[#evidence resources] for articles/papers that basically cite how awful the police is and for video/photos of police violence against protestors. I’m tagging videos and photos as [#video evidence] and [#photo evidence] in case you need to block, because I know not everyone wants to see that and it can be disturbing.
[#protest resources] for things that are specifically helpful for protesters, such as donation funds, advice and guidlines for protesting, bail funds, lawyers, protestors rights, things like that
[#mental health resources] for those of you that need a (well deserved) break
[#may protest] [#april protest ‘21] is kind of a catch-all tag for the general goings on and progression of relevant current events and things I think are important for people to know
[#protest advice] is advice for protestors that doesn’t have a ton or any primary sources but still may be very useful and also serves as a general tag
[#donation resources] donations for the victims of racism and police brutality, separate from bail funds etc. for the protestors
Also, some posts I didn’t really know how to tag so they’re just a mix of tags I thought might fit
I hope this helps anyone out who was looking for something specific! I know I don’t have a ton of followers and this might not have even been worth the trouble but you know what, if it helps 1 person I’ll be satisfied
valve just straight up copying nintendo’s homework now
i feel like the history of nintendo is coming up with a unique and cool way to play video games until somebody copies them and does it better and then nintendo just has to rely on their exclusives until they come up with another thing. they deserve to get one-upped by valve because of how insane they are with copyright enforcement though
love that this caused so much controversy the thread needed to be locked. over chicken sandwich
gang this does not even scratch the surface
Someone posted a picture of a piece of chicken between two hamburger buns titled “Chicken Burger” to /r/food. Another user commented “Chicken Sandwich” on the post, and was slapped with a 30 day ban by the mods. When they responded to ask why, the mod said
“Correcting someone in public is public shaming, on top of being incorrect, it’s a pretty shitty comment to leave.”
So now /r/food is on lockdown after being spammed with posts titled “Chicken Sandwich” and other variations. The mod that handed the ban down pinned a post doubling down, comparing the situation to “Pride posts that always fill up with bigots” and “removing racists from posts featuring POC”, and including a link on “how to correctly, correct someone.”
because someone commented “Chicken Sandwich” on a post titled “Chicken Burger”.
I went and commented “Chicken Burger” on a chicken sandwich post and the moderators called me unoriginal and lacking civility and deleted it lmao
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 rulescan 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.
Hey I’m sorry to keep begging but I am very broke right now, and I haven’t had an actual meal in a couple of days, and I’m still without my meds. I know I’ve asked for a lot of help in the past but if you can spare a few bucks to help me get some groceries for a week I’d really appreciate it.
