A hung jury is no verdict at all. Its just means another trial with a new jury until a verdict is reached.

Luigi will be paraded in his jumpsuit until he is formally jailed or dies. Anything else requires everybody to agree on Not Guilty, and that’s astronomically unlikely given the volume of lobbying against him.

Whether or not he did it isn’t even relevant anymore. It’s whether the common folk of a jury think he did, and both supporters and detractors of ‘The Adjustor’ consider that to be Luigi. His identity is so entangled in the public consciousness that the only way out is nullification, and prosecution is unlikely to allow such a jury to form.

Jury null requires EVERYONE on the jury to agree Not Guilty, there are plenty of sleepwalker who believe the TV narrative about basically everything, Luigi included. Won’t be hard to find at least one

Edit: jury nullification IS NOT the same thing as a hung jury. The former is final. The latter means a new trial with a new jury.

You’re right that you can’t personally farm them, but you can still end up getting them from publics. The old relics are still operable. I have hundreds of old relics that I open as fodder, as do other regular players. And ofc trading. The surplus of old relics helps keep down trade prices because they’re still trickling into the market, albeit slower.

A better example is prime accessories. These are real-money only, and can only be bought from Prime Access (when a Prime is released) or a Prime Resurgence (Prime temporarily back for sale a year or so later). Stuff like Octavia Prime’s shawzin/sitar being $35 or gone for (effecively) forever.

The community is very open about warframe.market existing though. Like an auction house for player trading across all servers. So if your relics drop bad items. Sell them on the market until you can eventually buy the one you want.

Other games do thinks like soulbound/account bound stuff. Not everything in WF is tradable, but most things are

I’m tired of talking about cash and being compared to flat earthers scared of the government tracking them. Don’t bring them into this, right now you’re talking to me, not them. I’m begging you to listen to what I’m saying.

Retail doesnt like cash. Its annoying to handle, costs money to count and deposit. They have to have cash on hand for change, and they have to account for loss from miscounted change or poorly supervised employees scooping the till. But currently, retail has to accept cash as legal tender.

If you make society cashless, if you give businsses the right to be card only, to not handle cash; then most of them wont. You make cash almost useless.

it’s not about cash being illegal. It’s about businesses not being obliged to accept it.

As it is, sometimes I cover for a friend and I beg them to just pay me back with a bank deposit because if they give me $50 notes the only place I can reliably use that is the supermarket, where less and less of their self-checkout machines support cash (and if my flatmates do Click and Collect, it can’t help me pay them because they don’t want it either).

Or they’re making me do a special trip to a bank that is barely open anymore (because most services are online-only) just so I can deposit it into something I can use for all my other online-only services.

It doesn’t need to be illegal, it just won’t help you.

She’s wearing shorts (or possibly leotard), you can see the hem between butt and thigh

I figured it’s an issue with hagglers that haggle for haggling sake, and not about the value of the item.

If I want to sell something on marketplace, I put the price up, because I know somebody will ask for a big discount for a quick sale. I’m happy to move this faded couch set for $100, then I’m listing it for $200… and selling it for $100 to a person who offers to pick it up, too.

It’s that kind of reasoning and makes haggling pointless imo, because sellers either don’t take your lowball or they knew you’d lowball and charged high to start with so they have room to negotiate.

But as that one JC Penny guy accidentally proved, people love the illusion of good deals more than they love good value.

I’m reminded of a story somebody shared on reddit years ago.

An arborist, working with his team. One of his crew had the chainsaw kick and come back and severely main him. He’s bleeding so fucking fast. They need to get him to hospital, and they can’t afford to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

The woman in front won’t let them past. She’s going slower and slower to make a point. They’re honking at her, but she lines up with another lane to box them in. That car slows down too.

The guy is fading fast.theyre using his shirt to staunch the blood, but it’s not enough. After several minutes, they finally have an opening they can take. They speed past her little car, throwing the bloodsoaked shirt out the window to slap wetly on her windshield.

They meet up with emergency services - first, a cop. The woman pulls over to talk to the cop about their reckless driving. While arguing, the ambulance arrives. The injured crew member, and the storyteller, are taken to hospital.

It’s too late. He dies.

…don’t fuck around man. You never know. It’s no worth it. Do the safe thing and make space or pull over. Safety over spite.

I hear thats what European Truck Simulator 1, 2, and American truck simulator are excellent for. Driving around on long roads with meditative scenery.

Paywalled, but based on the headline: good.

Digital is excellent for retail, and retail hates cash because it’s work to handle, so not surprising they want it gone.

But cash is important for exchanges between people. Buskers, spotting a stranger’s bus fare, etc.

Particularly escaping abuse - how are you supposed to leave the iron fist of a parent or partner, who controls the accounts; when you can’t use cash to get food or board? How do you leave?

Maybe there’s another half of an article behind a paywall somewhere, because it doesn’t look like they’re asking for anything at all. They just described the accident, and then emphatically described how hard the recovery process is. It’s little more than a diary entry.

Researchers dont get paid. In fact, they usually have to pay to be published on reputable platforms. Those platforms are the ones charging.

As for why they publish there if they never profit, academic success is dependant on publishing (“published or perish”), so academics will pay to advance in their field, potentially getting funding for future studies. (Not from the publisher, obviously; but from grant programmes that only fund you if you have a body of work already.)

This is why if you contact a researcher directly, they’ll likely be willing to give you the finished thesis for free.

I have ADHD and like en and em dashes. I’ve been known to use emoji points to make my 16 paragraphs easier to read.

Fortunately I think the constant personal tangents arr saving me

AFAIK this fucks with artists, not Spotify.

Spotify doesn’t pay artists a flat amount per stream. Instead, Spotify’s profits are split between artists based on their streams. A single user heavily streaming is imperceptibly lowering ‘revenue per stream’ by increasing overall streams but only paying for one subscription.

By playing a bunch of songs, all you do is give those artists slightly more, and other artists slightly less – at least in theory. In practice you’re probably not steaming enough to change overall percentages.

So if anything, you are moving profit to support the artists that Spotify is promoting by putting in your ‘radio’. Which likely means instead of going to small undiscovered musicians, it goes towards popular established ones that Spotify assumes you’ll like.

But since this is probably not enough to move those percentages, you’re only messing up your own algorithm.

Where’s us weirdos that like to eat 1-3 at a time by one sticking to our tongue like a frog

ESU is inherently bullshit. So they’re going to make security upgrades for the OS millions of people are using, but you only get them if you pay? Even though they’re committing dev time to make and deploy them, the SECURITY upgrades to the OS yhat millions have already paid for?

What a grift. Either you’re paying ESU and there’s no dev work (free moneyyy!) or it’s literally a ‘protection fee’ for dev work they’re doing anyway (nyeehhh nice PC ye got there, be a shame if we extorted you for it)

Oh, they’re here. Our parking spaces aren’t big enough for American cars, so they park as far back as the curb will let them – you can see their towballs lining the paths like tripmines.

Gor a chuckle out of a ‘ute’ with the empty bed pulling a trailer with the tradie’s gear in it though. Awww, your two-cab lifestyle ute’s open bed too small for a 2x4 there buddy?

While thats also true, Im talking about reading comprehension, not Poe’s Law.

If you’re using "s, it indicates that it’s not something you’re actually saying. You’re quoting somebody else, including a hypothetical person that you’re satirising. It’s explicitly saying they’re not your real words.

That’s an issue of reading skill, and while we can certainly work to make writing more accessible for those that aren’t great at it, I don’t appreciate how people blame the writer for the treatment they receive for what is, at best, a mutual misunderstanding.

It’s gotten bad enough that I can say in the comment the person I am satirising, and again in a concluding statement. But without the ‘/s’, people still accuse me of being a monster for believing a heinous thing I deliberately used provocative language to describe.

This craps everywhere now man. A friend was looking up paint colours for her house for the biggest paint company in the country, and the one she chose was recommended to give her home a murky and rancid feel. Like at that point, don’t give individual colours descriptions at all!