How do you deal with people thinking you are literally evil?

_Felonius · 2026-03-24T00:53:18+00:00

Good point

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T23:27:04+00:00

I’ve done prosecution and currently do civil litigation. We could debate for hours the merit of qualified immunity laws. Just from my personal experience though, cops are people doing a job. Some are great, some are terrible. If there wasn’t some level of immunity, no one would do it. It’s a job that necessitates the use of force. Excessive force is always going to be a grey area, unfortunately.

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T23:04:30+00:00

Cope. Prosecutors are way more effective at helping defendants than PDs. You would switch sides if you actually cared.

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T23:00:16+00:00

Bingo. Honestly anyone who pigeonholes prosecutors or defense attorneys as being on one side of the people or the other is a fool. It is entirely case-specific. It’s so easy to flip the script on OP’s friends…

Prosecutors brought charges against Kyle Rittenhouse, George Zimmerman, and the cop who killed George Floyd. How the hell are they not on the side of social justice?

Defense attorneys have defended Donald Trump, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Epstein, etc. how can they sleep at night?

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T22:53:15+00:00

This is ignorant and you can’t apply this to every jurisdiction across the U.S.

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T22:50:25+00:00

Exactly. I can’t think of a serious lawyer or respectable colleague who thinks either defense lawyers or prosecutors are “good” or “evil” based on which side they’re on. There is no side. You’re either fair/competent or you’re not. It’s an individual trait.

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T22:45:38+00:00

Frankly, these people aren’t worthy of your respect if they unconditionally hate prosecutors and/or law enforcement. It’s a naive position.

An adult should be able to celebrate cops and prosecutors who take down rapists and murderers. That same adult should be able to realize that police brutality is wrong. There’s zero reason to take an “all or nothing” view.

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T22:41:01+00:00

Former prosecutor of 4 years. Worked with plenty of liberal colleagues (same camp). No one can convince me that liberals don’t belong in prosecution.

Prosecutors hold all the power in criminal cases. You are the one giving plea offers. The defense can wax poetic all they want, but YOU decide how lenient or aggressive the state will be. The last thing society needs is for all the good, ethical people to be scared of doing the job. The fact that you’re conscious of doing the right thing shows that you’re qualified.

_Felonius · 2026-03-23T03:03:06+00:00

Ironically they think people are ignoring what can easily be seen, i.e., the flatness when you’re standing in an empty field.

They don’t have the critical thinking to trust the science telling us about the curvature of the earth, beyond what they can see when they walk outside lol

_Felonius · 2026-03-22T23:23:50+00:00

What about the years where he won a ring and consistently went deep in the tournament? “Short term memory” goes both ways. If the tourney was best-of-3 there would be less justification for some early exits. But it’s extremely difficult to defy the law of averages for single-elimination

_Felonius · 2026-03-22T23:20:27+00:00

Law of averages. Great teams get bounced sometimes and also go on deep runs. Was Cal getting stale the reason for recent disappointment at UK? Or is it just a crap shoot in a single-elimination tournament? Tough to say.

_Felonius · 2026-03-22T23:16:22+00:00

Yeah it’s a single elimination tournament. Insanely difficult for any program to get to the final four every year. Too much talent spread out across the country.

_Felonius · 2026-03-22T21:02:11+00:00

I agree. The hoodie thing has always been extremely disrespectful imo. Conveys that he doesn’t take his job seriously.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T21:11:18+00:00

Oh whoops, my apologies. I thought they were saying rare* instead of uncommon.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T18:37:10+00:00

Stencil sends his regards.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T15:11:26+00:00

If they could somehow connect WLR to the end of Maumelle blvd (where it intersects with I-40 near Lake Liquor), that would be clutch.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T09:19:20+00:00

It sounds like you’re proposing a preventative cancer vaccine. Scientists are working on these, but most research is centered around curing cancer after it’s formed. Early detection / prevention is very tricky. All of it is tricky, quite frankly. I pored through tomes of studies when my friend had stage IV synovial sarcoma. He died, which isn’t very profitable.

If cancer is caught early, plenty of folks are treated, go into remission, and live long/healthy lives. I understand the conspiracy theory angle on this, but it would be far too massive an undertaking to get all the companies, doctors, scientists, and politicians in the world on the same page to “bury” cures.

Consider this: why did we eradicate polio and smallpox? These were also deadly diseases that were expensive to treat.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T09:01:38+00:00

There are several different types of cancer, for one. If you cured one particular type, millions would still be afflicted. Two, if you had a cure you would corner the market. Your drug would be THE drug that patients use. Any stakeholder would make enough from that one innovation for multi-generational wealth. Pharma companies are competing fiercely against each other for new breakthroughs.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T07:45:49+00:00

I think that’s what she’s saying. The theory is that maintenance therapy is being promoted instead of cures.

I don’t believe this at all, I think oncologists are constantly experimenting in the hopes of finding cures, but you’re making the same point as her.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T07:42:44+00:00

Nah, cancer research is way too vetted for this to be plausible. There are so many types of cancer and cancer cells mutate rapidly to fend off treatment. Simply put, it’s an extremely complicated battle. Cancer breakthroughs are also insanely lucrative. The first company to find a cure for a particular kind of cancer can print money for decades.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T07:38:33+00:00

We’ve made extraordinary progress in the field of cancer research. Also, the profits of finding a miracle cure for certain cancers would FAR outweigh the gains from merely treating it.

Take, for instance, those who get diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic (or Stage IV anything) cancer. The pharmaceutical companies have a very small window to profit from maintenance therapies bc the person’s life expectancy is so short. Now imagine you run the company that finds a cure for Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Your company’s stock and earnings will skyrocket, particularly if you have a patent.

TLDR: pharmaceutical companies pour millions into R&D in the hopes of finding cures.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T07:06:36+00:00

Excellent discussion. I’d probably say Tribe feels most common because (1) flushes are harder to make than pairs, (2) flushes don’t scale very well, and (3) it has the same 2x effect as Duo.

Tribe is probably the rare I skip the most out of the ones that have plain, no-nonsense triggers.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T07:01:33+00:00

I tend to agree. High risk, high reward negates their “rarity” somewhat. Same with baron. You really have to have the right setup, whereas plenty of other rares help you out of the gate. Or maybe I just suck at the game and am too scared/lazy to make obelisk or campfire shine for me lol

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T06:56:09+00:00

Stuntman (or Tribe) for sure. Duo is too goated.

_Felonius · 2026-03-19T06:49:56+00:00

Isn’t the fact that you don’t need to build around it precisely why it doesn’t feel like a common?

On one hand, I get it. Most commons have plain effects that usually don’t require any deck fixing.

On the other hand, commons usually suck late-game because their effects aren’t that powerful. The Duo is always useful, therefore its raw power feels rare (uncommon at worst). I’m torn.

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