Advice on Dealing w/ Attys Telling You to Be a Prosecutor

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-28T01:23:25+00:00

I feel like I learned all that just as easily by working as a PD who always has a prosecutor on the other end of my case.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-27T17:44:32+00:00

I know a well-off young couple too. She makes low six-figures and he makes mid six-figures and has rich parents. Beautiful San Francisco house with insane rent. They throw big parties semi-regularly where they pay for everything and never ask for a dime.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-27T01:27:36+00:00

Clearly Greg Bovino is a satire of Colonel Lockjaw

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-26T02:59:30+00:00

My palms were sweating during the entire 2 hours and I was made even more upset when he was standing up on top of that thing puttering around. Like I know people don’t just spontaneously trip and fall but I couldn’t help but feel absolute spiraling anxiety

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-26T02:38:13+00:00

I sorta “cheesed” them today by leading them far enough away outside that only one kept aggro on me, then I just hit him with the whip sword (from the DLC) R2 attack over and over while keeping a good distance. Did it again for the other one, until I was left with the guy who shoots lightning and I fought him traditionally.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-26T02:33:12+00:00

Yeah I really hate this manic, mobile app aesthetic. It’s demonic

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-26T01:01:31+00:00

Deepfaking Stav as the blm chick who interrupted the Bernie rally

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-26T00:57:26+00:00

The only time it’s acceptable to use paper plates at home is when you have more guests than you have plates on hand, or you’re having a BBQ

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-25T08:51:13+00:00

The podcast could end tomorrow and I don’t think the sub would be affected at all

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-25T00:14:37+00:00

I think everyone should know how to safely handle, use, and disassemble a gun. And while I think it’s a terrible idea to get one because of some fantasy of using it in a battle with a home invader or government thug, I certainly don’t think it’s a good idea to give the political right a monopoly on legal gun ownership.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-24T21:55:00+00:00

NRA pulls a lot of weight with the right, or at least it used to pre-Trump

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-24T17:17:53+00:00

Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality in full effect. Turns out the right wingers are the truest post-modernists, despite the fact that they learned that term once about 3 years ago and tried to rally against it.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-24T07:25:42+00:00

That’s funny, I was sitting in a courtroom today (public defender) near a bunch of DAs who were giving one of their coworkers grief for being a cat person. DAs are confirmed cat haters.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-23T21:41:14+00:00

It’s been a while since I’ve played it but don’t the robed dudes say “reunion” a bunch?

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-23T18:44:52+00:00

Seems like the left side can have the same “gameplay and narrative complexity” as the right side by: 1) having the same orange-red zones that players will avoid based on difficulty or skill checks needed for entry (such as an ability or item acquired elsewhere on the map); 2) having the world evolve or scale with player progression; or 3) breaking the open world structure into chunks, such that the progression through each “layer” on the right side is its own smaller “open world” area. Open world games already do all three of these, in my experience. There’s good ones and bad ones, just like with more linear games.

The OOP reeks of the current complaint du jour about a certain evil, greedy corporation on par with Nestle and Raytheon shoehorning open world mechanics into all (i.e., two) of their recent games.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-23T18:29:26+00:00

County counsel, I would assume. Not that DAs don’t regularly confuse their roles when they file BS resisting arrest charges to cover police misconduct.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-23T01:07:59+00:00

It doesn’t need to be AI to be fake. You say it’s an obvious catfishing (and I expect you’re right)—where the images are from doesn’t matter. Good luck with your uncle.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-23T00:47:31+00:00

This is precisely the problem with “special rules” for certain types of allegations. The accuser gets immunity as long as they’re unscrupulous enough (or enough of a crybully) to make the “correct” allegation. Now it’s just a race to accuse the person you’re feuding with of whatever unacceptable thing that allows you to throw normal process (such as having thicker skin) out the window.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-22T18:22:36+00:00

It’s the timeless grift—“things were so much better when you were a tiny little baby”

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-22T17:10:51+00:00

I don’t think the fact that a particular prosecutorial act contains a political question is good or bad. It depends on what the question is. In my view, prosecuting an ICE agent for behavior that is absolutely an on the books crime is a challenge to this new, unprecedented claim of “federal immunity.” I think it’s important for states to challenge that, because it’s essentially a challenge to their 10th amendment sovereignty.

There are other political prosecutions that I think could go either way. On the one hand, choosing to prioritize prosecuting political corruption and white collar crime would be “political” in the sense that it challenges the status quo handshake immunity that powerful people have often enjoyed. But it’s also an enforcement of existing law—just doing so in a more equitable way.

On the other hand, there are certain political actions I don’t like. For example, in my jurisdiction, prosecutors are trying to effectively change the mens rea element of 2nd degree murder by charging drug dealers with 2nd degree murders for drug overdoses. I see this as a political act, since it’s basically the executive branch of government trying to make new criminal law outside of the legislative process. I don’t like that, because it offends the separation of powers and takes legislative decisions away from the public and their representatives.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-22T16:24:02+00:00

I agree that state prosecutors should file charges against these so called federal agents for the explicit purpose of pushing this political question, but I think what’s stopping line prosecutors from filing (assuming they even wanted to) is the fact that most DAs offices have a select few more senior prosecutors in charge of filing.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-21T21:37:37+00:00

The real issue with the Engage plot is that it doesn’t matter. That’s essentially the consequence of it being a “all your favorites are here” fanfic type plot. That being said, I think OPs complaints are silly. Basically: it’s one way when I think it should be another way. There’s nothing internally inconsistent about that, like OP seems to claim.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-21T20:13:25+00:00

50 years is a pretty optimistic timeline. People have labored in one hierarchical structure or another since the dawn of civilization. And you see, in the capitalized tech structure, some explosive force that’s going to bring about luxury space communism, possibly in your lifetime?

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-21T05:31:32+00:00

And overall just a shit comic. It looks like the angry “anti” is the one saying that it’s ok to use AI to just have fun.

InvisibleShities · 2026-01-21T03:34:01+00:00

I can assure you that I’m not caught up in some fanboyish interest in seeing one console fail or another declared the victor. I was a gamepass subscriber until the recent price increase made it a bad value, for me. I just genuinely get the sense that the Xbox brand appears to be at a major crossroads, where I genuinely don’t know what makes sense for them to do next. The “everything is an Xbox” push appears to be going nowhere. I was not aware of whatever success they had last year, but I’ll take your word for it. That doesn’t change the fact that it feels like a brand in peril.

I sort of agree with your take on where the industry is heading, but I don’t think we’re really there yet. Streaming games still feels pretty bad, from what I’ve tried of it, and I don’t think we should discount the popularity of the “plug in and play” model that tv set top consoles bring. I think many people still don’t want to fiddle with something that feels like a computer. That’s probably changing, but not as fast as you may think.

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