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I'm not understanding your point either, so here's how I'm interpreting what you're saying, in good faith: "she was in the way, so it was worth shooting her. fullstop".

So I'm struggling to understand why you seem to be okay with shooting someone for being in the way. So please explain to me why you think "obstruction" was worth shooting her.

I'm not attempting to dispute whether or not she was obstructing.

It's as if you're trying to find every excuse to just not research on your own; instead you expect everyone to feed you information

Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1q9tg16/updated_111_mi...

Serious question: have you tried looking?!

This is a topic that interests me deeply! But dang this article needs some supporting documents/visualizations to get its point across better.

Ah, apologies. Happy friday.

(this is not the same thing...)

Masochism, or something like that :)

But more honestly, it comes from reflecting about the ways that knowledge gaps affect FOIA litigation/conversation/interpretation and the criminal litigation reporting/research/investigations I've done/beenapartof. A lot of law-and-law-accessories is learnable within context-and-scope, especially with attorneys to help interpret, but I would like to get past that point. It helps that it's all very interesting.. and people keep asking me when I'm going to become a lawyer, so, ope.

Agreed.

I'm currently looking to get a law degree and the education requirements are... silly. I've done a significant amount of law-and-law-accessories work over the past ten years and have had a nice career in sysadmin/sre/devops/ops work. Yet I need a(ny) bachelors to even get started and I don't even have an associates.

It truly feels like the only way forward is to waste several years of my life and exhaust myself to the bone to get a degree.

(WGU is awful and is not the answer here)

I'm aware. But I'm also aware that breaking these sorts of systems is quite fun for a lot of nerds. So don't expect anything like that to last for any meaningful amount of time.

This wouldn't solve anything.

To see what I mean, take a screenshot of a random captcha that needs solving and ask an LLM to solve it for you. It will do it accurately.

Sure, just be careful not to fall into the trap of technosolutionism.

....cameras exist :)

"They" already know about google location services. But this article isn't about what google collects.

"The only valid point:"

This is a post about preferences. Why do you think your preferences are "more valid" than theirs?

I program without syntax highlighting. Comes from a combination of learning shell scripts within vi (not vim) and the bloatedness of syntax highlighting and autocomplete nonsense. Coding without it all is a nice way to ensure that everything can be encapsulated within your brain. Leads to different abstractions and such. It's fun and I highly recommend it.

Also, the comments in here are really strangely negative. Let people have their preferences, weirdos.

Also also: so much of syntax highlighting and such is designed by people without color blindness. So a lot of syntax highlighting just doesn't work for me. It's wild to me that color blind people still have to be vocal about it.

My point is that -- the criminal case exists. Please try out court watching!

The human should be left in the loop, full stop. Language is hard and court rooms can be chaotic places and you want the transcript to be clean.

(disability accomodations is a different conversation altogether)

Friend, I highly highly recommend you do some court watching. The courts.. really, really, really do not work that way.

You seem to have faith in the courts still. It was not a bribe. Here's a short exchange between me and the court reporter who did indeed sent me the transcripts after payment:

  "Out of curiosity, is it normal to pay court reporters over venmo like this? To be honest I was pretty surprised when I heard this. And funny enough when I asked folk on twitter, a scammer tried to "help out" with some "scam recovery" service for $500."

  "That's hilarious!  Since the pandemic, it really took off because we were working remotely, and some of the Cook County judges and reporters remain remote to this day and may be permanently working on Zoom.  I work at 26th Street so we've worked through most of the pandemic in person, but the courthouse was not open to the public.  Zelle is a way you can get payment to us quickly to get your transcript faster.

  Most private attorneys use Zelle now because they want the reporter to start transcription sooner rather than later, but we also accept checks or if you prefer to send a check in the mail, you can do that.  Very rarely does an attorney come into our office these days.

  It's just a matter of preference."

Nice, thank you. It's really appreciated. For Chicagoland:

Lucy Parsons Labs: https://www.lucyparsonslabs.com/donate

Chicago Appleseed: https://www.chicagoappleseed.org/ways-to-give/

Invisible Institute: https://invisible.institute/donate

Unraveled Press: https://unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/

All four are great. One is my employer. Unraveled Press would benefit the most from donations.

Yes and yes. I'm sure there's historical or possibly ethical reasons for it being this way, but I don't understand why it's not the clerk of court's job. Something to figure out!

Great recs.

Reclaim the Records and I do a loooot of the same work but it's separate enough that we don't really interact much. But I'm a big, big fan of their work and have had a couple light chats with the founder a couple times. She's great and yeah, wonderfully aggressive. Her work's the sort of foundational work that enables so much.

Muckrock and I go back quite a long way! Sending about 200 requests through them later this month :)

I do a lot of IL criminal courts research and it's really, really fucking bad out there.

Transcripts: Multiple dollars per pages. Want that expedited? Multiply that amount by four. Don't know the court date? Can't get your transcript. Clerks put in the wrong date? Tough luck. Payment for those transcripts? Over Zelle because the court reporters themselves are contractors and get paid independently.

FOIA: IL Judicial system isn't FOIAable. There's a "data request" process that you can go down, but last time I tried by requesting through the chief judge of Cook County, they told me to request the data from the Clerk of Courts. The Clerk of Courts told me I need to speak to the chief judge's office. That went on for 6 months. The docket-level data I've seen from them is... beyond indecipherable. Literally never seen a dataset so indecipherable in my life -- a combination of esoteric codes, hidden encoding schemes, and length-delimited lines.

Court docs: Gotta go downtown if you're not a lawyer or if you're not a "criminal justice partner" to get any, then you have to print them (don't print past 4 or you'll get yelled at). Some journalists have access, but the IL Supreme Court's policies disallow journalists from getting it. So we have a system where only some journalists get access to court documents and fuck everyone else, I guess.

Civil Asset Forfeiture cases: the courts and state's attorneys do everything in their part to separate it from the initiating criminal case. So peoples' cars are being taken by the cops under dubious constitutional grounds and they can't get it back until the criminal case is over. And I've yet to find a consistent way to figure out the initiating criminal case tied to a civil asset forfeiture. I've yet to find anything like a policy doc that says it's intentional to obfuscate the criminal case from the civil case, but I can't think of any reason why it would be like this if it wasn't intentional. FOIA through the State's Attorney? Nah, they don't respond, or they give nonsense denials that require litigation.

I could go on, but. Fuck. It's bad out there and it hides so much suffering. I highly encourage folk to give court watching a try. You'll be shocked how much you'll learn.

Broke this one in a motorcycle accident and I'm really, really not looking forward to the late life implications of it.

Microsoft really needs to let parents have their cake, too.

Question: why do you give the device access to the internet?

Wait so, in response to an article about the current year being hot, you excluded the past 50 years and made a conclusion that things are flat. Am I missing something from your post?

"Buy Community Vouchers. Initially you would pay with a stablecoin (USDT/USDC). "

You're literally requiring people to buy specific cryptocurrencies to buy your community vouchers.

Friend, with respect, these "simple challenge"s really start to add up very quickly, especially after edge cases.

Highly recommend you read this and similar posts: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...