http://qntra.net/2015/01/barret-brown-the-myth-of-plea-leniency/in American popular culture there is a carefully groomed myth through all kinds of fictitious media that in criminal proceedings a plea always results in some form of mercy from the courts
The rise of psychiatry parallels the rise of poverty in industrialized societies. The reason you see psychiatry in the U.S. but not in the Sudan isn't because there's no money for it in the Sudan, but because there is not enough money in the US to make some people feel comparatively like they're not in the Sudan. Hence Zoloft.
- The constant openness of this channel, and everyone on it, freightens[sic?] me slightly.
- so it should. we are the eaters of worlds.
poker - blog posts
refining bitcoin 0.5.3.1 for a cheap node - oomkills, orphans, it isn't a memory leak in the traditional sense
in a normal society, the threat is a fundamental tool to hierarchy building. the socialist state does not want a normally functioning society, but instead this stellar configuration where the state is at the center, and every citizen linked to it to the detriment of all else.
the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.
we're upstream. enemy wants to kill bitpay, it can start a forkwar with me. enemy wants to convince people "bitcoin sucks", it can "create plausible scenes"
very easy to squish a cockroach
I am curious, Do female suicide bombers have to be escorted by a male relative?