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Trash, Steve Espo Powers
Is there still a possible way for Darren Wilson to be convicted?
Yes, the parents can and likely will file a wrongful death claim which will have a far more likely chance getting through than the grand jury case.
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No. Being found liable in a wrongful death suit is not being convicted. These are two entirely separate legal systems with two entirely separate sets of remedies and two entirely different purposes.
A person cannot be jailed or executed for being found liable in a civil suit. A person is not labeled a felon and thus unemployable for being found liable in a civil suit. A person is not labeled a felon and stripped of their right to vote either temporarily (37 states + DC) or permanently (11 states) for being found liable in a civil suit. A person who is held liable in a civil suit has not been confronted by our society as a whole and told in no uncertain terms that the act they have committed is completely unacceptable. A person who is held liable in a civil suit has not been confronted by our society as a whole and told in no uncertain terms that the victims of their actions deserve justice and recognition.
Darren Wilson cannot be convicted of a crime by the state of MO. Darren Wilson can, however, be charged by the federal criminal justice system.
But don't say being found liable in a civil suit is the same thing as a criminal conviction. Because Darren Wilson gets to spend Thanksgiving with his family, a free man, recently married. And Michael Brown's family gets to stare at an empty seat at their table with the knowledge that Missouri doesn't give a fuck about their teenaged son's life.
Content warning: This post contains graphic language, slurs and triggering content
This article is heartbreaking. And true.
There is a reason I throttled back on doing a lot of creative gaming content a few years ago. And why I still avoid taking some jobs in the gaming world when they’re offered to me. And why, when we have a female host on any of our Geek and Sundry gaming shows, we have to monitor the comments on YouTube extra, to remove the many comments that are offensive and pollute our community’s spirit of equality. Because I hate that shit.
There is an endemic acceptance in the gamer world that “well, it comes with the territory” when a woman receives threats and harassment and the hateful anonymous internet dialogue is focused on her body and whether they would “do” her or not. I don’t know why this became okay. It’s a vocal minority that has been given way too much power over the industry dialogue, and I am so happy to see more and more articles like this shining the light on what reasonable gamer men and women have been conned into accepting as a given.
NOTHING is a given in this world. And frankly, it taints the art form we so love and keeps it back from becoming more respected and more diverse to not at least TRY to fight it. Gaming deserves more than complacency in this area.
Even posting this link will cause me to receive hateful Tumblr PMs. I can always tell when something I write gets linked on certain places on the internet (like 4 Chan or a few other forums of troll-hood), because I’ll immediately get dozens of hate mails along the veins of what is posted in this article.
Well, I’m a lucky one to be prominent enough to have 10 supporters for every hater. I mostly feel sorry for girls and women who aren’t in my position, who may just give up on gaming when they’re too beaten down to fight anymore.
We have to change that. For the good of what we love doing, gamers! Okay, back to work :)
“What ‘The Golden Girls’ Taught Us About AIDS" via Barbara Fletcher
"But this is what The Golden Girls was so good at: bringing home those topics that often made people uncomfortable — racism, homosexuality, older female sexuality, sexual harassment, the homeless, addiction, marriage equality and more — and showing us how interconnected and utterly human we all are at any age. Served, of course, with that delicious trademark humor that infused the show throughout its groundbreaking, taboo-busting seven-season run.”
Cognitive celebrity - Albert Einstein was a genius, but he wasn’t the only one – why has his name come to mean something superhuman? - Before he died, Albert Einstein requested that his whole body be cremated as soon as possible after death, and his ashes scattered in an undisclosed location. He didn’t want his mortal remains to be turned into a shrine, but his request was only partially heeded. Einstein’s closest friend, the economist Otto Nathan, took possession of his ashes, but not before Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who performed the autopsy, removed his brain. Family and friends were aghast, but Harvey convinced Einstein’s son Hans Albert to give his reluctant permission after the fact. The eccentric doctor kept the brain in a glass jar of formalin inside a cider box under a cooler, until 1998, when he returned it to Princeton Hospital, and from time to time, he would send little chunks of it to interested scientists. Most of us will never be victims of brain-theft and ash hoarding, but Einstein’s status as the archetypical genius of modern times singled him out for special treatment. An ordinary person can live and die privately, but a genius – and his grey matter – belongs to the world. Even in his lifetime, which coincided with the first great flowering of mass media, Einstein was a celebrity, as famous for his wit and white shock of hair as he was for his science. Indeed, his life seems to have been timed perfectly to take advantage of the proliferations of newspapers and radio shows, whose reports often framed Einstein’s theories as being incomprehensible to anyone but the genius himself. There’s no doubt that Einstein’s contributions to science were revolutionary. Before he came along, cosmology was a part of philosophy but, thanks to him, it’s become a branch of science, tasked with no less than a mathematical history and evolution of the Universe. Einstein’s work also led to the discovery of exotic physical phenomena such as black holes, gravitational waves, quantum entanglement, the Big Bang, and the Higgs boson. But despite this formidable scientific legacy, Einstein’s fame owes something more to our culture’s obsession with celebrity. In many ways, Einstein was well-suited for celebrity. Apart from his distinctive coif, he had a way with words and, as a result, he is frequently quoted, occasionally with bon mots he didn’t actually say. More than anything, Einstein possessed the distinctive mystique of genius, a sense that he was larger than life, or different from the rest of us in some fundamental way, which is why so many people were desperate to get hold of his brain. (via Why is Einstein the poster boy for genius? – Matthew Francis – Aeon)
“Discrimination isn’t a thunderbolt, it isn’t an abrupt slap in the face. It’s the slow drumbeat of being underappreciated, feeling uncomfortable and encountering roadblocks along the path to success.”
Astrophysicist Meg Urry, quoted in "Girls Love Science. We Tell Them Not To." (via almost-a-class-act)
[bluechaircomics/via webtoons] (previously)
Chocolate chip is too mainstream. Me prefer Snickerdoodle.
Me no eat Mrs Fields or Chips Ahoy or garbage like that. Me know this great independent bakery in Brooklyn.
Me like cookie before it was cookie. When cookie just cookie dough.
Liberals have wasted a great deal of effort trying to ensure that their preferred interpretations of the Constitution will always carry a majority of justices. A more just, anti-racist, pro-feminist, queer-friendly, and less ecologically destructive future will not appear after the right justices hear the right lawyers make the right arguments. Liberals should realize this by now. By fixating on the Supreme Court, they have inherited the framers’ skepticism of popular sovereignty, of mass politics, and of the exercise of public power. They have adopted a view of constitutional politics that revolves around ideas of procedure, consensus, and finality. There is another approach to constitutional politics, however; one known to the Left: the expression of constituent power. That means articulating grievances, confronting opponents, and promoting solidarity. These forms of politics are constitutive of alternative regimes and counter-institutions, and express the Left’s challenge to ossified constitutional discourses of procedure and formal rights. But so long as liberals remain attached to the Supreme Court’s aura of authority and finality, they will fail to see what political theorist Chantal Mouffe has called “the constitutive character of social division.” Such division and antagonism are central to democracy. Organizing large coalitions and confronting powerful institutions should be at the forefront of democratic politics — not judicial subtlety and clever interpretations of superannuated texts. Durable abortion rights are more likely to be secured through a broad coalition demanding universal access to single-payer healthcare than through appeals to protect the legacy of Roe. The reform of racist and violent policing through judicial interpretations of the Fourth Amendment is meaningless in the absence of the political will to bring paramilitarized cops to heel. Confronting patterns of gross inequality with respect to gender and sexuality is a project best pursued through intersectional alliances, not disputes over constitutional doctrine. Liberals should abandon the search for progressive outcomes through constitutional law. It’s not too late — it’s never too late — to join in the search for a politics in which judicial interference with democracy is not only unnecessary but unthinkable.
from “Waiting for SCOTUS"
Good critique of liberal progressivism in the US.
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Soooo Janelle Monae covered David Bowie.
hit reblog 3 seconds in
this is my summer jam now, bye
Those eyes.
Crying
NOOOOOPE. NOPE.
How I feel about adulthood:
Heyyy, you know that 'mister, mister' lady? I think I just killed her.
We’re saddened by the passing of our friend Maya Angelou. Thank you for all you’ve done, and for all the hugs.
Broad City S01E01 | Wise words
“The first one says that curiosity is better than an exclamation point—like pounding your fist. The second one says that a simple statement is better than pounding your fist and shouting and getting too excited. ”I’m very motivated by curiosity, and I’m really interested in people discussing things reasonably, calmly, and rationally instead of trying to insult their opponents, throw them off guard, and win by outmaneuvering them. ”My feeling is that nowadays people get into arguments and demonize their opponents and I don’t think that’s helpful. I’d like to see a time when people will say, ‘I believe this and you believe that. Let’s see what we can agree on to make the country a better place.” “Do you think that will ever happen?” “I’m optimistic. Every generation always thinks the country is going to the dogs and all the great stuff we grew up with is gone. So we don’t see all the great new stuff. I believe that over the centuries, civilization tends to go upward and we are much better now than we were 50 years ago. At that time, we were a better country than 50 years before that. ”I grew up in a time when black people could not get a lot of jobs, and the churches supported segregation. Women also couldn’t get a lot of jobs. It was a time of compulsory prayer in schools and a time when a lot of Protestants hated Catholics. While I was growing up in my university town, women who were taking a physical education class had to wear a raincoat over their bathing suits, and they had to be in their dormitories by 10 o’clock, while the men could stay out later. Black people could get shot for being too uppity or trying to register to vote. Much of this is a thing of the past. ”One thing that has gotten worse in the last 30 years is polarization, but I think a lot of people are getting tired of that. A lot of politicians have kept power by turning people against each other, but as the country becomes more diverse, that won’t work anymore. I think in the next 30 or 40 years that America is going to look very different and be much better.”
Last question I wrote for an exam, as a way for students to relax a bit and get an easy extra point: “6) What did the cannibal get when he was late for dinner?”
What I expected: puns.
What I got: several paragraphs on the subjects of death and decay, a quote from Montaigne, three recipes, and a five pages long essay on the song Mein Teil by Rammstein.