Incorrect Lord of the Rings Quotes
The Saturday Morning Hug For All!
This week’s hug is from a crow because crows are great.
If you have a hug for the universe, feel free to reblog with your own!
Great tip for anyone in need: you can easily keep dragons off your belongings with a trusty broom or a rolled-up newspaper :)
Look we have records of Medieval Knights crying out in their sleep, having emotional outbursts or flinching at the sound of clashing metal. We have records of people all through history who were treated badly by people who should have loved them, and having problems knowing who to trust. We have years worth of artists putting their human pain at broken hearts and broken promises into music that makes us cry.
Yes people have been traumatized by awful things for all of history and just like them You didn’t deserve to be hurt either.
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ty for stealing this one much appreciated
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people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in
As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.
For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:
First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”
And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.
Like, we can all agree that would be bad.
So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.
So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?
The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.
The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”
The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.
For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.
So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”
There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.
Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.
I like to imagine that Vulcans in their teens and 20s have very inflexible ideas of what is logical, and the older Vulcans all nod to each other sagely because they understand that it takes experience to grasp certain nuances.
To all the writers who haven't written in a while. May the right words come to you and may they actually get written down.
Some good news
This affects Antigua and Barbuda, and just happened July 6, 2022.
[Image caption: article headline reading “Caribbean court rules antiquated law against gay sex is ‘unconstitutional’“, followed by bullet points reading: “The ruling came after an appeal from a local gay man and a women’s activist group. / Other Caribbean nations including Belize and Trinidad & Tobago have decriminalized gay sex in recent years. / Similar court challenges are pending in nearby Barbados, St Lucia, and St Kitts and Nevis.” End caption.]
the idea that ten years before TOS they had the technology to alter species genomes so they could blend in on a planet but kirk just made spock where silly hats everywhere for no reason is very funny actually
Wasn't it explained in one of the books that due to Spock's mixed heritage of vulcan and human, certain procedures were actually more dangerous for him, so it was just better to disguise him rather than take the risk of potentially killing him for a mission that will only last for a few hours or days?
so funny how for a brief time we managed to get perfect alignment for extensions between browsers, webextensions from chrome to firefox to safari, and then google decided "nope, we're going to enforce some new rules now, time to choose us as your only platform or put in extra work" and now you can't even publish the same extension on every chromium fork.
reminder that it's in your best interest to stop using Chrome before January 2023, or you're going to lose extension data.
reposting because the other reblog was made by a terf
TLDR:
Chrome extentions will break in an effort by google to disable adblockers. switch to Firefox now pls:
No More Ad Blocking on Chrome come 2023. Switch to Firefox Now.
Nothing fills me with rage quite like seeing "no overnight visitors" on an apartment advertisement, like, who the fuck do these random landlords think they are, to deny someone the ability to host a friend or a sibling for the night, to even feel comfortable dictating the terms of a paying tenant's sex life, like seriously fuck off all the way to hell
hex your shitty landlord and watch their life crumble into pieces
There's a very effective hex called a "tenant's union" and you can learn the sinister rituals through covens dedicated to the craft. <|:)
I’ve learned a lot about trust—being on this team, letting myself be open to trusting you and the others. I’ve learned that trust is more of a feeling than a science.
Crews Quick Guide to Humans
- Quiet humans are not defective. Loud humans are not defective. Unless there is a significant change, assume your human is operating at normal levels.
- Human words do not mean the same thing all the time. Look up the study of human tone if you want to always know what your human means.
- Human females will smell of blood each month. If this changes, ask your human in private if something happened.
- Human males often do not know how loud they are. Asking them to lower their voice is not offensive.
- Human cultures vary greatly and various cultures have conflicting beliefs. Most humans will not be offended if you cannot keep up with this.
- Humans do not share a hive mind but do have several musical triggers that activate a human chorus. These triggers transcend most cultural and language barriers.
- All Stabby units come with a human locator setting. Use liberally.
- Ask for a detailed explanation before agreeing to join a human on any non work activity.
- Be aware of human hobbies and skills. Humans enjoy company and will likely teach you whatever they know. It is also beneficial to know what your human may do should they get bored.
- Do not be too concerned over what humans ingest, so long as they do so willingly and with the full knowledge of what they are ingesting.
- Unless you hear a human say something along the lines of ‘I hope this works’ or ‘here goes nothing’, assume they have a working knowledge at the attempted task.
- If you hear a human say one of the above phrases, take cover as it is likely too late to stop or report them.
Do not allow your human to greet hostile life forms alone. They may try to make pets out of them if they believe them to be ‘cute’.
this episode was the second pilot and so they didnt have all the details down yet, but this line is still so funny to me. “one of my ancestors” you mean your dad, spock? your father?? your father, who married your mother???