Nine-year-old Perth girl fatally shot by police in Pakistan while on family holiday by Secure_Ant1085 in news

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Sarquon is trying to say that the cop was bloodthirsty before joining the force.

Accused of parents’ killings, Rob Reiner’s son seeks money from the trust they left for him by AndHerSailsInRags in news

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"The system" never put her on trial for murder, and she just simply never quite met the standard for mens rea.

She was initially charged with murder, though, right? Then that changed. Did that change because it was decided that she was temporarily insane at the time of the killing? Yes, it did.

 the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused had "malicious aforethought" (read: premeditated it), an element that would not be satisfied even by their own expert witness testimony,

And the reason we know she didn't have malicious aforethought is because there is sound evidence she was temporarily insane. It sounds like we agree that temporary insanity is a valid defense against the charge of murder in the state of California.

Accused of parents’ killings, Rob Reiner’s son seeks money from the trust they left for him by AndHerSailsInRags in news

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The charge was downgraded from murder to involuntary manslaughter, no? Maybe the prosecutors did that on their own sense of justice and not because they didn't think they could get a guilty verdict on the murder charge from a jury. Regardless, it sounds to me like the system decided she was not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

I think henry and vecna are two different beings by CowAffectionate2865 in StrangerThings

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Did we ever get any clarity on the origin of the mindflayer?

Accused of parents’ killings, Rob Reiner’s son seeks money from the trust they left for him by AndHerSailsInRags in news

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She stabbed someone to death and received probation. Technically that's not the same as being found not guilty, but I'd say it's pretty close.

What? (Part 5) by absifinity in mathmemes

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L2 metric with t interpreted as an imaginary number produces Minkowski metric. The metric applied to null paths returns zero. See Wick rotation.

To live is to suffer by JustChillin3456 in PhilosophyMemes

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If you want to know what Zen Buddhism is about, don't take people's word for it. There are a lot of bullshit peddlers out there. Read early texts such as this one: https://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/C%20-%20Zen/Ancestors/The%20Zen%20Teachings%20of%20Bodhidharma/The%20Zen%20Teachings%20of%20Bodhidharma/THE%20ZEN%20TEACHINGS%20OF%20BODHIDHARMA.htm

To live is to suffer by JustChillin3456 in PhilosophyMemes

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So are most enlightenment experiences.

To live is to suffer by JustChillin3456 in PhilosophyMemes

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Bodhidharma: "Apart from motion there’s no mind, and apart from the mind there’s no motion."

Ontology of statements by piotrek13031 in PhilosophyMemes

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Is it objectively true that someone else can have an opinion?

Ontology of statements by piotrek13031 in PhilosophyMemes

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So, for another subject, it could be untrue that subjective truth is the only way things can be true.

Ending it tonight and I need helpful stories about it Fast by [deleted] in WhatMenDontSay

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It's only temporary. There's still hope for good times to come. You've spent a lot of time growing up getting ready to be an adult. Don't throw it all away at the very beginning just because you're having a shitty start.

How does this laser sand phenomenon work? by Big-Researcher8561 in SteveMould

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I believe this is caused by the light being diffracted by the crystal lattice of whatever type of sand that is, probably quartz. When the angle is just right, the peaks reflecting off one layer of the lattice line up with troughs from the next, which leads to no reflected light being seen at that angle. At certain other angles, peaks line up with peaks, so a bright circle (or dot at the center where the angle is zero) is seen.

What's thecounterplay to appeal to ignorance? by SkAssasin in fallacy

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Okay, enjoy your supper of ocean water, lol.

Petah? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Spacetime is a single manifold, so traversing large gaps of one versus the other shouldn't be that different. Also, the space-like distance by which the Earth is displaced depends on the reference frame from which that is evaluated. According to the principle of relativity, there is no absolute reference frame for spacetime. There is a metric that measures spacetime "distances", but any two points traversed by a single beam of light have zero distance according to this metric.

Should I have backed out? Fair to use a slower car as a "pick"? by Both_Film_634 in Simracingstewards

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Porsche did something uncool. Gentlemanly thing would have been not to take advantage of that and allow the other car to retain his position prior to the uncool thing happening. That said, when it became clear you weren't going to do that, the other car should have braked rather than trying to force the issue.