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I am reminded of that old post about the guy who was into poop stuff, and hired a sex worker to do poop stuff on him, and then right when it actually began he realized the reality was absolutely not fun. So that's a possibility for you. But maybe you'll enjoy it! Be safe have fun.

I don't think the government has the power to ban twitter, and it probably shouldn't. But individual users should stop using it.

Unfortunately, people are emotional little bags of shit and just want to see their funny memes.

This is why we can't have nice things. Too many people are basically toddlers and cannot delay gratification.

On the other hand, the government probably could have Musk killed. That's kind of scary and I don't really want to have a government that would do that, but do I want that asshole to die.

it seems weird that the state can keep trying until they get the answer they want. Why is that protection only available later?

It wouldn't be a coin toss - the odds are heavily slanted in favor of the prosecutor. The defense has no role.

Also does this mean that those times cops didn't get indicted, the state could have tried again?

Right, but that doesn't answer if they convene a grand jury for a specific alleged crime, and the grand jury says "no", can they try again with a new jury? For the same alleged crime? That seems like an obvious flaw in that they can just keep trying until they get an indictment and can proceed. There'd be no point in the grand jury step because it eventually returns an indictment.

Edit: Internet is telling me

Even if a grand jury does not indict an individual, the prosecutor can re-bring the same defendant before the grand jury on the same charges multiple times, although prosecutors will usually wait until a new grand jury is convened for especially high-profile cases. This is allowed because issues of double jeopardy do not attach until a person has been formally charged.

Which seems insane.

https://www.arnoldsmithlaw.com/who-decides-whether-or-not-i-will-be-charged-with-a-crime.html

Our legal system seems really bad, folks

You can keep convening grand juries against someone for the same event until they agree to indict? That seems dubious. And is especially damning in the context of police that don't get indicted and never go to trial.

Mad that the grand jury didn't refuse to indict.

Hope the jury nullifies.

If he is found guilty, maybe it'll be time for unrest.

In my pandemic game, goblins were described as sort of perpetual teenagers. Some of them could be really smart, but a lot of them were impulsive, prone to going along with the group, and being kind of cruel.

They found a pack of goblins that had robbed some travelers... to steal their concert tickets. Most of them scattered, but they caught up with one. The monk decided not to punch this small humanoid in the face and instead asked "wtf are you all doing?"

The goblin told them they wanted to go to the show. the show! everyone's going to the show! (The show turned out to be put on by an evil warlock, and the players had to intervene to stop the bands from summoning a lord of pandemonium into the world. Everyone loves a battle of the bands)

The players essentially adopted this goblin, Windy, for the rest of the campaign. Windy learned to play drums and flute, and I think they eventually got them enrolled in wizard school.

Sorceress focusing on cold magic. Freeze everything. Frost Wall is pretty effective. Plop it on big things and it explodes for damage + freeze. Put it down otherewise, and it tends to block or distract mobs. Currently in act3-cruel

I think there can be some intra-group tension when half the group is going for "how can we win this fight cleanly with minimal resources spent?" and half is going for "what would my character do? What would be dramatic?"

It's something to clear up in session 0, I think.

My personal fantasy right now is being part of a highly skilled and competent team. I'm tired of always being the three stooges.

Also bad: when part of the group wants to play for clean victory, and part of the group does but it really bad at it.

I don't think DND or close relatives is as good a first system as people think it is. It's very idiosyncratic. It wastes a lot of time with stuff like "8 is -1 and 14 is +2". But mostly I don't recommend it because at its core it is a resource management game, and that's not what most people imagine roleplaying is about. It will teach people bad habits, or at least habits that don't translate outside of DND + their group very well.

I like Fate. I think Fate is more intuitive and rewards creativity more consistently. You don't need to read long lists of classes and spells. It does, however, ask for a lot more creative input than DND does. You can't just be "Bob the fighter" and go. But it's a lot more rewarding when it does sing, IMO.

Most social media is bad for you. I don't think this kind of ban is the right tool. But the idea that everyone would just delete Facebook and Instagram is a dream that will never happen.

The government could break up the megacorps though.

It varies. It's pretty rare that it's working hours and I'm just goofing off for more than a couple minutes at a time. I look at lemmy when waiting for builds/deploys/etc. a hard ass boss might be like "do more work while that's happening!!" but that would be a net negative on overall productivity.