Got_Bent @ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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What the fuck with this? This is the first time I've seen a felony with potentially no prison time. If there were ever a time for a mandatory minimum, this would be it. This fuckin' guy needs some god damned consequences.

Rookies. The real wealth gets to eat sushi off a porn star's front!

Don't they use Marines to man the brig on ships?

Not sure where I heard that, so could totally be talking out my ass here.

You've definitely got no shortage of choices out there.

I was up in the other Portland last week (Maine) and they've also got a ton of good options.

That city name must inspire people or something.

When I used to teach European students, they would invariably go out and buy the cheapest crap they could find like cases of pabst genuine draft and then complain how bad the American beer is.

I think the British equivalent would be if I bought a bottle of frosty jack and used it to declare all British cider to be shitty.

You gotta spend some money to get good American beer. Pretty much all the nationally brewed stuff is shit. There's a lot of local stuff that's actually good.

I'm not sure how European beer culture works, but one of the reasons to drink shitty American beer water is that you can drink it all day without dying.

One more useless fact: I long thought that adjuncts in shitty American beer like corn and rice were strictly cost cutting measures. There's definitely some truth to that. But the origins apparently go back to nineteenth century brewers being unable to achieve a clear lager with the barley that was available in America. When they used the barley exclusively, they kept getting a cloudy product.

Colorado speaking to Bobo

Mutual disdain was the catalyst. I did it for eight years and probably lost fifteen years of life expectancy from it. Ungodly toxic environment. Fuck big firm accounting. Fuck them all in the most demeaning, painful way imaginable.

I make roughly one third the money today, and I'm much happier for it. I still make a comfortable living where I don't particularly worry about money, so what would the additional two thirds do for me outside paying medical bills it causes?

No matter how much I try to remove my name from searches, I still get recruited by ambitious young people on a regular basis. I generally make them stop with a response that goes something like this:

I would rather have my eyes gouged out by the white hot barbed penis of Satan himself while he spits in my mouth than return to public accounting for any amount of money.

As a tax accountant, I sincerely hope this gets to a point where a vast majority of the population has no need for my services.

I used to play in the big leagues where none of my clients would ever qualify for this and their returns routinely took upwards of a hundred hours to complete. Those guys need to keep paying.

Now I play down in the minors a couple steps above the Block, and I hate seeing the owner sell these three or four hundred dollar returns that might take me an hour to complete in the first year and maybe thirty minutes in subsequent years.

Schrodinger's biology?

I know. The original post sounded pretty universal so I was giving an example of how some states do it differently.

There's kinda like a second trial where they have friends and family of the defendant and victim come and tell you what s great guy he is or how much they miss the victim etc.

Then the judge lays out the range of possible punishments, including when parole might be available. We're not allowed to consider when parole might be available though.

Then we all go into the deliberation room and duke it out. When we were done, we go back into the court room and hand the judge the punishment which he then read as sentencing.

The punishment range given us was anything from two to ninety nine years or life, so basically, "do what you want you crazy jurors".

His commissary is gonna be LIT

I was on a jury in Texas in 2019 and we were tasked with both.

First part: Based on the facts you have been presented, do you think defendant did X?

If yes

Second part: You have determined that defendant did X. Now determine the punishment

That second part was by far the more difficult of the two

1980 was not prosperous times. I remember us using food stamps. My dad was working in a hospital kitchen and stole food from work to feed us. Inflation was crazy, gas went up to about $1.80 (in 1980 dollars) and the Reagan era mass unemployment of 1982 was just around the corner. Jimmy Carter famously told the nation to wear a sweater in winter when people couldn't afford heating.

Our family of four lived in a small two bedroom duplex in 1980.

I do have fond memories from back then, but it had nothing to do with prosperity. It was that I was always over at Grandma's house and Grandma was a god damned saint who walked among us.

Go ahead and downvote and deny the realities of a time you probably weren't even alive.

Did you have a nice... wake for them?

Huh. Argentina. Lots of his kind from the fatherland down there. And now he can't join them.

I had to Google this to make sure it was real.

Now is he gonna be like Bannon and ignore sentencing because there are no consequences for doing so?

Oh. You like brutalism.

Well look where I went to school.

I found this:

Gay Time was produced by Bally Manufacturing Co. in 1955.

Bally Manufacturing Co. released 867 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1930. Bally Manufacturing Co. was based in United States.

And a site with a fuller picture of the graphics

https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/gay-time

I was thinking of this video as soon as I saw the post. She's really an interesting person.