(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1967: “On an indictment for murder a person found not guilty of murder may be found guilty — (a) of manslaughter...” See the legislation: legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/58/…

A lot of people are today claiming the judge has downgraded the charge against Vickrum Digwa from murder to manslaughter. That is not true. The judge has not lowered or dropped the murder charge. Vickrum Digwa (23) is still on trial for murder at Southampton Crown Court and has pleaded not guilty to both murder and the alternative count of manslaughter (plus carrying a knife). Judge William Mousley KC has simply directed the jury that they can return a verdict of manslaughter as an alternative if they are not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Digwa intended to kill or cause really serious harm (the legal element that distinguishes murder from manslaughter in UK law). This is completely standard procedure in every murder trial where the evidence could support it. The jury alone decides the verdict based on the full evidence.

A country run by banks will always be in debt Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease A state run by war will never know peace A nation run by media will never know the truth

LDS are the worst affected by the temptations. Us Irish grew up with parents offering us sips of their drinks, and once or twice we lost our allowances to a twelve year old card shark. When someone handed us a beer at 15, it was no big deal. The Mormon kids on the other hand, the first time they touched a beer they went crazy--they had no brakes. Us Catholics and Protestants knew alcohol and gambling and learned early on those things needed limits. For the Mormons it was new territory with no rules and as you can expect the alcohol like the house wins every time.

I was gripped when I first read @mckaycoppins story in @TheAtlantic of how he became a degenerate gambler over the course of one NFL season, ultimately losing his company $10,000, all as a Latter-day Saint. This was one cautionary tale I couldn't skip over.

Michael's Plan: anyone spinning out in public gets 30 days in locked rehab to dry out. No ifs, ands, nor butsb 30 days. Make single dose generic versions of all drugs available in all pharmacies for low cost. Any selling of unregulated or reselling of controlled drugs is heavily punished.

@luinalaska It certainly corrects a far worse alternative of never having children at all.

Wanting your daughter to get married at 16 in 2026 when 17 year olds are in high school going to track meets and going to youth group at church with their friends is some sick shit and you can’t convince me otherwise. Yes it happens and it can work out beautifully!!! But *wanting* that for your daughter is off-putting in the extreme.

@luinalaska Working with toes falling off ... says "its a long way from the heart."

This commentary isn’t specifically about JP, but I do wonder how much of a complicated medical profile stems from neuroticism and need for control? We all know people like this. It’s almost always someone who doesn’t have to work to eat. You never see this among blue collar people. J had to work to eat so he’ll go to work with a broken femur. He’ll have a bullet lodged in his arm and say he’s probably fine. My mom had a friend who has spent her entire life with complicated maladies that always surrounded her need to control her environment. Oh I can’t handle environmental mold. It’s a new diet fixing her. It’s the noise. It’s dust. It’s genetic. It’s autoimmune. She didn’t have to work a single day of her life and spent the entire time diagnosing herself with one thing after another. Now it’s blue light. She cannot tolerate screens. It’s absolutely neuroticism at its core.

@spectator The most ardent military historians can play this game ad nauseam.

I was in Newcastle the other day and found myself standing beneath Lord Grey’s Monument. The column is 135 feet of Roman Doric, which seems a generous allotment for a man now principally famous as a bergamot-blend tea. Earl Grey passed the Great Reform Act of 1832 and broke the old grand Whiggism, of which he was a scion, in the process. The city built the column while he was still alive. Two hundred years on, Lord Grey is a landmark locals use to orient themselves towards Primark. A few yards away, in the cathedral, I came upon a memorial to Admiral Collingwood, Nelson’s second-in-command at Trafalgar. I doubt one Geordie in a hundred could tell you who he was. ✍️ Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri Article | spectator.com/article/cultur…

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@AndrewCMcCarthy You were pretty quiet about President Biden's $47B for internet connectivity which somehow didn't connect one person to the internet.

The Trump Slush Fund Is an Abuse of Political Power, Not a Legal Wrong nationalreview.com/2026/05/the-tr…

@OliviaRealMcCoy @TonySeruga The feds don't train bomb making in rural northern California, they go to the Redstone Arsenal where they do all their blowing stuff up.

@TonySeruga Ever been to Ukiah? In 1990? There is literally nothing there to lure the FBI to do training exercises. It was a pass through town on the way north and still is.

🚨FBI Practiced Car Bombs in Ukiah — 3 Weeks Later, an Activist’s Car Exploded. They Arrested HER. 💥 I know this case well. It’s one of the most transparent frame jobs in modern FBI history — and they still couldn’t make it stick. 🔥 The Bombing On May 24, 1990, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were driving through Oakland when a pipe bomb exploded under Bari’s driver's seat. She was nearly killed — her pelvis shattered, her right leg barely attached. Cherney took shrapnel and facial injuries. The bomb was placed under the floorboard directly beneath the driver’s seat, armed with a motion-activated mercury switch. The kind of device that kills the person sitting on it, not the kind you transport across town to plant somewhere. 👮 The FBI’s “Case.” Within hours of the bombing — while Bari was still in surgery — Oakland PD and the FBI raided her home. They arrested both victims in their hospital beds. The official line: they were eco-terrorists transporting their own bomb that accidentally went off. The problems with this theory were glaring: - No bomb-making materials were found at either of their homes. No residue on their hands or clothes. - No motive. Bari was the most prominent voice against violence in Earth First!. She’d publicly expelled the tree-spikers from the movement and brokered alliances with timber workers. She was organizing a peaceful mass demonstration — Redwood Summer — modeled on the civil rights movement. - The bomb placement. If you’re transporting a bomb to commit terrorism, you don’t arm it with a motion-activated mercury switch and put it under the driver’s seat of your own car. - The FBI’s “training exercise.” Three weeks before the bombing, FBI bomb technicians were practicing car bomb techniques in Ukiah — the same town where Bari and Cherney had just been organizing. The Bureau claimed coincidence. 🧠 The Actual Target Judi Bari wasn’t some fringe radical. She was succeeding where others had failed. She’d built a labor-environmentalist coalition that united timber workers and environmentalists against corporate clear-cutting of old-growth redwoods. This terrified the timber corporations and the political establishment. The Redwood Summer campaign she was organizing threatened to bring 10,000+ activists to Northern California to blockade logging operations. It was going to be the largest direct-action environmental protest in U.S. history at the time. ⚖️ The Lawsuit The charges were dropped — the Alameda County DA realized the case was garbage. But Bari and Cherney didn’t let it go. They sued the FBI and Oakland PD for civil rights violations, false arrest, and malicious prosecution. The case dragged on for 12 years. Bari died of breast cancer in 1997, but the suit continued. In 2002, a federal jury found in favor of Cherney and Bari’s estate. The FBI and Oakland PD were ordered to pay $4.4 million. The jury specifically found that the FBI and police had: - Violated their First Amendment rights - Conducted an unlawful search - Falsely arrested them - Engaged in malicious prosecution 🕵️ The Unanswered Questions The actual bomber was never identified. The FBI’s investigation focused exclusively on the victims, never seriously pursuing alternative suspects — including the known death threats Bari had received, or the fact that her car had been broken into shortly before the bombing. The “training exercise” in Ukiah weeks before the bombing remains unexplained to any satisfying degree. The coincidence is absurd on its face: the FBI is practicing car bombs in the exact small town where the movement’s leaders are organizing, and then one of those leaders gets car-bombed. Seriously? 🤡 This is what institutional corruption looks like when it’s caught in the act but still protected. The FBI wasn’t hunting terrorists — they were trying to decapitate a successful labor-environmentalist movement by any means necessary, and when the bombing happened (whether they were involved or merely opportunistic), they saw their chance to finish the job with an arrest.

There's a lot of untruth here. First, in the bay area the feds are going to be sued if they claim the sun rises in the east. As reported at the time: nails from Bari's barn were found in the bomb shrapnel. The bomb was reported under the seat. If a bomb were under the floor boards as you claim, why would someone need to break into the car? If the feds broke into your car, you'd never know. Why would the feds kill someone by car-bomb, that's a 70s radical Weather-Underground - SLA method, and Bari was a 70s radical.

@cvprbd9kq2 @luinalaska Yeah, but his daughter has had most of her leg joints replaced due to childhood rheumatoid arthritis. She claims the all meat diet is all she can do.

@luinalaska He and his family are the poster children of health narcissism.

Jordan Peterson became too neurotic with fame. Too high on the neuroticism scale for that level of continuous scrutiny and success. That aspect of his personality always stuck out to me.

@aphysicist The smartest people think the dumbest things.

i don't know how to explain this to other people if you've never experienced SF tech/group house culture when it comes to how they think about near-intractable computing problems. less wrong types genuinely think some form of AI will be able to just compute the universe, like all math, physics etc. magically with no guidance or parameters, like there's a theorem out there that just exists that would allow us to discover all math and solve all unsolved problems. they have no idea how far we are from this or what it requires. always blows me away to see such smart people who think these things in the wild.

@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives They wish to seize the means of production. Notice they don't wish to create the means of production, they lack the ability to create the means of production, they won't be adept at managing the means of production. They just want to loot the means of production.

Starmer, Burnham, Farage, Polanski…These men have one thing in common. They all want nationalisation. That will mean companies run by politicians but paid for with YOUR money. There’s only one party that stands against their failed ideas and that’s the Conservatives.

@HelenA09494876 @luinalaska @grok Capon is a castrated rooster. Their nuggets are internal so its open cock surgery.

@luinalaska @grok Capon pie. Some type of bird? Gaoled Jail? Peurpetal sounds like an archaic medical term Sorry, not sorry... I couldn't help myself.

DON’T LIE TAKE THE TEST. I didn’t know capon, puerperal, and gaoled.

@Se7enthSensei @DrGW0 Finally someone in this thread with some common sense ... common sense being quite uncommon these days.

@DrGW0 How about stop taking toxic medications that are merely bi products of industrial oil waste from companies that have never cured anything ever. Would be a phenomenal place to start, total med wipe and detox. If pills cured anything no one would be on them for a lifetime. @DrGW0

Are there any psychiatric medicines that undo the damage caused by psychiatric medicines? I have had a 4 year headache that hasn't stopped.

Always remember: there is a bit of poison in every medicine. So now you're looking for a poison to counteract the poison you took earlier. How does that children's verse go? He swallowed a dog to catch the cat, he swallowed the cat to catch the bird, he swallowed a bird to catch the spider, he swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why he swallowed the fly, they say he'll die.

@therealmrbench @JayGenXer We will eat zee bugs and be happy

@JayGenXer The elites have been telling us that we will be eating bugs in the future. This is their way to force the issue

🚨 WHERE’S THE BEEF !?! One single Sterling Silver beef oven roast at Sobeys: $160.28 That’s $68.32 per kilogram — even with their “20% off” sign. A normal family roast that used to be a regular weeknight meal has now become a luxury item. And you already know what the usual crowd on the left will do: mock anyone complaining, tell you to “just eat less meat,” hunt for random deals across town, or virtue-signal that they don’t eat beef anyway. This is what 11 years of Liberal policies have done. Skyrocketing inflation. Carbon taxes slamming farmers on fuel, fertilizer, and transport. Regulatory overload. Economic mismanagement that’s made basic groceries unaffordable for regular Canadians. You shouldn’t be shamed or mocked for wanting a decent meal with real protein and iron. When did eating like a normal Canadian become an act of rebellion? #GroceryPrices #LiberalFailure #CarbonTax #CostOfLivingCrisis #CDNPoli

@BobbyBorkIII Sorry Bob, nothing tops Tickle vs Giggle.

Just discovered my new favorite court case name.