Typically the higher grades of the same charge incorporate all the elements of the grade below and then some. So if you can prove 1st degree to the jury, 2nd degree is a given.
Sometimes it is the case that different counts need to be proven individually.
In Trumps bribery case, they had to prove 34 instances of falsifying documents. "This is how this individual document was falsified." x34 times.
The jury makes a decision on both separately.
Charging with both gives the jury 2 options. If they don't think it was premeditated and planned enough to convict on 1st degree, they can choose to convict on 2nd degree instead.
If the prosecution only charged him with 1st degree, the jury wouldn't have any other option. And if acquitted on 1st, he couldn't be tried again under 2nd degree.
It's not a law suit. It's a criminal trial. The principal of double jeopardy says that an acquittal by a jury is final. The defendant can't be charged over the same crime again. They go free and clear.
It's not like you're using your personal social accounts for this stuff.
You're not going to want your friends and family anywhere near it.
Only Fans want to know your public social accounts. The ones that are part of your "Brand", that would drive your "Business". That's what matters.
If you're worried about privacy on those accounts, you're doing it all wrong.
Roth means the money is taxed before it goes in, then grows and can be taken out for retirement tax free.
It's the reverse of a normal 401k or IRA, where you don't pay taxes on the money going in, but do when it comes out.
Because the tax rules are opposite you can't transfer from one to the other generally. There may be some way. It it'll probably mean a bunch of taxes need to be paid at the time.
I'm pretty close to a free speech absolutist. I don't think I've ever disagreed so completely with TechDirt. This is not a TikTok ban. It's a ByteDance ban. Corporations aren't people. The government is fully within it's rights to force a foreign state owned corp to sell or shutdown operations in the US.
Like you said this is another Corp vs Gov power play, and the public has largely been duped into supporting the Corpos again.
We won't. That's true enough. For tradition alone we won't; Just like we don't change to the metric system.
But it's not exactly stupid. There are several countries and two continents that surround The Gulf. It's not unreasonable to name it after both the continents that make it. I'm not even sure how it became named after just a single country anyway.
Really it's just another stupid fucking distraction that shouldn't get any attention from any of us.
You did want to. Just as I want to correct you.
Because we have no free will.
Our wants are the very things that aren't free.
And I appreciate the implication that I've convinced someone to marry me. That's generous of you.