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derioderi0 22 points 3 years ago

Short answer: no

Long answer: NOOOOOOOOOOO

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derioderi0 13 points 3 years ago

Unfortunately, the easiest way to get out of jury duty is to be a scientist, engineer, or lawyer. No attorney with half a brain wants anyone of those three professions to be on a jury deciding the fate of their client.

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derioderi0 7 points 3 years ago

I've been slowly working my way through Stargate, midway through season 3 right now. It's almost refreshing how shamelessly they reuse old Star Trek plots and tropes, but it kind of works because the show doesn't seem to take itself as seriously as Star Trek does either.

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derioderi0 6 points 3 years ago

This is crazy, yo.

Crazy good, yes, but definitely crazy.

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derioderi0 6 points 3 years ago

The Vorkosigan Saga by Bujold is considered to be some of the best space opera in the entire genre, definitely recommend giving it a try. Start with Warriors Apprentice if Shards of Honor isn’t to your liking.

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derioderi0 5 points 3 years ago

This might be the first time I’ve ever seen Starship Troopers defined as space opera, it pretty much kickstarted the military scifi genre.

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derioderi0 4 points 3 years ago

If you truly believe in jury nullification, you won't mention it to the judge or prosecutor though...

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derioderi0 3 points 3 years ago

I think most people would consider Jesuits and the like to be very educated but also very wrong.

Jesuits (and the Catholic faith in general) absolutely believes in evolution. The Vatican even has its own astronomical observatory and a chief astronomer.

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derioderi0 3 points 3 years ago

My interaction with YouTube is pretty much the search bar at the top. I generally only go to YouTube when there is something specific that I want to watch/listen to: a specific song or video, etc. So there's little reason for me to subscribe to anything.

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derioderi0 2 points 3 years ago

One of the few near perfect adaptations of a short story or novel into a game. Harlan Ellison was notoriously difficult to work with at times, but this one they were able to do a great job.

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derioderi0 2 points 3 years ago

The game has several different possible endings depending on your choices. The short story of course has only one ending: very depressing one that is the title of the story.

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derioderi0 2 points 3 years ago

He didn't have nearly enough weapons, manpower, supplies, etc. to successfully take Moscow, so I don't know if anyone (including himself) really knows what he was intending.

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derioderi0 2 points 3 years ago

Glad I backed up all my reddit posts, comments, etc., a few weeks ago

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derioderi0 2 points 3 years ago

Great video. Where did this weird reverse kata guruma come from? I don't think I've ever seen it before.

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derioderi0 2 points 3 years ago

Started around age forty about 7 years ago. Just got shodan in December, then broke my leg a few weeks later :( Still recovering, hoping to try to get back on the mat this fall.

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derioderi0 2 points 3 years ago

I remember watching a few episodes of this show as a kid. I specifically remember the episode where they played Dragon's Lair, because given the very short play time the contestants had for the game, there were really only a few possible choices that everyone got correct and so they all had the same score...

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derioderi0 1 point 3 years ago

However it is primarily a cultural phenomenon, it's simply spread to the rest of the world as part of the US cultural zeitgeist and near-hegemony.

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derioderi0 1 point 3 years ago

That seems a plausible an explanation as any, but Prigozhin and the Wagner brass had to have known that their family would immediately be used as hostages as well, so again who knows what he was thinking?

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derioderi0 1 point 3 years ago

Link is AI-generated rubbish

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derioderi0 1 point 3 years ago

what I meant is that if you believe that jury nullification is something that is morally appropriate. Many do not (i.e. judges and LEO), or it wouldn't be controversial.

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