They're using it as (+0<1), there's no - here bc that would be + (the other candidate)
Kellamity
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Gladiator II | New Trailer (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Ridley Scott
Honestly looks pretty good as actiony eye-candy
Bit ironic seeing this right after that post about how the fan-service and callbacks ruined the new Alien film though
The Stanford Prison Experiment. But it shouldn't be taken seriously, it was terribly done, biased and unscientific
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/
Could be interesting to run something similar under actual experimental conditions, if that was doable
There was a really good article on this and unfortunately I can't find it now to share
But the gist was that Titan exploited a bunch of loopholes, among other things. The paying customers on the sub were in fact 'marine researchers' who coincidently made a donation, and things like that
Some of the people who were at one point involved but left due to safety concerns raised the issue with OSHA (? - or whoever the more specific body was) who repeatedly failed to investigate or take any action
So for me, whether or not they are able to charge the company, the industry regulators and government bodies overseeing them need to face some questions and judgements too (though it would take a more knowledgeable person than me to know what exactly that looks like)
'There's no point voting against Hitler right now because the opposition is right leaning and may one day grow into Hitler'
It's really important to know the details because it's the details that allow us to parse and challenge injustice effectively.
Knowing the context of Felony Murder and how it applies to this sentencing is not saying 'this is fine then, no worries'. Rather, it means we can actually talk about the systematic issues in the legal system that enable things like this.
The comment you replied to was in no way 'word salad' or 'copaganda', it was context.
He was actually sentenced to Death, but California abolished the death penalty before he was executed
It's just copypasta, yknow. It's a meme
I don't know why you are using in person community praxis as a refutation of an online space being toxic
Real life isn't online, the issue is an online space being shitty
In the UK, you can't decide whether to 'press charges' or not, the decision is the CPS's.
But in practice, saying you aren't interested in pursuing a conviction often ends it, because:
1 - the prosecution must be 'in the public good' which is undermined if the victim isn't interested
2 - a lot of the time the testimony and cooperation of the victim is key to the prosecution case
3 - the system is horribly underfunded so if they can justify dropping it they will
I think it means + more than zero but less than one
So like, +(between 0.01 and 0.99)