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Total including reserves and civilians in the defense industry, yes. About half that number is active, about 1/4 reserves, and 1/4 defense industry civilians.

I'd personally say cops, prosecutors going for the easy win, the structure around plea bargains, judges made by selection, judges elected with no knowledge or experience required, etc, play far bigger roles in the problems with the system of justice, but sure.

Yes, a prosecutor presents evidence to convince a jury to go to trial. They have to influence the jury to agree.

Defense's part comes at the trial.

The expression "a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich" is a nod to the fact that, often, a grand jury votes in the direction the prosecutor wants them to.

Because they usually bring sufficient evidence, and the jury is only deciding if there is sufficient evidence to move forward. This doesnt decide guilt.

There are plenty of things to complain about when it comes to the US "justice" system. Grand jury decisions aren't remotely the problematic part.

What part of my comment said otherwise?

According to (and I'm not checking how good these sources are so whatever) thegunzone.com 17% of the us mitary is black men.

Thats 2.6million apparently, which means 500,000 in terms of active, reserved, and civilian members of defense. 1.26 million is the active number, or about 225k troops.

83% of that is about 188k active troops with the condition.

Yep, thats how its supposed to work.

Which is why there may be a perfectly reasonable issue as to why it didnt go any further.

Any surgery carries risk, and requires appropriate consideration.

Let's take breast augmentation as an example. There are some folks who will choose to do so because it will help them match their gender, and that makes a lot of sense for their mental well being. There are some folks who have had a mastectomy, and an augmentation (and in many cases a tattooed nipple to finish things off) will help for their mental well being. These are generally one-time surgeries with a clear beneficial outcome.

There are others who will continually go larger and larger and larger, and its actually detrimental to their health and well being, they are often doing so because of other issues of their self image or self worth, and the surgery will never be enough for them. Its even been shown to make those perceptions of their bodies worse, which is why they end up getting surgery over and over again.

My concern here is whether or not he fits in the first group or the second. I sincerely hope he does not have an internal struggle that will drive him to many surgeries, never addressing the actual issue, and making things worse for himself over time.

How it looks is irrelevant to me, if he likes it more power to him. I think his tattoos are incredible, personally.

I just hope he's OK.

Why do I think surgery to remove body parts for additional tattoos is potentially concerning?

That would be negligence charges, yes, which is what went to the grand jury. The grand jury, for the record here, is a bunch of randomly selected people - not the cops, or a prosecutor, or anything like that. Its a jury. And what this jury decides is not guilt, but whether or not there is enough evidence that supports the charges to bring it to a trial.

And that grand jury decided there was not.

I'm not aware of (and was unable to find) any specifics around what actually happened, so there may be a very good reason why this was the case.

I'm not defending the decision here, just explaining the situation. It was investigated, the police brought someone and evidence to a prosecutor, a prosecutor brought it to court, and a jury decided the charges didn't fit the evidence to bring forward to a criminal trial. That is all we really know.

Removing his nipples and belly button for more tattoos are the only things that strike me as concerning.

Not for the children, but his own welfare. The tattoos are amazing.

Rack and some bungee used to be my way to do it.

Hated it every time.

Amcrest are great, but not all of them. Learned that with the stupid ASH-21 I bought.

So check the frigate docs for cameras, there is a great list there.

You could just use a local NFO for artist/album with jellyfin, thats what I do for everything from stuff friends have made to home movies and fanedits.

Sometimes, things don't always stay around on the internet, so if there's something I'll want to watch or listen to again, I keep it local. Or if there is something that should be preserved, like the data dump of patriotfront that is continually seeding.

It relates to my hobbies, too - all of my photos are stored in raw plus my edits. I am also converting all of the VHS tapes my dad recorded of the family over the years and I serve them up to my family on my media server, along with the videos of different things of my kids, like dance recitals.

More recently we've seen the intentional removal of information on the internet specifically with the US government, so where possible I've backed some of that up as well and contributed it to appropriate groups.

Then of course there's music, movies, tv shows, documentaries, books, comics, and so on, even fan created edits of shows and movies like despecialized edition and 4k77, Harry Potter and the deathly weapons, hackers the 56k upgrade, etc.

Its not meant to just hide on a drive, so its all served up with various services I run, such as jellyfin, audiobookshelf, kavita, etc.

It continually gets worse....

Thats just my main NAS + a media NAS. I also have a backup NAS that replicates the main (well, a lot of it, just the things I'm concerned about backups for) which also is a remote backup for family (where they also have a NAS I set up that is their local storage + my compressed backups).

Which is why my dumb ass is thinking of replacing the two 14ru racks I have with a 44ru (and space for a second) where I hope to be moving within the next year or so.

Yes, there is a lot wrong with me :)

Depends on the hobby because I have too many...

Photography - not much unless I buy used, which is what I usually do. So some funky old lenses and adapters to get on the body, which usually nets some fun results.

Data hoarding - a couple of hard drives. Which I should really do, I'm coming close to 5% free (which sounds like less than it is when you've got about 115tb, which is why I'm not rushing out).

Computer Vision / AI - more processing power! But I make work buy me that stuff so its fine.

General compute - about 5 more tiny/mini/micros at the usual price (plus the usual upgrades) to either ads to the cluster or make a new one! Or one or two of the newer little beasts that I will probably be waiting another year or two to pick up.

Bicycling - a good bike for getting around! My bike is about 15 years old now, it was new old stock because no one liked the color apparently - which made it about 1/2 the price of what it should have been. I've been replacing gear on it over the years, but I'm tempted to buy something new, honestly less for going fast and maybe more upright, like a hybrid. Which I can get an OK model at that price.

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Oof.

So... May as well assault them if they are going to lie anyway, and you dont have the kind of press following a mayoral candidate or state senator would?

Thats the message they are sending to me, not sure about anyone else's take.

Well... Shit. Time to check out meshcore!

Edit: Nah, company driven.

I'll keep the fully open GPL 3 meshtastic my preferred

You regularly post interesting (and sometimes funny) content!

Yeah I've got nothing either. Kind of one of the reasons I'm on db0 actually.