Kellamity

If they're truly superfluous then they waste the time of both sides, but it's the prosecution who get to decide whether or not to include a charge. The prosecution might not be holding out real hope of a conviction on the highest charges, but by including them they could include additional witnesses and evidence that will be heard by a jury and change their perception even on the more realistic charges, which the defense would have to react to.

Again, all hypothetical. For all I know theyre confident in the terrorism charge

But realistically criminal trials are a negotiation, and most of the work happens outside the courtroom

It's pretty standard to charge with the most serious things they can and potentially drop/lower the charges before trial. Maybe theyre trying to get a plea deal or disposition and avoid the trial - 'we'll drop terrorism and the death penalty if you plead to first degree murder and life without' or something like that

Or at least they have his legal team spending time knocking down the more superfluous charges instead of dealing with the meat of it all

Obviously I don't know enough about the situation here to know exactly what's up, but yeah

I think you mean Henry Kissinger

The other answers are both partly right, but to be more specific: The albatross is really good at navigating air currents and ocean winds even when very far out at sea. If you could see an albatross, chances are you were safe from storms and such, and supposedly sailors would even sometimes use them to navigate by to stay safe. Seeing an albatross was good luck - not seeing one for an extended time was bad luck

So the comic inverts that from an Albatrosses point of view. Being followed by ships is an annoyance to them

That's why the Mariner in the poem seems to bring a curse upon his ship when he shoots the albatross - he has literally destroyed a symbol of good fortune

They want these groups to exist, so that there's a class of people that they can feel superior to

But once society starts even slightly addressing the inequality in the most minor ways, they're terrified that their 'superiority' is at risk and they can't cope with that

It's probably because its a civil trial, not a criminal one. So he hasn't been 'convicted' - although personally it's more than enough evidence for me

It sounds like you love one Bethesda game that came out 22 years ago

For me, it's not that the Tories are worse, but you expect it, yknow? In theory, Labour are supposed to stand up for us at least a little bit, so it's something of a betrayal

Youse guys wanna play stickball?

Yes I mean, he's not wrong but his thing about Ukraine is driven by his Churchill obsession, not by real world ethics

It actually sounds like he and Tolkein would get on really well

Absolutely

Global warming' gave us that senator with the snowball

In an ideal world we wouldn't have to moderate accurate terms to prevent bad actors making dumb arguments

But this is clearly not an ideal world