Books, Coffee, and Ink

A bookworm who writes things. I reblog what catches my eye. This includes: political things,  HBO war, Marvel (particularly Daredevil), books, writing and music.

[galileosballs]

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

[galileosballs]

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

[galileosballs]

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

[sgam76]

30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

This 30-Song Comprehension Exam Will Precisely Estimate Your Age

Every question you answer puts us closer and closer to the year you were born.

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

[helloitsbees]

im not 52 i swear. i just have a dark past

[jollyfurydragonballer]

[jessiesjaded]

Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one 🤗 Well what about 2 cunts. They're both cunts and that's the dynamic. cunt4cunt.

[teaboot]

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

[femnby-lesbiab]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[0022th]

Amy Brier’s limestone carvings

[kaelio]

[persisting]

I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.

[ceterisparibus116]

I have to admit, it's still kind of bugging me that we don't know how Fisk got out of prison and has a restored reputation since DD season 3.

Responding to you and @ladymaigrey who also asked about this: yes, it's frustrating and feels too comic-book-ish.

I might pick up on more details as I rewatch the show. But my understanding at this point is:

He's appealing his charges and/or sentence from S1; and

He was acquitted of his charges from S3.

The implications of this are huge.

First, if Fisk successfully appeals his charges, that would mean the prosecutor would likely have to start over and present the case again. It's possible that the prosecutor would simply not do so because it would be too much work, because it would be against public opinion, because Fisk bought them off...maybe the appeal would be based on bad decisions from a judge, and the prosecutor knows that Fisk has bought the judges off, so bringing the case again is fruitless...maybe it's just that Fisk's lawyers have so much money that they bury the prosecutor's office in frivolous motions and the prosecutor can't justify spending so much of their budget on one man....

As for his charges from S3, an acquittal means Fisk went to trial and the jury found him not guilty. Which, oh my goodness. If the reason he was acquitted was "because of the FBI," that suggests that the jury...got confused, and thought the FBI's corruption meant Fisk wasn't guilty? Or perhaps the jury was pissed and engaged in jury nullification and acquitted Fisk because they were angry at the FBI's corruption? Or perhaps the jury just hates prosecution and will always find any defendant guilty because they think the system is broken, and that got interpreted as an acquittal because of FBI corruption? Or maybe someone in the jury was bought off, and persuaded everyone else to acquit, and then claimed that it was because of the FBI to hide the fact that they were bought off?

Lots of options, really.

And I am fascinated by the idea of Fisk being acquitted. I love juries, but goodness, they are just twelve random people and they they can be dumb. The average reading level in the U.S. is 7th-8th grade. The average attention span of an adult is 45 seconds. Jurors can completely fail to connect two logical points; they can stop paying attention and miss key information; they can conflate issues; etc.

Juries can (and do) also choose the absolute wierdest possible hills to die on and think jury duty is an opportunity to make some kind of statement. "I hate the FBI [or the police or prosecution or The Government™ or whatever] and therefore I'm going to find this person not guilty" is absolutely a thing that happens.

I love juries, I really do, and I would never want to replace our jury system with anything else. But they are fallible.

[appellatedefender]

Thanks for the analysis, @ceterisparibus116. I have a few additional comments.

In episode 11 of season 3, Fisk and his attorney Ben Donovan hold a press conference. Donovan announces that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed Fisk's convictions (on the five counts of RICO he was tried on after his arrest at the end of season 1), and the U.S. Attorney has decided not to re-try Fisk on these charges. (Note: in most cases, a defendant can be re-tried after a reversal on appeal.) Donovan does not mention the reason(s) for the reversal or why the government elected not to re-try Fisk, except for a general statement to the effect that the government has seen the error of its ways. The reversal on appeal, followed by the decision not to re-try him, means that Fisk is free and clear of the charges on which he was tried, the five counts of RICO. There might be charges that could be brought against Fisk under state law without violating double jeopardy, but DA Blake Tower doesn't seem interested in pursuing them.

In episode 9 of Daredevil: Born Again, Vanessa Fisk tells Ben Poindexter that her husband was acquitted of the charges brought against him at the end of season 3. The acquittal means the case is over; the prosecution cannot appeal, and Fisk can not be re-tried on those charges. According to Vanessa, Fisk was acquitted because of "the whole FBI corruption scandal, Agent Nadeem, all of that." It's possible that the jury chose not to believe and rejected the testimony of the FBI agents who (presumably) testified against Fisk at trial because of this corruption. However, in real life, it is common for prosecution witnesses in criminal trials to be criminals themselves, often accomplices of the defendant who is on trial. Experienced prosecutors know how to handle this situation. And in this case there is the added element that it was Fisk himself who corrupted the FBI agents. But the jury is the sole judge of the credibility of witnesses. And as the senior partner in my old law firm used to say, "A jury is 12 people of ordinary ignorance." But like @ceterisparibus116, I wouldn't replace our jury system with anything else.

[bladeweave]

It just works better with a North Star to guide you. 🌠

[roycohn]

been feeling a lot lately like the single biggest difference between regular progressives/lefties and people who were raised conservative and just swapped out one set of dogmas for another is that the latter group is still imbued with the fundamental inability to mind their own business and leave well enough alone, and moreover, they think it's a virtue

[roycohn]

i've never understood why some people feel such a deep, pressing need to be up in everyone else's business passing judgment and telling them what to do, whether they're obnoxious evangelical christians or obnoxious evangelical communists, and quite frankly i have lost 100% of my patience with this faction over the past several years. in this country we do have, and many of us deeply believe in, a certain unalienable right to be left alone if we aren't committing any crimes, and perhaps it was because i was raised by two people who voluntarily left behind the authoritarian circumstances of their upbringing (the USSR/the southern baptist church), but one thing i'm gonna do is ask you to leave me the hell alone

[kurhanchyk]

the most annoying people are people who don't understand storytelling. they be like "oooo how convenient that this thing happened to the main character in the very beginning". yeah no shit. that's why the story begins here

[ace-aussie-asshole]

"If this one things hadn't happened the main character wouldn't be so important" You mean the catalyst? If the catalyst of the plot didn't happen the plot wouldn't happen? Dude, that's fucking crazy. No, seriously, it's so crazy that in the book "What Happens After The Catalyst" the catalyst is the only reason the story takes place.

[maureen-corpse]

I just saw an advertisement for “spring black Friday” and uh. I need to know what that is. What is the significant Friday in spring. Is it Good Friday. Are there going to be amazing doorbusters on the day of the crucifixion. Are we commemorating the death of Jesus with the hottest deals in town

[the-occasional-mishap]

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[the-occasional-mishap]

How could I forget:

Prices will rise again in three days!

[hellscupboards]

still thinking about how Born Again aired on Fat Tuesday (a period of celebration) before Lent (a time of doing without) and the finale is in the week before Easter (the celebration of defeating death and rising again)

[gameo-archive]

First Karen (and Claire?) have to visit his tomb and find it empty. Then someone like Hector is there telling them it's empty. And then the women run off to tell Matt, who's locked in an upper room...

[beguilewritesstuff]

Foggy is...Jesus???

[foggynelsonarchive]

reposting the best bts of the entire show

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

also "all billionaires are like this" I am fully aware that Bill Gates is infamously a creepy and unpleasant individual but he also has spent most of the last couple of decades earnestly trying to get rid of malaria. having that amount of money is a huge structural failure and, again, he is infamously a terrible guy to be around, but it didn't turn him into a neonazi. this is not a 1:1 correlation. we really have to accept this when considering how best to dismantle billionaire influence from society. there are actually quite important differences between elon and, like, warren buffett

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

yes, a lot of rich people are really weird and out of touch and either ignorant of or hyperaware of their power in a way that makes them evil, but if that was not also the case for non-rich people, kamala would have won indiana

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

#didn’t he also try to capitalize off of privatizing the distribution of the Covid vaccine?#I admit he’s better because he’s trying to like get rid of his money as he gets older#but that’s a whole lot of capital to control

Sweetheart this is a literal right-wing conspiracy theory that you are repeating. He said in a press conference that a $10 billion investment in vaccines gives a general return on investment in economic and social benefits of about $200 billion, or 1-20. This does not mean "Bill Gates personally makes 20x his initial investment in vaccine distribution markets," it means "the global economic benefits of providing free vaccines outweigh the costs, which is why he encourages vaccine distribution"

If your principled anticapitalism is repeating r/insanepeoplefacebook talking points, it is not a good strand of principled anticapitalism!

[mariacallous]

#good lord so much of this website is cooked in qanon shit#bill gates is like up there in the conspiracist pantheon along with soros hillary clinton hunter biden and tom hanks#in terms of people they are Unwell about and make up random shit regarding#take anything you read from random panicky blogs online about any of these people with massive grains of salt