The defendants faced a wide variety of allegations — everything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers, to supplying food to protesters who were camped in the woods and passing out fliers against a state trooper who had fatally shot a protester. Each defendant faced up to 20 years in prison on the RICO charges.

Only one of those things should be a crime!

Edit: and tbh, I don’t really care about the one that is a crime

I love this guy. From a different interview with him:

The part of this I am fine with is these poor regions are getting tourist money.”

He’s also quick to add that he has nothing against the super-centenarians – as people who are 110 or older are known – themselves.

“I think they’re the best part of this! They’re having a grand old time. What have you got to lose if you’re 96 and you can pretend you’re 119 and the whole world just goes along with it? What are they going to do – put you in jail?

…

“If someone’s selling you something to get the power of longevity, ignore them,” he concludes.

We already know what to do to increase our chances of a long, healthy life, anyway: “Don’t smoke or do drugs. Don’t drink. Do some exercise. That’s all you need to do. Maybe see your GP once a year.”

“There’s no other secret. I think everyone knows that deep down. The blueberry is not going to save you.”

Well said.

My trumper dad and I could only agree on her points in re ck’s death, they’re completely valid.

I’m of two minds about celebrating his death, in that I do, but I agree that people cheering vigilante killings is a sign of an unhealthy society. We definitely have an unhealthy society, and it seems like there’s not a functioning justice system for prosecuting people who foment hatred or commit societal murder, but this could lead to an American Reign of Terror, which would obviously be tragic.

That said, there’s a difference between being glad someone’s gone and declaring war on half of the political spectrum. I won’t say it definitely didn’t happen, but I didn’t see anyone suggesting that we take revenge for that senator, even on Lemmy. Certainly not in as widespread a manner as I’m now seeing it for Charlie Kirk.

Spending time on a website where you enjoy 0.5% of the posts you see is not broadening your horizons though, it’s just hanging out somewhere you don’t like being.

“May well” absolutely indicates the right level of certainty, but feels a little informal to me. I don’t know if that’s universal, but particles in English almost always strike me as more for the ear than for the eye. Though given that this is from a speech, I’m just overthinking it, lol

There’s not a good modal verb in English to describe a likely consequence. “Will/would” are definite, ”can/could” are maybes, and “may/might” are (less likely) maybes. “Ought” and “should” signify moral(ish) perspectives and would probably be editorializing. I might use “dürfte” in German, but I’m not sure that would be right.

They probably shouldn’t have tried to rephrase it with a modal verb at all, or maybe “will likely.”

Where’s the lie?

I’m older than Laura loomer, and I’m a very pale smoker who doesn’t wear sunscreen. She looks at least a decade older than I do.

Edit: I remembered her name!

What a sad ratio of votes. Why spend your life hanging out on a website you dislike?

Hell of a way to set an example

If you’re physically up for it, doing a bunch of jumping jacks hits the perfect combination of using up adrenaline and making my lungs hurt to replace emotional smoking. It’s not well received in public though.

You know what’s sort of depressingly funny? The country would be better off if he were jailed for speech inciting violence. Not this.

Just as France would have been better off throwing Louis XVI in jail, but it was basically impossible to do. I’m very concerned about our coming reign of terror, but I didn’t realize how the tension slowly builds until you want something, anything to happen and finally move past it. Of course, a good chunk of those who died by Guillotine thought they’d be able to move past it at some point.

Damn, Gavrilo Princip must be in super hell then

Epstein was the godfather to the Dubins’ daughter, and photographs and paintings of the girl were ubiquitous in Epstein’s colossal Upper East Side townhouse. (Epstein would later name Andersson-Dubin as a beneficiary of his estate. Her lawyer said she learned she was a beneficiary only after his death and rejected the bequest.)

Good for her, that’s unexpected.

Other messages were littered with apparent sexual references. “That was fun. Say hi to Snow White,” Staley emailed in 2010. Epstein responded by asking which character he would like next. “Beauty and the Beast,” Staley answered.

Iirc, “Snow White” is a common term for children being sex trafficked, but I don’t want to search for it, so take that with a large grain of salt.

The uncle survived.

Ridden is correct. They rode in or they have ridden in.

The tumblrefaction of Lemmy begins!

I went to Catholic school and recently saw like eight former classmates at a friend’s wedding. The bride is Catholic, but none of the rest of us are. I was an out atheist in school, but the rest of them were ostensibly religious then (~15 years ago). Half of us are now queer and fucking nobody supports jd Vance. Even the catholic one isn’t a religious fanatic. She keeps her faith mostly private and married a divorced father.

This kid will probably also become less religious over time (or suddenly). I think Catholicism is a little easier to break free from than Lutheranism or Episcopalianism, because of transubstantiation. Once he realizes that people expect him to literally think the host is Jesus’ actual, real, material flesh, it’s kind of hard to believe it.

I stopped believing in god at four years old because I realized everyone else in my Sunday school class believed the story about Jonah and the whale. Catholics often give the Old Testament a little wiggle room, but transubstantiation is absolutely core to Catholicism.

Someone doesn’t know people who went to catholic school.