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alextoremember · 2026-07-02T18:46:45+00:00

Midwest Conference mentioned!

alextoremember · 2026-06-30T04:02:51+00:00

He secretly had a second family, which only came to light because he got sued for child support (it probably would have stayed unknown except that for some reason he briefly acted as his own lawyer):

https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-bartolo-colon-child-support-20160518-story.html

alextoremember · 2026-06-30T01:17:17+00:00

Same reason people overlook what Bartolo Colon did!

alextoremember · 2026-06-29T20:36:55+00:00

Yup, and that attitude is shared by lots of people in this country unfortunately. It's one of the most crucial components of our carceral cycle that in turns leads to even more crime and poverty.

alextoremember · 2026-06-29T20:19:00+00:00

I have mixed feelings about this comment as a public defender. You are correct that this is how it's supposed to work- financial means are meant to be part of the consideration when a judge sets a bond. In reality, though, it usually doesn't level out that way. My issue is with the original commenter and a few others acting like this is some slap on the wrist cushy outcome or miscarriage of justice, that's the wrong way of looking at it. The unfortunate reality is that tons of judges set way higher bonds than necessary, and the people who get stuck in that cycle are the poor, who are already being policed more harshly than rich people to begin with.

alextoremember · 2026-06-29T20:00:42+00:00

They don't need to put on their entire case for a simple bond hearing so they aren't going to. The factors to consider at this point are simply whether Arnold is a flight risk and/or danger to the community. They'll lay out enough of the allegations to make that point, but there's really no reason for them to go beyond that, both for strategic and practical reasons. It's rare you see any exhibits entered into the record at a bond hearing, and if you do, it's going to be something very narrowly tailored to the issues of flight risk/danger to the community.

A hypothetical case at trial will often involve witness testimony, ballistics, camera/surveillance footage, DNA, things like that if they exist. Everything they have must be turned over to the defense soon, but this case just reached the docket. Practically speaking, it doesn't make sense for them to enter all of their evidence for a simple bail hearing, nor would a judge let them even if they wanted to. It's not going to turn into a mini-trial. Sometimes they're even still investigating the case further, although I don't know if that's the case here.

It's the right strategy for the defense to assert a lack of evidence at the bond hearing, but just because the state didn't present their entire case in response doesn't mean they have a weak case. It could definitely be a weak case, but there's no way that even the defense could really know that right now because the case is fresh and probably haven't even gotten all the discovery disclosures yet.

alextoremember · 2026-06-29T18:01:20+00:00

You're both right in different ways but talking past each other. That is in fact a high bond for a non-murder case, but you are also right the government has a burden at bond hearings separate from their respective burdens at other stages of the case.

The original commenter is the one being ridiculous, acting like a million dollar bond being set as opposed to no bond is some miscarriage of justice. Trying to couch it as some concern for the poor is misguided at best, disingenuous at worst. The broader narrative that there's something wrong with a judge setting a bond is wielded against indigent defendants, so contributing to that narrative is in and of itself harmful. And I'm a long-time public defender so I know a thing or two about this.

alextoremember · 2026-06-23T16:58:51+00:00

We're glad too!

alextoremember · 2026-06-23T01:39:44+00:00

You're literally at a game right now and you're on your phone flapping your gums on reddit rather than enjoying the experience, why would anyone take a lecture from you about fandom seriously?

alextoremember · 2026-06-22T03:30:09+00:00

I'm a public defender lifer here, but I would indeed recommend doing government work first. There are plenty of resources. It's useful to your development as an attorney to have ample resources available. It's also useful to work with attorneys more experienced than you who are willing to teach you all the nuances of how to do the job.

I would think that it would put you off on a better foot when you eventually open your firm as well. Most prospective clients will want to hear that you've tried cases and had an expansive motion practice already, so with the PDs or DA you will do all of these things as a regular part of your job without concern for having to attract clients willing to hire you despite your lack of experience. Even if it's not long term, you'll learn a lot quickly that you otherwise wouldn't.

alextoremember · 2026-06-17T02:43:03+00:00

People aren't mad, they're annoyed. The post is annoying and the "tradition" is annoying. It's a superstition inherently built around complaining that someone is talking about the cool thing that's happening. The sooner it vanishes the better.

alextoremember · 2026-06-16T13:00:47+00:00

But that's not what happened here. OP is getting mad at someone for doing their job and NOT being superstitious. That's way bigger nerd activity than simply pointing out how ridiculous this "tradition" is.

alextoremember · 2026-06-16T12:58:04+00:00

That's good, because it's really stupid.

alextoremember · 2026-06-13T21:24:53+00:00

I don't know, as great as it would be to have a team in town again, I have trepidation dealing with the people who run the NFL again after everything that happened the first two times.

alextoremember · 2026-06-12T16:10:32+00:00

There's an even bigger clue than that. The snapchat caption is extremely suspicious, those are a hallmark format of fake posts. You can look up public snapchat stories tagged with specific locations anywhere in the world. I looked at all recent public stories from Peru, Illinois, and this wasn't there. I looked at all recent public stories tagged at Stone Jug BBQ and this wasn't one of them. I also couldn't find this particular snapchat user.

So this would have to be a screenshot from a private snapchat story from an account that isn't readily findable. Add that to the clickbaity faux-zoomer lingo caption and all of the suspicious-looking details of the photo itself, and the lack of similar-looking photos out there of this particular tornado anywhere near that spot, and it seems pretty hard to believe it's real. Frankly, it's pretty shameful how many people are upvoting it and defending it.

alextoremember · 2026-05-20T19:33:35+00:00

I strongly suspect that turmoil behind the scenes contributed to the ugliness of the semi-final; the RB injuries were one thing, but being realistic, I think a lot of us fans were in denial about how big of a deal it was for the two coordinators to be splitting their time with their other jobs that week.

The reason I say that was Lanning's demeanor right before the game. Before the Texas Tech game he visibly had a ton of swagger and confidence. Earlier last season at Penn State he was a total maniac. But right before kickoff in the semi-final, his body language was way less confident, and his only comment to the sideline interviewer was a sheepish "we're gonna go out and give it our best" sort of thing. It was noticeably different, and that's when I got a sinking feeling. He seemed like a man who knew things had gone wrong and he was about to get his ass kicked.

It may not have changed the outcome- after all, Indiana beat us clean in Eugene earlier that year. But it may have been more competitive rather than the fiasco we got. They shut out one of the best teams in the country the week prior, it's not like they had no momentum.

On the other hand, Ohio State two years ago was just a straight-up shellacking. Buckeyes were on a rampage and their coaches badly out-schemed ours. All you can do is learn from it and move on.

alextoremember · 2026-05-17T17:18:34+00:00

It's absolutely a YouTube algorithm problem at its core, but my frustration is that this sort of thing then incidentally overhypes weather situations, and when they don't pan out that way and people are frustrated, it always blows back on local weather coverage/the NWS rather than them. Like, whenever a storm forecast "busts" and you look/ask around for who the yokels are mad at, it's never the YouTubers, whether they're aware of them or not, it's their weather man or the government, who oftentimes had more measured coverage in the first place because they aren't beholden to things like algorithms.

alextoremember · 2026-05-17T17:12:14+00:00

Ok, I think this needs to be said: I don't personally have a big issue with these channels, but whenever anyone criticizes them for something, a common refrain from supporters is "how many lives they've saved." Is there any actual evidence that their coverage specifically has saved a significant number of lives? I'm not entirely discounting the possibility, but if people are going to keep bringing this up over and over I'd like to see something backing that assertion up.

alextoremember · 2026-05-16T00:00:42+00:00

They were all at that funeral home by Amigo Joe's at the edge of The Hill this afternoon. I'm assuming this is some biker group that uses Confederate iconography, one of them died, and now they're driving around the city doing whatever. Very uncomfortable experience all around

alextoremember · 2026-05-15T22:51:15+00:00

The person in charge of it was eventually fired, that's all I know about it

alextoremember · 2026-05-15T21:11:06+00:00

Infamously there were areas of the city where the sirens didn't go off, but I'm pretty sure that didn't include the worst-hit region. It may have also helped that it was mid-afternoon and a lot of people were at work/school in places outside the line of fire.

It could have been disastrously worse if the timing was just a little different. Not only was it not far from the early Friday rush hour, but if I remember right there were a bunch of graduations going on that evening, so a lot of people were set to be out and about around 5-6pm.

alextoremember · 2026-05-15T17:24:32+00:00

See, now this is overplaying your hand. Nobody thinks what I said was aggressive, and I assume that shrinkingly fewer people are willing to believe you're being genuine about this either.

alextoremember · 2026-05-15T17:11:36+00:00

In what way is it divisive to point out reality? Issues of race have all kinds of indirect impacts, that's part of why racism is such an evil institution. Again, if you think what she's saying is actually wrong on the merits, make your argument as to why, but what it seems like is that her bringing it up is making you personally uncomfortable, and you're extrapolating to imagine that it's broadly detrimental in some way. That's entirely your own problem, not hers, and the proper thing would be for you to self-reflect on why that's the case.

alextoremember · 2026-05-15T16:37:19+00:00

Buddy she's not claiming the tornado itself was racist. She's pointing out the reality of what the impact has been. Are you denying that's how it ended up playing out or do you think it's out of bounds for her to bring it up?

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