For thousands of years, even among the people that knew “dirty jobs” need to be done, more than half won’t do them.

I did 1 mi. in 7:19 today.

I have done 9.2 mph in some 1-2 minute sprints for HIIT.

I’d want somewhere soft to land (when the treadmill threw me) and a first aid team ready if I were to even attempt 12 mph!

“Since the data is incomplete, we decided to make shit up”

I’m not the biggest fan of Google, but I still have a Pixel and use Google Maps. It’s not always easy (enough) to shape your purchases to your preferences exactly.

There is no ethical consumption under Capitalism anyway, so it’s all shades of grey.

That’s called an “inventory search”, and this motion says what happened isn’t an “inventory search” because they didn’t follow procedure (and cites supporting precedence).

If they would have just hauled him in for processing on the false identification, and then found the gun during an inventory search at the station, it would be better for the prosecution.

The motion also claims that the search couldn’t be a… safety search? (I don’t know the right term)… like checking a person for weapons, because before the search was initiated, the suspect was already handcuffed and separated from the backpack so didn’t have access to anything in it that could be hazardous to the officers. Prosecution might argue is was a safety search because they were looking for a hazard that didn’t need to be triggered by the suspect, like a timed device or just an incidental hazard.

IANAL, just an interested citizen.

This is just a motion. Judge will decide it’s validity and the remedy. It might end up with the evidence excluded, but it might be that the prosecution just has to provide a different/stronger justification, or even be a nothing burger if the judge is unconvinced by the arguments in the motion.

I agree with your analysis if the judge does exclude backpack and contents as evidence.

Anything other than exclusion will be grounds for appeal, later, too.

Thank you!

Pages numbered 23 to 26 are the meat of the argument referenced in the image, for anyone else that wants to click through.

“[[l]t can hardly be said that the officer in this case followed the policy [for an inventory search] by conducting a search that included only the glove compartment, and upon finding a gun, leaving it in place.”

Agreed. Siri (and auto-generated playlists in general) sucks for a lot of reasons, and gender almost certainly in there, but I doubt it is the primary driver.

Sounds like those statistics output would the heavily biased by whatever process you were using to turn names into genders. In short, a bad idea.

Anyone got a link to the motion? Surely it’s a public record, right? This is interesting if true, but I’d like to check the sources.

Sorry if I missed it in the rest of the comments; I scanned them and didn’t see it.

Maybe I’m just your basic bitch*, but it’s Twilght Sparkle for me. I just like her look; last time I had my hair dyed it it was modeled after her mane / her anthro’s hair. I didn’t really like the show, but I only watched a few episodes.

* is that word gender-neutral in context, or should I be using “bastard” or something else?

I think the satire is to via hyperbole. My suicidal episodes did not make be think money would instantly appear in hand / in bank accounts, just that moving forward I would be no longer be a resource burden. This comic takes the results beyond reality to show how unreasonable even realistic expectations might be. (?)

That’s my best defense of the satirical intent. The initial impression I got from the comic was not the satirical one; it did feel “toxic”, or at least a like a mean-spirited (not funny) “be careful what you wish for”.

Sometimes I think that would be a nice solution: go into suspended animation for 7-10 years and see if I can slot myself into the new madness later. It would be self-extinction-lite, but that’s not an option at our current tech*wealth level.

So, I try and remember all the positive coping mechanisms I can and hope the next day is better. (And, so far, something has worked eventually.)

There’s a suicidal way of thinking that when you are gone everyone will be better off. I think the comic could contribute to that thinking, but maybe it’s meant to be a satirical rebuttal to that thinking instead.

Poe’s Law

I can’t sleep in my tents, only navigate with them. That’s because all my tents are sex-tents (sextants).

Where do you rank the kind of tired where consciousness is pain and waking is disaster?

I once saw a plaque that claimed the hotel was a “6-star”. It was a nice hotel, sure, but it made it clear those “stars” mean very little.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

You dropped this: \

I reverses the natural flow of the conversation.

Why is top-posting so bad?

Top-posting.

What’s the worst thing I can do when writing a reply to the mailing list?

On average a communication has more readers than writers, so it is better for writer(s) to use effort in order to save effort on the behalf of the reader(s).

This was especially true in the days of mailing lists and me having to beat TOFU users about the head with a clue-by-4. But, it remains true today. The median communication might be 1 to 1, but it’s much more frequent for additional readers to be added that additional writers, so maximum effort with writing is still true.

But, man, it is annoys the heck out of me when I compose informative, contexual email/SMS with several open-ended questions and get back: “yes”.