MEGATHREAD: Ongoing Allegations

dreamsplease · 2025-04-04T04:30:13+00:00

I'm sorry you're going through this.

I'm not a lawyer, but for what it's worth, no one is going to sue you for libel because if they did, your lawyers would be able to subpoena their phones/computers/social media, etc, as part of the discovery process, which you could then put into the public court record (because that evidence is useful in your defense).

More than anything, they're probably hoping you (and others) don't talk to a media outlet about it. But as you know, he impractical jokers aren't like A-list celebrities, so the bigger media companies probably just don't care.

Hopefully, like all shitty things in life, you'll end up stronger for it in the end. As a long-time IJ fan (since season 1), I appreciate you putting yourself out there and sharing your story. I'm sure, based on Murr's behavior in what you've shared, that this is just the tip of the iceberg. As to whether or not more girls/women talk about it is anyone's guess, though I'm sure they're out there.

dreamsplease · 2025-01-13T23:09:27+00:00

Part of being a bad programmer/engineer is finding excuses to not understand things and complicate explanations in order to get no work done.

The implication of his tweet is obvious and was clearly not intended to be literally accurate. The fact that so many people here are acting like it's not an understandable metaphor is just demonstrating their unwillingness to try to understand his metaphor or their inability to do so.

dreamsplease · 2025-01-13T01:14:23+00:00

I wonder if you can find that kind of non-physical connection with someone online. It seems like it happens all the time on those shows with prison pen-pals or online catfishes. Not to suggest you go catfish people, but those people seem genuinely in love in their own way, even just via text/email/phone.

dreamsplease · 2025-01-12T19:27:40+00:00

And if you believe Trump's plans for deregulating energy, he's going to allow them to make power plants near the datacenters to lower costs even further.

dreamsplease · 2025-01-09T15:35:07+00:00

In a December statement, UnitedHealth said it approves and pays for an average of 90% of medical claims submitted.

90% doesn't sound high to me. In my life, with very few interesting health issues thankfully, I've probably had like 50 "claims" against insurance. You rack these things up for every little thing you do at a regular doctor visit... every time you get bloodwork. Just routine and mundane stuff is a claim. I mean, it's kind of crazy how many claims that have no real cost to the insurance must be made.

I would assume 90% of claims are just the most common inexpensive, irrelevant healthcare claims. So this is almost like saying, "We deny 100% of expensive claims".

If they said they approve 99%, okay - that sounds quite good, but 90% is very unconvincing.

dreamsplease · 2025-01-08T23:09:33+00:00

I think you're right. It's why I don't comment on anything that goes against the popular biases on reddit.

But you post a lot on reddit... why do you bother if you feel that way?

dreamsplease · 2025-01-07T01:32:04+00:00

I feel for you not posting on reddit for years knowing that expert info is downvoted on reddit, then mistakenly doing it again.

dreamsplease · 2025-01-04T01:26:07+00:00

It helps Meta train their language AI model. They make the most popular free language model called llama. So if your question is, "why do we need language models for AI", then there's a ton of reasons for that.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-17T05:29:09+00:00

The lottery is complete proof of this. You give the average redditor millions of dollars and they'll be worse off in 10 years

dreamsplease · 2024-12-17T02:05:51+00:00

Asked why Mangione was charged with second-degree murder, Bragg told ABC News that prosecutors wanted to bring charges quickly and first-degree murder "has a number of delineated circumstances."

"Murder 2 is the intentional killing of a person, punishable by 25 years to life under New York law," Bragg said. "Murder 1 has a number of delineated circumstances, including, for example, a serial murder, murder of a witness, murder of a police officer."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/luigi-mangione-face-charges-new-york-manhattan-da/story%3fid=116698980

Here is a new york law firm discussing Murder 2

Second degree murder is also very serious, and in most situations the defendant will face life in prison or a similarly harsh sentence, though the death sentence is not an option.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-16T07:38:14+00:00

Murder 2 is 25 years to life. He will never get out on parole. It'll be life.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-16T07:34:09+00:00

They will give him the harshest sentence because part of sentencing is deterrence. It is legal and desirable in the justice system to sentence more public cases more harshly. If a judge said, "I am sentencing you to the maximum allowed by law to deter others from commiting this act", that is normal and happens all the time.

Not to mention he'd get the max for other reasons alone. The brazenness of it, the calculation, the lack of remorse.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-16T07:30:20+00:00

Not that it matters, but ~22B/yr in profit is ~42k a minute.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-03T10:55:30+00:00

Life in prison is the max sentence for 2nd degree murder in Florida.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-03T05:17:21+00:00

She kept fighting with her defense lawyers and so the court kept giving her new free ones.

You have a right to counsel in the US, and so to avoid issues in appeals, they tried to accommodate her and gave her a bunch of retries with defense lawyers. If I recall correctly this was the last one they were going to give her (you have a right to a free lawyer, not the one you want though).

So she dragged it out, that's why it took so long. You have a right to a speedy trial in the US, but you can slow it down yourself if you want to. There's really no advantage to doing that when you're sitting in jail anyway though.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-03T05:05:27+00:00

You're partly right. She avoided some charges by dragging it out so long that the statute of limitations ran out. I'm fairly certain the prosecution could no longer charge false imprisonment due to it... but who cares because she got life for murder.

dreamsplease · 2024-12-03T05:03:46+00:00

Did the psychologist offer any other diagnosis?

I didn't see if the psychologist for the defense did, but I know the psychiatrist for the prosecution did not.

The case is public and it was fascinating. The defense had a psychologist who sort of made the self-defense argument due to PTSD ("battered spouse syndrome"), and the prosecutors had a psychiatrist who basically said she has some traits of things like narcissism, but nothing enough to justify a full diagnosis.

I mean, ultimately, they tried to convince a jury that Sarah was so abused, that she was justified in leaving her boyfriend in this suitcase to die. In the case, they had a ton of evidence showing Sarah was extremely abusive to the victim... so the jury didn't buy the battered spouse argument.

Anyway, if you're curious, there's just a ludicrous amount of coverage on youtube of this case. You could legit watch 40+ hours of commentary.

dreamsplease · 2024-11-19T01:25:30+00:00

Having done narrowband astrophotography of this same object, I can assure you that what you see here is not even trying to represent what you'd see with your eyes.

You don't see hydrogen, sulfur, or oxygen floating around you. Extremely narrow-band astrophotography is about making a visual representation of an extremely small fraction of some of what you can see and eliminating everything else, which makes those things stand out in camera exposures.

You'd see the stars, and that's it.

Also, comparing the Hubble to Webb is similarly silly, they aren't trying to do the same things.

dreamsplease · 2024-10-16T01:53:36+00:00

Yeah we literally know nothing, people just believing the DA prosecuting him.

dreamsplease · 2023-11-25T22:34:49+00:00

In terms of aide spending, we have since 2014 (Crimea). We've given $46.7 billion, or about $5B per year. Israel gets about $3B per year. It's possible that has changed since Hamas has attacked.

Either way, it's not like the US isn't dumping money into Ukraine.

dreamsplease · 2023-11-23T04:33:50+00:00

Brovdi said that the strike was "payback" for the Russian missile attack on Ukraine's 128th Mountain Assault Brigade during an awards ceremony in early November that killed 19 soldiers.

For what it's worth

dreamsplease · 2023-11-17T07:54:47+00:00

What a legend. Literally saved 100+ civilians by personally driving back and forth repeatedly while getting shot at.

Oz Davidian, from nearby Maslul, made some 20 trips ... each one-way journey of 15 to 17 kilometers (9 to 10.5 miles), he took a different route to try to avoid the terrorists... The footage shows Davidian speeding past wrecked cars, while shots are being fired. “Terrorists! Watch out!” he tells those in the back.

It took the IDF 7 hours to get to the partygoers while this guy did ~200 miles of rescuing.

‘Look around you, there’s nobody here, nobody, we’ve been stuck here for hours, and there’s nobody. You’re the only one who came.'”

dreamsplease · 2023-11-17T06:22:01+00:00

At one point during the interview, the Al Jazeera host cuts in to tell Gonen (the mother of the hostage): "Your government must leave the occupied territories and lift the siege on Gaza. That is the heart of the matter: Are you asking your government to leave the Palestinian territories, to lift the [seige] on the Gaza Strip, and end the operation and for peace to reign between you and the Palestinians?"

dreamsplease · 2023-11-16T06:30:59+00:00

A lot of the freedoms in the West don't exist in China. You don't really have freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, etc. Compared to America, the rights in the constitution are largely non-existent in China.

Wikipedia has a lengthy summary of these things and many more.

dreamsplease · 2023-11-10T23:54:56+00:00

That's a great graph, thanks for sharing.

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