Copernican

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[–] Copernican 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Pensions worked the same way. The difference is personal responsibility and inequity of employment and wage. But who's 401k deprecates in value over the long term anyways? If you select a target fund that should be fine.

[–] Copernican 17 points 9 months ago

Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.

[–] Copernican 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Niagara is what I moved to from Nova. Less widget focused layout, but any app is literally 2 presses and one swipe away from the home screen.

[–] Copernican 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Taiwan can't get recognized despite its government being a founding member of the UN and folks surprised it's contentious for Palestine to be recognized?

[–] Copernican 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's not accurate. A UN recognition of nation state is not a pre requisite for self governance. FIFA recognizes more nations than the UN. If Taiwan can't be recognized by the UN I don't think there's reasonable expectation for Palestine.

[–] Copernican 13 points 9 months ago

See league of nations.

[–] Copernican 1 points 9 months ago

Hehe. Yeah. I dont need my ubiiquiti dream router categorizing how many gigs of porn hub gets into my home based on IP.

[–] Copernican 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's cheap and easy for me to use it while traveling around and going on god knows what public wifi network. I am not using google VPN for privacy, but using it for some sense of security out of my home. Already paying for Google One storage, so this was a nice perk.

[–] Copernican 1 points 10 months ago

The distinction is (or should be) about the mental capacity of the perpetrator. Prosecutors just love to do it so they appear to be “tough on crime” for the next election.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Yes, but objectively applied criteria should used. And what is the mental responsibility of a child vs an adult should probably be about the age. What's the purpose of this distinction if the measure of heinous the crime is trumps the mental capacity. And in this case, it seems like this kid also had mental health issues. Yet he him as an adult despite being a child that has mental instability.

[–] Copernican 0 points 10 months ago

I think the PBS documentary on Kip Kinkel is also interesting: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/

There's no parents to charge because they were murdered, but the sister wants him to have an option for release after identifying the mental health issues and rehabilitation. But he has 111 years without parole. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/trial/letter.html

[–] Copernican -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think these are the types of cases that make liberal leaning folks take a really ironic position. We talk about ending the prison industrial complex, focusing on rehabilitation, etc... But school shooting that in some way is predicated on right wing 2nd amendement rights, let's lock up as many people as we can for as long as we can, and screw juvenile courts for juveniles while we're at it.

[–] Copernican 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

Yeah, but it's weird when you 2 adults are tried for basically parental negligence of a minor, but that minor was tried as an adult. So if the minor is being tried as an adult, how can the parents be tried for not taking care of their minor? If the kid was tried as a kid this would make more sense to me.

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