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Piroko 6 points ago +6 / -0

Monarchy is a powerful tool for the furtherance of nationalistic sentiment.

You are so myopically fixated on pwning the globalists that you'd rather destroy the monarchy because they currently control it, when control of it is far more useful to you than it is to them.

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Piroko 10 points ago +11 / -1

Abolish the monarchy

This has nothing to do with any of your other points and just makes you look dumb.

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Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

I play EVE Online.

Because real life has too many cops.

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sinfest

I'm not even checking. Just tell me who's side is he's on now.

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Piroko 25 points ago +25 / -0

You know Kadokawa.

Yes.

The one who's new CEO is part of the WEF and who said they wanted to censor anime/manga for google and Apple.

All the shit Kadokawa has done and that's the one you're going with?

Not the time their CEO bribed the Olympic Organizing committee? Or the Kemono Friends incident? Or them hiring DMCA shakedown companies?

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Piroko 12 points ago +12 / -0

Asked Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki to cut down

Princess Mononoke

Well, now... huh. Hmmm.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Google's lawyers attempting to explain the relationships between google and non-google components in the web advertising application stack. Whatever persuasive impact they were hoping for was lost and instead the takeaway is that adsense must clearly be the work of Tzeench.

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Piroko 13 points ago +13 / -0

They actually displayed that diagram to the court.

People are calling it the spagetti football.

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Piroko 12 points ago +12 / -0

I believe it's the "fishing for discovery phase" patent.

Nintendo is reaching.

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Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

Not destructive enough.

These devices were rigged with small amounts of explosives. Lithium will burn like crazy but it doesn't react fast enough to cause overpressure. A lithium battery failing in your hand might fail fast enough to burn your hand, but it won't happen fast enough to blow your fingers off. It's not about the energy, it's about the chemistry. You need the right KIND of reaction. RDX and HMX get most of their energy from the extremely weak N-N bond, which REAAAALLLLY wants to become N≡N. Lithium batteries will get hot, they'll burn, they'll burst and vent hot gas... but they won't detonate.

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Piroko 4 points ago +11 / -7

Indications are this is a supply chain attack.

So while there are collateral victims, the device bearers are probably all connected to the organization.

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Piroko 2 points ago +2 / -0

time travelling samurai that has to protect a miko

I know you got your answer, but...

That's a pretty accurate description of Sakunoshin's story from Hyper Police.

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Piroko -1 points ago +4 / -5

Yes, well... there's "insane" and then there's "the Minnesota state legislature".

But all you have to do about that is move to Wisconsin or Iowa. I mean, who's the real crazy person? The person who chooses to stay in a state run by crazy people.

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

I wouldn't say always.

I just have a pretty good handle on how much horribleness there is in the mundane world to begin with and it keeps me grounded. You do not want to set foot in a mental institute.

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

(Shrug)

Under Schopenhauer's interpretation of justice, you're not wrong.

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Piroko 4 points ago +5 / -1

Looking into this particular case, since it happened very quickly...

The STATE'S psychiatrist (ie, the one working FOR the prosecution) must have been like "oh yeah, she's nuts". When the defense says the client is crazy, AND the state agrees they're crazy, from the judge's perspective it's pretty much automatic.

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Piroko -20 points ago +9 / -29

I don't have to trust what they say, I know how the process works and have seen it.

I'll be blocking you after this because your paranoia is exhausting.

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Piroko 15 points ago +22 / -7

I assure you she won't.

When a person is declared a ward of the state, some bureaucratic things happen to your identity. You can't get a drivers license. You can't open a bank account. You can't get a credit card. You can't open an insurance policy. Can't buy a car. Can't hold real property.

Your rights evaporate. You are a child. The property of the state until either the state finds you competent to be a legal adult again, or you die.

That is what "ward of the state" means.

A prisoner has more rights than a ward. A prisoner can demand to speak to their lawyer, and subject to visiting hours, has the right to do so. A ward can scream about a lawyer 24-7-365 and the state can ignore them.

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Piroko 18 points ago +25 / -7

Nope. There's been no sentence so there's no release date to shorten.

Trust me on this, I know from family experience. Declared mentally unfit to stand trial is quite frankly the worst hell in the first world. It doesn't end. Ever.


"Better to shoot 'em now and get it over with." -Scotty, Star Trek VI

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Piroko 32 points ago +37 / -5

Found incompetent to stand trial.

That doesn't mean what you think it means.

It means she's been declared a ward of the state. That's life. Slightly better than prison, but not by much. There's no statute of limitations on crimes that end in "not competent". You go a mental facility until you either die or recover enough to stand trial.

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