PRINCE OF THE PIT

Dan. Nonbinary. 30-ish. Disabled idiot having fun on the computer. Bastard of the Twin Cities.

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current edc

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Should I turn off the logs on a post I feel is spreading misinformation

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The way people are acting about Mangione's guilty plea is pissing me off. Again, much of the evidence they had against Mangione was seriously flawed or capable of being planted. Much of it should have been inadmissable. This is something we shouldn't cede because guilt needs to be proven beyond reasonable doubt in court. They did not do that. Many reasonable doubts remained, particularly for police forces we know have a history of fabricating evidence. Further, the strategy of the state is to pressure defendants into putting in a guilty plea on some kind of bargain. The reason Mangione did this is to get around the federal death penalty. Every day, people in America plead guilty to crimes they didn't do, because the cost of being found guilty by trial is too severe, and they have been intimidated or coerced to compliance. We have reason to believe Mangione was physically tortured at the beginning of all this. The guy has been the target of years of media campaign. There's no way he would have gotten a fair trial. As soon as he was arrested, everyone just accepted it was him. He could have gotten the death penalty. This is the exact kind of circumstance where people plead guilty to shit they didn't do.

It is less about this specific case and more about the principle of the matter. Particularly in a case so high-profile, we need to scrutinize the case of the state as much as humanly possible. We need to maintain awareness of how the state operates, how it prosecutes, how it punishes. This same pattern has played out with unknowable quantities of other people being ground to paste in the machinery of the prison industrial complex. This is a conversation everyone in America needs to be having. These are maneuvers every American needs to be aware of, particularly as the police state kicks into higher gear than we've ever seen it before. We cannot trust state prosecution. You need to maintain your skepticism, not for this case, but for all the cases that are going to follow it. We all need to hang onto this together.

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Okay, not to undermine my point about this whole deal now that a bunch of you reblogged it, but I was misinformed about the federal death penalty thing and I got some information out of order. They plead to the federal charge with no formal deal to dismiss the state charges as a matter of double jeopardy. But even this is, also, a threat. Stop fighting or you'll get even more time. This whole process is waging war on a man's soul. Beating him and imprisoning him and saying you're trying to take the rest of his life from him. There's also very much the case that federal prisons are just nicer to be in than state prisons. Even still; if not death, then his decision was choosing which hell he goes to and for how long. Point about the rest of it still stands. Still the fact that the rest of this man's free life is being dangled in front of him, and that's something that may as well be death.

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Ever looked into external ventricular drains? Of course md would have to be competent and believe you and capable of reading ur imaging but its a pretty consistent treatment for iih. I have it too and treatment was pretty much one spinal tap, 3x the normal pressure, and diuretics which . If i went back it would probably be high again bc my pulsate tinnitus is still kicking but. A treatment option to be aware of. Proud of you for being alive it is a really special kind of torment<3

I've been bringing up lumbar punctures for like. At least three years now. Maybe longer. I've brought it up to multiple neurologists. Particularly because, if possible, I'd just be interested in seeing what my neurotransmitter situation is like and it sounds like csf is the only way to really figure that out. The cerebrovascular specialist asked and sort of smirked when I said "I've been trying to get one for a while." But the pulsatile tinnitus and shit is the thing that makes it pretty undeniably intracranial hypertension. My head hurts when I cough. Sometimes I feel like I'm pushing a marble through my brain. This is all so ass bruther.

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holy fuck

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thoughts on trepanation? i think it makes ghosts pour into your head easier but be careful!

probably did something for various kinds of intracranial hypertension. if a doctor showed me a paper that suggested it would be helpful, I'd do it.

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cuck squat

i got a great idea for a really interesting night-gym

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forgot to upload dis

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12 Angry Men remake with Tim Robinson as Juror 8 and Conner O'Malley as Juror 3

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Just blasted a solid three into the porcelain fire hydrant

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Do you believe in the afterlife?

In a sense. The most objective statement we can make is that your consciousness is some mercurial energy that will change state and diffuse into something else when you die. Your body is matter that will measurably change state. You are something that was once something else. I think there's some kind of metaphysical reality that humans can interact with which we don't have the framework to meaningfully understand, so speculating at what exactly it is can be nothing but conjecture. I think I understand ways it works. I sometimes see how it interacts with human consciousness, at the fringes. But I don't really believe that means there's any kind of afterlife we can understand, or necessarily any preservation of consciousness. Any human essence would fundamentally change state at death. Become something else. But I wouldn't bet on it, either. Best to focus on what we know. What we know is that we are energy flowing through matter, both of which never disappear, but change state.

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how do you feel about cuck chairs

Biomechanically, a resting squat is a lot better for you than sitting in a chair. Maybe an exercise ball is better.

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Incorrigibly fascinated by Rob Zombie for the way he was a terminal dork who was into the right stuff at exactly the right time to become a successful rockstar that a lot of people thought was cool

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"I made this!"